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1940-C NEWFOUNDLAND 5 cents; 0.925 silver; 15mm; mintage= 200 thousand :



Now and then there is coinforumchatter about how 'under-appreciated' are the coins from this obsolete jurisdiction.
I have to agree!
But then nothing really changes, and they still show up in the melt tubs on a regular basis, much to my delight.
Try purchasing any silver USA coin in AU with this mintage for a few % over scrap price.

So as Hitler retreat's back across Europe, liberating France and Poland. The entire world is about to enter the depression, Backwards, for us at least.

Everyone was depressed from the last time they tried to take over the world and failed, the after-math of WWI left the field open for empire building and hurt feelings on all sides. The Industrial boom of the second world war had helped to bring the US out of "The Great Depression". Over the next few weeks the Walkers might get scarce the Mock-ers might take the stage for a time. German notgeld and American hard luck tokens were sometimes the only coins you could get.

In 1939 the world was holding it's breath. Orson Welles' Halloween broadcast of "War of the Worlds" October 30, 1938 set everyone in American on edge for the following year. Hitler was consolidating his power, making treaties and non-aggression pact's which he had no intention of keeping.


Here's a nice piece of Victor Emanuel III Steel.

I'm loving the Half Penny's and have a few of my own to show off in the following weeks. Interesting how the rest of the world changed the content of their coins but Britain just stopped making the Penny. I'm still loving the 2+ ounces of silver I got at face value+CRH= time well spent but not in AU (well a few are really nice) but they do get a bit same'y Keep up the variety I'm Loving this thread.

Edit- on the subject of non-aggression pact's, does anyone have any Russian coins to show off, I don't think I've seen any in a while and I know I don't have any.

Australia 1939 halfpenny with "roo reverse"--the scarcer of two varieties minted that year--only 782,000 struck.

I really need to get some pictures taken.

I do have one of another Canadian Half dollar

1939

Dutch "Rijksdaalder", a crown sized silver 2 1/2 florin coin. Though the fineness of silver coinage had been reduced to 0.720 after WW I, the Netherlands had remained on the gold standard till 1936. Before the start of WW-II in the low countries (May 10, 1940) silver coins had not been downsized.

Sweden 1939 2 ore

Here's a 1939 2 Reichsmark .625 silver coin, obviously minted during the Nazi era. It would be the last year of silver coinage in Nazi Germany, due to the war that broke wide open that same year. The coin features Paul von Hindenburg on the obverse, and the "Reichsadler", or Imperial eagle (this one being the Third Reich variety) clutching a wreath surrounding a swastika, is on the reverse. Hitler and von Hindenburg did not get along. Hitler's appointment by von Hindenburg as Chancellor was only a result of constant pestering by the Nazi members of government insisting, and though some of Hitler's policies were at least appealing to the President (such as rebuilding the military), the two never really got along. So why did Hitler put von Hindenburg on a coin? Well, during President von Hindenburg's life, Hitler constantly praised him and talked him up. Von Hindenburg was a popular Army general, war hero and politician. He was like the Eisenhower of his day. And, the people loved him, even after his death. Hitler wasn't stupid, and he knew continuing to idolize popular figures was, itself, a popular thing to do. So here you have an example of that idolatry. The "A" mint mark (just under the "1847-1934" dates on the obverse) indicates this coin was minted in Berlin.