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Valued Member
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Poll Question
These maybe official issues or just fantasy coins as it's not been made official yet. But the first ever trade coin issued by the Palestinian National Authority this year. It is an 8 coin pattern set denominated in Dinars into 100 Qirsh. The mintage is 10,000 sets by the Osborne Coinage Company of Cincinnati, Oh.
So what's the collector in you say:
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I voted "don't want a set, not really a coin", though it wouldn't be true to say that I wouldn't want an example of this "coinage".
Personal opinion: Unless and until the Palestinians and Israelis sign a treaty that establishes a Palestinian state, or Palestine otherwise obtains international recognition, any coins issued by them should be considered "unofficial coins".
Unofficial coins, or coins from unofficial countries, are OK if you're into that sort of thing - they range from serious "almost-countries" like Transnistria to "crackpot secessionists" like Hutt River Province. Personally, I do collect them, and I have a few others on my wantlist. I wouldn't want to buy a "full set" of these Palestine coins, but I might buy just one coin if I happened to see a broken-up set for sale by a local dealer.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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I tend to agree with you Sap. My reason for wanting the coins is fairly obscure. I collect "coins" that were minted in the United States. Such as some of the Mexican revolutionary coins minted by the Denver Toy Company or Scofield Manufacturing, Waterbury Mint, Franklin Mint to name a few. Now I getting one by the Osborne Coinage Company. This brings me to ask if anyone knows of any other US company that has produced coins for countries.
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This brings me to ask if anyone knows of any other US company that has produced coins for countries. This might be worthy of a new thread, rather than hijacking this one. But one such mint I'm aware of is the Continental Coin Company of Van Nuys, California, issuing medallic rounds and "coins" in the 1980's and 1990's. They had several pseudonymns, one of which was the "New Queensland Mint", the entity which struck several of the aforementioned Hutt River Province coins. Another is of course the National Collectors Mint, which makes all kinds of overhyped gimmicky coins. 'Nuff said. The Roger Williams Mint, now a subsidiary of token factory TokensDirect, has in recent years issued several "coin sets" aimed at the one-from-every-country collector: Cocos-Keeling Islands, Easter Island, Galapagos Islands, and several others. These sets are all "unofficial". Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
Germany
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Are these circulating coins. I collect coins that are currency, things that people use. If they are just made to look nice and are not actually real money, I would not collect them, if the palestinians are using them then I want them.
I'd collect transdinistra for example, the place is a country, just only recognised by a few country, if Kosovo had had its own coinage when I went before they got independence i'd have loved that (but they didn't just dirty euros), but I had "coins" that are made for something else other than circulation.
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But the first ever trade coin issued by the Palestinian National Authority this year Wouldn't bet my life on it, but I believe your facts are wrong to begin with, and this was not ordered by the Palestinian authority, or any authority, nor they are trade coins, regardless to which mint used. Edited by leprecoin
05/17/2010 01:49 am
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