The "Coin Uno" or "Follow the Leader" game (World Coins edition)

France, 1946. Medal by Cochet, Conference de Paris.

Neat imagery with the reconstruction and infant to one side, and the war to the other.

 

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Powerful stuff right there!!

 

Just picked this up for my 1927 collection:



France 1927 50 Centimes

 

Ooh! I have that guy's circulated brother. Mine was pulled out of circulation in France by my Wife's late Grandfather during WWII.

 

This, then, must be their father (or, maybe, an uncle) -



France 1925 2 Francs

(side note: it looks like there is a bit of an overdate going on, although it doesn't look like the images I've seen of the 5/3 variety that's in Krause)

 

I have always found those French francs of the 20s to be interesting. They say "good for 2 francs" - an implicit assumption that they aren't really francs (which had been silver just a few years earlier) but were to be treated as such.

 

1849 5 Francs. my fav France coin

 

France or 1903

 

1903 US Philippines . made this just now on picmonkey

 

Philippines 1936 (also PicMonkey!)
(and I don't think I posted this one yet).

 

Really?? Did you make a circulated one to make it look real? LOL...

 

Philippines. 1964

 

I'm really enjoying using picmonkey, thanks to Stork. its certainly a lot easier than I thought it would be

 

Stork recommended it to me also. It looks good but I did not like that it was online only and involved a fee. I also found out about Photoscape from this thread and am now using that. Most of my recent pictures are created using it. And it is free and not online only!

 

Same here. I started using Photoscape about a month ago, thanks to a tip from CT.

Your photos look great. I guess the joke went over the head though.

 

How about 1961 Philippines

 

Here's the logic behind that:

At the start of the first world war in 1914, France immediately suspended use of gold coins and the conversion of banknotes to gold. As inflation grew, French coinage was being hoarded for its gold and silver content. Merchants were unable to process small transactions with customers. In August of 1914, the Chamber of Commerce of Paris requested, and was authorized to issue small bearer bonds in denominations of 0.25F, 0.5F, 1F, 2F, that would be legal tender among the Paris merchants that agreed to accept them. As financial backing, the Chamber of Commerce would place an equivalent amount of cash on deposit with the Banque de France.

Soon thereafter, the Chambers of Commerce of other cities throughout France implemented the same mechanism as done in Paris, and issued their own bearer bonds for local use.

This system was maintained for at least five years, at which time its faults started to show; paper money was not able to withstand the constant handling required of small denominations, and the bonds were being used beyond the local scope of each Chamber of Commerce. In 1921, it was decided to issue bronzed plated aluminum "Jetons", in 0.5F, 1F and 2F denominations, to replace the paper bearer bonds. These Jetons were usable across the country.

 

During WWII the Philippines were attempting to keep the money in the National Treasury away from the Japanese. $20,000,000 in currency was burned and $2,000,000 in gold bars along with $360,000 in Silver bars were shipped to San Francisco.

The remaining Silver coins were dumped into the Caballo Bay off Corregidor Island.

The Japanese attempted to retrieve the Silver coins using Filipino and American prisoners. They were only able to get around 250,000 Pesos.

In 1945, the U.S. Navy was able to retrieve another 5,380,000 Pesos.

There are still coins in the Bay today.

While trying to add to my U.S. Administration Philippines Type set I found a few of the sea-salvaged coins. I decide to add these to the collection for Two reasons. First they are difficult to find and very costly in high grades and I thought the history of the coins would add to the enjoyment.

The 1936 Commemorative (Establishment of the Commonwealth) 50 Centavos has a mintage of 20,000 and is listed at $125 in uncirculated condition. It shows Frank Murphy, the Governor-General, and Manuel Quezon, the President of the Philippines.

 

Philippines or 1982

 

Showa 57, 1982. The first year of issue for the 500 yen coin. Depending on exchange rates it is frequently the highest denomination normally circulating coin. This one was counterfeited and there was a modification to a Korean coin of much lower value that allowed it to fool the every ubiquitous vending machines, so the coin was redesigned in 2000 with several security minded modifications.



I pulled this one out of my pocket change sometime in the earlier 2000s...pretty nice condition for a 20 year old coin in change!