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A sensitive one. Found this as change. It is a two tailed coin. I know all about this magicians coin and inspected it well. Also took it to a dealer in Santiago. He confirmed it is not a magicians coin. Who knows how this happened. Maybe it was made and put into circulation.

 

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AH1340 (1921) Morocco 10 Mazunas



~30.3mm; 10.2gm; smooth edge.

I see, but do not understand, the date notation.

I believe it has to do with the beginning of reign of a monarch, but there are exceptions? My confusion is large...

A sweetly simple copper; very reassuring, somehow, to hold and contemplate. May become a quirky favorite.

 

Thanks, Derick!

 

Cool coin. I have many of those quirky ones!

 

I too love this design. I showed my mint state Morocco 10 mazunas in the "stars upon thars" thread Ripley started. I like your coin because it has the privy marks on the bottom and it's the other year different year than mine. I also have the 1 ,2, 5, 10 denominations.

 

nice coin. not sure if you have the 19th century Krause catalog ?
I may help you with it if you do not.
catalog KM#493 Brazil 1889 first year of this type coin. mintage-4,829,000 copper-nickel
values: Fine-$1.50 Very Fine-$3.00 Extra Fine-$10.00 Unc.-$62.50

 

very interesting coin to me. if you do not have the 19th century Krause i can help you.
Italy 1 Lira catalog KM#24.2 1887M M=Milan mint metal-$.835 silver mintage- 16,305,000
values: F-$2.50 VF-$7.50 XF-$20.00 Unc.$90.00 BU-$200.00 ruler- Umberto I

 

Krause KM# Y#23 Japan 10 Sen .800 silver Yr.8 (1885) type II mintage-8,977,419
values- F-$15.00 VF-$30.00 XF-$50.00 UNC-$200.00
great looking coin. nice find. definately protect this coin in an airtite or other protective cover.

 

The 1340 you mean? That is the Hijra or Hejira date (Islamic calendar), see this page. And here is a "time machine" that helps with the conversion.

By the way, these are the pieces that spirityoda mentioned: http://www.cointalk.com/t25084-4/#post1651683 Was curious and looked them up myself. Nice coins too!

Christian

 

heres what i'm doing at the moment edited




Note: if you'd like to discuss chess, you're welcome to start a discussion about it in the GD.

 

OK, chess then. Or rather Kempelen's chess "machine" (see here). The Hungarian central bank has a data sheet too.

Christian

 

Christian, thats a real cool article on the chess machine, chess is one of my favorite games, I'm sure that machine would of took a lot of my money :cheers:

 

Well, we were wondering what your original chess post was doing here and then I wanted to get on-topic again. Don't play chess myself, but there are a couple of chess coins. Here is one that I do not have (image from the central bank) - a Russian 2 ruble piece honoring Mikhail Botvinnik. The data sheet in English is here.

Christian

 

My latest bargains any idea what the problem is on the st.helena 1/2d ? it seems to either be guilt or gold washed maybe ?

 

Here are a couple from Denmark

 

France 1918 10 Centimes and 1964 50 Centimes

 

France 1988 10 Francs regular and bi-metallic

 

Germany 1939D 2 Mark and Great Britain 1956 3 pence

 

Italy 1956 100 Lira and Jersey 1957 1/4 shilling