Did the Austrian mint restrike 1860 florins? (OK, thread hijacked- now its a palindrome thread.)

lordmarcovan · November 28, 2006 11:44AM

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Aethelred · November 28, 2006 12:03PM

Yes, I mean no. Uh, I think they might have, but not if they didn't.

Hope that helps!

Doogy · November 28, 2006 12:19PM

RACECAR backwards is, well, RACECAR

sorry, didn't have anything constructive to add to this thread, so i thought i'd share a worthless fact

lordmarcovan · November 28, 2006 3:25PM

Alrightey, then. Since the auction of the coin I wanted to know about has closed and I was no help to the poor seller who wanted to know (thanks, losers!), then I suppose the point of this thread is moot and we'll go with Doogy's palindrome theme.

Did you know that like Doogy's word RACECAR, the sentence "TEN ANIMALS I SLAM IN A NET" is also a palindrome?

It's the palindrome thread, now. Run with it.

(I'll go look the Austrian coin up in Krause, as if it matters now.)

CIVITAS · November 28, 2006 10:43PM

Rise to vote, sir!

rwhite · November 29, 2006 1:38AM

A MAN A PLAN A CANAL PANAMA

satootoko · November 29, 2006 3:52AM

Does anyone know a shorter palindrome than the letters "R" and "K" in morse code: . - . and - . - ?

1jester · November 29, 2006 4:08AM

RADAR.

There, I'm smart!

shirohniichan · November 29, 2006 4:19AM

<< <i>RADAR.

There, I'm smart!

>>

WOW

shirohniichan · November 29, 2006 4:20AM

Since Austria was on the silver standard back then, weren't their gold florins trade coins? (Sorry, I couldn't find a way to write the question in a palindrome.)

lordmarcovan · November 29, 2006 12:57PM

'Twas a silver florin I was aksin' about.

A Napoleonic palindrome:

"ABLE WAS I ERE I SAW ELBA."

shirohniichan · November 30, 2006 2:18AM

Ah-- I see.

The silver florins are much more common than the 1875 double florin I spent years looking for. I don't know if any were restruck, though.

It's funny how you can discover how rare a coin is just by looking for one in any condition and coming up empty for years. The dealers I asked didn't seem to think certain coins particularly rare, even though they'd never seen one before. I guess Krause listings of mintages can give one the impression that some coins are fairly common. Until you look for one to get an idea of the surviving population, you'd never know how scarce a coin really is.

MyWorldCoinTypeSet · November 30, 2006 2:22AM

There once was a man fron Nantucket ...

laurentyvan · November 30, 2006 2:31AM

There once was a man fron Nantucket ...
Who claimed he sold coins by the bucket, (Please continue here)

Conder101 · November 30, 2006 11:39PM

There once was a man fron Nantucket ...
Who claimed he sold coins by the bucket,
He said "By the way
by Paypal, please pay" (I've got a final line but I'll let someone else try.

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