Featured A world tour - post the next country.

I like your Stans, men! Let's see some more! Here's my 2011 50-so'm from Uzbekistan.

 

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Just on the other side of the Chinese border

Sinkiang Kashgar - 3 Miscals, AH1315

edit; Oops. Was posting based on Kyrgyzstan

 

1787 Nepal AE paisa

 

India- Garhwal Shah Alam II - 1 Timsha, 1759-1772 AD

 

Sri Lanka, 1791 Trincomalee VOC 1 stuiver dump

 

Myanmar - 10 Kyats, 1999

 

BE2549/2006 Thailand 20 baht commemorative 20 baht 60 Years of Reign

 

Let's visit Cambodia (kingdom) with this 1994 200-riels coin (KM 94).

 

Laos, 1975 5000 Kip, Wat Phra Kio Museum, NGC PF67 UC

 

BE2550/2007 24th SEA Games, Nakhon Ratchasima (Thailand), medal

 

Aceh Keping. Retrograde?

 

1939 British Malaya 5 cents

 

Netherlands East Indies quarter guilder (1/4 gulden) 1893

 

I've read that term often - "retrograde" - but I don't know what it means. Would you educate me, please?

 

I am curious about that term also. Here is a Thailand BE2560/2017 10 baht, pocket change, nice toning.

 

Best way I can explain it would be in pictures. I would call it "backwards" which is probably caused by an error of the craftsman cutting the die. Thinking off the top of my head, I would think it would need to be cut backwards so the coin would be correct. If not, the coin image will be backwards.

This is how all of the images I have seen of this coin look...




This is the one I posted. It may even be a forgery. It looks much nicer than everything on Zeno.

 

Thanks, Muzyck!

From Thailand we head to Cambodia, during what I'm sure has been called a time of troubles. A 1979 five-sen (KM 69).

 

To Vietnam

Here's an interesting one. After turmoil in Vietnam in 1788 Emperor Chieu Thong was unseated and fled to China. He requested help of Chinese Emperor Qian Long who agreed to send troops to fight to restore Chieu Thong to power. This coin was cast in Yunnan province in China to pay the troops. The obverse looks like the familiar Chinese Qian Long Thong Bao. The reverse characters read An Nam. (Information taken from Allan Barker's The Historical Cash Coins Of Viet Nam)

 

I can read the An Nan, means "Safe South". To Philippines, 1904 1 centavo

 

That is an interesting bit of information, Muzyck. So how did it work out for this deposed Vietnamese emperor enlisting the services of a Chinese emperor. Call me a cynic, but I cannot think it turned out very well. An Nam, which I construe to mean Vietnam, is literally translated "Safe South"? Really? Hmmmmm . . . .

In any case, let's go to ROC, Taiwan, Formosa . . . whatever it's called these days. A 1960 yuan (Y 536).