Yet Another Forum Game - Numismatic Go Fish!

I'd say mint where it was made if the mint is inside the foreign country in question, and probably capital city otherwise. That or the closest point of the country.

(This is actually tricky for me because I found several coins from Thailand in Moscow and a coin from India in Kaliningrad Oblast, so I'd have to look up the exact mints and/or the exact borders to be sure which one is the larger distance.)

(Incidentally, can I post a different coin of the same type as a representative if I can't find the actual original coin I found? I've found multiples of the Thai coin, but I'm not sure where exactly they were stored.)


...That one Sacagawea dollar, then. I'll have to check if I have that coin, though - it might still be in my father's collection.

(I'm assuming that coins brought by friends and/or relatives who visited the appropriate countries still don't count, but the current rulings make that uncertain.)

Okay here goes




Chinese 2 Fen coin found on the ground in Auckland, New Zealand.

Distance from Beijing to Auckland 10,400km or 6,500 miles

Not sure where Chinese coins are minted, but assume it was Beijing.

I found this on the floor in store in Ohio. Columbus to Taipei is 12,345 km.

That's fine, you did see it in the tray, so it is highly likely someone spent it there, purposefully or by accident.



They have at least 4 mints: Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen and Shenyang



Nice

Guess I could post some random coin and say I found it in ? Wal-mart. But I really would have no clue where it came from

OK, posting the Indian coin now...



This 2 rupee coin was minted in 2016 in Calcutta, India, and somehow found its way to a cashier's tray in Pionerskiy, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, within the same year.

Google tells me that Pionerskiy to Calcutta is 6581 km, and Pionerskiy to Delhi (the capital of India) is 5340 km.

Bd is the winner making it 2000 km further than the next entry.

The challenge coin is this 1902 UK florin. 0.925 silver, 27.3mm.


The challenge is to post your most similar coin from the most distant country.

Distance score:
- I would like you to determine the distance based on the search "distance from UK to [country your coin is from]" (see note below)
- One point for each 1000 km rounded up (so 1-1000 km is 1 point, 1001-2000 km is 2 points).
- Higher score is better
- This score must be greater than 0 (no UK coins)


Additional points

Date (conversion from other calendar system is okay):
+3 - Same year (1902)
+2 - within 1 year
+1 - 2-10 years
+0 - 11-20 years
-1 - more than 20 years

Composition:
+2 - at least 0.9 silver
+1 - 0.7-0.89 silver
+0 - less than 0.7 silver
-1 - not silver

Size (diameter):
-1 - smaller than 17 mm
+0 - 17-23.99 mm
+1 - 24-26.99 mm
+2 - 27-29 mm
+1 - 29.01-32 mm
+0 - 32.01-39 mm
-1 - larger than 39mm


Points ties will be broken by the longer actual distance using Google.

Note: it looks to me like Google and Bing use the geographic center of the country when you do a search like this. In a few trial searches I did, Bing and Google gave very close, but different, distances. Which one gave a longer distance was also inconsistent. You can use Bing or other search engine, but I will use Google as the official meter for this challenge (I know some people don't like to use Google). Additionally, if the distance is close to an even thousand of kilometers (1000, 2000, etc), I will use the Google result for scoring since a few kilometers can make a difference in points.