How Far Back Can We Go? Sixth Edition! Ended At 1380 Waiting On 1379

That is an absolutely beautiful 1918 SLQ!!

Let's see what I can dig up for 1918.

This is one of my favorites, because it combines history with art and numismatics. (The 5 Ces. is 1918, although the postcard is a 1917.)

The three Walking Liberty half dollars for 1918.

Philadelphia




Denver




San Francisco

Tdiziema or however you spell your name (Sorry dyslexia and an old computer that crashes if you have more than two tabs open - I will be replacing it when lockdown ends).

I was not criticising Siggy as some people called him, I used it as context as some people who got huffy when I criticised the high number of US coins in the late 1930s (1936 when they issued 5872 different half dollars) criticized George V - who ruled some 700 million of the 1.5 billion people in the world at this time - whereas the USA had a population of 100 million then.

I really found those pages funny and the coins nice - the late 16th and early 17th century jetons from Belgium and Holland with plans of sieges and battlefields were great.

I loved all the Siggy coins and some comments like one of a naive portrait of Queen Christina of Sweden on a 1650 coin made me laugh. Also someone said Charles 12 of Sweden bucked the early 18th/ late 17th century trend of wearing big wigs as they may look too "sissified" yet a 1698 coin of him, he has a bigger permed wig than Elton John!

I knew all the comments were tongue in cheek, but also many numismatists seem to have no sense of humour and take every remark as a personal attack.

Thanks for the praise of the Commonwealth coin too, I was worried I had bought a fake, but that coin is so "used" no one would want to fake anything that heapy (Kiwi slang = heap of s#$t) looking and 1656 was a common date for them!

Here is a really worn and infuriating King George V sixpence for you all. The best thing about is that its silver.

El Salvador (Republic of Salvador) 5 centavos, 1918



British India 1 anna (1/16 rupee), 1918

1917 -- Newfoundland, 25 cents:

1917 -- United Kingdom, 1/2 crown:

1917 Egypt (Sultanate)
5 Milliemes - Hussein Kamel.