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Since joining CCF I have switched to collecting world coins almost exclusively. While purchasing and cataloging the world coins I already have, I've come across many and acquired a few single-year types. The 1902 Great Britain crown and 1918 Finland 5 Penniä are a couple examples. I didn't seek these out for being single year types, they just sell fell into other sets I was putting together (Great Britain Edward VII and Finland type sets).
I was wondering how many of you actively collect one-year types and, if you do, do you stick with non-commemoratives? What's your favorite single-year type in your collection?
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I don't specifically collect them, but have a few in the context of my larger collections. Probably my favorite: Japan 10 mon, Hoei Tsuho Made for a few months in late 1708, recalled in 1709 due to refusal to accept it   They were minted to try to alleviate the stress on Tokugawa Japan's copper mines, which were running dry by the end of the 17th century. Despite being nearly 38mm in diameter, they only had about 1/3 of their face value in copper, and the people knew it. Laborers refused to be paid in them, merchants refused to accept them, and the whole scheme imploded early in 1709 when the Shogun who was pushing for them was murdered by his wife for having a homosexual affair. |
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Wives. Go figure.
Very fun history.
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I collected modern world coins in the 1960s and 1970s as a kid, and had a lot of British, French and Portuguese colonies, as well as some recently independent nations. Many of those places had one year types in the 1950s and 1960s. I probably had several dozen, though I've sold most of them off. Cambodia, Laos, French West Africa, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, French Somaliland, Congo, Burundi, Reunion, St Pierre & Miquelon ... Hmmm. I probably had 2 dozen just from those French colonies and former colonies!
Still have photos.
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I don't actively collect one-year types although I often try to acquire the first year of a type. But I do have a few non-commemorative single year types. 1658 Commonwealth crown  1762 Spain 8 reales  1883 Hawaii dala  Edited by jgenn
05/21/2018 10:30 pm
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Laos 1952. Not only one year types, but also the only year this set of denominations was ever minted.   |
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@tdzemia the laos 3 elephant pic on the obverse of the 20 cents looks like a copy of the thai 3 elephant design on some of the earlier bahts (1908)....like almost exact copy....so interesting!
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Not familiar with that coin. Time for a catalog dive! But here's another modern 1 year type coin with an animal:   |
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Some really interesting stuff so far and a good history lesson from @Finn235 as usual. This thread is already meeting my expectations! Here is the aforementioned 1902 crown.  |
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Another favorite - the 1945 Japanese sen made of baked clay  Metals were running out at the end of WWII and even though the 1 sen coins were being made of tin/zinc and banknotes were in place all the way down to 5 sen, the metal couldn't be spared anymore. The government contracted out to local pottery companies, who made enough coins for circulation from about June-August 1945, but then the bombs dropped and the war was over. Some reportedly were released without authorization, but most were probably sitting around in warehouses, and GIs took them home as souvenirs. After the war, inflation had hit too hard for the 1 sen coin to be of any use, and all denominations below 1 yen were demonetized in 1948 when the Yen was worth just 1/316 of a dollar. Edited by Finn235
05/23/2018 11:36 am
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I rarely see anyone post the country I collect......thailand.....I present you some one year types 1863 thailand 2 baht 1876 thailand 4 att  |
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Lots of nice coins!
@bd251, some nice subtle toning on that British crown.
And the historical lesson on clay coinage also exceptional!
mkman123, yes there are many under-represented countries here. Nice to see your Thai coins.
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@bd251, some nice subtle toning on that British crown. Thanks. Admittedly, the obverse isn't that attractive, but the reverse toning is beautiful! Here is a set of single-year issues.      As a semi-autonomous Russian territory, The Grand Duchy of Finland was authorized to issue its own currency, the Markka, since 1860. The coins here, commonly referred to as "civil war coinage," featured an uncrowned imperial eagle and were issued in 1917 after the fall of the Russian Empire. Finland took this opportunity to declare independence from Russia only to be rejected by the Russian provisional government. When the provisional government was overthrown by the Bolshevik government (Red Army) later in 1917 Finland again declared and this time obtained independence. The Finnish Civil War for control of the new country followed. The prior designs for these coins (also issued in 1917) featured a crowned imperial double eagle on the silver and the Tsar's crowned monogram on the copper. |
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I don't actively seek out single-year types, but I do tend to find them fairly interesting. Here's one of mine...   Several different denominations were made in this one-year series of Paraguayan coins; they were all the exact same shape (12-notch scalloped) and material (aluminium bronze), shared the exact same obverse and reverse designs (aside from the denomination numerals), and differed only in diameter. I think I have all of those except the 50 centimos. As it happens, all the other denominations in that series (10, 25, and 50 centimos) were also made by Paraguay in other years (with a different design); the 15 centimos denomination, however, was only ever made in that one year. (In fact, no other country had ever made an official 15 centimos coin for circulation either.) |
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bd251, those Finland coins are beautiful. I didn't realize the 1953 Paraguay coins were single year. I used to have a 10 centimos. And indeed 15 is an unusual denomination of ANYTHING (I think I have a 15 kopeck coin, too). Here's another from the same era. Macao, 10 avos 1952. I have always wondered if "avos" was meant to be an abbreviation of centavos, or ...   Edited by tdziemia
05/26/2018 09:00 am
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Picked up at my LCS today for 20 cents. Not terribly exotic, but it fits the category. Bulgaria 1 Lev 1960.   Edited by tdziemia
05/26/2018 9:03 pm
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