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Korea, Republic Of
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One of the most enjoyable aspects of coin collecting for me is finding or buying a coin from the other side of the world and having a piece of that world in my hands. It also pushes me to investigate into the history of that coin, what its made of, what economic crisis or booms occurred during that time, etc.
So here is the game: Dig deep into your collection of coins and find a coin that you think is the "farthest" coin. The coin can be from any country in the world, but you must own it.
Comment back with this information:
- A picture of the coin
- The mint/village/state/etc and year that your "farthest" coin was made
- Your location (general or exact)
- The distance from your house to that location in both miles and kilometers. Use Google Maps to measure the distance as a standard. It will automatically choose the shortest distance so you don't measure to the west and score a billion miles for your neighbors house. :)
- (Optional) Tell us the story about how you got it and any history about that time and its impact on the coin; like Notegeld for example.
- War tokens and provisional gov't coins are good to go!
Let's do this until 0001 GMT on 11 February. I hope to see some really cool stuff! Edited by Lembafc
01/30/2017 09:49 am
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Australia
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British Virgin Islands. 18,500 Km (11,500 miles) from Perth Western Australia. Mintage is 26000 KM#2, 5 cents. Worth about 5 cents. :) This is the only coin I have from there.  Steve  |
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Canada
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 Soviet 3 Kopecks, 1935 Assuming it's from Moscow, 8,089.61 km (5,026.65 mi) to Vancouver, BC, Canada (my hometown) Got this coin from a coin order of bulk pre 1959 foreign. |
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United States
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For many of in the eastern US, the antipode is somewhere in the Indian ocean southwest of Perth Australia. This means that the Perth Mint would be the most distant mint from us. |
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 Canada
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Gonna be hard to beat triggersmob.
The furthest from me, near to CanadianNumismatist in Vancouver, is South Africa about 16,950 kilometers away.
I have some coins from there but it may take me a while to find them for pics.
"Dipping" is not considered cleaning...
-from PCGS website
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 Korea, Republic Of
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I mean, its a game, but still post your farthest coin :) They are all so nice to see! I will post mine soon.
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Korea, Republic Of
489 Posts |
My farthest coin is from Gibraltar. From Yongsan, Seoul, South Korea it is just shy of 10,500km at 10,468 km or 6,504 miles. It is the 1967 One Crown coin from Gibraltar and I picked it up in a lot of European coins during a TDY to Germany. I found a coin shop in Nuremburg and picked up a huge lot. This was one of them :) If only I had a coin from Uruguay or Argentina :)   |
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United States
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I have a few from China:  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'm shocked. No one has any Klingon coins |
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Canada
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No one has any Klingon coins I do - but it turns out they are Chinese counterfeits, Vulcan will have to do  |
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New Zealand
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18,295 km Distance from Tauranga, New Zealand to Norwich, England   Cheers Don
Vickies cents and GB Farthings nut.
"Old" is a figure of speech and nothing more
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Japan
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Brazil 1975 2 centavos FAO coin with a soy bean plant. According to Wikipedia, Brazil accounts for 31% of world soy bean production. Minted at the Casa da Moeda do Brasil, in Río de Janeiro 18,700 km (11,600 miles) from here. Rio is in the south of Brazil, close to Uruguay...  |
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