Little help?

Sorry to disappoint you Ron but 100 Yen is equivalent to only $0.95. LOL

 

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yes the I.D. game is over for today. I thank my good friends here at Coin Talk for educating me, yet again. I have these coins all in 2X2's now to study, and hopefully recognize in the future.

 

Thats a very hard question for me as I hoard anything I can lay my hands on for my world set but I do maintain some parallel type set collection of India, Israel, US, Canada, Great Britain and Germany. Lately I got a taste for world silver crown sized coins.

 

I do like kidromeo: I collect every country, but only by type (not by date). After some time you assemble quite a collection and even very exotic types become familiar.

Some countries have my special intrest: Belgium (my own country), Great-Britain, France, Luxembourg. Also Germany and the 18th and 19th century German States.

I collect mostly circulation types; I am not really interested in the so-called collectors coins you can buy with a premium. For me a coin is even more interesting when it shows it has circulated: some wear is no problem for me. As a result of this, my collection is certainly not museum stuff, but can be used for educational purposes: people can touch the pieces and learn of distant countries and their history.

 

i bought these coins as a YN for one of my projects but never used them kept them for my collection instead. happy memories. i even remember what i paid for them after all these years

 

Its tough to say what country would be my favorite to collect, I tend to get interested in a particular period of time within a particular country and assemble what I feel is a representative set, then move on. Not necessarily by Krause #, and normally not by a complete run of dates/mints. And any trip I take to another country is open season to accumulate whatever I can from that country's circulating coinage.

 

You are getting too nostalgic after retirement :goof:....Maybe its about time you share some of your treasures and live in the past:whistle:.

 

I particularly like old German coins, old Morocco has some attractive designs as does Cyprus, Malta, Japan, Portugal, Peru, Guernsey some spanish coins and french. I LOVE coins from Ireland with the different cool animals. Old Rhodisian coins are lovely. One of my most favorite coins is from poland. Man, the list goes on and on...so many nations through time have had cool looking coins you just cant list them all

 

Boy oh boy....what an amazing compilation Dru..:thumb:
If God only given me half of your coin taste buds

 

none of those coins were bought for much over 20 bucks, many were far less...and the malta was given to me by Orc... They are all rather common coinage, there are so many common coins that are simply outstanding.

 

coin with plum flower is NT$1 from the previous serious of one dollars and can't but used but can be exchanged at any Taiwan Government Bank and is dated year 63 (1974). That series ran from 59-69 Republic years (started 1911). The coin with Chiang Kai Shek's head is the new series NT$5 dated Republic year 78 (1989) and range 70-73, 78-79, and 97 (but I have never seen the 97! [2008]). Note, the old NT$1 is same size as current NT$10--or very close.

 

The flower is the paulownia flower, not a lotus. A stylized paulownia is the symbol of the Prime Minister and government of Japan, just as the stylized chrysanthemum is the symbol of the Emperor.

If properly oriented, the picture would be rotated 90 degrees left, with the country name at the top and the denomination at the bottom. The coin is KM#82, cu-ni, 98.1 or 98.2, depending on the year of issue. The date (in western numerals - or the character for "first" - between the characters for the regnal name and "year") is on the other side. It might be Showa 42-63 (1967-88), Heisei Gan (first - 1988) or Heisei 2-21 (1989-2009). Mintages range from 8,024,000 (2001) to 680,000,000 (1983). (Krause has an incorrect number for 2001.)

 

Hands down, my favorite empire to collect was the Roman Empire before severe coin adulteration say pre 200 AD. Here are a couple of nice Republic Dinar's.:smile Traci

 

Wow nice coins!! How about the one with the two elephants, did you get that one for less than $20? :kewl:

I just may have to print out the collection and keep my eyes open, very cool!!

 

really amazing set of coins--was so surprised! Why can't the US get some stuff like that circulating!! The current NT$50 of ROC Taiwan has a "holograph" of sorts on it that is cool, but nothing like those coins.

 

Well Fret, I do have a Genese coin. Three Headed Elephant, the God who removes all obstacles. Traci

 

The first Republic of China (Taiwan) coin [NT$1] is no longer in circulation. The series runs (in Republic years--add 1911 to get western year): 49, 55, 58-to-69. Years 55 and 58 are collectables in Taiwan. Charging about NT$ 300-500 per circulated coin. NT$1=US$32. The second Republic of China (Taiwan) coin [NT$5] is currently in circulation. Years run 70-73; 78-78; 97. Other years have no mintage. Haven't seen a 97, yet! Only worth face value for both. Have seen the NT$1 for NT$30 in the market.

 

I think you mean the currency conversion rate is US$1=NT$32.

Gary

 

Your right! Got that backwards. Did want to ask Manymore about 5 Guang Su Yuan Bao coins I just bought in the market: 5 all with English saying they were Kwang Tung Provice but the Chinese on two on the obverse side have Fu-jian and three have Zhe-Jiang??? They are not iron and seem to be nickel. Bought all five at same time. (were less than US$1 each) so don't feel like was great loss. Have your seen this before? Not sure how to post pictures, yet. Will try to get one on later.

 

correction

:desk: "ask Manymore about 5 Guang Su Yuan Bao coins " Should've been Guang Xu Yuan Bao coins! Also they were 1.44 kuping (liang) in size. Weifin