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Tdziemia - welcome here finally! Already anticipating 16th century coins off you.
Yes the shillings are prolific and you can look forward to one every year they made them in OZ off me! I'm not present much in the first couple of centuries because I've sold off most of my modern coins. Even if I'm not posting, I'm checking out your nice contributions! A bit of Arabian silver for 1955.... Saudi Arabia 1 rial:   North Yemen, 1/4 Rial:   |
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Gives me more to look forward to! One more coin set for 1955 the year of Tutti Frutti, Lucille and some less nice non Rock and roll songs like Hernandos Hideaway. We have seen the 2c and 50c of these Caribbean coins, here is the middle values!   We have a brass 5 cent coin and cupronickel 10c and 25c coin. The 25c is close to a shilling in size as the exchange rate of the New Caribbean dollar (Which was rolled out on stamp issues in 1949 to 1951) was $4.80 to the £1. Next I hit 1954, the year my mother was born and finding high grade British coins is like looking for a needle in a haystack. |
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One more coin set for 1955 the year of Tutti Frutti, Lucille and some less nice non Rock and roll songs like Hernandos Hideaway. Bill Haley & His Comets was more my thing. Rock Around the Clock. |
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Meh! I considered that song more 1954 Rockabilly, See you later alligator is pretty cool though. And I meant to say Maybelline by Chuck Berry, not Lucille which was from 1957.  Edited by Princetane
10/26/2022 10:45 pm
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Yeah, I like See you later Alligator too, and Thirteen Women, well just about all their songs really.
I love listening to all the old music.
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Now we are in 1954.. Australia florin  U.K. half crown  This the most viewed U.S.A. coin in my gallery, for some reason.  |
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Chile 1 peso  Fiji half penny  Indonesia 10 sen  Romania 5 bani  Sweden 50 ore  |
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1954 was probably one of the sparsest years in NZ coins since the 1930s. It was not the sparsest though, they are coming up 1952 and 1939.   Just 4 coins were issued including the Halfpenny which had a super low mintage of just 200,000 making it quite scarce. The other coins also had below average minting numbers after a decent 1953   Close up of the Halfpenny Also I have upgraded the 3d coin as well!   This one is AU, UNC are about $50 each, this was just $15 and a standard VF one is like 20 cents. 1953 will see a full issue, but only because of the Queen's coronation. |
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Australia also had an exciting year. All of the coins were issued except the 1 penny and the 3 pence is quite scarce.   The 6d, 1/- and standard design Florin (14 million minted) Apart from stains, a nice group, the 6d is an UNC/AU coin I paid about $10 for and are very happy with. The photo does not do it justice.  And Royal Visit Florin, 2 million were minted showing a bizarre image of Kangaroo and Lion, what is funny is when the coin wears it looks like a Kangaroo headed centaur! My example is UNC. Edited by Princetane
10/27/2022 03:40 am
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I can help with a pic of the threepence.  |
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1954 UK set - this set of course doesn't include the famous penny, which is believed to be unique - a pattern to test out the new obverse without 'Britt:Omn':  The UK had issued no silver coins for circulation since 1946, but Maundy sets were still struck in silver every year for the Queen to distribute on Maundy Thursday. Here is a Maundy Threepence with the new obverse omitting 'Britt:Omn':  Standard circulation (nickel-brass) threepence for comparison:  France issued its highest denomination coin, the 100 francs, for the first time in 1954:  Meanwhile Swiss coins continued much as they had since the 1870s:  Costa Rica made its 1- and 2-Colon coins from steel in 1954 rather than the usual cupro-nickel:   Greece 5 lepta:  Mexico 20 centavos:  Seychelles 1 Rupee:  Edited by NumisRob
10/27/2022 04:27 am
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Nice Maundy 3d! Some more 1954 from me  5 Drachma - Greece. 1954 saw a currency reform, the 2nd in 10 years, 1,000 of the 2nd Drachma was a new one. This 2nd drachma replaced the first one which lasted from 1830 to 1944. Inflation saw it reach 50 billion to one at changeover in October 1944. Because of this, no Greek coins were issued at all between 1930 and 1954, just banknotes. This 5 Drachma was the highest face value coin in the 1954 set, which started with the Aluminium 5 Lepta shown by NumisRob. The next time I show a Greek coin will be in 1930 or 1926!   British Malaya and Borneo 20 cents, this was a precursor currency to the Malaysian Ringitt, Singapore Dollar and Brunei Ringitt.   Norway 1 Krone, a new series replacing a holed coin in the earlier 1950s. Norwegian coins were base metal since before WW2. It was still poor well into the 1950s. We are now heading back into the 1st decade of the postwar period and you will see a lot less silver outside Switzerland and base metal coins. Prosperity improved in the mid 1950s, but the late 40s was a tough time and the early 50s not much better in most of Europe. It was worse in the newly communist parts. |
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Venezuela 25 centimos 1954  Fiji halfpenny 1954  |
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1954 proof cameo Franklyn half dollar   |
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