A coins with a ships.

Here are a couple for you - elephants included for free.

 

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I just picked this one up a few days ago for 50 cents US.

 

And a couple more.

 

Great Liberian...

Very nice Liberia coins rlm.

here is a British Half Penny with the boat in the back on the reverse. and a 1911 Bombay mint British trade dollar with a beautiful ship. I always liked how the mintmark 'B' for bombay was in the center point of the trident on the British Trade Dollar.

 

NETHERLANDS (UTRECHT) 6 Stuivers 1748



NETHERLANDS (GORINCHEM) Rose Noble 1583-91



GREAT BRITAIN Noble 1356-61



COSTA RICA 10 Colones 1900

 

I have a lot of medals with ships, but not too many coins.

Chris

 

http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/coop49/1967_Penny.jpg

 

Siberian Man, I really enjoy these topical threads! Big thumbs up! The portrait on that Ecuador 5 Sucres is wicked cool. Here are two of my ships:

2000 Bahamas 25 Cents (TWO Ships)


1988 Greece 1 Drachma

 

Sir Francis Drake's Golden Hind appeared on UK halfpennies from 1937 - 1967 (& 1970 proof).

Postscript: just saw this on an earlier post ...

 

Superb coins silvereagle82, I was hoping someone would post a 6 Stuivers. And the other gold coins are amazing. Great collection.

 

Netherland under the fascist's occupation.
25 cents 1942. zinc.

 

Malta.
10 cents 1972, copper-nickel.
25 cents 1975, brass.

 

People's Democratic Republic of Korea.
1/2 chon 2002, aluminium.

 

Cyprus.
5 mils 1973, bronze.

 

Canada.
10 cents 1940, silver .800, weight - 2,3328 g.
10 cents 1960, silver .800, weight - 2,3328 g.

 

Italy.
500 lire 1958 (date - on edge), silver .835, 11 g.

 

Spain.
25 centimos 1925, copper-nickel.

 

Liberia.
5 dollars 1997, copper-nickel.

 

Portugal 10 Escudos 1954


Portugal 10 Escudos 1954, probably counterfeit

 

The denarius of Hadrian has a nicer image of a Roman galley but the bronze as of the Republic is more interesting for this thread since it shows the choices 'ships or heads' ("navia aut caput") used for coin flipping games of chance. At that period, ship prows were the common things found on coin reverses. For reasons I fail to understand, we now call the reverse side 'tails' even when there is not a tail on the coin.