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Jester's Challenge #167

Welcome to Jester's Challenge, an interactive history lesson.

Inspired by many others here on the Darkside forum, I'd like to present what I hope will turn into a great learning experience for all of us. Many members on this World and Ancient Coin Forum have done a formidable job of sharing with us many fascinating and historically important coins. Since looking at coins is also one of my greatest pleasures, I'd like to try to follow in that time-honored tradition and submit for your pleasure and entertainment some world coins I've come across in my short lifetime.

I will pick out a coin on a regular basis, and post it along with the challenge to you to name the coin, its provenance, denomination, metallic content, mintage, any distinguishing characteristics or noteworthy features, and its value. The more information, the better. I'd like as many people as possible to participate, regardless of how little knowledge you might have on the subject. I appreciate comments on every aspect of the coin, including its history, or its role in human history, or info on similar coins in its series, etc. I myself don't presume to know 1/1000 of what you collectively know, hence my challenge to all of you to share your knowledge with the rest of us. Hopefully this exercise will encourage thought, discussion, and most importantly, more friendship.

Thanks for your participation!!!

Here is the one hundred sixty-seventh selection:

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.....GOD
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"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

"For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22

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    oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240
    WOW - 10 centisimi - from Italy - composition copper - ruler - Vittorio Emanuele III, 50th anniversary of kingdom.
    Great looking coin - I am greening up again!
    Shep
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    You've got to love the symbolism! The plow and the cornucopia on the right, what must be a trading ship on the left with personifications to show us important points. And, obviously 50 years of Italian something... image

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    Vern
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    You want how much?!!
    NapoleonicMedals.org
    (Last update 3/6/2007)
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    1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful reverse design. I love it. And this is one coin I'm going to have to have one day in BU.

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    .....GOD
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
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    oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240
    Jester - Glad to see that you really appreciate the design of this coin - it is truely a keeper - The goal of one in BU is a good one, unless I fiind it firstimage
    Shep
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    theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
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