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Going to be moving this post to the US section 👿
Latin American Collection
1/4 Balboa- 1933 - So much for the Good Neighbor Policy....
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
Who’s got something from Canada?
Latin American Collection
just to keep a theme (as close as possible) in the form of denominations
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
Way worse than your neighbor wanting to borrow your lawnmower!
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Kindred spirits.
Maybe Canada can manage purchase of USA??
Well, just Love coins, period.
This thread just keeps giving!
In honor of the memory of Cpl. Michael E. Thompson
We haven’t made it to the thin ice yet…
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
... but getting very close.
Should change the title to future US states. Who knows, maybe he can get his wishes become reality.
The 1926 graded MS65… I was hoping for 66 but apparently there is a high quality surviving population of this type.
The 1933 1/4 Balboa graded MS 62 which met expectations. The Panama minors are not as easy as one might think in MS.
The 1919 quarter graded MS62
Oops… The 1926 25 Ore did grade 66- I am looking at it now
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
I love the early Canada Vicky cents,
I think these were struck on US blanks anyway.
They were struck in Philadelphia…
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
You obviously aren't a Canadian. Canada can't even afford to buy Pt Roberts, WA.
Wait though - the USA is debt-ridden so maybe a deal can still be worked out??
Well, just Love coins, period.
I made a mistake on the follow up whereby I posted the grades- The Greenland 25 Ore did grade 66.
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
My favourite Greenlandic coins aren't proper "coins", but are tokens for the Ivigtut cryolite mine. Here's my 10 kroner token from 1922:
Not only are the tokens super-cool looking, but the story of the cryolite mine adds extra interest.
Cryolite is an aluminium fluoride mineral which is essential for the cheap reliable mass-production of aluminium - without cryolite, aluminium would still be a rare, expensive, exotic metal. And cryolite has only been found to exist in minable quantity in one place on Earth: Ivigtut, Greenland. Hence the presence of the mine, and the necessity of tokens for use at the mine village.
The cryolite is now all gone, mined out by the 1980s, and there's no natural cryolite left on Earth. Fortunately, once you have a supply of aluminium metal, you can make all the synthetic cryolite you could need, so we aren't in imminent danger of running out of aluminium. But if the world ever falls into a New Dark Age that lasts long enough for all the metallic aluminium on the planet to corrode away into dust, then the world might never again know an Aluminium Age, where aluminium is cheap and abundant.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
Apparently I have been awarded the DPOTD twice.
My favorite Greenlandic coin isn’t from Greenland, nor did it ever circulate there. But more on that tomorrow.
Latin American Collection
I’ll bet it has pillars
I'm BACK!!! Used to be Billet7 on the old forum.
Keeping us in suspense after a brilliant teaser……
I feel as though one might be on the cover of an NYINC auction catalog??????
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BTW, off-topic, but related to the Panama posts...
For sensible reasons, Panama's coinage was always at par with ours and has continued as such into modern times.
Not sure about very recent coinage, but Panamanian clad 1960s-80s quarters and dimes are EXACTLY at par/to our specs and work in our meters, vending machines and such.
Speaking of Greenland... this was a fun day project.
Custom album maker and numismatic photographer.
Need a personalized album made? Design it on the website below and I'll build it for you.
https://www.donahuenumismatics.com/.
My contribution for Greenland:
1944 5 Kr. in MS64 with only a few graded finer, highest being MS65+
They could strike coins from Mercury up there