Yet Another Forum Game - Numismatic Go Fish!

Even though I used to have an exact match, I sold it!

I think this is the best I've got:



20th Century
United States
Silver
Commemorative
Two or more people on obverse (real or allegorical)
Two or more people on reverse (real or allegorical)
Dual Dates on either side
Fractional Denomination
Names a borough, city, town, village, or similar municipal division. (Stone mountain is also a city, not just a landmark - my aunt had a Stone Mountain address when I was a kid!)

Looking good!

Just a few more hours.

Final results:

Arkie                   9
keith12                 8
pepactonius             7
BarberBanker            6
spruett001              6
Finn235                 6
january1may             6
Dorado                  5
bd251                   4

Arkie, you got next!

Truth be told, I had a token that would have won the last competition, but the opportunity for JBuck to win with his submission was too good to resist.

This is a metal 1/5 cent sales tax token.




This competition seeks metal coins or tokens that are fractional in terms of the lowest coin of record: penny, cent, -avo, -imo, -ime, -esimi, kopek, sen, lepta, stotinka -- I trust you get the idea. If, in the 20th century, there was a smaller coin, then you cannot use the current lowest coin of record -- e.g., no yen, because there was a 20th century sen.

The coins or tokens may be of any century. Lowest fraction wins. In case of a tie, first submitted wins. Competition closes Sunday night.

I don't recall if we have done this before. If we have, let's do it again.

I'm not sure I completely understand the premise, but I have an entry, nonetheless. This is not a fraction of the lowest denomination, but it is the smallest fraction of the largest denomination:

1 mil = 1/1000 of a Palestinian pound:






Edit: I don't think this is what you're after, sorry. The mil is the lowest denomination and there are no fractional versions of it that I know of. I don't even have any US Half Cents...

Somewhere I have a Mill value tax token, but no pictures handy.

Both contenders come from Japan; I'll leave it up to Arkie to decide.

In Tokugawa Japan, the base currency for major transactions was in the gold Ryo, which was subdivided into 4 Bu, 16 Shu, or 4,000 Mon. But, as with most pre-modern currency systems, the components of Tokugawa coinage each stood alone; e.g. a sack of rice would have been valued in Mon, a piece of artwork in Shu or Bu, a plot of land in Ryo.



After decimilization under Meiji (1870-73) the lowest currency unit of the Yen was the Rin, worth 1/1000th of a Yen.

I am wondering where my entry stands. Palestine didn't issue a denomination 10x more valuable than the mil, but the Japanese rin is also a denomination in itself, being one rin as opposed to 1/10 sen. Both entries are 1/1000th of the primary monetary unit.

I understand your concern. But I expressly stated in my description of the contest


In selecting examples of the lowest coin of record, I chose to look at the lowest denomination found in my 20th century Krause for several countries. For Japan it was the sen. For Palestine it would be the mil.

If you want to state the 1901 makes a poor distinguishing line, or that it is an unfair distinction, I cannot argue with you. It is the choice that I made.