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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2874792, member: 10461"]Holey World coins from the front of the Holey Coin Vest (In alphabetical order by country) Austria: silver 10-kreuzer, 1770-A<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Holey%20Coins-%20World/HCV-Austria-10kreuzer-1770X.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Austria: silver florin, 1875<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Holey%20Coins-%20World/HCV-Austria-1florin-1875.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Austrian Netherlands: silver kronenthaler, 1797<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Holey%20Coins-%20World/HCV-Austria-kronenthaler-1797C.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Bermuda: copper penny, 1793<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Holey%20Coins-%20World/HCV-Bermuda-penny-1793.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Brazil: copper 20-reis, 1820/9 (note the crazily prominent overdate)<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Holey%20Coins-%20World/HCV-Brazil-20reis-1820.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Brazil: copper 40 reis, 1822<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Holey%20Coins-%20World/HCV-Brazil-40reis-1822.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Brazil: silver 960 reis, 1814(overstruck on a Spanish milled dollar, as most if not all of these were)<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Holey%20Coins-%20World/HCV-Brazil-960reis-1814.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Medieval Bulgaria: hammered silver coin(I'm ashamed to say I've forgotten the attribution- it was a gift from a Collectors Universe member in Bulgaria)[ATTACH=full]687948[/ATTACH] Byzantine Empire: bronze follis(Again, I'm ashamed to say I've forgotten the attribution here.  6th? 7th? century, I believe?  I think I see the name "Justinian" in the legends, but which one?  Anyway, I picked up this magnificent monstrosity at a coin show for a measly 20 bucks and hung it on my vest on the spot.  Loved its sheer size.)<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Holey%20Coins-%20World/HCV-Byzantine-follis.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Holey%20Coins-%20World/HCV-Byzantine-follis-scale.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Canada: bronze large cent, 1859<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Holey%20Coins-%20World/HCV-Canada-1c-1859.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Canada: silver 5 cents, 1870<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Holey%20Coins-%20World/HCV-Canada-5c-1870.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Canada: silver 20 cent piece, 1858(a popular one-year type)<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Holey%20Coins-%20World/HCV-Canada-20c-1858.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />Canada: silver 50 cents, 1870<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Holey%20Coins-%20World/HCV-Canada-50c-1870.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Canada: silver 50 cents, 1872-H<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Holey%20Coins-%20World/HCV-Canada-50c-1872-H.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Canada (Upper Canada): copper penny bank token, 1850<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Holey%20Coins-%20World/HCV-Canada-BankTokenPenny-1850.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Canada: copper or brass(?) halfpenny token, 1812("slotted for use in wampum", I was told)<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Holey%20Coins-%20World/HCV-Canada-blacksmith-token-1812.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Canada (maybe Ireland, but I think Canada?): copper or brass(?) token, 1820(I believe this and the piece above might be so-called "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacksmith_token" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacksmith_token" rel="nofollow">blacksmith tokens</a>", but as you can see, I'm pretty clueless about them.)<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Holey%20Coins-%20World/HCV-Canada-blacksmith-token-1820.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Canada (Lower Canada/Montreal): copper "bouquet sou" token, ca. 1837<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Holey%20Coins-%20World/HCV-Canada-Montreal-bouquet-sou.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Canada (Montreal): copper penny bank token, 1842<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Holey%20Coins-%20World/HCV-Canada-Montreal-penny-1842.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Canada (New Brunswick): copper penny token, 1843<img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Holey%20Coins-%20World/HCV-Canada-NB-penny-1843.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> (To be continued in the next post...) 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