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Jester's Challenge #179

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 seventy-ninth 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

Comments

  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,952 ✭✭✭
    Ugh! Decimal coin!
    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    You know, this coin looks like a proof! It must be one of the first strikes off the press, because it's brilliant. Pardon my indiscretion!

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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
  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,952 ✭✭✭
    Since proofs were minted every year for this coin until its demise in 1984, it's a pretty good chance yours is.

    The coin was most unpopular when it did exist. And this is the best part: it was worth 1.2 old pence, more than the gigantic penny it replaced. My parents have a coffee can full of those useless things at their house.
    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
  • I have a couple of years of those mini-half penny coins. They are just not the same as the old half penny from the past.
    So many coins, so little money!
    Ebay name: bhil3
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    Wybrit, I assume you mean the coffee can is full of the old LSD coins, right? I also got about 5 pounds (weight) of the old pennies and half pennies in England last time I was there. My sister said she paid one pound sterling for the whole lot, and couldn't pass it up. It was in that lot that I found the 1919-H penny that I gave away upon my return home. Isn't copper worth more than that?!

    imageimageimage
    .....GOD
    image

    "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
  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,952 ✭✭✭
    No jester, I meant those annoying decimal halfpennies. I only wish the can had £sd coinage.
    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    Well, if you insist, we can work a trade.image But you pay postage...image

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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
  • mongoosemongoose Posts: 589 ✭✭
    Mac likes full red coppers, send it to him.image
    Joe
  • Nice coin Jester and in a very nice condition, I also had one but it was cleaned image

    Wybrit! Do you plan to make some giveaway of coins from your coffee can?imageimage
    N. N.
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