Wild Turkeys on Coins

Wild Turkeys on Coins?

Has anyone ever seen a legitimate coin depicting a Wild Turkey?

 

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Not me, but I seem to recall that your infamous Ben Franklin wanted the Wild Turkey as your national bird and not the eagle.
Do you have such a coin? I wonder if its a token of some sort.
BTW, isnt a Wild Turkey also an American type of hard liquor?

 

Ben wanted it to be the National Bird

When I 1st saw this thread I thought someone was thinking of it as a dip.

It is a local brew that can turn anything into a double~die if used too much.

 

I have seen some Wild Turkey that makes anything look like a legitimate coin.

Does that count?

 

I have seen a legitimate coin in a turkey. Also, there are legitimate coins in Turkey.

Christian

 

I've never seen a coin but I have seen some tokens, at least one anyway.

I wish, a little bit every day, that Ben Franklin had gotten his way. I love turkeys.

Just imagine these terms: "Heraldic Turkey" "Gold Double Turkey" "Flying Turkey" and so forth....

If only...

 

That would pose some problems around Thanksgiving. I just don't want to eat bald eagle for Thanksgiving dinner - they are too tough and chewy.

 

I did find a New Orleans Mardi Gras token on Ebay with a wild turkey.

 

Should I ask how you know that? :whistle: :eat:

 

lol

 

Here's the closest thing to a coin that I found with a Wild Turkey:



Token - New Orleans Mardi Gras Wild Turkey 1978 (38mm)
FISH and GAME of NORTH AMERICA / WILD TURKEY / 1978
JEFFERSON CITY BUZZARDS / MARDI GRAS / SINCE 1890 / N.O.L.A.

 

I think it is a proposed design Kentucky state Dollar.

:smile

 

Very nice.:goofer: Too bad that one wasn't minted.

 

Nice~

That would work!:kewl:

 

Finally, a Bird whose Time has Come:

 

I got my wish, a wild turkey on an official circulating United States coin:


United States Kisatchie National Forest America the Beautiful quarter (25 cents) 2015

 

Another wild turkey on a coin:

The small country of Andorra issued this coin in 2002:


Andorra brass 5 cèntims 2002 Gall Fer or Capercaillie

The Krause 2002 Standard Catalog of World Coins (29th Edition) had this description of the coin:


Andorra brass 5 cèntims 2002 - Krause Catalog description as "male turkey"

Turkeys are native to Mexico and do not exist in the wild in Europe. A Capercaillie is a big European bird sometimes weighing 7 kg or 14 lbs.

The 2005 edition of the Krause Catalog still had the "male turkey" description.

Finland also issued a coin with the Capercaille bird on it:


Finland 10 Markka 1994 Capercaillie
Bi-metallic copper-nickel brass

The Finland coin bird is correctly described in the Krause Catalogs.

Another turkey relative on a coin:


Korea Half Chon 2002 Guinea Fowl

Guinea Fowl are originally from Africa but are now domesticated birds.