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I really like this Comoros 20 franc

oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
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This is a coin that I keep coming back to over and over - love the design.
(Hope this linky works)
link obverse
link reverse

Shep (there's even ships in the backgroundimage
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  • goldrush00013goldrush00013 Posts: 2,478 ✭
    I couldn't get either link to work.
    Analog Rules! Knobs and Switches are cool!
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  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    Darn - When I click on them they open fine. I didn't want to upload a 50kb version so I am linking to Webshots.imageimage
    I guess I will have to use the watered down pictures.

    Shep image
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  • goldrush00013goldrush00013 Posts: 2,478 ✭
    It shows a Webshots Icon, But says page requested has moved or no longer exists.
    Analog Rules! Knobs and Switches are cool!
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  • goldrush00013goldrush00013 Posts: 2,478 ✭
    Ahh, Very nice!
    Analog Rules! Knobs and Switches are cool!
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,648 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey, that's a Coelacanth fish- y'know- the one they thought was extinct since prehistoric times, known only from fossils, and then pow, somebody caught a live one? I think the first was caught in 1935 or so. Maybe that's where it was caught.

    Google time- BRB

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  • CoinAddictCoinAddict Posts: 5,571 ✭
    Great design.image

    Ps: The links worked fine for me.image
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,648 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Aha.

    I'm impressed with myself. I knew how to spell "coelacanth" correctly on the first try, correctly guessed that Comoros is where they've been caught, and missed the first catch date by only three years.

    Aren't I a clever fellow. image

    Humble, too. image

    Coelacanth linkie

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  • tbirde56tbirde56 Posts: 2,161
    The 1984 World Fisheries Conference 5 Francs coin from the Comoros also features the coelacanth:
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  • BruceBruce Posts: 484
    The links worked for me, nice looking coin.
    So many coins, so little money!
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  • farthingfarthing Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭
    I really like the design on the reverse! image
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  • AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭
    Very nice!!! image Is that the actual toning, too?
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  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    Very nice!!! Is that the actual toning, too?
    Mark - Believe it or not, I captured the colors almost exactly. A beautiful even toned coin.
    Sorry to sound less than modest, but I don't usually catch the true colors in my photos but this one did.
    Shep
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  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    'm impressed with myself. I knew how to spell "coelacanth" correctly on the first try, correctly guessed that Comoros is where they've been caught, and missed the first catch date by only three years.
    Ah Lord M. you never cease to amaze me.image
    Shep
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  • AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭
    Truly gorgeous, Shep!! image
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  • ShipcoinShipcoin Posts: 1,243
    Great coin, Shep, never saw such reverse before image Actually I'm collecting all these french colonial coins, because of their obverse, which has an image of ships in the harbour, but some of them really have a very imressive reverse too! image
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  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Nice coin and I like the reverse too.
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
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