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World coin collectors, I have a question that I hope some of you can answer? Does anyone collect industrial themed coins? I've recently acquired a few that I like: 1955 Saarland Franken, and 1955 Yugoslavia Dinara. I had been thinking about trying to get other industrial themed coins (factories, workers, machine imagery, etc.), but don't know of many and don't know where to look. Anyone have some ideas for me?
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Try a 1951 Canadian nickel. It's a nickel, made of nickel, commemorating the nickel industry (specifically: 200 years since the first isolation/discovery of nickel).
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Some of the Austrian €25.00 Coins ( Silver and Niobium) have an industrial theme as follows:
2013 Tunneling
2011 Robotics
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United States
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Egypt 1981 1 Pound (72% silver) - Commemorative for Ministry of Industry
Isle of Man 1988 1 Penny - Precision Mechanics
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Thailand
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Just acquired this one myself. East Germany (German Democratic Republic) #4.  |
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United Kingdom
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Egypt 25th Anniversary Egyptian Industry 1Pound Silver 1981  yours michael |
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Any communist countries might be a good place to start. Agree... cold war period, USSR & eastern europe, 1950's onwards. Romania 3 Lei 1966 Edited by marz
04/04/2013 10:38 pm
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Italy from the 1950s, I believe the 50 lira piece. Depicts a worker forging (iron?) on an anvil. There's also a Canadian dollar depicting the same activity but I forget which one off the top of my head. Coins from the United Arab Emirates have an oil rig on them.
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United Kingdom
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The Italian coin actually featured Vulcan - a god of Roman mythology
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04/07/2013 02:53 am
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Australia
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And he's naked too. I always cringe when I look at that coin.  Here's the UAE coin too.  Steve  |
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And he's naked too.
I always cringe when I look at that coin. Well, he is a god after all. Mere humans would certainly protect sensitive body parts when working at an anvil. :) Here is a 5M coin from the GDR which shows the Rostock sea port.  Christian |
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There's also a Canadian dollar depicting the same activity but I forget which one off the top of my head. That's the 1988 Saint-Maurice Ironworks. You should be able to find the set with it (not sure if it was released individually) by searching for "canada double dollar set" (because the 1988 proof set had a silver dollar and a loonie). |
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