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Quote: Long ago, this thread morphed from "sailing ship" coins into one for coins that feature any type of watercraft. Coins with rafts, canoes, modern steam ships, 20th century warships, submarines (!), and others have all been posted. None are sailing ships, but make for some interesting coin designs nonetheless. I can appreciate how some of these threads have evolved to survive. Otherwise, the may have gone dormant long ago. Quote: All that said, here's a coin from the classic US commemorative series that hasn't been posted yet: 1935 California-Pacific Exposition half dollar (commonly referred to as the "San Diego"). The coin features a small sailing ship on its obverse (at roughly the 9 o'clock position). Excellent! 
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I believe this qualifies as a proper ship.  
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
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Quote: I believe this qualifies as a proper ship. Absitively! Very nice!
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Bedrock of the Community
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Quite proper and very nice jbuck
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Thank you, both. 
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
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Here's a 1999 commemorative silver dollar from Canada marking the 225th Anniversary of the voyage of Juan Perez and the sighting of the Queen Charlotte Islands (off the coast of Canada's British Columbia). It features a wonderfully-detailed sailing ship on its commemorative reverse.  More information about the coin and the voyage of Perez can be found here: 1999 Perez Coin and Pin Set
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Nice ship with full rigging.
KK
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Quote: Here's a 1999 commemorative silver dollar from Canada marking the 225th Anniversary of the voyage of Juan Perez and the sighting of the Queen Charlotte Islands (off the coast of Canada's British Columbia). Excellent! 
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
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Here's a commemorative $20 silver coin of Canada that celebrated the International Polar Year of 2007. Canada was one of several countries to issue a commemorative coin for the Polar Year in either 2007 or 2008. The sailing ship on this coin can be found in the background on its reverse.  If you'd like to learn more about this coin - and the blue plasma version of it - have a look at my previous post about it here: Canada 2007 International Polar Year $20
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Edited by commems 12/29/2020 9:27 pm
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Beautiful specimen! 
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
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Here'a another NCLT silver coin from Canada; this $20 piece was issued in 2013 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the founding of Louisbourg in Nova Scotia. Louisbourg was a major trading center, host to a very large French military force and the central hub of France's early power in its New France territory.  A brief discussion of the coin's edge lettering can be found here: 2013 $20 Louisbourg Commemorative, Edge Lettering
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Quote: Here'a another NCLT silver coin from Canada; this $20 piece was issued in 2013 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the founding of Louisbourg in Nova Scotia. A beautiful example! 
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CCF Master Historian of USA Commemoratives
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Here's a 2016 coin from Canada that was issued to mark the 100th anniversary of the successful laying of the first enduring Transatlantic telegraph cable. The coin depicts the SS Great Eastern, an iron-hulled steamship that incorporated a steam-driven propeller, stem-driven paddle-wheels and six sails for its propulsion. The ship was responsible for laying the cable.  The coin shown here is the selectively gold-plated version found in the Royal Canadian Mint's Fine Silver Proof Set for 2016; the silver dollar was also available individually in a standard proof version.
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Very nice! 
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I have some I can add. The first is a 2018 Isle of Man One Noble  Second is a 2019 Cutty Sark Two Pound coin from the British Indian Ocean Territory  The third is a 2020 Mayflower $1 coin from the British Virgin Islands 
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