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OFF Topic, well sorta Dark side, Is there an elephant in the room?

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  • bolivarshagnastybolivarshagnasty Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like it a lot!

  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,893 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Didn't I see him on Nat. Geo.
    a few days ago?

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  • logger7logger7 Posts: 8,785 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's too bad most of these interesting coins don't attract strong money. "Elephant" in the room, or "giant" as Emerson would say. "My giant goes with me wherever I go." https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/45658-traveling-is-a-fool-s-paradise-our-first-journeys-discover-to

  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like it. I'd much rather see animals on coins with the exception of a few people who have made a real positive difference in history.

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  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,311 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cool

    Latin American Collection

  • Coin FinderCoin Finder Posts: 7,295 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Love it!!

  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭


    Foreign experts. Please take a look at the "C" on this coin and compare it to the "C" in "Centesimo" on the OP's coin. What do you think? Then, I'll say what I think.

  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,313 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Prettier head than a PT Barnum Commemorative.

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  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Insider2 said:

    Foreign experts. Please take a look at the "C" on this coin and compare it to the "C" in "Centesimo" on the OP's coin. What do you think? Then, I'll say what I think.

    I'm absolutely no foreign expert but I see the c is a different shape. ??

    "May the silver waves that bear you heavenward be filled with love’s whisperings"

    "A dog breaks your heart only one time and that is when they pass on". Unknown
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Two different C's.... also, OP coin says Centisimi and your coin says Centisimo..... (10 vs. 1)... So the font changed with the denomination. Cheers, RickO

  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,240 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 22, 2024 7:48PM

    It's time to face the music and dance!

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    Rhodesia and Nyasaland Penny 1962

    Who can't love dancing elephants?

    :)

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  • coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,749 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @WillieBoyd2 said:
    It's time to face the music and dance!

    image
    Rhodesia and Nyasaland Penny 1962

    Who can't love dancing elephants?

    :)

    I have one too....great design!

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    @Insider2 said:

    Foreign experts. Please take a look at the "C" on this coin and compare it to the "C" in "Centesimo" on the OP's coin. What do you think? Then, I'll say what I think.

    Compared to the OPs...C...your C looks to be what I would say is a short C ??????

  • YQQYQQ Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I remember having seen coins from a country in Africa. me think they have a pair of hunting lions on the coins. Am not sure anymore....loosing brain cells rapidly :'(

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  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks guys! Here is what I think:

    Color me dumb! I had a brain fart and neglected to look at the entire coin. As soon as I saw the OP's coin, I pulled this one out thinking it might be a new variety. LOL!

  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,487 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 28, 2017 9:52AM

    @Insider2 said:

    Foreign experts. Please take a look at the "C" on this coin and compare it to the "C" in "Centesimo" on the OP's coin. What do you think? Then, I'll say what I think.

    Since they are different denominations, the minting facility may have kept different sets of letter punches for different denominations. The word centesimi on the 10 centesimi coin afforded slightly more surface area on the coin within the inner circle for the full C than than it did on the 1 centesimo. Instead of using an oval shaped O on the 1 centesimo, a round O was used - the diameter of the inner circle on both coins appears to be the same.

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  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thank you, I have already figured out my extremely dumb oversight thanks to ricko.

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