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 Posted 10/07/2006  09:18 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add toast to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I was just looking thru my collection and thought that the picture in the guides don't do these coins justice. So, I thought I'd share this picture with you.

1954-2004 Royal Visit 50th Anniversary Florin (Dollar)
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1954-2004 Mawson Station 50th Anniversary Dollar
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Australia actually owns part of the Antarctic? I didn't know that. I guess you really do learn things from coins.



Edit: I went to wikipedia and read up on this and it is very interesting. I had no idea so many countries were claiming a big piece of frozen ice.
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 Posted 10/08/2006  02:26 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Yass to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
quote:
Originally posted by Irishraider

Australia actually owns part of the Antarctic? I didn't know that. I guess you really do learn things from coins.



Edit: I went to wikipedia and read up on this and it is very interesting. I had no idea so many countries were claiming a big piece of frozen ice.


Yep, they're all there waiting on someone to start exploiting it first. It'll be a sad day when that eventually happens.
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 Posted 10/08/2006  06:09 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bigfella to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
There are a few other coins in the series along with the Mawson station...they are also nice
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