Jester's Challenge #192

1jester

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 ninety-second selection:

spoon

Are you just trying to get us to ID your unknown coins again??

That's a cool one, but with the wear I may be off.. it's definitely Brazil, guessing 1828 SP (Sao Paulo) 80 reis making it KM 376.

1jester

It is sort of beat up and worn, but still cool. It's an 1828-R I picked up off ebay from Glenn (tlhoy). The scans don't show the beautiful blue toning all over it. Perhaps Spinaker would like it?!

It's a non-counterpunched version of this.

tlhoy

Well, as for "it's provenance." In 1975 my grandfather passed away in Indianapolis, Indiana. Your coin was passed down to his grandson (ME) who lived in Louisville, Kentucky. Then Elvis Presley died! When Elvis's will was finally discharged in 1979, one of my uncle's inherited a Winnebago dealership (called "Presley Motors") in Blytheville, Arkansas and our house burnt down but your coin survived! My uncle called my mother & traded a 29 foot Brave Winnebago for my mom's 1978 BMW. Now your coin went on a long trip around the U.S.A. The trip ended sometime in 1981 in Denton, Texas. Then in 1989 your coin moved (with my mom) to Mammoth Hot Springs, Utah in Yellowstone National Park. Then moved to Kansas City Missouri in 1997 or 98. Then your coin took a trip (flood of 2000) almost 2 miles down the Missouri River inside my mom's mobile home until it broke apart in some farmers field. Some of the coins (yours) stayed inside the closet, some were found along the river, the rest (1000's of them) were lost! So my mom gave the coins back to me in Bigelow Arkansas, & in 2003 I sent your coin to you in Poland!
That's everything I know about this coin.
Whew!
Glenn

laurentyvan

That, my friend, was a great story!

1jester

Glenn, wonderful story! Now I don't know if it's a tall tale or just the truth!

tlhoy

It's the Truth! I'm trying to contact my mom to confirm the date of the flood. It might have been 1999 not 2000.
Glenn

1jester

What a pedigree this coin has!!

Obviously, truth is stranger than fiction!

tlhoy

I was wrong on the date of the Kansas City move I said Then moved to Kansas City Missouri in 1997 or 98.
The move to Kansas City was in 1992 & the flood was in 1995.
Glenn

cladking

It's Brazilian, of course. I believe it's pretty common all the way up to AU where it gets quite tough.