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My new coin from Gambia

Hi all,

Just thought I'd show off my new coin from Gambia. The first pic came out good the second I was off target a bitimage

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  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Another great coin with lions on it
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240
    The photography on this forum is getting awesome. That's a beauty.
    Shep
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  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Nice coin- gentleman looks a little grim perhaps... I've noticed their coins don't say Gambia but always The Gambia. Nice photo but it's always what gets me-the lights!
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • Gambia is one of the world's poorest countries...image

    http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ga.html
    The Gambia has no important mineral or other natural resources and has a limited agricultural base. About 75% of the population depends on crops and livestock for its livelihood. Small-scale manufacturing activity features the processing of peanuts, fish, and hides. Reexport trade normally constitutes a major segment of economic activity, but a 1999 government-imposed preshipment inspection plan, and instability of the Gambian dalasi (currency) have drawn some of the reexport trade away from The Gambia. The government's 1998 seizure of the private peanut firm Alimenta eliminated the largest purchaser of Gambian groundnuts; the following two marketing seasons have seen substantially lower prices and sales. A decline in tourism in 2000 has also held back growth. Unemployment and underemployment rates are extremely high. Shortrun economic progress remains highly dependent on sustained bilateral and multilateral aid, on responsible government economic management as forwarded by IMF technical help and advice, and on expected growth in the construction sector.
    Corrupting youth since 2004
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