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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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Thanks for all the responses everyone! As of now I have no plans to do another one of these sets from a different war. I need to finish some of my US coin sets before I work on something new. Child of the wheat and harmonica, thank you so much for the Morse code translation!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Very neat set of coins. Thanks for sharing.
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Valued Member
United States
172 Posts |
Excellent. Notice the stylized fasces on the Italian coins in the claws of the eagle. This is very similar to the reverse of the quarter eagle and half eagle Indian head US coins from the 1907-1929 period. And of course I have always thought it ironic and creepy at the same time that many US servicemen would have had Mercury dimes on them when they invaded Italy in 1943 and France in 1944, since the reverse of that coin was a full-blown fasces! Of course the fasces in the US was used as a symbol of power through unity (as it had been used in the Roman Republic), while it was the symbol of a specific party in Italy. Notice also the separate elements of a fasces on the Vichy coins: the double-headed axe and the wheat sheathes. That is a fascinating collection you have. I love these thematic sets. |
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 Canada
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I would have added a 1942 (or 1943) tombac Canadian 5c to this collection, as pure nickel was diverted to the war effort. But hey, I have a bias!   "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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United States
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Very nice! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1314 Posts |
Very nice set. I am not so ambitious, but may consider something similar for the Faulkland Islands War.
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
12839 Posts |
Late to the party - but this is really cool. What a great idea and thanks for the the photos. Great coins and great history from a fascinating era that helped shape most of our lives.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Do you have those in an Album or what. How do you store them? Or are you displaying them and if so, how?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Very cool! Great idea too,I think I might just have to start one of my own after seeing this!
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Pillar of the Community
Sweden
1078 Posts |
I'd have to add up on some Canadian and Japanese issues, but otherwise I'd have a whole lot of coin types from WWII-participants, including Germany.
I like (on metal, definitely not in practice) the rampand and more "aggressive" coin designs from Italy and Germany, such as Italy using eagles with fasces and Germany's illegible font (seriously, I can barely read these) and Eagles with swasticas. Well, not surprising I can gather up some of those coins quickly, they are fairly cheap and I am located in Northen Europe.
A type set I'd like to build would be wartime coinage changes (such as US changing bronze to steel and nickel to silver, but also many countries changing much to zinc and aluminium), since many such changes were made in central/western Europe.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I store these using 2 2X2 pages that each hold 20 coins. I chose to store them in this way because it allowed me the most freedom in choosing what coins I would add to my collection.
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United States
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Good choice. |
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