Curiously, both the older Morlon design and the Vichy "Etat Francais" seemed to be struck during the Vichy era. The substitution of "Travail,...
Here are a few Vichy French coins. Note the size difference on 10 centimes between 1941 & 43. Apparently even aluminum was getting scarce.[ATTACH]
Very nice coins. Here is a rupee from the Nawab of Oudh, Amjad Ali Shah, 1847.[ATTACH]
This just got auctioned, but when I looked for it in my Standard Catalog (37th Edition), it wasn't there. Looks real to me (though I've never...
How does one know when or where this coin was minted? I've read various reports that they were struck in Italy or Argentina as keepsakes for...
Here is a picture of a 30 Opferpfennige piece just auctioned on Muenzauktion. I too had trouble making out the inscription because of the oddly...
And here is a coin I find pretty. 20 Francs 1933.[ATTACH]
Here is a teston of Charles IX, "le mal aimée", the man who brought you the St. Batholomew's Day massacre of Huguenots. This may help explain the...
And 100 years later, a Hercules 50 Franc piece, 1976, after a 100-to-1 revaluation, therefore 5000 old Francs. Slightly bigger than the 5 Franc...
I love the Hercules group, and the following give a nice illustration of the ravages of inflation over 100 years. Here is a Hercules 5 Francs...
and here is a "scientific" coin. Might almost be worth starting a new thread if anybody has more such.
Here are a couple of "historic" DDR coins I absolutely wanted to have.[ATTACH][ATTACH] I doubt the USA will ever issue any Marx & Engels coinage.
What on earth is it? Looks like some kind of medal struck over a 3rd Reich coin, with the value replaced by 1948 (by which time the "Deutsches...
A very interesting medal, but is it German? Commemorates a peace between Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I and Louis XIV and dated 1629 (I think,...
I agree its a fake. particularly the "CC" doesn't convince. Here is an 1884CC.[ATTACH]
and here's one of my favorites, just because it's so off-the-wall, a hammered rupee from the Nawab of Awadh (or Oudh) from 1847.
Here are two I can contribute. By the way, Siberian Man, I think you made a typo at the beginning: a rupee is 16 Annas. Here is an East India...
What exactly is a "pig" rupee?
That's a really beautiful 5 mark piece from Friedrich, the 99-day emperor!
Victory over France! I often wondered why the French were so uncompromising in their demands for reparations in the Versailles Treaty. Now I...
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