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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mynter, post: 1541520, member: 40061&quot;]<b>1916</b></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Verdana">What a graet idea starting a thread where you can post a certain coin, reflecting about what happened in the world when it was struck. </font></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Verdana">When I saw the ZAR - Veld Pond I immediatly felt like posting an image of the other african gold - emergency - issues; the German East Africa - 15 Rupee - coin, which was struck in the Railway Work- Shop at Tabora ( T ) in 1916 under adventerous circumstances.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Verdana">The story of the &quot; Tabora Sovereign &quot; could be worth being told in a thread of its own, but the year of 1916 did not only see drama and action on the black continent. WW I was still lasting on in Europe as well. In the shaddow of this war the Easter Rising in Ireland took place. This attempt to gain home rule or independence culminated in the battle of the Dublin General Post Office, a massiv building in the classical style leading your thoughts to ancient Greece and heroes of long gone days.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Verdana">Dublin GPO was shelled and most of the survievers where shot as vigilants. Today pictures of those dramatic days can be watched in the restored building, that besides of being a national monument still serves its purpose as a mail office.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #222222"><font face="Verdana">So, in order not to stretch the rules for this thread , I post another coin of 1916 ; the regular currency - sovereign, minted in London that year. This coin could have been used in Dublin during the Easter - rising would it not have been for that is was never released for circulation. In 1916 England stopped redeeming banknotes into goldcoins. The London sovereign of that year, along with the issue of 1917 and 1925 finally went to the US as payment for goods received during the war. There, almost all coins where melted down. The 1917 - sovereign today is only known in about 10 or 20 specimens , the 1916 is scarce, but not too difficult to get hold of, while the 1925 - issue was reproduced between 1949 - 51.</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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