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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I'm interested to see how many nations have issued circulating (or: at least they can be acquired for face value at banks) commemoratives for every sub-region in the country. Can anyone contribute? My current list is extremely limited: - Canadian Provincial/Territorial Quarters (12, 1992) + Nunavut Toonie (1999). - American State Quarters (100, 1999-2008). - Mexican State 100 Pesos (Bi-metal sterling silver center, reportedly available for 100 pesos at banks), (32, 2003-2005). Government-issued display folders may exist. - Japan Prefectures 500 Yen: Bi-metal, unlike the circulating 500 yen coin, but apparently available for 500 yen. (47, 2008-2014) Anyone else? |
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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Germany is currently issuing legal-tender 2-euro coins for each of the country's 16 'länder' or regions. The first coin was issued in 2006 and they are being released at a rate of one a year. I found a couple in change on a trip to Hamburg last year. France issued silver 10-euro coins in 2010, 2011 and 2012 to commemorate each of the country's regions - including the overseas territories of Martinique, Guadeloupe, Reunion and Mayotte. The 2010 set showed the heraldry, flag or coat-of-arms of the region. The 2011 coins showed a famous monument or natural feature associated with the region, and the 2012 a famous person from each region. The first two issues were only available at face value from main post offices in the region depicted on the coin, but the 2012 coins could also be bought as a set from the Monnaie de Paris. I know Australia issued 50-cent coins a few years ago commemorating the country's states and territories - but I'm sure our Aussie friends will tell you about them!  Edited by NumisRob
09/14/2013 2:45 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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The uk has just issued a set of £1 depicting the capital cities of each of the four constituent counteries. We have also issued similar 4 nations sets in the past using flowers, bridges, coats of arms, etc.
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
 United States
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I believe the first of these types of series (at least in the modern era) can be traced to 1983 and the Bailiwick of Jersey. They issued a series of One Pound coins between 1983 and 1989 to honor each Parish of the island; there were 12 coins issued. They were issued for circulation in nickel-brass, as well as in silver and gold for collectors; the coins were struck by The Royal Mint. In 1984, Bermuda issued a set of 11 coins for its 375th anniversary. One featured the Coat-of-Arms of Bermuda, one the Arms of its capital city â€" Hamilton â€" and nine coins that each featured the Coat-of-Arms of one of Bermuda's nine parishes. The coins were struck for circulation in copper-nickel and in silver for collectors; the coins were struck by The Royal Mint. Collecting history one coin or medal at a time! (c) commems. All rights reserved.
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Australia
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The Russians have issued several series commemorating some of their cities and constituent regions, most notably a series of bimetallic 10 rouble coins beginning in 2005. But given that there are 83 "federal subjects" in the Russian Federation, they have yet to issue a coherent series commemorating each one. With the declining value of the rouble, the 10 rouble coin switched to monometallic in 2011; I do not know if they plan on continuing the Federal Subjects series to completion.
As NumisRob stated, Australia issued a series of States coins in 2001 to commemorate the centenary of federation. Nine different 20¢ and 50¢ coins were issued, one for each of the six states and for three of the territories. The 50¢ series bore coats of arms, the 20¢ coins were the winning entries of designs submitted by school students from each state or territory.
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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Australia
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You might want to add Armenia and Kazakhstan to that list as well. This might be related - if you think about the ancient Chinese cash coins, there is one particular series called the Kang Hsi Poem coins. What is neat about this set is coins from each province were specially prepared for only one dynasty. http://ykleungn.tripod.com/kanghsia.htm Up to you to decide if you want to consider that as one. China has also released commemorative coins for certain provinces. |
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Russian Federation
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The Russians have issued several series commemorating some of their cities and constituent regions, most notably a series of bimetallic 10 rouble coins beginning in 2005. But given that there are 83 "federal subjects" in the Russian Federation, they have yet to issue a coherent series commemorating each one. With the declining value of the rouble, the 10 rouble coin switched to monometallic in 2011; I do not know if they plan on continuing the Federal Subjects series to completion. Wanted to mention the same series They're still continuing, and even still in bimetallic, but they are hardly circulating by now; and while the whole thing is probably supposed to be continued to completion, at 3-4 coins per year, I doubt they'll get there before the next reform (certainly at some point these coins would get very obviously collectors-only - they're already the same sort of NCLT as recent Presidential dollars, but with similar mintages [~5 million each] they do circulate occasionally). |
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Australia
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I suspect what caused the rapid hoarding (and disappearance) of the Russian bi-metal coins was in 2010 where three coin mintage in particular, Chechen, Yamalo-Nenetskiy and Permskiy krai were at 100,000, 100,000 and 200,000 respectively. This is a far cry from the usual mintage of bi-metal coins in terms of 5 - 10 millions. I think you can assume that these coins rarely circulated.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
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On Tuesday I got one of the Jersey coins   Mintage is only 10,000! |
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
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While I realize that this is not a freshly started topic :) let me add some pieces from Finland, Lithuania and Poland. in 2004/2005 the Polish Mint did a series of 2 zł coins dedicated to the voivodships (basically provinces) of the country. Finland honors the historical provinces with a series of €5 collector coins that started in 2010. And while this goes a step away from the states/provinces idea, Lithuania did a series of 2 litai coins with the arms of Lithuanian resorts.
Spain could be added too, except they honored their regions (starting in 1992/93) on various denominations: 5, 25 and 50 pesetas. And I am sure there are other countries with similar programs ...
Christian
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United States
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Austria is currently in the middle of their Austria: Piece by Piece series. There will be one coin for each of the 9 federal provinces, and then one coin for Austria as a whole. In addition to the silver proof and silver special uncirculated versions of the coins for collectors, they are minting 130,000 circulation quality copper coins for each design, available at face value (10 euro). Both the obverse and reverse changes with each coin, and what is a bit different about this series is that the reverse of each coin is actually designed by a child who lives in that province. It's a neat series, I'm impressed by the quality and designs of the Austrian mint.
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
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That is a nice series indeed! Austria had a Bundesländer series before (20 Schilling coins, between 1982 and 1993). But even though it was planned as a States series, only some of the coins actually have the name of the state ... The current one (10 Euro) is quite interesting because many children are involved, and may get interested in coins that way. More about the contests is here http://www.meinemuenze.at But you also see the drawback of such competitions: Most children did their designs (painting, drawing) in color, and the coins are monochrome. Also, the mint will change parts of the winning kid's design, be it for technical or "artistic" reasons. They try to make up for that by inviting the children to the mint and by doing a nice presentation though. Christian |
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