Hi all, @pragmatic you might like this set I picked this 1971 Ireland Proof set put together by the Littelton Coin Company many years ago. It's so old the cellophane used to hold the coins dried up and became brittle. Oh well, into 2x2 they go.. Enjoy
@paddyman98 charming!! I never had proof items. but seeing them in these pictures look as real and shiny as they are! it must had been expensive set to get.
I only collected the 1928-69 predecimal denominations, but I must say those septagonal decimal 50p pieces are cool, and especially lovely as proofs. First time I've ever used "septagonal" in a sentence. My tablet's autocorrect feature had no idea what to make of it. Septagonal. Seven-sided, in other words. There, kiddies, is your vocabulary word for the day. Use it in conversation. Impress your friends. (Or make 'em give you eye-rolls and funny looks, anyway.)
@lordmarcovan a coin with an odd number of angles, how do they manage to stike that without a geometric inconsistency. is there a clear example for the septagonal coin?
@lordmarcovan right on, I just noticed it above the one with the bird is indeed septagonal. boy o' boy
Crazily enough back in the early 80s I wrote to the money board there and got a price list of coins from Ireland - they still had original sets of the 1928 coinage for sale - guess up until a few years later they were really slow sellers. I really wisht I had gotten one.
LOL! Oopsie. Now there's your vocabulary word, kiddies! Okiedokie, then. How 'bout the real word and not the one I apparently pulled out of - *ahem* - thin air? I still say "septagonal" makes more sense than "heptagonal", though, so nyah nyaaah, Mister Smartybritches. Who ever heard of heptagons, anyway? Sheesh.
I have no clue. Despite my experience with (earlier) Irish coins, I couldn't even get the freakin' word right. LOL
@paddyman98 some of these are familiar. I have few of them already (down here) never paid attention however to how many sides the coin. thanks for the tip. this is a good learning point for me. this one has 12 sides, I just looked into google to see what a 12 sided shape is called. dodecagon!! sorry for bad photographing, it is difficult for me to take decent photos of shiny coins because of light reflections
Septagonal, heptagonal...both words are disturbing. Just use a word that everyone can agree is wonderful, even if it has nothing to do with coins. How about "delicatessen", or a short hard-hitter like "bacon." <lol> Cheers, Bruce
@lordmarcovan the word septagonal makes more sense actually I prefer it to heptagonal hepta sounds like hepatic (liver)
"Heptagonal" sounds like "herpes" or "herpetology" to me. And herpetology is about ... sssnakess. Or a least I think it is. I don't trust myself after the "septagonal" debacle ... I'd better go look it up!
I am not sure if it is in circulation or not, but more likely it is still based on brittle information i read about it online. It depicts a monk reading (?) Occasionally found in my pences box i got back with me from scotland in 2009. I used to have a lot of coins during my travel there as recommended by friends for phonebooth and airport internet)) seems out of the box 2 are special (bailiwick and this)
