the phrase "coinTalk" and sub-section "World-Coins" inspired me to think about one of my coins of Bahama, and if Potentates of a country do have to approve a piece of currency...? One this particular Bermuda-cent, there is the Queen (of England) on one side, and on the other ...a wild pig :smile http://www.free-imagecode.com/en/galerie/1246989028_84829/c84711a36f520b41eb5cc6fd9fc50bfb.jpg http://www.free-imagecode.com/en/galerie/1246989463_89844/6b91ebf90346fa8c61c57276c89a7cb0.jpg It's just looking funny, not that I don't like pigs, they are very nice animals! I did some research, and found the nice story behind the coin...pigs has been used AS Currency on the bahamas! ( ...just imagine your wallet...:mouth http://www.periodictable.com/Items/029.40/index.html I assume, the inventors/disigners of the coin did have some fun, anyhow the historic aspect would have been like :O)
:hail: yep, funny that is - I guess that was maybe a bit of caribbean humour, the "very british" coin-department in London did not recognize... Recognized the coin next to it (of mines) There is a Cayman-Islands-Cent, also of course with Lizzie II, and on the back ...there is a funny BIRD :hatch: Maybe it was a "running gag" in the Carribean-Islands to search funny animals for there coins. Well, maybe they have not so many different species :goof:
Actually, you are wrong on that notion. You misread the authors statement. It was a tribute to the boar on the sixpence the settlers first issued for the Sommer Islands(Bermuda). But the pigs were, as stated, the only food on the islands.
