How Far Back Can We Go? Second Edition! Ended At 1492 Waiting On 1491

I like that Monaco piece.

Since we are still on 1946, here's another bit of silver from a tiny European country that deserves to be shown.


0.835 silver; 37mm; mintage= 98 thousand.

1945 Mexico 2 Peso

It begins... hoping to see some occupation zinc over the next couple of days!


Newfoundland, 10 cents, 1945.

This is not the nicest but I got it at melt.

In 1949, Newfoundland was incorporated into Canadian Confederation, and we are glad to have them on board. At that time, Newfoundland was basically floating around aimlessly (its parliament had voted itself out of existence in the 1930s in the hopes that the British would take care of them, and the British didn't want to deal with this, especially during World War II).

The referendum was very, very close (50-something for/40-something against).

If they had stayed separate, it would have been interesting to see what would have happened to their coins. The idea of a Newfie loonie and toonie is surprisingly alluring. And a series of actual coin designs (compare the boring pre-1936 Canadian coins with the exciting George Kruger-Gray designs of 1937 and onward) would have been very fun to see! Sadly, it was not meant to be. If Quebec ever leaves us (but let's hope not, we love you Quebec) I hope they do something equally interesting with their coins.

ASLAN beat me to the Philippines, so I will post this instead. One penny from across the pond.

I take and crop pictures of the obverse and reverse. Then in Paint, I change the image size of the obverse to twice as wide. This opens a blank portion beside the obverse picture. Then I just copy and paste the reverse image into the blank spot. I usually have to stretch or shrink the reverse to match heights.

Ceylon 1945 1 cent