Post a coin depicting the sun - Summer solstice today in the Northern Hemisphere.

In the Northern Hemisphere, June 20, 2012 is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. In observance of this great day, let's post some coins depicting the sun.

Here are two of my favorites. :hail: They are both 2 Reales coins of the Central American Republic and Honduras. The main device here is the sun shining over five mountains. Similar devices can be found on coins of Guatemala, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.

In the early 19th Century, the countries in Central America saw the success of the USA in North America & formed the United States of Central America. The new country was called the Central American Republic and consisted of countries previously known as Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, & Guatemala. The union broke up about 20 years later & re-formed their original countries with individual monetary systems.

If you have a coin with a sun on it, post it today. There are several US coins with the sun on them.

 

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Here is another world coin depicting the sun. It is a1942 Uruguay 1 peso.

 

Only three from a series of French collector coins. Each issue has the sun (and the Sower) in a different position.



Christian

 

The French sower design includes the sun :smile

This photo depicts the 1/2 Franc, 1 Franc, and 2 Franc coins.

 

Let's post a french silver medal from the XIXth century depicting Helios ( it is from an insurance company ! )



:welcome: to Summer Time

 

Nice Walkers and St Gaudens. :hail:

Here is a Pan Pac commemorative half dollar.

 

Coincidentally, I posted these two commemorative at CT recently. Here is the Oregon Trail with a big sun.

 

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That coin is very cool and I bet it would look great in high grade mint state. Do you have a photo of the other side and what is the composition?

 

The other side of the coin depicts the bust of Jose Gervasio Artigas. Sorry I can't locate a photo right now.

The 1942 1 peso depicted is made of 0.7200 silver and has a mintage of 9 million. It is available as a bullion coin in low grades. The catalog for UNC is something like $40.

Uruguay also uses the same cat & sun device on their 1930 & 1936 10 Centesimos coins. These also have high mintages with UNC catalog of about $40. They are struck in beautiful Aluminum-Bronze.

 

Sorry, these are older pictures, but I have always liked the sun design of this so-called-dollar.

 

This is a nice sun design from North Korea. Again sorry for the older, low quality pictures.

 

I guess that is Apollo riding Pegasus bringing the sun. Pretty cool so-called-dollar. :smile

 

Very cool obverse design.

This one must be Kim Jong-il riding Pegasus.

 

United States of Central America

Here is a 1 real from the Republic of Central America. It has a hole in it. This is typical for the coins of this type.

Clothing in 1830 Central America didn't necessarily have pockets to conveniently hold the coins. Therefore, folks tied their money together on a string so as not to loose the coins. I've seen photographs of people at a Central American train station where they appear to be selling these old coins as souvenirs. They had dozens of coins strung on their strings.