That's saying something, then. You can tell, even from those photos. Pretty toning. Cool design.
Originally posted by: pruebas
That's a great elephant!
Here is mine:
Wow- that's neat! What does a Mexican miner (or fireman?) have to with an elephant? That's an interesting juxtaposition, and I'd love to hear the story there, if you know it.
Originally posted by: mvs7
Nice elephants!
I picked this up in the past year...
I have always loved those hexagonal heffalumps. Elephants on a coin are cool enough, but elephants on a hexagonal coin are doubly cool!
Wow- that's neat! What does a Mexican miner (or fireman?) have to with an elephant? That's an interesting juxtaposition, and I'd love to hear the story there, if you know it.
I apologize for forgetting to answer this.
Look at one of the component medals in this lot. It is a 1951 medal for the first interamerican convention of mineral resources and has the same miner obverse. (Sorry, I no longer know how to link to a specific image in a Heritage lot.)
Around this time, Mexico was trying to sell silver (or get a minting contract) with foreign countries. Don't forget, Mexico is the world's largest producer of silver and wanted to export some. This elephant onza was a pattern onza made for India. There are also pattern onzas with a camel (for Saudi Arabia) and a tiger (I forgot who this was for). They are all very rare.
So they reused a mining medal obverse and created a special reverse for each specific country they were trying to market to.
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Also bought an elephant, well sort of, its on top of Alexander the great 's head
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I picked this up in the past year...
and have had this one for some time...
Looks much better in person
That's saying something, then. You can tell, even from those photos. Pretty toning. Cool design.
That's a great elephant!
Here is mine:
Wow- that's neat! What does a Mexican miner (or fireman?) have to with an elephant? That's an interesting juxtaposition, and I'd love to hear the story there, if you know it.
Nice elephants!
I picked this up in the past year...
I have always loved those hexagonal heffalumps. Elephants on a coin are cool enough, but elephants on a hexagonal coin are doubly cool!
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I have always loved those hexagonal heffalumps. Elephants on a coin are cool enough, but elephants on a hexagonal coin are doubly cool!
Oh, I like that alliteration! I'm going to have to steal that...
I have always loved those hexagonal heffalumps. Elephants on a coin are cool enough, but elephants on a hexagonal coin are doubly cool!
Oh, I like that alliteration! I'm going to have to steal that...
I like your allusion to being allured by alliteration.
Seems like it could be a great collecting theme. World coins with elephants, all the examples here are wonderful.
Yup, It may be another direction to pursue soon
Steve
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That's a great elephant!
Here is mine:
Wow- that's neat! What does a Mexican miner (or fireman?) have to with an elephant? That's an interesting juxtaposition, and I'd love to hear the story there, if you know it.
I apologize for forgetting to answer this.
Look at one of the component medals in this lot. It is a 1951 medal for the first interamerican convention of mineral resources and has the same miner obverse. (Sorry, I no longer know how to link to a specific image in a Heritage lot.)
Around this time, Mexico was trying to sell silver (or get a minting contract) with foreign countries. Don't forget, Mexico is the world's largest producer of silver and wanted to export some. This elephant onza was a pattern onza made for India. There are also pattern onzas with a camel (for Saudi Arabia) and a tiger (I forgot who this was for). They are all very rare.
So they reused a mining medal obverse and created a special reverse for each specific country they were trying to market to.