Post Your Coins Depicting Places!

A recent addition to my collection - 1966 Portuguese 20 escudos depicting the suspension bridge across the Tagus at Lisbon, then called the Salazar Bridge, now the 25th April Bridge:

The actual bridge, seen from a cruise ship in January 2020:

Thanks for the link, commems - very interesting!


Yes, it was January 2020 and I was working as Port and Destination Speaker on a cruise to the Canary Islands, Spain and Portugal. Two months later the whole cruise industry came to a halt...

Excellent!

Nice!

From the notes you've included your various posts, it appears that you've done a fair amount of traveling. Whenever I traveled to new locations for work (domestic or international), I always tried to extend my stay to take in the local sites. I enjoyed traveling!

1970 Italy.
1000 Lire Capital Rome - Trial Strike.

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Reverse
At the top the reproduction of the pavement of Piazza del Campidoglio, from Michelangelo.

(Coin # 2)



(Educational purposes*)

Piazza del Campidoglio
Beautifully designed by Michelangelo ,is the masterpiece of Capitoline Hill ,is bordered by three buildings :
The Palazzo Senatorio
The Palazzo dei Conservatori
Palazzo Nuovo

I posted this one over in the "Post Your Coins with Stars" thread, but believe its historical significance merits a post in this thread as well.

The coin is the US 2007 Little Rock Central High School Desegregation Silver Dollar, the place is the Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. In 1957, the school was witness to a watershed moment in US history - the desegregation of a high school in the face of significant local opposition. Nine African-American students enrolled in the Little Rock, AK high school as a test of the recent Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education. that ruled that it was unconstitutional to segregate schools based on race. (Check out the link below for more!)

PLACE: Little Rock Central High School

(Image Credit: Libary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. (www.loc.gov/pictures. Public Domain.)


COIN: 2007 Little Rock Central High School Desegregation Silver Dollar



For more of the story about the Liitle Rock Nine and the 2007 Silver Dollar that commemorated their bravery, check out:

- 2007 Little Rock Central High School Silver Dollar

1984 Greece.
20 Drachmes-new lettering

Obverse :
A portrait of Pericles

Reverse :
Temple of Athena-Nike (Acropolis)

Athens Greece Acropolis the Temple of Athena Nike 5th century BC.



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