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The 1962 Vatican City Second Ecumenical Council Mint Set featured the Vatican Shield on the 1 Lira and 2 Lire coins. Excellent!  |
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Nice looking 1962 Vatican City Second Ecumenical Council Mint Set Hondo!
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Thanks, IGE! It's not a set I would have bought myself, or maybe I would have as its my birth year.   Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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1932 Netherlands 2˝ Gulden  Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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1932 Netherlands 2˝ Gulden Very nice! |
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Here's a twofer, a nicely toned 1811 British silver shilling token issued by Frederick Reynolds, a local brewer and merchant in Yarmouth, Norfolk. Obverse shows the town arms with its three merlions -- think mermaid and lion. Reverse features Mr. Reynolds's family crest, which he apparently had commissioned when he became Mayor of Yarmouth. The outstrecteched hand brandishing a baton is a traditional symbol of civic authority. Dalton 17.
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Yowza!  That beauty needs to be in the eye candy topic!  |
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1789 Ireland ˝ Penny Wicklow - Cronebane / Miners Arms   Edited by Keith67
01/09/2024 4:13 pm
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A pair of really nice British tokens.
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1798 Ireland ˝ Penny Wicklow - Cronebane / Miners Arms Very nice! |
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Very nice Keith67!
Errers and Varietys.
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Iceland 1946 2 Krónur. This coin is the first issue of the newly established Republic of Iceland (founded by a referendum in 1944). Minted in aluminium bronze, it was later produced from 1958 - 1966 in nickel brass. The obverse features the Icelandic coat of arms surrounded by the four traditional protector spirits ("Landvćttir") of Iceland. These are Griđungur the bull, Gammur the eagle, Dreki the dragon, and Bergrisi the giant.  Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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daltonista, that shilling token is a stunner! And I'd never hear of merlions - just as I'd never heard of merhorses before the Britannias!  Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Very nice Hondo. Errers and Varietys.
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Hondo Boguss wrote: "I'd never heard of merhorses before the Britannias!" Back in high school we learned to call this mythological beast the hippocampus, which translated from the Greek to "sea-horse monster." In my collection, my favorite hippocampi are supporting the arms of Newcastle-on-Tyne in Northumberland, Britain, on this silver half-crown (XXX Pence) token issued in 1811 by John Robertson, a prominent silversmith and merchant.
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