Numismatic one hit wonders - post a complete set in three coins or less!

spoon · January 7, 2009 8:47AM

This is inspired by Jester's Numismatic Failure thread. Yeah, Darksiders are notoriously unfocused. But there are plenty of ways we can make complete sets without going crazy. So what are they?

I've expanded the criteria to three coins or less to get a little more diversity in here. But for now let's exclude NCLT. No patterns, trials, errors, or non-circulating commems - coins intended for circulation only.

Any thread is useless without pictures, so post what you have. But even if you can't post pics let me know what's missing from the list. I'll update this first post with all your responses to make it easier for anyone interested in seeing the full list.

I'll kick things off in the next post

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One coin sets:

Canada - 20 cents - 1858
Canada, Prince Edward Island - 1 cent - 1871 - KM 4
China, Japanese puppet states, Meng Chiang - 5 chiao - 27 (1938) - KM 521
Indonesia - 1 sen - 1952
Italy, Roman Republic, Ancona - 1 baiocco - 1849
Saint Helena - half penny - 1821

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Two coin sets:

Australia - 1 crown - 1937 & 1938
Canada, Newfoundland - 25 cents - 1917 & 1919
China, Japanese puppet states, Reformed Govt of China - 1 & 10 fen - 29 (1940) - Y-A522 & Y-522 (the 1 fen is scarce!)
Indonesia - 5 sen - 1951 & 1954
Katanga - 1 & 5 francs - 1961
Lundy - half puffin & puffin - 1929
Philippines (US) - half centavo, regular issue - 1903 & 1904 (additionally proofs from 1903-06, 08)
St Pierre & Miquelon (French colony) - 1 & 2 francs - 1948

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Three coin sets:

Germany, Mainz, French occupation - 1, 2 and 5 sols - 1793/L'an 2 - KM 601-603
Great Britain - copper currency set: farthing, 1/2p & penny
Indonesia - 10 sen - 1951, 1954, 1957
Indonesia - 25 sen - 1952, 1955, 1957
Korea, Japanese protectorate - 5 chon - 1905, 1907, 1909

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Honorable mention:

British double florins

(I'll come back and clean up this list tomorrow.)

spoon · January 7, 2009 8:50AM

Mainz, French Occupation (siege), 1793
3 coins: 1 sol, 2 sols, 5 sols
All dated 1793 / L'an 2

One of the 5 sols:

Doogy · January 7, 2009 9:09AM

how about an 'honorable mention' category of 4 coins.

In that case, my beloved Double Florins would fall into that genre.

edit to add: (information from our friend Hus' wonderful site)

This denomination was not popular and was only circulated for four
years. It was unpopular due to the fact it was often confused with a
Crown which is slightly larger.

The "Jubilee head" designed by Joseph Edgar Boehm but it was
engraved by L.C. Wyon. L.C. Wyon also designed and engraved
the reverse.

For the 1887 issue there are two noted varieties one having a
Roman 1 which looks like an I an the date the another having an
Arabic 1 which looks like a 1. Both types are worth much the same.

1960NYGiants · January 7, 2009 11:09AM

Canada 1858 20 cents - a one coin set.

Sorry, don't have a picture of mine.

tbirde56 · January 7, 2009 11:29AM

St. Pierre & Miquelon, 1 and 2 Francs:

MacCrimmon · January 7, 2009 12:39PM

My 1856 Copper Currency Set - Penny, Halfpenny, & Farthing

IloiloKano · January 7, 2009 2:45PM

US-PI Half Centavo

Two years regular issue (1903 and 1904)
Five years proof (1903, 1904, 1905, 1906 and 1908)

I don't have my own pictures, but The TLC USA-Philippines Collection (graciously made available for public viewing by USAROK) provides the following obverse and reverse pics of an extraodinary PCGS MS66 1903 Half Centavo.

Sapyx · January 7, 2009 4:36PM

The half-puffin and puffin of Lundy, 1929:

sumnom · January 7, 2009 5:09PM

I only just now noticed that the one puffin coin depicts an entire bird but the half puffin only shows half a bird.

ColinCMR · January 7, 2009 5:14PM

Katanga - 1961 - 1 and 5 francs

and some gold version of the 5f

gold

StubbyMcNumbthumbs · January 7, 2009 7:23PM

1937 & 1938 Australia One Crown

I have a '37, they're pretty common (this is not mine, but it's about the same condition). The '38 is a bit more scarce.

thelawnet · January 7, 2009 8:07PM

1-coin set, Indonesia 1 sen:

2-coin set, Indonesia 5 sen:

3-coin sets:
Indonesia 10 sen:

Indonesia 25 sen:

satootoko · January 8, 2009 12:56AM

gxseries recently posted pictures from the 3-coin 5 chon series of the Japanese Protectorate of Korea here.

The pictures are of KM#1126 and the unpictured rarity is KM#1138.

spoon · January 8, 2009 1:26AM

Looks like the start of a good list

Another of my oddballs:

Italy, Roman Republic, Ancona - 1 baiocco - 1849 (minted crudely during the revolutions)

shirohniichan · January 8, 2009 2:13AM

One coin sets:
China, Japanese puppet states, Meng Chiang - 5 chiao - 27 (1938) - KM 521

Woohoo!

I have that complete set in gem BU. Should I get it slabbed and start a Set Registry?

shirohniichan · January 8, 2009 2:15AM

Two coin sets:

Newfoundland: 25 cents, 1917 and 1919 only

7Jaguars · January 8, 2009 3:19AM

Hi Mac - those are BEAUTIFUL 1856 coins - and I thought I had nice ones. The big and small are very scarce and esp. in such lofty levels of preservation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

SYRACUSIAN · January 8, 2009 6:43AM

Mac.

Circulating gold 20 drs in Greece from 1828 to 1930:

MSD61 · January 8, 2009 12:27PM

Sorry I have no pics at hand but I have the Katanga 1961 1 and 5 francs BUNC. This was the only year for these coins.

Sapyx · January 8, 2009 6:08PM

I don't have pics, but Kiau Chau only issued 2 coins, 5 cents and 10 cents 1909.

A simple set to complete, but not cheap.

bosox · January 8, 2009 10:50PM

Norwegian government in exile coinage, minted in London. About 10,000 of each survive.

shirohniichan · January 9, 2009 2:32AM

Oooooooo! Those are some nice 20 drachmai!

The Prince Edward Island 1 cent is a one hit wonder. The small cache of gem examples made me want to get one, and I don't even collect copper.

New Brunswick coins were only issued for two years, except the one-hit-wonder half cent (1861).

crito · January 9, 2009 2:49AM

Numismatic one hit wonders - post a complete set in three coins or less!

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