It's "Wicked War Wednesday!". Post yours also.....

It's Called, "Wicked War Wednesday!". Coins circulating during wartime. That's it. Now go post!
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CWT's.

 

In 1707, a decisive Battle of Almansa during the War of the Spanish Succession saw Anglo-Portuguese forces, led by Lord Galway, suffer a major defeat against Franco-Spanish forces under the Duke of Berwick, resulting in a Bourbon victory and French control of most of Spain.
Maybe this coin was there...

 

"From the halls of Montezuma"



"To the shores of Tripoli"

 

I was too young to go but remember all of the news on tv and radio. Type I, II, and III.

 

Tolstoy called war "Organized Social Insanity". Back in the day it took awhile to getting around to the actual murdering, destroying part of war. My 1814 was struck during the year when most of the war of 1812 took place. James

 

There is a much discredited book that claimed in 1814 coins with the date 1807 were struck using the old drape bust dies because they were the only one's ready to use when a bribe had to be paid to the pirate Lafitte in the spring of 1814. i don't care if it is dicredited. I like to show of my 1807.

 

In 1725, a significant event was the conclusion of Dummer's War (also known as Father Rale's War, Lovewell's War, etc.), a conflict between the New England colonies and the Wabanaki Confederacy (specifically the Mi'kmaq, Maliseet, Penobscot, and Abenaki).

 

1683 The Siege of Vienna by the Ottoman Empire. This metal was minted in honor of the Polish King John III Sobieski who saved Europe by defeating the Ottomans. I will take a better photo.

 

When has there ever not been a war going on somewhere? Here's a montage of some of my WWII world coins.
Here's one of my favorites (again). It sat in my album for decades before I realized that it's a contemporary counterfeit. Anybody else have one? It seems like tons of fakes were circulating during the Civil War years.

 

Stuck on the same planchets at the same mint.

 

Only side I have a photo of. Not a circulated coin, only a commemorative.

 

My split after strike planchet war nickel from 1944. I have both pieces and ANACS graded them F-15.