@lordmarcovan - your coin always reminds me off this one I own (from @PhilLynott I believe). Our coins could have overlapped! Venice grosso, 1339-1342.
@Bob13 said: @lordmarcovan - your coin always reminds me off this one I own (from @PhilLynott I believe). Our coins could have overlapped! Venice grosso, 1339-1342.
Next: something Byzantine
Yep that's an old friend! I owned it when it was only 679-682 years old hard to believe it already turned 681-684
Next coin: Picture of former British Army sergeant
O-ho-ho, i guess this coin has the inscription in ancient Egyptian language. It's like hieroglyphics. But ok, maybe you tried.
It seems the inscription about the catching fish and wine production. Oh, maybe i can read in ancient languages...
Here is...
The Egyptian Magic Coins were made in the United States starting around 1905.
The symbols are pictures not writing.
I guess that one could not find a former British Army sergeant.
@WillieBoyd2 said:
Sorry, but they are just pictures.
The coin with "pictures", "pictures" with inscription is not the coin with inscription. Ok, when i close my eyes i dessapear. So... Next coin with another good man.
What kind of connection, you may ask, does this double-struck 1723 South Sea sixpence have with astronomy?
Well, it was struck during the period (1696-1727) when Sir Isaac Newton was Warden and Master of the Royal Mint. (He probably wasn’t directly supervising in the room when they made this one, though, given the obvious quality control issue.)
Yeah, OK, that’s a rather tenuous connection, so continue same theme: astronomy.
The Nobel Prize medal awarded to Rainer Weiss for his work in making the detection of gravitational waves possible. The first detection in 2015 was of the merger of two black holes. Subsequently waves from the mergers neutron stars have also been detected.
Einstein said this a would not be possible.
@IVB said:
I want to propose a new theme: more than seven coats of arms on the coin.
German States (Teutonic Order): silver 1/4-thaler of Grand Master Maximilian of Austria, ca. 1615
New theme: mounted knights, or people with swords
You know what I think you were in the right here. I re-read and looks like it's supposed to be more than 7 and I think mine had just a measly 7 coat of arms.
@Clio said:
You know what I think you were in the right here. I re-read and looks like it's supposed to be more than 7 and I think mine had just a measly 7 coat of arms.
You have 8: seven on the eagle and the eagle itself.
The Almohad Caliphate was a North African Berber Muslim empire founded in the 12th century. At its height, it controlled much of the Iberian Peninsula (Al Andalus) and North Africa (the Maghreb).
Next: Morocco. Edited to add: or another North African states.
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That’s just begging for someone to post a “man in the moon” Luneberg Thaler
Latin American Collection
Next: A Lion 🦁
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Theme- A lion
New Theme: an African coin, pre-1900
Justin Meunier
Boardwalk Numismatics
Not dated, but I choose to believe it's pre-1900
. So from Katanga cross to a cross of any kind.
How about another cross - curious to see what is out there...
My current "Box of 20"
Another cross, 18th century or older.
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Crosses (I count seven of ‘em), on a 14th century coin.
Next: another toned medieval coin.
@lordmarcovan - your coin always reminds me off this one I own (from @PhilLynott I believe). Our coins could have overlapped! Venice grosso, 1339-1342.
Next: something Byzantine
My current "Box of 20"
[Constantine VI & Irene, late 8th century Byzantium Solidus]
Next coin: an abstract design?
Next a tropical plant
Next something with a horse with no rider.
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The best collecting goals lie right on the border between the possible and the impossible. - Andy Lustig, "MrEureka"
Next coin: something with a shovel
Next: a baloon, older than 1900.
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Yep that's an old friend! I owned it when it was only 679-682 years old hard to believe it already turned 681-684
So I searched on Numista for this and didn't find anything that fit that requirement. Was there a particular coin you had in mind?
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The best collecting goals lie right on the border between the possible and the impossible. - Andy Lustig, "MrEureka"
More than one day has left. Let's begin new positive theme: next coin with good man.
Peace.
No, I had no idea that there is none, my bad haha!
Coinsof1984@martinb6830 on twitter
Nobody knows the coin with good man...
Peace.
New theme: birds.
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Next coin without inscription on one side.
Peace.
Egyptian Magic Coin
Next coin: Picture of former British Army sergeant
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
O-ho-ho, i guess this coin has the inscription in ancient Egyptian language. It's like hieroglyphics. But ok, maybe you tried.
It seems the inscription about the catching fish and wine production. Oh, maybe i can read in ancient languages...
Here is...
Peace.
The Egyptian Magic Coins were made in the United States starting around 1905.
The symbols are pictures not writing.
I guess that one could not find a former British Army sergeant.
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
It's the inscription...
Peace.
Sorry, but they are just pictures.
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
The coin with "pictures", "pictures" with inscription is not the coin with inscription. Ok, when i close my eyes i dessapear. So... Next coin with another good man.
Peace.
What is a "good man"?
Coinsof1984@martinb6830 on twitter
Egypt 2 piastres 1944 - King Farouk
Next coin: Picture of former British Army sergeant
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
Nobody posted, so here is another theme: astronomy.
Coinsof1984@martinb6830 on twitter
Astronomy.
What kind of connection, you may ask, does this double-struck 1723 South Sea sixpence have with astronomy?
Well, it was struck during the period (1696-1727) when Sir Isaac Newton was Warden and Master of the Royal Mint. (He probably wasn’t directly supervising in the room when they made this one, though, given the obvious quality control issue.)
Yeah, OK, that’s a rather tenuous connection, so continue same theme: astronomy.
The Nobel Prize medal awarded to Rainer Weiss for his work in making the detection of gravitational waves possible. The first detection in 2015 was of the merger of two black holes. Subsequently waves from the mergers neutron stars have also been detected.
Einstein said this a would not be possible.
I imaged Ray's medal I don't own it. 😉
Next a princess
Princess Anne:
Next: anything industrial.
Coinsof1984@martinb6830 on twitter
Industrial.
German “Für Vaterland” kriegsgeld token (R), portraying female munitions worker handling artillery shells in a factory.
One of a pair of iron WW1 kriegsgeld tokens I found in a very cool bulk Exonumia bag I bought in 2014.
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/929914/big-exonumia-bulk-bag-live-cherrypicking-ill-gradually-continue-posting-stuff-as-it-comes-outta/p1
Next: more WW1-related, or kriegsgeld/notgeld.
Kriegsgeld
Shonwald 5 pfennig 1918.
Next: mushrooms.
Don't have any mushrooms, but I love that type there! Never seen it before.
Yes, there are some very interesting specimens among the notgelds.
I want to propose a new theme: more than seven coats of arms on the coin.
New theme: two denominations.
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The best collecting goals lie right on the border between the possible and the impossible. - Andy Lustig, "MrEureka"
German States (Teutonic Order): silver 1/4-thaler of Grand Master Maximilian of Austria, ca. 1615
New theme: mounted knights, or people with swords
@clio snuck in while I was posting.
So go with two denominations.
Back to people with swords.
Coinsof1984@martinb6830 on twitter
Great Britain 1935 crown.
Next: Chinese (or Japanese) dragon.
Japanese dragon.
Next, more Japanese, with or without dragons.
Ok. Japanese 1 Shu (one is my favorite coins from this country)
Next: Coin of a very unusual shape.
here are a few unusual shapes:
Next, even more unusual shapes.
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You know what I think you were in the right here. I re-read and looks like it's supposed to be more than 7 and I think mine had just a measly 7 coat of arms.
https://numismaticmuse.com/ My Web Gallery
The best collecting goals lie right on the border between the possible and the impossible. - Andy Lustig, "MrEureka"
You have 8: seven on the eagle and the eagle itself.
Japan 100 Mon
Next: non-Asian coin without images, with letters / words only.
I don't know if one would consider Iran to be "non-Asian". It's not Far Eastern, at any rate.
Iran (Persia): gold toman of Fath-Ali Shah, AH 1233 (1817)
Technically, Iran is on the Asian continent, so I'll disqualify my own post.
Continue with the previous theme: non-Asian coin with only lettering and no pictorial elements.
Almohad Caliphate (1121–1269) silver dirham.
The Almohad Caliphate was a North African Berber Muslim empire founded in the 12th century. At its height, it controlled much of the Iberian Peninsula (Al Andalus) and North Africa (the Maghreb).
Next: Morocco. Edited to add: or another North African states.