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United States
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Lets battle it out... Mine: 1776 8 Reale Mexico city mint. For the following reasons: #1 The date of US independence. #2 This coin was the first coin to be accepted by the new United States as payable for debts (read that somewhere, can't find the reference) #3 This coin was a shipwreck coin (El Cazador, 1783) originally TPG certified. #4 The pillar and sash was the basis for the $ symbol. #5 the 1776 date is one of the rarer dates for coins found on that shipwreck. I would put a picture up, but y'all would get mad at me ;) Top this. I know you can. |
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United States
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Gemologist- Very nice. I wouldn't get mad. So, sure, please do post a pic of your piece.
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Canada
785 Posts |
  I love big silver! |
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United States
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The period that changed how the modern world works. An English Commonwealth shilling. There are much nicer examples (including the more desirable Massachusetts coins) but this is the under $300 version.   "Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
Edited by thq
07/30/2013 7:28 pm
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United States
324 Posts |
We require this contest to show pictures of the coin because: #1 it must be in your possession! #2 I could describe any coin not in my possession. #3 we love pics! #4 Would a U.S. Coin dated 1821 (Mexican Independence) be historic-important? If not, why would a Mexican coin dated 1776 be historic?  Edited by BluegrassRiver
07/30/2013 10:15 pm
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United States
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#4 Would a U.S. Coin dated 1821 (Mexican Independence) be historic-important? If not, why would a Mexican coin dated 1776 be historic?
To be fair the 8 Reale was legal tender in the U.S. at that time so it very well may have circulated during the Revolution. |
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United States
807 Posts |
1916 German East Africa 20 Heller, "T" mintmark.
Made in the expeditionary mint at Tabora, using machinery salvaged from the engine room of the commerce raider SMS KOENIGSBERG, by order of General von Lettow-Vorbeck, to pay his native Askari troops & the various sorts of people he bought supplies from. This was the same mint which made the famous elephant "sovereigns". Von Lettow-Vorbeck was still fighting at the time of the Armistice. He also was the intended recipient of a Zeppelin loaded with supplies & itself designed to be dismantled & used by his men (L59), but the airship was diverted short of its destination. I have been told, although I do not know the truth of the statement, that the brown uniforms intended for the Askaris went into storage in a depot near Munich, where they were later bought by a medically-discharged Air Force pilot looking to outfit the "storm troopers" of a new political party he was organizing.
As I recall, I won it in a coin-attribution contest, so I didn't pay anything for it at all!
Will post photos later if desired, but it's a rather crude piece.
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Australia
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You can get nice Tiberius Tribute Penny for $300.
How about a bronze prutah that circulated in Judea, BC / AD? They can be had for as little as $20.
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Australia
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I vote for this:  More information can be found here: http://suite101.com/article/holocau...etto-a311179Genuine coins are often burned like shown because the magnesium can generate heat for a short period of time. Still very affordable but you need to know what you are buying as there are plenty of counterfeits. My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseriesMy numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htmRegularly updated at least once a month. |
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United States
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Interesting @publius. A lot of strange things go on south of the white sausage line, in the less civilized Germanic territories. Was the machinery used to make the coins or for the coin metal? Sounds like The African Queen.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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Belgium
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Martin Luther King was murdered on April 4, 1968. While in the US the mindset wasn't there to issue a commemorative coin in his honor, in Guinée a silver 100 Francs coin was released in 1968.   The double date on the reverse refers to 10 years of independence. Guinée used to be a french colony. (I paid $120 for a 24 coin set including this one. No idea of its value, but it's pretty rare.) Edited by Gwyde
07/31/2013 6:56 pm
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United States
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