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  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I don't have bees, either, though it's a good theme.

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  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Sergey74 said:
    It's 90 grams 1000 cash 1853

    Next coin the first issue of new government.

    That is a wonderful large cash coin! I'll bet it is a pleasure to hold.

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  • Sergey74
    Sergey74 Posts: 233 ✭✭✭
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    @lordmarcovan said:

    @Sergey74 said:
    It's 90 grams 1000 cash 1853

    Next coin the first issue of new government.

    That is a wonderful large cash coin! I'll bet it is a pleasure to hold.

    Yes, you will smile and laugh like a child holding this in your hand. If someone think that i have kid's hand ( own or separate) ...

    If to be serious in that time in Chine was the civil war with 35+ millions of victims. This big coins issued by Tsing government for army expenses. But don't worry about it, you will know it and hold in hands it with smile because it's big.

    Sic semper tyrannis.

  • IVB
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    @Sergey74 said:
    So i don't have the coins with bees but have some coins of shot down emperors...

    Let's continue with your theme: shot down emperors.

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Julian the Apostate died in battle.

    Next: other rulers who died in battle or were executed.

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  • Sergey74
    Sergey74 Posts: 233 ✭✭✭
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    The next coin with national hero. It seems good theme...

    Sic semper tyrannis.

  • IVB
    IVB Posts: 255 ✭✭✭
    edited April 1, 2023 6:12AM
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    Mexico, Miguel Hidalgo (poster from one of my YouTube videos).

    Next: more symbols of Mexican Independence...

  • IVB
    IVB Posts: 255 ✭✭✭
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    Ok. new theme: faces of African Liberty.

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 8, 2023 8:11PM
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    African liberty. As its name implies, the nation of Liberia was founded upon the ideal of Liberty (for freed American slaves). Here is Lady Liberty on a proof striking of Liberia’s first coin type, the 1847 cent.

    Next: another first (or early) issue from a then-new nation.

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  • IVB
    IVB Posts: 255 ✭✭✭
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    First (and the only) issue of coins of a single year of the Republic of Biafra.
    Republic of Biafra was a partially recognised secessionist state in West Africa that declared independence from Nigeria and existed from 1967 until 1970. Its territory consisted of the predominantly Igbo-populated Eastern Region of Nigeria.

    Next: other examples of commodity money on coins.

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Commodity money on coins.

    Congo: gold 5 francs, 1961, featuring a Katanga cross ingot.

    Not my coin- but I want one.

    Next: more postcolonial Africa (extra credit if it has bananas on it!)

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  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    OK, here. LOL.

    Post colonial Africa, with bananas.

    Next: cows or cattle.

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  • FrankH
    FrankH Posts: 982 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Bees?

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Bees are a cool theme, but they aren’t cattle! You need some “moo” before you can make us go “bzz”. ;)

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  • IVB
    IVB Posts: 255 ✭✭✭
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    Guernsey 3 pence.

    Next: more domestic animals.

  • FrankH
    FrankH Posts: 982 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • Bailathacl
    Bailathacl Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭
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    Wooden nickels, nice! Frank, since you posted the non-metal coins, you get to declare the next theme for others to respond to. Anything that you like.

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  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 13, 2023 10:17PM
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    I’ll continue the nonmetallic coin theme with the smaller coin in this photo (a porcelain notgeld piece from Saxony).

    (By the way, both that and the Venezuelan coin are up for grabs in my latest giveaway.)

    Next theme: grapes.

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  • IVB
    IVB Posts: 255 ✭✭✭
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    Austria 2 schilling

    Next: hammer and sickle.

  • Sergey74
    Sergey74 Posts: 233 ✭✭✭
    edited April 14, 2023 12:37PM
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    Here is...


    Next coin with portrait man who was the first president and the last imperor (for our days) in the same country. Do you know him?

    Sic semper tyrannis.

  • IVB
    IVB Posts: 255 ✭✭✭
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    Napoleon III

    Next: portrait with a laurel wreath.

  • Sergey74
    Sergey74 Posts: 233 ✭✭✭
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    Here is...


    Next coin with bad man's portrait. Nero already was.

    Sic semper tyrannis.

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    King John of England was widely considered to be a bad man. So much so that there has never been another King John for the British, and never will be.

    This silver penny, struck circa 1213-1215, was unearthed in a large medieval hoard found at Gisors in Normandy in 1970.

    Next, another hoard, treasure, or shipwreck coin with a known pedigree.

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  • Sergey74
    Sergey74 Posts: 233 ✭✭✭
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    Ok, i have one. It was found like treasure in Crimea near 4 years ago with many another leventhalers. The oldest coin was near 1625.


    The next coin with beautiful woman.

    Sic semper tyrannis.

  • Sergey74
    Sergey74 Posts: 233 ✭✭✭
    edited April 15, 2023 1:46PM
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    Ohh... The most expensive coins i sold 2 months ago for 11,5k$ and 10,5k$ another:




    Oh, I'll go to cry so i don't have it.
    Early dollar US is my dream, the time of great men but now i don't try to buy it, maybe later... And Hong Kong dollar 1867 is in my wishlist and some another coins.
    Ps. Don't choose another theme because I don't show what i have today.

    Sic semper tyrannis.

  • IVB
    IVB Posts: 255 ✭✭✭
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    Hare

    Next: more Ireland.

  • carabonnair
    carabonnair Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    A 17th century Dublin penny token Richard Cooke of Dvbline, marchant. Williamson 301

    Next: a Unicorn

    Gawain

    Pacific Northwest Numismatic Association
  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Trees.

    Keep the trees theme going. I like it.

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  • Sergey74
    Sergey74 Posts: 233 ✭✭✭
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    Cab-cab-cab-caballito


    The next coin with the quote from speech or aphorism. Maybe somebody understand what the coin i mean with the speech's quote (USA, silver).

    Sic semper tyrannis.

  • Sergey74
    Sergey74 Posts: 233 ✭✭✭
    edited April 28, 2023 7:50AM
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    So... Lincoln's speech in Gettinsberg, 1863.


    I would have something like "the government of the people, by the people, for the people" in my country.
    The next coin with woman with torch. Not caballito, not US coin. If it's very difficult another coin with the torch.

    Sic semper tyrannis.

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Sergey74 said:
    The next coin with woman with torch. Not caballito, not US coin.

    Here is a French jeton, circa 1740. Aurora, goddess of the Dawn, holding a torch and riding in her cloud chariot.

    Next, another jeton, French or otherwise.

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  • Sergey74
    Sergey74 Posts: 233 ✭✭✭
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    Bob13, one of the things what you are looking and thinking "wtf", "what did they mean???".


    The next coin with any weapon.

    Sic semper tyrannis.

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Weapon.

    France (Duchy of Lorraine): silver "sword" type demi-gros of Antoine the Good, ca. 1508-1544

    Next, more swords.

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  • Sergey74
    Sergey74 Posts: 233 ✭✭✭
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    Really it's very easy.


    All republican style is the reference to antiquity


    So...


    The next coin issued by ruler who killed another ruler the same country. If it's very difficult the coin issued by ruler killed by his lover's brother. Oh, i know one man for this two conditions...

    Sic semper tyrannis.

  • Sergey74
    Sergey74 Posts: 233 ✭✭✭
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    It was about general Melgarejo.


    The next with flowers.

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  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Flowers.



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    Next, more proof gold.

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  • Stork
    Stork Posts: 5,208 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    One I said good bye to recently--a matte proof :smiley:

    How about a more traditional shiny proof next.

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Shiny proof gold from Nepal, featuring Buddha.

    Next, some other kind of religious figure.

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  • jdmern
    jdmern Posts: 327 ✭✭✭
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    1768 Malta John the Baptist 30 Tari


    Next, a depiction of someone mentioned in the Bible

    Justin Meunier

    Boardwalk Numismatics

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    1495 goldgulden from Frankfurt, also portraying John the Baptist, I believe.

    Next: another coin from before 1550 that actually has the date on the coin.

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  • Tibor
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    St. Philip. Coin struck in Brabant. Should read II-144, not II-170. I hope I
    did this right.

  • lordmarcovan
    lordmarcovan Posts: 45,335 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Tibor - you get to choose the next theme! (Or ask us to continue the current one, which is pre-1550 dated coins.)

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