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Bird of paradise, Papua New Guinea 50 toea 2015

 

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Here's a chicken from the 2nd century.


Pseudo-autonomous.
Roman provincial Æ 13 mm, 1.2 g.
Antioch, Pisidia, time of Antoninus Pius, AD 138-161.
Obv: ANTIOCH, draped bust of Mercury/Hermes (head assimilated to portrait of Marcus Aurelius as Caesar), left; to right, caduceus.
Rev: COLONI, chicken walking right.
Refs: RPC IV.3, 7350 (temporary); BMC 19.176,1 (pl. XXXI, 1); SNG von Aulock 4916; Krzyżanowska 140–1, VII.7–9; cf. SNG BN 1067.

 

Vespasian denarius, AD 64-79. Kind of a toss up as to who has the bigger eagle's beak nose.

 

Malacca 1 keping AH1247 (AD1832)

 

Well, It's got two 'WINGS'.

 

You're right, I can't think of another "coin" with a turkey either, but here's a medal with a hen.

1972 Great Smokey Mountains
National Park Bronze Medal
Medallic Art Co. 38mm

 

This might be my last one worth looking at.
Quick! Look on the reverse before it goes away.
It looks to me to be a Golden Eagle. LOL

1979 ATLANTIC SALMON
Longines Symphonette Sterling Silver Medal

 

United States 2015 Five Ounce Silver Coin - Kisatchie National Forest Louisiana

There are not many flying turkeys on United States coins.

 

Ah-ha! another turkey!

 

1971 Thanksgiving - Heraldic Art Medal

I was looking for one on a platter and remembered this one.

 

Confusing Souvenir Dollar mules
(this post will make your head hurt)

1972 Indian Head
South Dakota Souvenir Dollar
Bronze


An unusual re-use of the 1971 North Dakota Souvenir Dollar obverse design with a date of 1972.
A scarce medal.



Here's one like the above in correct Copper-Nickel composition.



Correct Versions

A correct 1971 obverse from the North Dakota set with a strange looking bird on the correct reverse.



A correct 1972 obverse from the South Dakota set with a correct Pheasant reverse.




My South Dakota Set


My North Dakota Set


Confused yet?
You can click on each set and see a couple other birds in there.

 

One more
1977 Indian Head North Dakota
SILVER
Souvenir Dollar
with a State Bird
The Western meadowlark




This one is probably somewhat rare as it is .999 silver and has a strong cameo appearance.
I can find later than 1980 Dakota issues in silver but I didn't collect those and have no intentions to at this time as they don't have these Indian 1971 to 1980 obverses.
I find it interesting that the only other .999 silver from the 1971-1980 series in either North or South Dakota Souvenir Dollars is posted on tokencatalog.com by Maverick911 and is from 1977 but from South Dakota.
See token TC-468646.

The four hallmarks on the edge each within a circle on the edge are what appears to be C, a conjoined HM, 77 and P.

The .999 F. S. is for .999 Fine Silver.

I was told there were only a "handful" of these made and I am in agreement since the edge on this one is low at 16.

 

El Condor Pasa, Chile

 

NZ 1940 Penny

 

Jenny Wren, GB 1953 farthing

 

Not as nice as yours. Need to get better pix but in mint packaging.

 

Odd looking Kiwi bird, NZ florin 1937. And just for grins, I think this is where the name of this thread came from:

 

FAUSTINA Sr. (138-141 AD)
AR Denarius
Lifetime Issue
O: FAVSTINA AVGVSTA, Draped bust right.
R: IVNONI REGINAE, Peacock seated on throne and scepter behind.
18mm
3.5g
RIC-340, RSC-221 BMC (Antoninus Pius) 145 (same reverse die)

Ex Robert Kutcher Collection (Triton X, 8 January 2007), lot 1606 (part of)

 

Black grouse and Siberian tit

 

Woodmen of the World token, and I am guessing that is a grouse of some sort.