Posting the madness of mid 20th century Afican issues. Beware!

Cabo-Verde.

 

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Mozambique.

 

Algerie.

 

Tunisia.

 

Very interesting looking coins you both have. Thanks for sharing

 

Here's another one that fits with your French colonial theme. One of my favorite coins of all the ones I have.

 

All the coins I posted here were foreign bin finds at a cost of $.08 to $.50 a piece. At first I tried to ID each one as I searched the bins looking for coins I didn't have. This took too long and I eventually began just purchasing all of them on my visits to coin shops and the like. Plus the various spellings in French were driving me mad.

Then a few years later I sat down to catalogue these and discovered that they weren't really all the same. I kept flipping from one end of the Krause book to the other. Back and forth, back and forth. Too maddening. Eventually I copied the various African pages, stapled them together and began to organize these. This methode helped a lot. Now I have the digital Krause copies which makes it even easier, but still I get stumped once in a while.

 

My local coin shop must have purchased a big group of those French West Africa coins, because I started seeing a lot of them in their foreign bin, so I bought them all because in my experience, most African coins are collectible. Most of those I have are just the West Africa, not the varieties like Togo unfortunately.

 

why does black africa have a coin with a white chick on it?

 

How about Guitar coins?

http://www.blackmountaincoins.com/p/BMC/c-GUITAR-COINS/2004_SOM_03000.html

 

It's called colonialism - those coins depicting Marianne (representation of the French Republic) were last issued more than 50 years ago. Hard to imagine you would find anything like that on recent coins from any of the CFA franc countries. Politically the CFA franc is a disputed matter in the BCEAO and BEAC countries though, as it "perpetuates" an economic and monetary link that these days may not make much sense any more.

Then again, a "coin" issued by or in the name of Equatorial Guinea honoring Swiss chocolate is worse in my opinion. Roughly the same level as those guitar coins "from" Somalia ...

Christian

 

Maybe we should use the chocolate standard to back our money.

64 Charles V mini chocolate bars = 32 chocolate coins = 16 Hershey Bars = 1 Swiss Bar. Yes?

Of course National Collectors Mint will make a 2 1/2 Year Anniversary Bar made of tofu and clad in .9999 Swiss chocolate and then sell it on television.

 

Don't make fun of Solalia guitar coins

 

This is some Somalians on vacation.