Yet Another Forum Game - Numismatic Go Fish!

I only own one pre-20th century coin with good luster

Japan 1 rin (1/10 sen) 1884



4854 miles from Helsinki to Tokyo

Nice one Finn235. I can just get a sense of the luster on the obverse.

Entrants
jbuck - 1879 US IHC
pepactonius - 1829 US Large Cent
mysilveryears - 1870 Sweeden 1 ore
spruett001 - 1946-S US cent
Finn235 - (1884) Japan 1 rin

Leaderboard
Age
1. pepactonius (1820)
2. mysilveryears (1870)
3. jbuck (1879)
4. Finn235 (1884)
5. spruett001 (1946)


Distance
1. mysilveryears (246 mi)
T2. pepactonius (4,306 mi)
T2. jbuck (4,306 mi)
T2. spruett001 (4,306 mi)
5. Finn235 (4,854 mi)


Denomination
T1. pepactonius (1 cent)
T1. jbuck (1 cent)
T1. mysilveryears (1 ore)
T1. spruett001 (1 cent)
T1. Finn235 (1 rin)

mysilveryears has a slight lead right now.

Looking for something

I said Thursday afternoon to conclude this round, so let's make it 4pm forum time. Hopefully, that will give arby enough time to find something.

mysilveryears is the current leader, followed by pepactonius then jbuck. Someone with European copper could still shake up the leaderboard a bit.



Think about that in terms of the challenge. It might actually be hard to see it in the context of the round already taking place. There is something that, when I considered how challenging the rules should be, seemed necessary to exclude newer coins. seeing the leaderboard now, it actually wouldn't have mattered much.

That's it! It looks like mysilveryears is the winner with 2nd, 1st, T1

Runners-up are pepactonius with 1, T2, T1 followed by jbuck in third with 3, T2, T1

O, right. Well, as you said, with the revaluation of the Markka in 1963, new coins were introduced, specifically, a 1 penni coin for the first time since 1924. These new penni coins are very common, so I couldn't let an easy coin like that take first in two categories. That was my thought process, anyway. I was anticipating more variety of denominations with some twos and fractional denominations to be played. Maybe some late Russian Empire copper kopeks or British halfpennies.

Not sure if this has been done before. So here goes.

Something simple. Post an undenominated coin. The larger the better. It must be a coin for regular circulation. No ancients; sorry. They are a massive class unto themselves. I have always been intrigued by the idea that some coins were so familiar to certain cultures that they did not need to be marked 'one this' or 'five that'. This huge old British cartwheel copper is a perfect example. But how could travelers make sense of such a system?

Not sure how to work out a point system, so let it be a people's choice, with size, condition and general obscurity being the desirable characteristics.

I realize the coin itself shown here was used in thread's first challenge. But this is not a 'match the coin' challenge. Unless all you have are British cartwheels, do please show something different.

I think this might be the only one I have. You guys have never seen this coin before


This topic also reminds me of late 19th and early 20th-century farthings which had a black finish applied to them (artificially toned black) because people were trying to pass them off as half sovereigns due to them being the same diameter and using the same obverse design.

edit: this is obviously a 1902 crown. 28.3g, 38.6mm