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Australia
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Been veering off my usual hunt as some of the coins that I've been looking out for are getting a bit too expensive. First up is Argentina 2 centavos. I like the color of it  Second is Uzbekistan 1999 10 som. Seems to be unusually difficult coin to find. Think Uzbekistan's 1 som has been voted to be the world's most worthless circulating coin.  Third is an interesting pattern coin from Poland.  Lastly a set of tokens from Tatarstan. These come in three, one bread token and two petroleum tokens, struck in copper and nickel-copper.  Hope you find them interesting. I'm sure you have recently accquired some awesome coins too - please feel free to show them! |
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Germany
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As themed coins go, it'd be interesting to see if "breast feeding" is a unique coin for this theme.
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United States
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As themed coins go, it'd be interesting to see if "breast feeding" is a unique coin for this theme. I think Turkey and Egypt also had similar coins as part of the FAO women's year series. Here's a couple that I picked up today from the local coin shop: Haiti 1850 6 1/4 centimes. I liked the unique denomination and I didn't have any Haitian Empire coins in my collection.   China Ho-Nan 200 Cash. Again another unique denomination and a crown-sized copper coin.   |
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 Australia
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Very interesting coins snowman. The Haitian coin's denomination is definitely very interesting. I do have the Honan 200 cash coin in my collection.
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United Kingdom
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I like the Hatian one too - very cool coin.
And the breastfeeding pattern one also. Poland seems to issue a lot of patterns that are fairly easy to pick up - called Prova if I recall. Some are in silver too.
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Australia
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Australia
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Here's a strange looking coin from Netherlands, that I just added to my collection. Does anyone know what it's meant to be, without Googling it?  Steve  |
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Israel
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As themed coins go, it'd be interesting to see if "breast feeding" is a unique coin for this theme. FAO also issued a medal nased on the design of this Polish coin. It can be seen in the link below together with other FAO medals on the same theme https://goccf.com/t/68574&SearchTerms=FAOThere were some other FAO coins on the theme but I do not recollect which ones. Unfortunately I have sold most of my collection of coins but I will check to see if I can find some photos |
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Israel
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Sorry no pictures but in addition to Egypt and Turkey as stated by Snowman the Vatican issued as part of the FAO series a 200 lira coin in 1992 KM240 showing a mother breastfeeding
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United States
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Does anyone know what it's meant to be, without Googling it? Kind of looks like roadkill. Either that or a child's design. I don't know what the significance is though. |
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Belgium
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Here's a strange looking coin from Netherlands,
that I just added to my collection.
Does anyone know what it's meant to be, without Googling it?
This is "the last gulden": the image is a child's drawing (made by Tim van Melis) and shows a lion (symbol for the Netherlands) waving away the last gulden. A symbolic 16 million were struck: 1 for every inhabitant of the Netherlands. A year later, in 2002, the euro was introduced. |
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Russian Federation
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Think Uzbekistan's 1 som has been voted to be the world's most worthless circulating coin. It's 1 tiyin, actually. And you have me beat at weird denominations. I didn't think there could be anything much weirder than the Venezuelan 12 1/2 centimos from 2007 in my collection (though of course the weirdest denomination ever is probably the 1/(18 1/2) [i.e. 2/37] thaler someone posted in the "how far back can we go" thread... would've been hard to beat that). |
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Australia
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the 1/(18 1/2) [i.e. 2/37] thaler Now that is strange and I was thinking the 1/26 of a shilling from Jersey was strange. Steve |
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United States
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That Poland coin is unique. I have never seen one line that. Interesting.
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Posted 04/06/2013 11:06 pm
