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Yet Another Forum Game - Numismatic Go Fish!

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 Posted 01/29/2018  2:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add january1may to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Sorry. Took me a while to think of a coin in my collection that could give a good gimmick to the game (for some nice variety) and yet wasn't too easy.

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Paraguay, 15 centimos 1953. Scalloped edge.

This coin has two notable features that would make it somewhat unusual: the scalloped edge, and the 15 denomination.
I personally find that the denomination is more unusual than the shape; but others might think differently.

As such, my ranking for this challenge is mainly based on those...


Main:
1 point for a coin from 1953 or featuring a cap on a stick (1.1 points if both)
2 points for a coin from Paraguay
3 points for a coin with scalloped or serrated edges
4 points for a coin denominated 15, 0.15, or 3/20
- only counts for 3.5 points if the coin is over 200 years old
- only counts for 1.25 points if the coin is from Paraguay

Bonus:
1.5 points for a coin from Venice, Lombardy-Venetia, or Seborga
1.75 points for a coin from Tannu Tuva

Extra bonus:
2 points extra if both main and bonus points apply

Total for an exact match: 7.35 points (1.1+2+3+1.25)


Oh, almost forgot: the first to post the correct explanation (or, at least, an explanation sufficiently close to the intended correct one) as to why I chose those particular countries for the bonus points gets advantage in a tiebreaker.

(If the tiebreaker does not include anyone with said advantage, the first one to post their coin wins, as usual.)

(And yes, there is, in fact, a reason. I'll try to reveal it at final point tally if nobody posts it earlier.)
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 Posted 01/29/2018  5:16 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jbuck to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
This will be fun!

I wish I had more of my world coins photographed.
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 Posted 01/29/2018  6:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Joseph7420 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I believe the most points I can get is four, using this 15 kopecks piece from the Soviet Union, 1950:

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 Posted 01/29/2018  6:36 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Crazyb0 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Again all I have is from what silver coins are left. Any extra credit points for having the same images on a coin? LOL! It is a match....sort of...

Paraguay 1973 300 Guaranies KM #29 f= .720 ASW: .6158


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 Posted 01/29/2018  6:46 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Canadian coins to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I took this coin out earlier today and photographed it because I thought I would need it for Around the World challenge. Thought perhaps the game was going to make its way to Sri Lanka. It's probably the closest match I have to your coin because I do not have a $0.15 denomination coin ( although I do have $0.20 denomination coin). Also don't have coins from the required countries. Here is my closest match.

1944 Ceylon 10 cent
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**Bonus**
Paraguay gained its independence from The Venetian Republic in 1811. Previously to their independence Paraguay shared a governing body with the countries you listed. Hopefully, that was the common element you were looking for.
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 Posted 01/29/2018  7:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add oriole to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Well, here is an exact match:


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The Lion and the staff are remniscent of some of the venice symbology. That is not much of an explanation of course.
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 Posted 01/29/2018  7:48 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mcshilling to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

Quote:
I wish I had more of my world coins photographed.


That makes 2 of us.
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 Posted 01/29/2018  7:59 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add oriole to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I just photograph my coins as needed. I use my cell phone camera.
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 Posted 01/29/2018  8:22 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mysilveryears to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I wish I had more of my world coins organized.
Inventory indicates I have an exact match in BU like that ^ one, but filing system says it would take three days to locate it.
oriole just saved me a lot of time & effort.
Congrats to the new leader.
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 Posted 01/29/2018  8:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add january1may to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

Quote:
I wish I had more of my world coins organized.


It took me something like twenty minutes going through a large box full of Ziploc bags with coins to find this round's challenge coin for a photo.
And if it wasn't for the fact that 1) I distinctly remembered putting it there, so I knew I had a high chance of success before starting, and 2) a scalloped edge coin is immediately obvious from a glance at the side, so I didn't have to check every coin in every bag, it could well have been a good deal longer.

Seriously. There are coins in my collection that I hadn't seen in years, and every so often I find yet another batch of coins that I misplaced months ago.
A month or two ago, I found my 1699 English fourpence that I hadn't seen since 2015. Turned out that for some unfathomable reason I decided to put its Ziploc bag into a box of chocolates (after eating the actual chocolates, fortunately).
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 Posted 01/29/2018  9:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add CollegeBarbers to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The closest match I have is this 1975 Bhutan 10 Chetrums because it has a scalloped edge
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 Posted 01/29/2018  9:02 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add MontCollector to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Just picked up 2 coins from the Bahamas today. Both of them fit this category perfectly. One is Scalloped and the other is a 15 cent coin.

By your rules the 15 cent coin will score one more point than a scalloped one, so here it is.
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 Posted 01/29/2018  9:15 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add pepactonius to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Let's try out the new/improved "My previous uploads" function.

Spitzbergen/Arctic Coal -- 1946 15 kopeks :

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Romania 15 Bani 1960
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