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  • Boosibri
    Boosibri Posts: 12,718 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @JohnnyCache said:
    Sergey has opened it up to a random theme

    New Theme - Coin featuring the image of the moon, or a moon face even better

    That’s just begging for someone to post a “man in the moon” Luneberg Thaler

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  • asheland
    asheland Posts: 24,545 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Next: A Lion 🦁

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  • Stork
    Stork Posts: 5,208 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Not dated, but I choose to believe it's pre-1900 :smiley: . So from Katanga cross to a cross of any kind.

  • Bob13
    Bob13 Posts: 1,676 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    How about another cross - curious to see what is out there...

    My current "Box of 20"

  • 1984worldcoins
    1984worldcoins Posts: 774 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Another cross, 18th century or older.

  • Bailathacl
    Bailathacl Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭
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    [Constantine VI & Irene, late 8th century Byzantium Solidus]

    Next coin: an abstract design?

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  • Swampboy
    Swampboy Posts: 13,262 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Next a tropical plant

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • Clio
    Clio Posts: 653 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Next something with a horse with no rider.

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  • 1984worldcoins
    1984worldcoins Posts: 774 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Next: a baloon, older than 1900.

  • PhilLynott
    PhilLynott Posts: 900 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Bob13 said:
    @lordmarcovan - your coin always reminds me off this one I own (from @PhilLynott I believe). Our coins could have overlapped! Venice grosso, 1339-1342.

    Next: something Byzantine

    Yep that's an old friend! I owned it when it was only 679-682 years old hard to believe it already turned 681-684

  • Clio
    Clio Posts: 653 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @1984worldcoins said:

    Next: a baloon, older than 1900.

    So I searched on Numista for this and didn't find anything that fit that requirement. Was there a particular coin you had in mind?

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  • Sergey74
    Sergey74 Posts: 233 ✭✭✭
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    More than one day has left. Let's begin new positive theme: next coin with good man.

    Sic semper tyrannis.

  • 1984worldcoins
    1984worldcoins Posts: 774 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Clio said:

    @1984worldcoins said:

    Next: a baloon, older than 1900.

    So I searched on Numista for this and didn't find anything that fit that requirement. Was there a particular coin you had in mind?

    No, I had no idea that there is none, my bad haha! :o:D

  • Sergey74
    Sergey74 Posts: 233 ✭✭✭
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    Nobody knows the coin with good man...

    Sic semper tyrannis.

  • 1984worldcoins
    1984worldcoins Posts: 774 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    New theme: birds.

  • Sergey74
    Sergey74 Posts: 233 ✭✭✭
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    Next coin without inscription on one side.

    Sic semper tyrannis.

  • WillieBoyd2
    WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,410 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Egyptian Magic Coin

    Next coin: Picture of former British Army sergeant

    :)

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  • Sergey74
    Sergey74 Posts: 233 ✭✭✭
    edited February 28, 2023 10:54PM
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    @WillieBoyd2 said:
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    Egyptian Magic Coin

    Next coin: Picture of former British Army sergeant

    :)

    O-ho-ho, i guess this coin has the inscription in ancient Egyptian language. It's like hieroglyphics. But ok, maybe you tried.

    It seems the inscription about the catching fish and wine production. Oh, maybe i can read in ancient languages...
    Here is...

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  • WillieBoyd2
    WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,410 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    The Egyptian Magic Coins were made in the United States starting around 1905.
    The symbols are pictures not writing.
    I guess that one could not find a former British Army sergeant.

    :)

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  • Sergey74
    Sergey74 Posts: 233 ✭✭✭
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    It's the inscription...

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  • WillieBoyd2
    WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,410 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Sorry, but they are just pictures.

    :)

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  • Sergey74
    Sergey74 Posts: 233 ✭✭✭
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    @WillieBoyd2 said:
    Sorry, but they are just pictures.

    :)

    The coin with "pictures", "pictures" with inscription is not the coin with inscription. Ok, when i close my eyes i dessapear. So... Next coin with another good man.

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  • 1984worldcoins
    1984worldcoins Posts: 774 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    What is a "good man"?

  • WillieBoyd2
    WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,410 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2, 2023 6:48AM
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    Egypt 2 piastres 1944 - King Farouk

    Next coin: Picture of former British Army sergeant

    :)

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  • 1984worldcoins
    1984worldcoins Posts: 774 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Nobody posted, so here is another theme: astronomy.

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 12, 2023 10:13AM
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    Astronomy.

    What kind of connection, you may ask, does this double-struck 1723 South Sea sixpence have with astronomy?

    Well, it was struck during the period (1696-1727) when Sir Isaac Newton was Warden and Master of the Royal Mint. (He probably wasn’t directly supervising in the room when they made this one, though, given the obvious quality control issue.)

    Yeah, OK, that’s a rather tenuous connection, so continue same theme: astronomy.

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  • Swampboy
    Swampboy Posts: 13,262 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 12, 2023 12:28PM
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    The Nobel Prize medal awarded to Rainer Weiss for his work in making the detection of gravitational waves possible. The first detection in 2015 was of the merger of two black holes. Subsequently waves from the mergers neutron stars have also been detected.
    Einstein said this a would not be possible.

    I imaged Ray's medal I don't own it. 😉

    Next a princess

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  • 1984worldcoins
    1984worldcoins Posts: 774 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Princess Anne:

    Next: anything industrial.

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 13, 2023 5:12AM
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    Industrial.

    German “Für Vaterland” kriegsgeld token (R), portraying female munitions worker handling artillery shells in a factory.

    One of a pair of iron WW1 kriegsgeld tokens I found in a very cool bulk Exonumia bag I bought in 2014.

    https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/929914/big-exonumia-bulk-bag-live-cherrypicking-ill-gradually-continue-posting-stuff-as-it-comes-outta/p1

    Next: more WW1-related, or kriegsgeld/notgeld.

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  • IVB
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    Kriegsgeld
    Shonwald 5 pfennig 1918.

    Next: mushrooms.

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Don't have any mushrooms, but I love that type there! Never seen it before.

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  • IVB
    IVB Posts: 255 ✭✭✭
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    @lordmarcovan said:
    Don't have any mushrooms, but I love that type there! Never seen it before.

    Yes, there are some very interesting specimens among the notgelds.

    I want to propose a new theme: more than seven coats of arms on the coin.

  • Clio
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    New theme: two denominations.

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  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 16, 2023 5:38AM
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    @IVB said:
    I want to propose a new theme: more than seven coats of arms on the coin.

    German States (Teutonic Order): silver 1/4-thaler of Grand Master Maximilian of Austria, ca. 1615

    New theme: mounted knights, or people with swords

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  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 16, 2023 5:41AM
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    @clio snuck in while I was posting.

    So go with two denominations.

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  • 1984worldcoins
    1984worldcoins Posts: 774 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Back to people with swords.

  • IVB
    IVB Posts: 255 ✭✭✭
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    Great Britain 1935 crown.

    Next: Chinese (or Japanese) dragon.

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Japanese dragon.

    Next, more Japanese, with or without dragons.

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  • IVB
    IVB Posts: 255 ✭✭✭
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    Ok. Japanese 1 Shu (one is my favorite coins from this country)

    Next: Coin of a very unusual shape.

  • 1984worldcoins
    1984worldcoins Posts: 774 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    here are a few unusual shapes:

    Next, even more unusual shapes.

  • Clio
    Clio Posts: 653 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @lordmarcovan said:

    @IVB said:
    I want to propose a new theme: more than seven coats of arms on the coin.

    German States (Teutonic Order): silver 1/4-thaler of Grand Master Maximilian of Austria, ca. 1615

    New theme: mounted knights, or people with swords

    You know what I think you were in the right here. I re-read and looks like it's supposed to be more than 7 and I think mine had just a measly 7 coat of arms.

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  • IVB
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    @Clio said:
    You know what I think you were in the right here. I re-read and looks like it's supposed to be more than 7 and I think mine had just a measly 7 coat of arms.

    You have 8: seven on the eagle and the eagle itself.

  • IVB
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    @1984worldcoins said:
    Next, even more unusual shapes.

    Japan 100 Mon

    Next: non-Asian coin without images, with letters / words only.

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @IVB said:
    Next: non-Asian coin without images, with letters / words only.

    I don't know if one would consider Iran to be "non-Asian". It's not Far Eastern, at any rate.

    Iran (Persia): gold toman of Fath-Ali Shah, AH 1233 (1817)

    Technically, Iran is on the Asian continent, so I'll disqualify my own post.

    Continue with the previous theme: non-Asian coin with only lettering and no pictorial elements.

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  • IVB
    IVB Posts: 255 ✭✭✭
    edited March 18, 2023 7:11AM
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    Almohad Caliphate (1121–1269) silver dirham.

    The Almohad Caliphate was a North African Berber Muslim empire founded in the 12th century. At its height, it controlled much of the Iberian Peninsula (Al Andalus) and North Africa (the Maghreb).

    Next: Morocco. Edited to add: or another North African states.

  • FrankH
    FrankH Posts: 982 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @jdmern said:
    Theme- A lion

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