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It's in my watch list on ebay.   Edited by GO
06/28/2007 11:11 pm
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Perth Mint just released a very "Marshall-Islands-like" set of five 1 ounce silver coins in the name of Tuvalu, featuring Fighting Ships of WWII. They're colorized, and at AU$400 for the set of five, not cheap. Nice enough if you're into that theme, I suppose. A couple more Australian WWII-themed coins which come to mind (there are probably others): - bimetallic $5 2002 for the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Sunda Strait, featuring the ship's bell from the USS Houston. It comes in "Australian packaging" and "American packaging". - non-circulating commemorative $1 2000 featuring the Australian naval ship HMAS Sydney II. A famous WWII themed coin is the British 50p 1994 for the 50th anniversary of D-Day. IIRC, it won awards for best coin design of the year and that sort of thing. There's also a whole bunch of French coins in the 1990's with themes like the D-Day Landings, Liberation of Paris and a set of Allied generals and political leaders.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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2005 Belarus coin commemorating 60 years of victory   There are French silver coins too commemorating WWII of sure |
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Oh man those are beautiful!
I don't believe I have a single Belarus coin for some weird reason. Hard thing with these is translating them to find out what they are Commemorating....if anything
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Maybe because Belarus does not issue any "regular" (circulation) coins, only such commems ... In Europe the theme of the 2005 eurostar series was 60 years of peace, so each participating country also issued a coin on that occasion. Then again, most of those issues are not exactly battle or victory themed. Here is a neat one from the Monnaie de Paris, with "Europe makes peace" on one side, and "Peace makes Europe" on the other:   Christian |
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Hi Doug,
Was that U.K. 50 pence coin the one that you were after?
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G'day, regarding Snooba's post of 29 June, the bottom pic shown there:
the colours shown behind the 1995 50-cent coin are the colours of the ribbon which was attached to the Campaign Star, or medal, awarded to British Empire personnel, including Australians, for service in the Pacific theatre of WW2.
The coin and stamp both show an Australian surgeon, Sir Edward "Weary" DUNLOP (1907~1993), a veteran of the Greek & African Campaigns, who was later captured on Java, and spent part of his captivity on the Thai-Burma railway.
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G'day Augsburger,
- "... The Churchill crown could be said to be a WW2 commenmorative as he did not do anything else really. ..."
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, (1874~1965) served as a Member of Parliament from 1900 to 1959, and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955; a prolific author, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.
Peter in Oz
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I actually have the Churchill Crown. Never really thought it to be a WWII Commemorative but rather Commemorating him. I have some Commemorative Ike coins so I suppose Churchill could fit into the same category.
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I've got that one. It's the only one of dozens of Russian WWII Com coins that I have. "NO ONE IS FORGOTTEN, NOTHING IS FORGOTTEN" Thanks! I never knew that Edited by GO
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