Four-eyes

Lets post your world coins with a man in glasses, my friends.

 

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Famous Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904). He was not only a writer but a doctor too. And he has died from tuberculosis.

 

:foot-mouth: LOL NICE THREAD EUGENE.

 

Urho Kekkonen (1900-1986).
Finnish president at 1956-1982.

 

Juho Kusti Paasikivi (1870-1956).
Finnish president at 1946-1956.

 

Doctor Theophilus Ebenhaezer Donges (1898-1968).
He was elected President of the South Africa Republic (at 1968) but died before his inauguration.

 

Louis II (1870-1949).
Prince of Monaco at 1922-1949.

 

Otto Grotewohl (1894-1964).
Prime Minister of the German Democratic Republic at 1940-1964).

 

I think it's a fake. Not silver. Sorry.

 

​Really Eugene, I will have to recheck. I wonder why anyone would fake a common coin ????

 

Pope Pius XII (1939-1958).

 

It's not a cheap coin. It's a coin with a high content of silver. As I know, such copies were made in China.

 

Thanks for the education.

Before seeing this thread I thought the King of Siam/Thailand was the only bespectacled denizen of the obverse.

 

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (1900-1985).
Prime Minister of Mauritius at 1968-1982.