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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Been having problems with lighting. Pictures seem to have a richer brown than the pieces have in real life. I think I took the other shots in more natural sunlight.  Yugoslavia 5 Dinar, 2000. On another coin forum Yugoslavia was voted as one of the least collected countries. This is now my seventh Yugoslavia coin.  Mike R. Morell, Weiser, Idaho. Good for 5 cents in trade. Weiser was a large in prosperous town in the early Idaho days. Speculators bought up large amounts of land before the railroad came to town and tried to resell it at vastly inflated prices. This caused the railroad to build the rails on the Oregon side of the river. The led to the decline of industry and commerce in the area. Mike R. Morell and his wife Jessie had a store in Weiser, Idaho in the 1930's and 1940's. This is one of several tokens their store produced.  |
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Canada
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Nifty Yugoslav coin: they are still in circulation in Serbia, which uses dinar coins of the exact same specifications. Montenegro, the other component of the State Union of Yugoslavia, now uses the Euro (unofficially, mind you; they are not a Eurozone member).
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United States
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 I have this set, it comes with a Chinese 1 and 10 Yuan coin. The 1 Yuan is cupronickel and the 10 Yuan is silver. This is the 1 Yuan 1985, commemorating the "Tibet Autonomous Region - 20 years". KM# 110. Yup, China made a coin set commemorating the 20th anniversary of them annexing Tibet.  |
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United States
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I was not aware they were still in circulation, although if they were replaced with coins of the same specifications that would certainly lend to them staying in circulation.
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United States
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 Serbia 1 Dinara, 2003.  I pulled this one out of the junk box at the LCS. I knew that Wert-marke meant token so I took a chance. Unfortunately I can't find an example of it any where and I think it is a generic token and the vender was supposed to punch their name in the blank space. Someone probably didn't want to have to pay up on the change they were giving out.   One 26 pfennig note from a four note series from the town of Suhl in Germany. I think they were printed in 1921. I have it in a currency hold and the mylar caused some glare. I'll have to remove them from the holder next time I photograph notes. Edited by allranger
01/22/2014 9:00 pm
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United States
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The rest of the Suhl, Germany notgeld notes.     A one year type from Australia, a 50 cent piece. In 1968 they changed to the dodecagonal coin and were no longer silver.  This Bulgarian 10 Stotinki has the Madara Rider on the obverse. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madara_Rider) The Madara Rider is an early medieval carving on the side of a cliff.  A lonely German 50 Pfennig, 1991 F, I found in the junk box. It now has a good home. |
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United States
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 A transportation token from Alaska. A small curiosity as it is dated 1995 and the information I find says the company opened May 4, 1995, so it is from the first year of operation. |
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Nifty Yugoslav coin: they are still in circulation in Serbia, Well not any more, at least not officially. Few years ago all coins with "Jugoslavija" on them are out of use but you can still find them in circulation. My collection on Numista page: 7500 different coins and counting... https://en.numista.com/echanges/pro...hp?id=129798 |
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Australia
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The Tibet set is actually quite scarce to rare. It looks like the 1 yuan coin that you have is proof which is rather rare. This set especially if you have the mint set itself is worth probably more than several hundred if not thousand dollars.
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gxseries: Wait, what? I didn't know the Tibet set was rare. I have the little box it came in too, with the COA. I'll have to dig it out and take a picture of it.
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United States
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A 1974 Winnipeg Dollar. Not worth a lot but I got it free in a trade. I get these Canadian Municipal Tokens when ever I see them. I've never paid more than a dollar for them. They certainly don't seem to ever get any love.  |
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A 1974 Winnipeg Dollar. Not worth a lot but I got it free in a trade. I get these Canadian Municipal Tokens when ever I see them. I've never paid more than a dollar for them. They certainly don't seem to ever get any love. The pride of my numismatic library is the Standard Catalogue of Canadian Municipal Trade Tokens & Notes, 1993 edition. It was sponsored by the very same company that manufactures almost all Canadian private tokens, the Sherritt Mint. There were actually four varieties of this dollar produced - you have the version with the Red River cart (the famous pioneer conveyance made entirely of wood with no metal parts) to the bottom-left of the cross with the dates inside. The two other marks used in lieu of the cart were a buffalo and a boy, plus there is a variety with no mark at all. Apparently the boy mark is worth more than the other three ($6 instead of $4) but you have to wonder how accurately the Sherritt Mint prices its own products in a book that was "made possible with a grant from the Sherritt Mint". |
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United States
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nalaberong: Thank you for the info, I've had the Standard Catalog of Canadian Municipal Trade Tokens on to buy list for sometime now. I did not realize it was sponsorded by the same company that minted most of the tokens.  If you don't mind, what is the format of the catalog? I am imagining something similar to the World Coins Catalog. |
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Canada
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Sorted by province in alphabetical order, then sorted by town in alphabetical order, then sorted by date. There is also some history included for many entries.
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