What is your favorite.....

Animal related coin? I would like to see some pictures of some beautiful coins with nature related depictions on it. Post your favorite! Here are mine: (the seahorse is from Singapore, as well as the swordfish. The hedgehog is from Australia)

 

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Since I don't collect world coins, per se, I really don't have a favorite, but to keep this thread going.............

 

I forgot one. it from somewhere in africa

 

This is not my picture, but I have this exact coin. It is a bullion silver Chinese panda.

 

Heres one of mine



Thessaly ae

 

My favorite animal is the polar bear. Therefore: 1926 Greenland 1 Krone (Brass) NGC MS63

 

Turtle from Aegina late 6th century BC

 

Now THAT is one heck of a coin. Here's mine. A 1952 20 Francs with a rooster on the back.

 

My favorite is by far the coin that is my avitar here. It is the Norway 1 øre coin depicting a squirrel, my favorite animals. They were issued from 1958-1972. I have four dates right now: 1958, 1959, 1962 and 1972. Someday I will complete the date run. They have actually been hard for me to find, I looked for quite a while and then found all four of these with the same person.

Most of them on ebay have been drilled to make earrings

I only wish they were not made of copper, because my local squirrels are gray

 

I do not own this coin. Though I do have one from the series, just no pictures of it.

 

You never forget your first beaver... :kewl:

 

How about an elephant too?

 

Why I like this one:
-- As far as I know, it's the only hexagonal coin minted by the U.S.
-- It's a bronze from 1943, the year of the steel cent.
-- It was issued for the Bank of the Belgian Congo. Belgium had surrendered to Germany in 1940 and that surrender, still in force, formally included Belgian colonial claims.

 

Now that is as cool as the other side of the pillow.

 

Interesting also because they misspelled "Belgisch" on that coin.

Christian

 

HiHo, Looks like your Beaver says Peaver. I think that's a beaver with PMS.

 

There are plenty of great world coins with animals, someone already beat me to the Belgian Congo elephant. I'll take the dancing elephants of Rhodesia, I forget what the current name is but it's no longer Rhodesia. I also included the gold lion coin as I daydream of some day being able to buy one if I could even find one.