Coins with Trains

Brings back memories. Me and a buddy putting Lincolns on a track, waiting for the train to go by, collecting our smushed coins and then outrunning the Missouri Pacific detective who had all sorts of colorful names for us.

 

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Gah! I was just looking through my stash for that coin!! Sharp cameo!!

 

Here is a Medal.

 

Interesting thing about this coins is that half of the original mintage of 200,000 was melted down to provide silver for the 1968 Olympic 25 Pesos. Even at that I see examples at almost every coin show I attend.

 

Thanks, I managed to collect all of the Silver Proof Dollars from the 1980-1991 series. I think they were some of the best from Canada.

 

They definitely sell at a premium. The cheapest they go is about $50.

 

The New Hope #40 smashed these two cents in December 2017

 

In 2015 and 2016, Japan released 9 coins of various Shinkansen at 'face value'. These coins are very popular and of course got hoarded. A commemorative silver proof featuring the original Shinkansen is also very popular. The last time I saw one for sale - asking price was over 300 dollars. Given there's a lot of train manias in Japan - I am not surprised...

Nickel copper
https://www.coinworld.com/news/worl...releases-new-high-speed-train-coins0.all.html

Silver proof
http://news.coinupdate.com/silver-coin-marks-anniversary-of-shinkansen-bullet-train-opening-3282/

On top of this, I believe there is an interesting issue to be released this year featuring the 150th anniversary of Meiji

https://www.mof.go.jp/english/currency/coin/commemorative_coins/20180525_reference.pdf

 

I'm surprised no one posted this yet:

 

Not a "world" coin according to CT standards. But yes, a nice one - and a coin that can be had as a circulation piece too!

Christian

 

It is if you live anywhere outside of the U.S.

 

I do, but that is still not the way Coin Talk is set up. Anyway, here is another old locomotive, the Saxonia from 1838, on a GDR 5M coin from 1988. While the Adler (used for the 1835 Nürnberg-Fürth connection) was from the UK, this one was built in Saxony.

The "first German long distance railway" that the inscription mentions was actually opened one year later, in 1839. And while the Saxonia was one of the locomotives participating in the opening, the first ones were UK made. Maybe the investors trusted them a little more ...

Christian

 

Well I'll be darned. Didn't realize what forum this was.

 

Me too, I thought Utah was part of the world.