Ships on coins...

Here's one of my favorites.

 

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Good topic. Here's a Greece 1 and 50 drachmai, and a Spanish 50 centimos which, while it doesn't have a ship, does have an anchor.

 

Here's three from the great seafaring nation of Portugal. The big one is 50 escudos. The denominations on the others confuse me.

 

Here is a Canadian dime, a 5 something coin from Cyprus and a British half penny.

 

I like those British half pennies for some reason

 

And last but not least, a 50 cent Endeavor commemorative from New Zealand, 25 cents from the Bahamas and 25 cents from the British Caribbean states.

 

Ships representing the state, with the monarch also:


A noble of 80d from the reign of Edward III of England - minted ca. 1363-5.

 

That's a nice one.

Kuwait also has a series of ships on coins. Here's an example:

 

I've shown these before, but what the heck!

Chris

 

here a couple older ones. M Anotny, Constans, Antoninus Pius. Not the best though, sorry

 

heres one more

 

Most in the US will recognize this first one from circulation. The second is one of my favorite silver rounds.

 

Now I'm going to have to look through my foreign coins and see if I have any to post!

 

Two ships!


French Somaliland 20 Francs 1952

 

These two are 25c from the netherlands, WW2

 

1976 Portugal 21/2 Escudos

 

Wow, I'm surprised no one posted the Delaware commemorative on here yet. Wish I had one to show off.

 

A couple of hundred years younger, and a bit of an anachronism whence it was released in minisculity:



This is a Scottish noble, one of the very very few ever issued from the reign of James VI in 1588. By this time the noble had been largely consigned to history. Notice the ship, but curiously the Scottish arms instead of a portrait of the monarch. James VI was apparently pretty conscientious about his portrait being used on the coinage - and duly so - he was not the most attractive bloke in Scotland and he is alleged to have been a drooler.

 

As far as circulation coins are concerned, we have these. The "reddish" pieces are the (country specific sides of the) Greek 1, 2 and 5 cent coins. The "yellowish" one is what is on the three mid-range (10/20/50 cent) coins from Cyprus.



Christian

 

And here are two German collector coins. One shows a Hanseatic League "cog", the other depicts the current "Gorch Fock" vessel.

Christian