"Follow The Leader" coin thread BY THEME (for ALL types of coins, tokens, and medals)

A sport for the insane - bull riding, 1976 Calgary Stampede

 

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Some medieval windmill jousting sport...

 

Splits on a narrow wooden beam...

 

Or how about the very non-traditional sport of flying kites while chopping up snakes?

 

I don't know what this sport is

 

Track and Field

 

Nude disc throwing

 

I think we have been stuck at non traditional sports for a bit now. I'll throw one last one out there before I change the theme. How about chariot racing as a non traditional sport.



Let's change the theme to islands at least until someone has a better idea.

Fiji Shilling, 1942S

 

Chariot racing, cool. Islands, I like the new theme. Here is a AH 1221/1807 Maldive Islands AE 1/2 Larin

 

How about Zanzibar - 1 Pysa 1881:

 

Yes, that's an island alright....could I post any Great Britain coin as being from an Island? Meaning no offense.....here is one from New Hebrides, 1966 100 francs

 

Curaçao 1 Stuiver, ND 1874 (Jacob Jeosuah Naar)

 

1837 Maldive Islands 1/2 Larin

 

Cyprus 100 Mils, 1955

 

1972 Malta 5 cents

 

Menorca

 

1830 Guernesey 1 double

 

Islands? Half my collection is from islands!


Tin Gokoh / Token from Bangka Island, Indonesia. Circa. 1710-1816.
Listed as Hartill#3.268 in A Guide to Cash Coins (Ch. 3 South East Asia - Bangka)
Attributed to Layang (Lazang) in the Sungailiat district, NE side of Bangka.
Cash Coin style with round center hole.
2.74 grams
Obverse: Eight-flared suns top and bottom, linked circles left and right.
Reverse: Shun Ji
See Zeno#134882

 

I'll just do this once - 1842 Great Britain, the Island Nation, silver 4 pence.

 

Half of an island - Haiti 1 Centime, 1846