Mountains

These are chilean coins from the early 19th century - a peso dated 1818, a real dated 1834,
and a escudo also dated 1834.

Depicted on the reverse one of the dozens of volcanos which line the Cordillera de los Andes (Andes Mountains) along its 4000 km journey from south to north in Chile.
The actual mountain depicted is not known with certainty, but it probably was intended to depict Mount Aconcagua - The highest mountain in the chilean Andes.

 

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Very nice Escudo not often seen with the face still good on the sun.

 

This brings back memories of going on vacations with my parents as a child. There would always be these penny crushing machines. Grand Canyon, Mount Rushmore, ect…

 

Slovakia 2009 1 and 2 eurocents

 

Somehow all my mountain coins have them in background behind woman:

 

Slovenia 50 eurocent

 

Here are some mountains.

Thats a silhouette of me in the 4th picture

 

Have you ever visited Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood? It was a WPA project back in the 30's, and the main hall is spectacular.

Chris

 

How about some Colorado Rockies?

And the real thing........Ouray, Colorado - Elevation 7,800 ft. ; peaks 13,000 ft.

 

Another view of Montana.

 

Haven't had a chance to travel out west yet, but one of these days I'm going to. Hope to visit Mount Hood, Mount Rainier, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, and whatever other natural beauties I can get to.

 

Both the highest and the biggest, actually. In fact it's the biggest mountain in the world in both total mass and covered land area, being the merging of 3 extinct volcanoes (although this is only true if you only measure mountains' above sea level portions; otherwise the honor goes to Mauna Loa in Hawaii, which would be both the biggest and highest mountain in the world if you counted the portion below the ocean.)

 

Yeah, the "Death Totem" created quite a stir in Canada when it was released in 1958.

Chris