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Trigg it's OK I have others to pick from.
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Like this one 2018 Armistice  |
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Trigg it's OK I have others to pick from. Ok, here it is then...  |
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Looking good!  |
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2018 Britannia £2 As someone who is madly in love with the Edward VII florins of G. W. de Saulles, I find this design particularly attractive.   Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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Very attractive design, an update of the Edwardian coin.
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2018 Britannia £2 Beautiful!  |
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Yes, I love it. Britannia is striding confidently through the waves towards the future while looking over her shoulder to acknowledge the past; she holds an olive branch for peace, but her shield is close and ready for the defense of her people and land, she wields Neptune's trident reflecting her dominion over the seas, and she wears the visor and helmet of a Roman warrior. de Saulles' Edwardian florin design was itself heavily inspired by ancient Roman and Greek coinage that featured Victory standing proudly on the prow of a galley sailing towards the viewer; he wanted it to be immediately visually distinct from the Victorian half crowns and florins which, to him, looked too much similar to each other. Although his design for the florin was well-received by fellow artists and numismatists, it was not well-received by the public, and George V's florins returned to a more conventional motif more or less copied from the Victorian double florin. The "message" was apparently heard loud and clear by HM The Royal Mint's engravers: I've always personally felt that British coinage of George V and VI was rather dull after Edward, especially compared to the artistic and beautiful designs of the 1920s and 1930s from places such as France, Italy and the United States. The Proof version of this coin for 2018 has a much different image of Britannia - a bust right view of Britannia, laureate and helmeted. Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis Edited by paralyse
09/06/2024 3:12 pm
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When it became clear that the 4th edition of How Far Back Can We Go would start in January 2017, I was seriously considered getting an example of this (then newly released) type to start it out with a 2018 coin  Unfortunately the release was extremely slowed down by holidays and the few examples that made it to coin stores in early January were selling for $20 and at the time I just couldn't make myself do that for nothing but a silly point. I finally got a few of them in February, when the release caught up and they became very cheap (only slightly above face value), and immediately put one to use as a pocket piece because I liked the novelty of having a 2018 coin in my pocket in 2017 (and because I was interested in how the obverse design would wear down - not that I got to find out much, since I kept misplacing the pocket pieces, so it only spent a total of maybe three months actually in my pocket).   ...I've forgotten my pics were that bad. (They weren't 90 degrees off when I posted them; that's a glitch that affected all my CCF photos between December 2016 and May 2017, probably as an artifact of historically different handling of photo orientation.) Russia, 25 rubles 2018, commemorating the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Numista claims that it was issued on "04 JUL 2017" [sic], but in fact the official issue date is 21.12.2016 (as explicitly mentioned on the Bank of Russia page that Numista links to). I'm not sure where the July date comes from. ..."circulating commemorative" is a bit of a stretch, TBH, but I know I've spent a few (for fun) and got them accepted, and reportedly in some cities they actually circulated more actively. At least, unlike the 2014 Olympics series, they apparently weren't released in capsules, which probably made it easier for them to circulate. |
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Here's an archive one for now. I'm saving my 3 pics for today to combine with the 3 from tomorrow. 2017 was big here. Get your stuff out mcshilling.  "We are poor little lambs...who have lost our way...Baa...Baa...Baa"
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The race is on for 2017  |
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