A tangent of my paper money thread, please post your coins with ships on them. As a dad with a daughter in the US Navy, I am going to start a themed collection:thumb:
I have this coin, but not nearly so nice. Also, I cannot find out if it is American or Liberian. It is generally called a token. If you are including foreign coins, nearly all the early Liberian coins have ships. Look at your wife's elephants.
Please excuse the rough pictures and photoshop, I JUST did this now. gettin ready for bed, didn't want to forget about it.
I don't own this coin anymore. I traded it along with a stack of cash for the proof IHC in my signature line. I loved this coin, the ship sailing on a rainbow sea. BTW, this is what Heritages photos looked like 8 years ago.
Actually, I think World Coins covered this in their magazine that being given out at the NY Show. I only have one, the Va State Quarter. I have to dig out the image. Ruben
Yay! A thread I can participate in. Unrecorded type! Postumus AE double sestertius Cologne ?, 259-268 AD IMP C M CASS LAT POSTVMVS P F AVG laureate, radiate, draped and cuirassed bust r. LAETITA, AVG in ex. galley right RIC - , Bastien - , Cohen - Note: Similar to RIC 144 or 207 Euboia, Histiaia AR tetrobol Histiaia, 3rd cent. BC head of nymph Histiaia r., wreathed in vine, hair rolled IΣTIAΩN nymph Histiaia seated r. on galley, stern ornamented with shield S 2498 Aradus, Phoenicia AE 14 Aradus, c. 300-200 BC bust of Tyche r. prow l. with Phoenician inscription below BMC 97 Roman Republic Anonymous, 215-212 BC AE triens – 25mm Head of Minerva r., in Corinthian helmet. •••• above Prow of galley r., ROMA above •••• below Crawford 41/7b Anonymous Berytus, Phoenicia AE12, 1st cent. AD COL, Silenos holding wine skin between BER above prow SNG Cop 89, BMC 46
I am almost willing to bet that Portugal is the country with more ships on coins. I don't have my collection with me nor scans of it, but I found a couple of examples: