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@Spence: it almost looks like that coin needs nine more Cats

@my, yes that is true enough. Many of my 20th Century world coins were passed down to me by my father and grandfather. I believe that both of them whizzed their coins to "improve" the surfaces back in the 1950s or 1960s. This has certainly reduced the numismatic value of them, but I still enjoy the coins for their sentimental value. I have a couple more coins from 1930 to photograph and post today, but they were both purchases of mine and so should be in a more acceptable condition.

A beautiful 10 centesimos!

This design is immediately familiar to anyone interested in 20th century French coinage - it's almost an exact copy (though with a different wreath, and of course facing in a different direction) of the Marianne portrait used on the 1/2, 1, and 2 franc coins from 1931 until 1959 (with some interruptions involving the Vichy regime).

Indeed it's by the same engraver, Pierre-Alexandre Morlon, who was working on the French designs at the time (there are several pattern types by him known from that period). I'm not sure how did what seems to have been an early variant of the Marianne end up in Uruguay of all places.


On my own end, I'm posting a coin that AFAICT I hadn't shown on CCF yet...



Hungary, Kingdom of (1920-46)
Miklos Horthy, regent (1920-44)
5 pengo, 1930 (commemorating the 10th anniversary of the regency)
KM# 512, Numista 18692

I've long been fascinated by the Hungarian pengo (most famous for its hyperinflational banknote issues of 1945-46), and while I knew I wouldn't be able to assemble the full type set (there are a few extremely scarce commemorative types), I eagerly bought any coins of that currency (especially types that I didn't have yet!) whenever I found one at reasonable prices.

In this case, the "reasonable price" was probably quite high (about $20, IIRC?) because it is, after all, a 25 gram chunk of (admittedly 64%) silver.


[EDIT: removed the diacritics. I hope some day CCF's software will be up to the task of rendering, at least, Latin Extended-A letters, but this day had apparently not arrived yet.]

1930 South African penny:

1930 Swiss 10 rappen

1930 Austria 2 Schillings:

1930 D

1930 S