I caught a mermaid!

I've wanted one of these for a while.

1997 Silver Proof
22.2000g, 0.9000, 0.6424 oz.
Statue of Copenhagen Mermaid.
KM 1178

 

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You can catch a real one at the Mermaid Parade every year at Coney Island

 

You got a great Coin!!! Wonderful Design! You should enjoy it for many years!

 

You just marred my thread.

Why did post that LANGUAGE PLEASE GENTLEMEN

 

Marred it? I didn't think I marred it but since it upset you I will edit it out..

Ruben

 

No comment.

Tenacious,

That is a nice obverse design. I wish we could get something like that on US coinage but a topless female would never be accepted. We witnessed that in 1916 with the Type I Standing Lib Quarter.

 

Tenacious that realy is a lovely coin, thanks for sharing it with us :high5:

On a side note Please keep the thread friendly though :hug:

 

Nice coin but unfortunately it is one of a huuuge series. The Monnaie de Paris started this "Major European Monuments" series in 1993 with the Arc de Triomphe (Paris) and the Brandenburg Gate (Berlin), then came Big Ben (London) and St. Mark's (Venice), Alhambra (Granada), Parthenon (Athens), Grand'Place (Brussels), St. Stephen's (Vienna), Magere Brug (Amsterdam), Belém Tower (Lisbon), St. Nicholas (Helsinki), Mermaid (Copenhagen), Rock of Cashel (Ireland), Wenzel Wall (Luxembourg), City Hall (Stockholm) ...

They like those thematic series. And of course every issue comes in silver and gold, some in platinum too. By the way, the face value of this coin is 100 francs; the "15 euro" is just an approximate value since at that time the final conversion rate was not known yet.

Christian

 

Really a gem of a coin. A piece of art IMO.:high5:
I wonder how the coins of the rest of the series would look like

 

The Little Mermaid is one of those things you just HAVE to see in Copenhagen. It really is little, and not in the greatest of locations, but it is the symbolism she brings that makes her special.

The coin is lovely, very nice frosted surfaces, well executed design. Just wish it were Danish instead of French.

 

Well, if a European mint makes a series featuring European monuments, the Mermaid sure fits right in. It may not be "monumental", actually both the location and the size could make visitors believe she just happens to relax on the rock. Now if you want a Danish coin with the mermaid - well, keep in mind that what can be seen in Copenhagen is basically the mermaid from one of Hans Christian Andersen's tales. And you can have that mermaid on a Danish coin - the one from the story, not the one from Copenhagen, that is ...

Christian

 

Ew but the scary monarch on the obverse

 

This is my knd of mermaid

I caught a real one
Jazzcoins Joe

 

Whoa, what happened here???!!! I am sure that Ruben was just posting in fun and did not mean to mar your thread! Besides, we don't own the Threads, Peter owns them and he rents them out to us for a very reasonable price, a posting.


Frank

 

It was some photo's of the Mermaid Parade in Coney Island. It seems that while mermaids are OK on coins, live ones parading down Mermaid Avenue on a warm Coney Island day can get you an infraction...

Anyway - Google is your friend. Google Mermaid Parade under images...

Ruben

 

Makes some sense to me that, in "World & Ancient Coins", mermaids on coins are OK while other mermaids are OT.

Christian

 

maybe the complaint was more than it being off topic....hmm

 

I had been looking for one of these mermaid coins for a while and I was excited to share it. I think it's a cool obverse.

Ruben then posted these large ugly grotesque pictures of men in drag. These pictures had absolutely nothing to do with my coin, or anything numismatic for that matter. It was just crass juvenile humor and it seemed like he was just making fun of my post. So I got irritated.

If I knew Ruben, or if his posts were actually funny, I would not have had a problem with them.


But don't misperceive me. I'm actually very easy-going and a nice guy. And I do have a great sense of humor. But Ruben's pictures struck me as more antagonistic than funny.


But Ruben, I do appreciate that you deleted the pictures.

So I'm willing to agree to disagree.

 

then he can go to jail afterwards

 

6 ounces of silver day for coin talka cess may be cheap for sme of us but all of us are not rolling in wealth no wonder my coin budget has shrunk sigh