Featured A world tour - post the next country.

Japan to Canada

 

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Greenland

 

Sweet Greenland! I don't have one single Greenland. Thus, I am quite jealous.

From Greenland we can go to numerous places! Let's go to one of my favorite countries with a coin celebrating one of my favorite statesman - Churchill!

 

Netherlands.

 

One of my better zincs - Belgium, 1916, 25-centimes (KM 82) . . .

 

Another zinc. Luxemburg.

 

A 2000, ten-mark German (FRG-BRD) commemorating the Expo at Hanover in 2000 (KM 199).

 

From Germany to Austria

 

Off to medieval Hungary - a 1546 one denar.

 

Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, 1920. To become The Kingdom
of Yugoslavia on Oct. 3, 1929.

 

Kingdom of Montenegro.
20 para 1914.

 

Let's spend some more time in the regions (kingdoms?) of the southern Slavs . . .

A Kingdom of Serbia 1912 ten-para (KM 19). Interesting history in this area.

 

Principality of Bulgaria.
10 stotinkas 1881.

 

I was going to move us to Ukraine but I thought Turkey would give us some more options that we (at least I) haven't seen . . . A 2000 50,000 lira (KM 1056).

 

Georgia. Not sure if this is counterfeit or altered but the year (1810) and engraver initials (A.T) combination is not listed in K.M. or on Numista.

 

Azerbaijan.

 

That's a very curious coin. And I'd like to possess it! I suspect it is real (who wants to counterfeit a coin from Georgia?). I suspect it is a KM 75 - some variety perhaps. How much does it weigh? Dimensions? Neat coin in any case. Thanks for sharing!

 

Okay. I will apologize in advance. I have these coins from Nagorno-Karabakh (aka Artsakh), which is contained wholly in Azerbaijan, dated 2004. I'm proffering one of them but with an Iranian backup because Nagorno-Karabakh is restrictively land-locked (totally within Azerbaijan) and is not entirely recognized by the international community. Thus, I present this Nagorno-Karabakh . .

AND an Iranian beauty (with cancerous verdigris throughout).

 

I never underestimate the motives of people to "create" things that may be considered rare or desirable by collectors. Perhaps that comes from collecting a lot of Chinese coins. The mintage on this one is relatively low at 20,000.

The Georgia issues were struck under the authority of Alexander I (1801-25) and Nicholas I (1825-55) of Russia at the Tiflis (Tbilisi) mint. (Taken from KM). This is KM75, 1810. It weighs 6.21g, 23mm. KM75 for 1810 is listed with the initials of Alexei Karpinski (A.K). The A.T on this one would be the initials of Alexander Trifonov. His initials begin in 1810 on other denominations, but not this particular coin.

 

I completely understand your cynicism - or careful and due consideration. As for KM 75, that third character from the right - right above the A.T - looks different from what I'm seeing in KM 's Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 8th Edition. I wonder why? I don't read Georgian or Cyrillic and am probably missing something. For the time being, I'm going to guess you have a rare and unique coin. I tend towards optimism until struck down and humiliated.

Where'd you obtain it? The dimensions are good from what I see, but the weight is off by 0.10 grams, which I will presume is within tolerances.