Can you beat 10 minutes? Yet another oriental (?) coin challenge...

The last coin identification I requested was solved in ten minutes. Ten minutes! I'm impressed. As mentioned in that other topic, my son and I are working our way through a bucket of coins that my parents or other family members have acquired over the years. It has been an interesting trip back through our family history as we remember trips to various countries, and ask ourselves, "who went to Thailand in the last ten years?" So far the first coin I posted was identified as Thai, the next was Japanese, and I have yet another oriental-themed coin that I'm asking for help with. This one feels like it's made of aluminum, has a smooth edge, and looks to be somewhere between 24mm and 25mm in diameter.

 

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Nepal. 25 Paisa. Let me see if I can figure out the date for you.

 

I'm 99% sure its 1984

 

That makes sense. My folks took a trip to Nepal years ago, and they would generally bring coins back from their trips. I have another coin that has a temple with prayer wheels, perhaps it's also a Nepalese coin?
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I think that is our Thai friend again. Maybe all similar looking guys with glasses look the same to me lol.

 

Ha, the coin is reversed on the image I posted! D'oh. The guy should be facing left.

I thought I checked the Thai coins against all my "unknowns" but I'll check again and see. It's a different style of temple. But yeah, the image is a mirror of what it should be.

 

Yes its another Thai. Their alphabet is the giveaway, though this one is in the formal block style. My wife is asleep or I could have her read the date for you. They still use these in circulation in Thailand. I always have a pocketful when I come back from there.

 

Yeah I figured haha. It is Thai. 1 Baht. They were minted between 1962-1982 and total mintage was around 880 million. I don't know the date on that one.

 

Sure enough, I was looking on the wiki page for Thai coins and they only showed current ones. A bit more research via an image search specifically for 1 baht coins found some examples of this...

Believe it or not, via your help on this board and some diligent searching on our own, we have identified coins from Malaysia, Philippines, Austria, Turkey, Switzerland, Ecuador, El Salvador, Brazil, China, Nepal, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, India, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Norway, France, Italy, United Arab Emirates, Netherlands, Bermuda, Barbados, Australia, the no-longer-a-country Yugoslavia, and even some closer to home like Mexico and Canada. Quite a fun day! One of the cool things is that ultimately my son is working on his coin collecting merit badge, and one of the coins I brought back from a trip to Australia was the centennial recognition of scouting in that country, so it has the Scout logo on the back. I mean obverse.

We have only one more unidentified coin at this point, and I guess I need to look at the Thai coin list more thoroughly before I post it as a challenge for y'all, perhaps tomorrow.

Thanks again so much for all of your help.

 

Anyone one have any bullet money?

 

That is what its all about! Good stuff. Thanks for sharing

 

"Back" is reverse, Obverse is the front big guy.

Let us know if your son needs help. I am a merit badge counselor for coin collecting.

Btw, if you wish to get into world coins a little more, I HIGHLY recommend getting the Krause guide to world coins. You can just get the 20th century to start. They have a huge book by century. They have tons of life sized pics of coins, (very helpful), and things like Thai coins have a chart showing you where the date is and how to read the numerals. Its the lifeblood of world coin collectors.

The prices are not very critical, so you can get a copy a few years old really cheap on Ebay, like maybe $10. You would be AMAZED by all of the coins produced around the world. Fun reading if nothing else.

 

I have a lot of pot duang, but no photos handy. I have from 1/16 baht, (fuang) up to one baht size, Rama I through Rama V. I also have Ayyuthia pot duang as well.

Btw, did you know pot duang were made to imitate cowrie shells, just like in ancient china?

They have a great Thai coin book just published, "From Funan to the FIfth Reign." It deals with all Thai coins through Rama V.

 

I forgot one of the more interesting sets... from the "East Caribbean States" we have a 1 dollar, two different style quarters, two different style dimes, and a couple of nickles that are shaped like flowers instead of being round. There is a decent picture of a set of coins from this area here. I have a good camera, but my few attempts at taking good coin pictures have failed so far. More studying for me, and I already know there are a bunch of tips for that on this site.

 

Here is a nice Solot from 1882 -

 

Ah, so much to learn...

We're fortunate that we live near the National Scouting Museum here in Irving, Texas. They run programs on the weekends for merit badges and one of the ones available for January was coin collecting. He has "homework" that needs to be done ahead of time, such as collecting / identifying 50 coins from at least 10 different countries. I have helped him with the countries, the rest is up to him. We also had to find the mint mark (if any) and designer initials on each currently circulating US coin (never did find the designer initials on the quarter) as part of our homework, and we had to visit a mint. Well, my folks live in Denver, and we visited the mint there over the holiday break. We also went to the federal reserve bank just down the street from the mint and got both boys pictures taken in front of $30 million in hundred dollar bills. :thumb:

I introduced both my sons (one is still in cubs) to coin collecting via the 50 State Quarters program, which has to be one of the best things they ever did to inspire interest in coin collecting for kids, at least in my opinion. Both boys filled up their maps. Older son still has his complete set, younger took all of his quarters out and bought a video game or something later... :too-funny:

That's a great suggestion, thanks. To be honest, I'm not sure how much further the international part of our collection will be going, but will definitely keep it in mind.

 

Nice coin. I had the one and two, but never had the 4 until about 5 months ago. THe world coin dealer near me happened to come across a nice AU piece and I got it for I believe $75. The 4's are tough to find.

Do you have the same denomination from the 1870's with the portrait of Rama V? I always thought those were nice copper coins. The 1860's coins get tough, with so many being made of metals that deteriorate badly. I have them, but am not happy with some with their condition.

 

Its the climate of SE Asia that rotted out so many of the coins.

 

Yeah, but these were either tin or zinc, metals which have never survived well wherever they were used. They simply corrode too badly.

I hear what you are saying though. I have seen some of the copper coins from the ground over there. If copper gets buried, SE Asia does a number on it. Unless it was buried in a pot, its pretty much a goner if its copper. Silver and of course gold fares much better thankfully. Having said that, I do have a couple of pieces from Cambodia that circulated in Ayyuthia that are copper but in better shape. Must have been protected, since they are about 350 years old.