Certified Elemental Metals Set! Can/Should I add anything?

Hello,

I been putting together a certified elemental metals coin set for a while now that contains the different metals used for circulating coins throughout history. So far I have an example for: aluminum, antimony, copper, gold, iron, lead, nickel, platinum, silver, tin and zinc. From my research I think that this is all of the metals that were used. I left out the magnesium/aluminum alloy coins of WWII Poland and the manganese WWII US silver nickels since they weren’t the primary metal in the coin. I also, left out the all of the exotic metal modern commemorative coins since they were never designed for circulation.

So, my question to you is does anyone here know of any other coins that I can/should add to this set? Below are the photos of the coins that I have so far in the set in order as said above. Please let me know what you think and please let me know you have any questions for me. Thanks.

Best Regards,

-Kyle

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Unfortunately, I don't have much to add but "neat set!"

 

The British coin is a 2d, not a 2P. The abbreviation 'd' for pence was used up to decimalisation, with L.S.D. used for Pounds, shillings and pence until the new decimal coins were introduced because that is what the Romans called them.

To distinguish the new coinage, the abbreviation was changed to NP for New Pence, after a few years to become just P.

 

Here is a Mint Error of a Silver Eagle minted on a 3M Sanding Disc! One of a kind!
I want to share this webpage with you - http://www.greatcollections.com/Coi...er-Eagle-Struck-on-3m-Sanding-Disc-PCGS-MS-64

 

Great, now I've got milk all over my table.

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when the PCGS grader first saw this.

 

I'm feeling a bit lazy; would you consider editing your posts so that each coin photo has a line above or below it saying which element it represents, so we don't have to look them up one-by-one on Google?

Thanks for posting these. As a lifelong chemistry enthusiast, I like this idea a lot.

 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

What he said.

On behalf of the lazy,

Thanks in advance!

 

Some of the Pacific island countries issued titanium coins.
And there are (or soon will be) some palladium coins.
A metal-by-metal search on eBay my turn up others.

Although they are not metallic I know of coins in several other mediums.
I believe there are ceramic coins.
And clay(?).
Also I know around 1944 the Japanese issued "fiber" coins for their occupation of China (I have some).

Maybe broaden the aim of your collection.

 

Well, I haven’t posted much here so I don’t know how to edit posts but like I said the photos are in the order that I stated in the first paragraph “So far I have an example for: aluminum, antimony, copper, gold, iron, lead, nickel, platinum, silver, tin and zinc.” So you don’t have to google them. You just need to scroll up the page a little bit.

 

Well, I've been off to the Wikipedia article, and now I'm terribly curious about the "pressed galvanic coal" Notgeld coins it mentions. Googling that phrase turns up only the Wikipedia article itself, but a search for "galvanic coal" turned up this newsletter from our LOCAL coin club(!):

http://www.raleighcoinclub.org/newsletter/2004/Jun-04.pdf

It's got an actual image of the coal coin.

I assume the coin could be slabbed, although it looks like someone hand-scratched a number onto one face, so I assume it would get a details grade. I hope they would overlook the carbon spot.

 

That's a neat collection, thanks for posting it. If it were me, I'd have a hard time not extending it to include alloys.

 

Broadening the collection to the Japanese fiber coins is a good idea and won’t be hard since I actually have 2 1945 red fiber 5 fen coins (photos below). As far as the titanium and palladium coins go I would like to restrict the collection to coins that actually circulated and are not modern commemoratives. There are a lot of exotic metal modern commemoratives.

 

I actually have a couple of the galvanic coal coins (photos below) but I don’t think that any company would be willing to slab them since they are relatively fragile (in that if you dropped one they probably would shatter) and they are pretty thick at 5mm. Also the 500 mark is big at 50mm in diamater.

 

I don’t think that I want to add alloys at the moment since there are just a lot of alloy coins out there and to my knowledge at least one of them is rather toxic. The copper arsenic alloy coins of one of the provinces of ancient India, they are pretty cool actually but then again I don't really want a coin that can poison me by me handling it to much.

 

Very neat! I've done something similar as well. I really like the antimony coin - took me a while to hunt down one. I believe I've seen it for sale on ebay a while back.

http://gxseries.com/numis/coin_elements/coin_elements.htm

I think the only other "coin" that did circulate is the Japan porcelain coin. It's somewhat similar to the Manchukuo coin but different minerals were used.

 

I was just thinking of Bronze, Brass, Stainless Steel, stuff like that.

 

I give you an A-plus for creativity!

 

Nice! I see your point, but I'll still bet the TPGs would slab them -- I mean, yeah, they're more fragile than metal coins, but a drop severe enough to shatter one of these would certainly be bad enough to cause rim damage on a conventional silver or gold coin. TPGs are used to treating coins gently.

I don't see a compelling need to slab them, but if I were working specifically on a certified set, I think I'd feel a little itch to include one of them. You've obviously put a lot of time and thought into the topic, though, so I'm happy to just sit back and learn.

 

You would be quite a busy man if you went looking for every different alloy mix out there.