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  1. coin_nut

    coin_nut Well-Known Member

    I have a similar type coin coming soon, and I did not know just where this place was, so I looked it up on the internet.

    "The British Carribean Territory Eastern Group was made up of Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, the Leeward Islands (Anguilla, Saba, St. Kitts, Nevis and Antigua), The Windward Islands (Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Granada), British Guiana and the British Virgin Islands. It was formed in 1950 and ended in 1965."

    So now I zoom across the Atlantic to French West Africa.
    1981 FWA 10 f obv .JPG 1981 FWA 10 f rev.JPG
     
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  3. Stork

    Stork I deliver

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  4. Siberian Man

    Siberian Man Senior Member

    Guinea Equatorial.
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  5. Muzyck

    Muzyck Rabbits!

    Säo Tomé e Príncipe

    Saint Thomas and Price Islands 50 Centavos 1929 obverse.JPG
    Saint Thomas and Price Islands 50 Centavos 1929 reverse.JPG
     
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  6. MontCollector

    MontCollector Well-Known Member

    So, since the last coin is an island off of Africa, can the next coin be any coin from the west coast of Africa?
     
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  7. Muzyck

    Muzyck Rabbits!

    1. Your post must be a coin from a country which shares a border with the previously posted country. Date is not important.
    2. If a country is on the ocean then any country across the ocean is acceptable as long as there is a direct, straight line between them with no intervening countries.
     
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  8. MontCollector

    MontCollector Well-Known Member

    So this one works then. It appears to have a tiny border on the west coast of Africa

    Got this from a @lordmarcovan giveaway a while back 1967DemRC.jpg
     
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  9. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    I don't usually remember all the thousands of bulk coins that pass through my hands, but I do remember that one, as it was the first one of that type (and possibly the first Congo) that I've come across in my bulk cherrypicking.

    PS- you should post that in the Darkside Lion thread, too. :)
     
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  10. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    It seems the Democratic Republic of the Congo has a tiny sliver of South Atlantic coastline, so you could sail in a straight line across the Gulf of Guinea from there and (just barely) land on one corner of Liberia's coast.

    CongoToLiberia.png


    Which enables me to post one of my beloved "Eclectic Box" babies. :)

    Liberia: proof copper cent, 1847
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    (PCGS PR65 BN, ex-NGC PF64 BN; population 1- finest graded at either service as of 11/04/2017)
     
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  11. Siberian Man

    Siberian Man Senior Member

    Sierra Leone.
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  12. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

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  13. Siberian Man

    Siberian Man Senior Member

    Yes. It is rather unusual coin. A coins of Sierra Leone are very very nice.
     
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  14. Muzyck

    Muzyck Rabbits!

    The Republic of Guinea

    Guinea 2 Syli 1971 obverse.JPG
    Guinea 2 Syli 1971 Reverse.JPG
     
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  15. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    I had a rare (British) Sierra Leone silver dollar from the 1790s on my old "Holey Coin Vest". (Maybe you know the type, with the crouching lion on one side and the two clasped hands on the other?) Even with the old jewelry hole in it, it was an appealing coin. It was from an original mintage of something like 600 pieces, as I recall. Sadly, I no longer have pictures of it and don't remember what became of it.

    Kudos to @sakata for the concept of this game. It is quite educational, in the geographic sense. I've aways been pretty good with world geography, but watching this one has made me think a few times already.

    This is undoubtedly destined to become another picture post megathread. I think those have livened up this sleepy World Coins Forum considerably.
     
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  16. lordmarcovan

    lordmarcovan 48-year collector Moderator

    PS- it would be fun to see the progression of this thread plotted out on a world map, with all the zigzag lines crisscrossing the globe as we hopped from point to point.

    But that would be a daunting project.
     
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  17. sakata

    sakata Devil's Advocate

    I did that for the first 100 or so posts but then it got too much. And I have been so busy since then that I have not even contributed to it or even looked at it for the last 200 posts. Only looked at it now because lordmarcovan tagged me. Same with the post your coin threads. This fall has just been ridiculously busy.
     
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  18. coin_nut

    coin_nut Well-Known Member

    I have seen some old Sierra Leone coins, like 1790 something, go for amazingly high prices. This Liberia 10 dollar is pretty nice, I had almost forgotten I had it. 2000 Liberia 10 dol obv.JPG 2000 Liberia 10 dol rev.JPG
     
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  19. MontCollector

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    Okay lets cross the Atlantic again to Brazil 1901BRAZIL.jpg
     
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  20. Muzyck

    Muzyck Rabbits!

    Back out to the sea to Saint Helena . A coin for Napoléon Bonaparte.

    Saint Helena Half Penny 1821 obverse.JPG Saint Helena Half Penny 1821 reverse.JPG
     
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  21. coin_nut

    coin_nut Well-Known Member

    Uruguay, short hop across the waves... 1951 Uruguay 5 c obv.JPG 1951 Uruguay 5 c rev.JPG
     
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