Let's get this month started off right: Bahamas - 1974 Proof 1 Dollar (mintage of 94,000) Bahrain - 1968 500 Fils (mintage of 50,000) Egypt - 1956 50 Piastres (mintage of 250,000) Egypt - 1968 1 Pound (mintage of 100,000; this coin is also a tripled die reverse) Fiji - 1974 Proof 25 Dollars (mintage of 8,299) Germany (Bavaria) - 1910 D 3 Marks Guyana - 1976 Proof 10 Dollars (mintage of 18,000) Guyana - 1979 Proof 5 Dollars (mintage of 2,665) India - 1973 10 Rupees (mintage of 15,000) Kingdom of Lesotho - 1979 Proof 15 Maloti (mintage of 7,500)
Maldive Islands - 1977 20 Rufiyaa (mintage of 15,000) Mexico - 1939 1 Centavo Mexico - 1946 10 Centavos Mexico - 1980 1 Onza Netherlands Antilles - 1979 Proof 25 Gulden (mintage of 17,000) New Zealand - 1980 Proof 1 Dollar (mintage of 44,000) Papua New Guinea - 1976 Proof 5 Kina (mintage of 16,000) Papua New Guinea - 1981 Proof 5 Kina (mintage of 8,775) Russia - 1977 Proof 10 Rubles (mintage of 121,000) Singapore - 1973 5 Dollars (mintage of 250,000)
You've been busy! Are these for your store, or a set/sets you are building? I'm trying to pick out a common theme, but I can't find any except "20th century foreign coinage."
These are mostly for my store. I think the only one out of this group I'll end up keeping is that Mexican 1939 1 Centavo (I'm putting together a set, but taking my sweet time in doing so - more of a "when a nice coin sits down in front of you for a good price, pick it up and add it to your set" kind of thing.)
Did I ever fail to mention that your aesthetic tastes in World Coins totally flippin' rules? I remember seeing those Indian commemoratives in 1970s mint sets. They're sandwiched between acrylic slabs screwed together with tiny screws in the corner. "Grow More Food" says the FAO coin. It should have been, "Leaders of India: Don't Follow Economic Ministers Who Have Drunk the Marxist Kool-Aid" I also like those chunky, funky Papua New Guinea "Kina" coins.
Ha ha LOVE IT. Just for you, here are two South Korean 1988 Olympics sets (Diving, Tug of War, Marathon, Hodori) I also just picked up this week - sorry in advance for not having imaged them "properly": And here is a shot of my "rainy day project" - just a big ol' pile of world silver waiting to be played with (top left corner of the smaller case has about 125 Canadian silver five cent pieces for frame of reference):
To be honest, I just had to add this one to the thread tonight: Lundy 1929 1/2 Puffin Mintage of 50,000 Before purchasing this coin, I didn't know that the island of Lundy (population at the time: 40 people) in the Bristol Channel off the west coast of England) made coins - or, to be honest, even existed - but a quick read on the Wikipedia page tells me that businessman Martin Coles Harman bought the island in 1925, at which time he declared himself the King of Lundy. Harman had 50,000 each of the Puffin and 1/2 Puffin minted by Ralph Heaton & Sons, and was brought on trial in England in 1930 for the crime of minting his own money, a trial he lost (and was subsequently fined 5 pounds plus 15 guineas court costs.) "The appeal trial was held on 13 January 1931 at the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice, in London, and, it was hoped at the time, would settle the status of Lundy once and for all. It didn't – but it did show how utterly confused the situation was. In his defence, Mr Harman said he had every right to mint money, for Lundy, in his words, was "a vest-pocket-size, self-governing dominion," out of the realm for every practical purpose. The Lundy residents, he pointed out, never had paid any taxes to England and were liable to customs when they went there, for Lundy itself was a free port. The Attorney General, who was prosecuting Mr Harman, said that Lundy was surely a Utopia but that its inhabitants would be just as happy if the face of King George V, rather than of Mr Harman, were depicted on the place's currency. (Mr Harman's face was on the front of the coins, and that of a puffin on the back. There were two denominations, a one-puffin coin and a half-puffin coin, neatly convertible to a penny and a ha'penny at the legal rate of exchange."
If you don't get any rain where you're at I'd be more than happy to take a look through that silver pile
Ha ha this winter has been ALL rain. Hardly any snow, a few isolated days of ice. One of my first memories of Illinois winters was getting four feet of snow - so much that we dug channels and made a huge maze in our front lawn. It was such a blast...now, we're lucky to get a half inch for an entire day. Climate change? Psshhhh....
I can feel you. Growing up I remember having 3-4 feet of snow. Now we're lucky to have 3-4 inches. This year was the first time in probably 8 years that we've had 3 feet of snow at my house.
What's most disappointing is that my niece and nephew are RIGHT at that age where a huge snowfall would be amazing fun...but I think since they've been born we haven't had a single snowfall worth playing in (except when I was away in grad school, and that time I got trapped at my ex's house in Chicago a few years ago when it got cold enough to kill my parents' bamboo.)
