Two Common But Cool Hk Coins

Just a note, the current 20c and $2 also have the wavy edge.

The 10c is called a security edge. There's also one on the HK$5

Here's a brochure from HKMA
http://www.info.gov.hk/hkma/eng/cur...eaflet_e.pdf

Oh, no! I'm not ashamed of my coins. In fact, I think most of them are very beautiful and artistic. I just wish that they were in mintier condition so their detail and artistry could come out a little better.

I suppose I am going through a puppy love phase with world coins because, if nothing else, they look so different than the US circulation that I have seen all my life. Instead of an eagle, I see a dragon. Instead of George Washington, I am seeing Queen Elizabeth. Different thicknesses, edges, and languages make world coins very interesting!

-- Boris

I was the kid that got a lot of coins thrown at. The idea was that someone would throw a penny at you and if you picked it up then they would call you "Miser!" and laugh. As a kid, I didn't like being laughed at but it didn't take long for me to figure out that someone was throwing free money at me. Some kids, who wanted to be cool but didn't have pennies, would throw nickels and dimes. I never had a quarter thrown at me. A quarter could still buy a lot at the school cafeteria back then. This used to be pretty popular in my middle school in the 80s.

Eventually, I would have enough money thrown at me to buy a stick of beef jerky or a chocolate milk. Not a bad desert for lunch time.

I never understood the humor of it but I guess it may have been a way for people to show off how rich they are or something like that.

I read an article linked from a blog (Deleted004 maybe?) that kids aren't collecting stuff like they used to. It's hard for coins, stamps, and baseball cards to compete against video games, big screen TVs, and iPods. Trivia on the back of baseball cards can be found online. With global communications and the internet, nothing is "far away" so a stamp from a far off land is meaningless (just Wiki the country, right?).

So that MS-62 penny a 13 year kid accidentally receives in his change after buying a pack of Smarties is meaningless. They'd rather throw the penny at someone or throw both the penny and the Smartie at the nerdy kid at school who has a pocket just rattling and overflowing with other coins.

-- Boris