Yet Another Forum Game - Numismatic Go Fish!

24 hours in, and if I didn't miscount, the results so far are as follows...

oriole - 7.35 points (full match)
Joseph7420 - 4 points
MontCollector - 4 points
pepactonius - 4 points
bd251 - 3 points
Crazyb0 - 3 points
Canadian coins - 3 points
CollegeBarbers - 3 points
Dorado - 3 points


Meanwhile, nobody had even gotten close to my intended reason for the bonus point countries.

I'll give you all a hint: you might have missed that one of the countries eligible for bonus points is Tannu Tuva.
To the best of my knowledge, I'm not aware of any connection between Tannu Tuva and Italy.


[EDIT: one thing I did miscount is that it's been less than 24 hours; I miscalculated the time zone difference.]

Well, @january, you are certainly being obscure and mysterious with these bonus points.

All the more reason for us to try harder.

1979 USSR
15 kopeck (15 ribbons)

So the other countries posted have been:

Russia
Bhutan
Bahamas
Spitzbergen
Ceylon, and
Romania

if any of them were bonus countries, they would have received 2 points for getting main and bonus points, and presumably at least 1.4 points for being a bonus country.

So one of those above countries must have some connection to Tannu Tuva and the Venice group. The connection escapes me.

That's pretty much it, yes! You even guessed the country I removed correctly.
(Don't recall why I actually removed it; maybe I thought it didn't fully count as a country.)

To clarify somewhat, some of your extra details were not actually intended by me; I was just looking for "rare" types of this category, and did not check whether they were actually issued for just one year.


The backstory: at some point, I decided to get at least one 15 cent coin from each country that made them. I already had Russia (in several forms), Romania, Mongolia, and Paraguay, and wanted to know what was left. So I checked Numista...

Turned out that there were a few types from Bahamas - the type posted in this thread was, in fact, the one I ended up getting - as well as one type each from Venice, Lombardy-Venetia, and Tannu Tuva, all of them sufficiently rare that I was unlikely to ever obtain them.
(I did not then count Seborga and Spitzbergen, though they would likely have fallen into the same category.)

So the bonus point option was basically a hope that someone would actually have and post one of those rare 15 cent types from Venice, Lombardy-Venetia, or Tannu Tuva.
I think I only added Seborga because I wanted people to post coins from there anyway. As I mentioned, I'm not sure why I didn't add Spitzbergen.

In retrospect, I probably should have been clearer.

Congratulations oriole