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The observant amongst you may notice my 2nd 1939 6d is now Trigg's. Kudos on having the 10 Kurus of Turkey too. I have the 25 and 1 kurus which are coming up of that set. My Australia for 1939 is very sparse. It was a tough year for coins, the Florin is the most scarce after KGV, the sixpence is not very common, pennies are though (But I don't have one).   What I do have is the 3d and shilling. Halfpennies are quite common of the old Blakemore type (Words) and scarce of the new Roo type. I don't have a Florin, which is bizarre considering I have 1932 and the Melbourne one. Apart from 1939 I am only missing 1914H and 1915. Irish halfcrown   The first year of "Eire" on the coins as Ireland left the British commonwealth. As we go further back it becomes "Saorstat Eireann" - Irish Free State.   Bolivia 50 centavos - one of my more exotic pieces. |
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The observant amongst you may notice my 2nd 1939 6d is now Trigg's. I didn't notice that this time, but I did on one of the previous coins. |
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1939 Belgium.
5 Francs,1 Franc-Leopold III BELGIQUE-BELGIE Thanks, Dorado! I didn't have a pic of a normal example, so it's nice to see some for comparison. (For context, the pics are early on the previous page. Technically the coins in that post are the BELGIE-BELGIQUE variety, but mine is in fact BELGIQUE-BELGIE. An interesting way of being fair to the two languages!)   Normally when I'd see a coin like this I'd say it's corroded (some zinc coins, in particular, can look similar). But this type is nickel, and it's hard to corrode nickel, and it's even harder to corrode nickel in just one spot and leave the rest of it this pristine. So it's probably a planchet flaw of some kind. Either way it's fascinating! Normally I don't make edge pics (with my camera it's nontrivial!), but this coin definitely deserved one...  Believe me, it looks even more ridiculous in hand! Hard to make pics that actually give an impression of how it looks like. Some of those holes go straight through. I actually got this when a coin store noticed my interest in old low-grade coinage, and let me browse their reject bin of coins they thought not worth selling. For about Two Cents per coin, I bought about two dozen worn-out British pennies, several other low-grade (and/or damaged) 19th century coppers, a fascinating (but probably counterfeit) 17th century half-crown that unfortunately came out as a featureless circle on all my pics of it so far, and this little piece. I'm still not sure quite how it managed to get that way. |
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Finland 10 markkaa 1939  |
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1939 British set - all coins from the farthing to the halfcrown are relatively common:  Close-up of the English shilling - triggersmob showed the Scottish version:  Slightly batteref Australian threepence:  Belgium 5 Francs:  Nazi Germany 10 pfennig:  Albania 2 Lek:  Bolivia 50 centavos:  United States nickel and half dollaer:   |
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Thanks, Dorado! @ january1may Not at all  |
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Some more coins from around the world. Germany 5 reichspfennig  Belgium 1 franc  Canada 10 cents  Chile 20 centavos  France 1 franc  India 1 anna  India 1/12 anna  India 1/4 anna  Latvia 2 santimi  Malaya 1 cent  Netherlands 1 gulden  Norway 5 ore  Norway 25 ore  Philippines 1 centavo  |
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Groovy - another small area I love to collect along with many of us is Palestine. But many of their coins are expensive. These were only issued for 20 years between 1927 and 1946 and some dates are very rare and expensive, leaving me with the more common dates and fortunately 1939 is one of them!   One Mil - Bronze, it was 1,000 Mils to a Pound, 1 and 2 Mils were bronze coins, round.   Ten Mils - Cupronickel (The 5,10, 20 were holed cupronickel, except in 1942 when they switched to Bronze)   50 Mils - Silver (64 or 72% silver) - shilling sized   100 Mils - Silver and Florin sized, this one is EF but toned. Notes started at 250 Mils (¼ Pound) and went up to £100 Palestinian Pounds. Coins minted at The Royal MintThese coins are fascinating too, as they are trilingual (Hebrew. English and Arabic) and come from an area with much conflict. They were only issued in certain years too. I will show some more in 1937, 1935 and 1927 as well. Edited by Princetane
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Final 1939 pieces - Canada!   Royal Visit dollar showing Government buildings in Ottawa (Parts date to 1850s). King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited the USA and Canada in May - June 1939, fortunately just before the war broke and were popular in both places. The tour was a hit and the King's fickle health held up.   I got this Royal Visit medalet showing a map of Canada the Royal couple took. Worn, but it was a secret santa gift, so I like it. |
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YEAR 1938 1938 Canada. 5 Cents,1 Cent- George VI.   Edited by Dorado
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