Post a coin with picture(s) of other coin(s) on it

lordmarcovan · August 3, 2012 10:36AM

I don't have any, but in light of LochNESS' recent post, I thought it might be a fun discussion topic.

Edit: here, I'll "borrow" that picture to start us off.

LochNESS · August 3, 2012 10:52AM

I'm so honored! Seriously, thanks

To return the favor, here's one of an ancient

I submitted it raw ... graded PR69DCAM!!!!!!!

this is the PCGS scan ... Greece 1993 500 Drachmes celebrating "the 2500th anniversary of Democracy"

lordmarcovan · August 3, 2012 10:57AM

Excellent! I hadn't seen that design before (the modern host coin, I mean). Too bad they didn't feature the "owl" side of the ancient coin, too. I'll bet that's been on a few modern designs, though. Of course there is the modern Greek design that incorporates the same owl, but not a picture of an owl tetradrachm.

There are a few Israeli coins with pictures of ancient shekels on them, as I recall.

LochNESS · August 3, 2012 11:05AM

Yep, right! I've got some of those too but they aren't photographed *yet* and I'm traveling the next three days. Perhaps Monday night

Andres · August 5, 2012 5:51PM

5 euro coin - silver 925/1000 - 15,5 Gram - 33 mm
first dutch settlement in America established in 1609 by Henry Hudson , captain of the VOC ship de Halve Maen
small coin pictured is present ruler of the Netherlands , Queen Beatrix.

LochNESS · August 5, 2012 7:42PM

Awesome map detail and history lesson.

lordmarcovan · August 5, 2012 10:55PM

Yeah, a Dutch New York commem. Who'd have thought of that?

(Well, obviously, the Dutch. Duh, LordM?)

So many of us Americans forget the Dutch period of Old New York- *ahem* 'scuze me- I meant to say New Amsterdam.

nibanny · August 6, 2012 1:09AM

There is a similar thread in an Italian forum I follow.

LINK

nibanny · August 6, 2012 1:11AM

This is a medal (sorry for the bad picture)

Zohar · August 6, 2012 11:32AM

LINK

LochNESS · August 6, 2012 6:09PM

Thanks for the links, nibanny and Zohar! Good thing I don't need to speak Italian to see the photos. Lord M., there's an image of that Greek owl tetra you were talking about ... three posts down the page

Andres · August 6, 2012 10:50PM

pmac · August 6, 2012 11:03PM

Lord M, what a fun thread. Thanks and keep up the interesting threads.

Muygrandeoso · August 7, 2012 11:25AM

Sorry for the lousy image

1991 IOM Crown...ANA Centennial Coin

lordmarcovan · August 8, 2012 7:36AM

I love the owl flyin' off the back of that Euro!

Andres, is that your owl tetradrachm in the first photo?

tychojoe · January 2, 2017 2:02PM

Coins within a coin, for real!

From http://www.coinjewels.us . You may find a lot to like there.

lordmarcovan · January 3, 2017 1:48AM

@tychojoe said:
Coins within a coin, for real!

From http://www.coinjewels.us . You may find a lot to like there.

That's TOTALLY cool. I somehow was unaware of this type, though I did have one of the Cook Islands "Crown Jewels" pieces with the little jewels inside it.

illini420 · January 3, 2017 2:20AM

This large 2017 coin from Canada is really neat and a large one kilo silver piece... pretty expensive though at $2500 Canadian. Maximum mintage of 500 pieces...

Sapyx · January 3, 2017 4:10AM

Necro thread! But a cool thread to necro, I don't recall seeing it first time around.

And given the number of Latin American Coinage fans around here, I'm surprised nobody posted either of these:

Dominican Republic 10 pesos 1975, depicting the first coin ever struck for use in the Americas, a copper 4 maravedis struck in Seville for use on Hispaniola.

El Salvador 25 colones 1977, depicting a silver 8 reales of the Central American Republic, dated 1824.

asheland · January 3, 2017 9:01AM

Cool thread!

Zoins · January 3, 2017 9:21AM

Here are two Mexican coins I ran across on the bay.

I saw the Caballito because I follow these
I saw the Sud because there is a light side thread on it

Quick question, does "$" on Mexican coins mean "Peso" or "Dollar"?

Swampboy · January 3, 2017 9:42AM

Not coins per se ... ...

lordmarcovan · January 3, 2017 4:03PM

I was gonna post that Turks & Caicos piece above, since I used to own it, but the new owner's photos of it are MUCH nicer.

@Zoins said:
Here are two Mexican coins I ran across on the bay.

I saw the Caballito because I follow these

I saw the Sud because there is a light side thread on it

Quick question, does "$" on Mexican coins mean "Peso" or "Dollar"?

Both, but the "$" symbol means "peso", when used in a more modern Mexican context.

We stole it from them.

Popular legend (or perhaps myth) has it that the symbol originally comes from the ribbon wrapped around a pillar on the old Pillar dollars.

Here, I'll post a picture to demonstrate, though it briefly diverts us from the "coins-within-a-coin" theme.

See how the ribbons wrap around the pillars in the coin below? There's your "$".

Or so I've heard. I like the story, whether it's true or not. Works for me.

ajaan · January 3, 2017 4:06PM

I never knew that lordm.

Zoins · January 3, 2017 4:07PM

@lordmarcovan said:
I was gonna post that Turks & Caicos piece above, since I used to own it, but the new owner's photos of it are MUCH nicer.

@Zoins said:
Here are two Mexican coins I ran across on the bay.

I saw the Caballito because I follow these

I saw the Sud because there is a light side thread on it

Quick question, does "$" on Mexican coins mean "Peso" or "Dollar"?

Both, but the "$" symbol means "peso", when used in a more modern Mexican context.

We stole it from them.

Popular legend (or perhaps myth) has it that the symbol originally comes from the ribbon wrapped around a pillar on the old Pillar dollars.

Here, I'll post a picture to demonstrate, though it briefly diverts us from the "coins-within-a-coin" theme.

See how the ribbons wrap around the pillars in the coin below? There's your "$".

Or so I've heard. I like the story, whether it's true or not. Works for me.

When did the US and Mexico start to use "$" to mean dollar and peso respectively?

lordmarcovan · January 3, 2017 4:08PM

When did the US and Mexico start to use "$" to mean dollar and peso respectively?

That is a good question, and one I'm afraid I do not know the answer to.

Edit- well- of course the US has used the "$" symbol since the beginning, when we stole it from the Spanish.

It is of course because of those Spanish Milled dollars like the one above that our American Founding Fathers chose to make our currency a decimal one, and call it a "dollar".

Zoins · January 3, 2017 6:22PM

Here is some info from Wikipedia. The Pillars of Hercules in the Spanish Coat of Arms is listed as one alternative theory.

lordmarcovan · January 3, 2017 10:58PM

I dunno why I never thought to look that up on Wikipedia, Wikijunkie that I am.

I think I heard the "ribbon around the pillar" theory years ago, before I'd ever heard of the Internet.

lordmarcovan · January 3, 2017 10:59PM

@illini420 said:
This large 2017 coin from Canada is really neat and a large one kilo silver piece... pretty expensive though at $2500 Canadian. Maximum mintage of 500 pieces...

Back to the original topic, this is SUPER cool.

I like the owl flying off the Greek Euro coin that @Andres posted, too.

WillieBoyd2 · January 4, 2017 9:13AM

Peru 20 Soles 1965 - Commemorative 400th Anniversary of the Lima Mint (Casa de Moneda)
Silver, 26mm, 8.00gm

Obverse: CUATRICENTENARIO DE LA FUNDACION DE LA CASA DE MONEDA / LIMA 1565 1965
Reverse: BANCO CENTRAL DE RESERVA DEL PERU / VEINTE SOLES DE ORO

This coin obverse shows the obverse of a Spanish "Plus Ultra" cob coin and was part of a commemorative series of coins of brass 5, 10, 25, 50 centavos, 1 sol, and silver 20 soles.

carabonnair · February 28, 2017 2:47PM

I don't think anyone mentioned this one yet. Argentina peso 1994

WingedLiberty1957 · February 28, 2017 3:20PM

Is this close enough?

1886 U.S. Five Dollar Silver Certificate

carabonnair · April 20, 2017 2:39PM

Post a coin with picture(s) of other coin(s) on it

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