Americans on foreign coins

What about the 9/11 British Silver Commemorative, representative of the 3000 plus American losses in the Twin Towers. Great post thank you!

 

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It's a shame that world mints do a better job commemorating America and Americans than the US mint does. That said that is a fantastic coin and how we have never done one is beyond me

 

This isn't a coin, but it seemed relevant to the overall topic. The retired American professional golfer Jack Nicklaus is depicted on a circulating commemorative Scottish £5 note issued in 2005.



https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note207072.html

 

I have a fiver with Jack as well! Totally forgot about it til your post.

 

This was my first "NCLT" purchase many years ago.

 

If we made one I would buy it and I'm sure there would be plenty of others in the line. As long as it wasn't some silly low mintage that you could only realistically purchase in the aftermarket at inflated prices.

 

I wouldn’t even mind a low mintage I’d try and get it anyways. As long as it was well designed and not cartoony or reinterpreted I would be interested. It’s really kind of insane how many truly untapped major moments in history we have that haven’t ended up on a US coin but the rest of the world does them all the time

 

My one and only coin from the Republic of the Marshall Islands. My one and only coin with Elvis. Interesting topic, y'all!

 

If that's not George Washington, it must be his unknown-to-history twin brother or something.

Considering how the US is 1 country out of over 150, I would say we do an excellent job of commemorating America, Americans, and the achievements of Americans. Literally every coin in current production is a circulating commemorative. We have the State quarters and their cousins the territorial and national parks quarters. We've done a series that included every single dead President and First Lady. We have the American innovation series in production right now. We've even partnered with Iceland to commemorate the discovery of North America by the Vikings. And, none of this even touches the classic commem series, or very much of the modern NCLT commems.

Our fetish for dead rulers is only really exceeded by the Roman empire, a civilization that, for hundreds of years, would literally declare their Emperor a god upon his death. We've got hundreds of commemorative coins featuring American places, achievements, and people. I highly doubt any individual country comes close, and I'd be willing to stack us up against the entire rest of the world.

Um... is the relief on that coin so high, it's actually casting shadows? Good Lord!

 

I appreciate the input received on this collection theme. Paper money would be interesting too. I'm interested in general circulation and legal tender commemoratives. Royal Canadian mint has a $20 piece depicting Captain Kirk. Although fictional, he's a US citizen. The Cook Islands minted a coin with Elvis, and Reagan is on a couple coins from the Phillippeans.

 

Thre may be more, but I found two circulating coins, where Americans are depicted.
One is circulating commemorative coin from Monaco with Grace Kelly on it, second is Philippines 5 peso 2014 (70th anniversary of Layte Gulf landing)

I don't have none of them, but You can check them out in numista:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces10616.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces69960.html

There are lot of NCLT coins with Grace Kelly on them. She was a beautiful women, and makes basically every coin also beautiful

 

What about FDR & Murphy

 

The Kirk Coin is interesting because William Shatner is Canadian on the other hand and number of coin had Spock played by American Leonard Nimoy and both are really Federation Citizens (sorry I am nerdy)

 

2000 Liberia 10 dollars with Robert E. Lee.

 

King Rama IX of Thailand was born in the US, and probably could have acquired American citizenship that way. Considering his royal birth, I rather doubt that he ever availed himself of that opportunity.

 

The fictional character Captain Kirk was born in Riverside Iowa so I would consider him a fictional US citizen.