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Here one from Egypt:kewl:

 

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^^ First picture "reverse" is upside down.

Just an observation, what major countries beside USA use the coin orientation for there coins .. most to my knowledge use medal orientation.

 

As far as I know, South Korea also uses the inverse orientation (what in the US is called coin alignment). Most countries do indeed use parallel orientation now. And some apparently play a little. The latest Dutch collector coin, for example, comes in both orientations, depending on which version you buy ...

Christian

 

Kind of reminds me of the Russian coin with a mounted Peter The Great, based on a statue in St. Petersburg. Only the horse on this North Korean coin looks like its commiting suicide!

 

That North Korean horse is based on a monument as well. Ch'ŏllima is a mythical winged horse; that monument in Pyongyang was built in 1961. Here is an article (in German) with a photo: https://einestages.spiegel.de/static/entry/verboten_schoen/90639/chollima_denkmal.html

Christian

 

Terrific link. The photos depict a much different North Korea than what I am used to seeing portrayed in the media. Not that I'm ready to immigrate just yet, but what a contrast with the official "everyone is starving and its the most wretched place in the universe to live" propoganda that is usually passed out here in the west. Then again, maybe it's all Photoshopped and it doesn't resmebles the real North Korea at all. I've always wondered, if things are so bad in North Korea, why isn't there open rebellion? Especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union and every other communist nation on the planet except Cuba.

 

The one came today, it's a 3-year type coin. It was issued from 1844-1846 by the Kingdom of Hannover. This is the first-year issue from 1844.

 

Here is my favorite picture of the Chollima Monument Christian mentioned.

 

Found these in a foreign bin. $.10 each :hail:

 

Is that the deft coin? I think the Hague is just "positioning" itself to take over the US minting operations is a huge outsource.

 

1915 Italy 2 Lire. Common in the circulated grades all the way up to AU58. In MS65 a real scarce coin. But at least somewhat reasonably priced, $310 on eBay. Which sounds like a lot since a nice AU example sells for around $30 --but when you compare it in price to an MS65 Standing Liberty quarter dollar of the era, the price seems downright cheap. Especially with a population much lower than its American counterpart.

 

The Dutch mint (KNM) has "played" with the orientations before. Before 2002 they used the same alignment that the US still uses today; after that they used it for the Australia coin (2006). Now that I found funny, Australia being down under.

The latest piece that the mint (in Utrecht) issued was the Turkey coin, with the tulip. This time they used a "mix": The proof versions have the parallel alignment; the coin card version has an inverse alignment. I am not really fond of this new design, but the artist tried something interesting; on either side of the coin she depicts a coin that is being turned. http://www.herdenkingsmunt.nl/CmsData/FCKUploads/image/uitlegontwerp-hdmwebsite(1).jpg

And yes, the KNM makes coins for many countries, with and without its mintmark. But the US production volume may be a little much for them.

Christian

 

Ah - I see. I didn't understand for a moment, but now I see the attempted illusion. That is very Dutch. But i don't think it is pulled off well.

Can I ask a question? Why does the Utrecht mint make a coin for Australia, which has two high quality mints of its own?

Amanda

 

BEAUTIFUL coin!! I will now have to find one to purchase. Italian coins and paper notes are some of the most beautiful ones IMO. Thanks for sharing.

 

Misunderstanding. The piece is a Dutch collector coin; it was issued to commemorate the "discovery" of Australia (see here http://www.duyfken.com/original/ for example). Similarly, the Manhattan coin (2009) commemorates the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's arrival in what later was called Downtown Manhattan. In the same year, another piece was issued that reminds of the origins of the Dutch-Japanese trade relations.

This new coin is about 400 years of Dutch-Turkish relations: In 1612 the first Dutch ambassador arrived at the court in Constantinople/Istanbul. One "result" of these relations was that the tulip became popular in the Netherlands. (Side note: Shortly afterwards http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania the flower was in the center of an economic bubble .)

Several mints in the euro area (notably the Dutch, Finnish and French) make coins for other countries too. But that is usually limited to countries that do not have a mint ...

Christian

 

Can only speak for myself, but I prefer the traditional nomenclature of coin alignment or medal alignment. Parallel alignement makes no sense, parallel to what?? Might even make sense if the alignment were something other than 90 degree rotated, but aside from errors no mint strike coins rotated 90 degress.

 

Well, I'm in Europe. In the US it makes sense to use the terms you mentioned - but these days hardly any other country in the world still aligns its circulation coins that way. So it would sound odd to me to call an orientation "coin alignment" that, at least over here, is not used for coins. The best thing to do would be using symbols; in catalogs you sometimes see ↑↑ and ↑↓ ... but arrows are hard to pronounce.

Christian

 

My recent addition came from Germany. Maybe there are more in the market there. The key is find an example that hasn't been cleaned. It's a nice looking coin even if XF if it still has original surfaces. There is also 5 Lire crown size issue of this coin dated 1914, that is out of this world expensive. Heritage has one up for bid at the upcoming CICF. The estimate on it is something like $5,000 so no point for me to even dream about owning it. Also a 1911 Italian 5 Lire, the commemorative issue which is also very attractive, but again very expensive, many thoudands. In any case, agree with you about Italian coins and currency, some of the most beautiful coins and banknotes out there, and in a lot of ways responsibe for me being a collector of world coins instead of the United States.

 

eBay winning bid $1.99 S/H $5.95.
about 45% of the mintage went down in shipwreck.