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1933 one peso chile

thatoneguythatoneguy Posts: 285
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I'm not sure what kind of bird is on the coin, but the pose is really cool.
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  • Silvereagle82Silvereagle82 Posts: 1,219 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I'm not sure what kind of bird is on the coin, but the pose is really cool.
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    It is an Andean Condor (Vulture)
  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    I like this particular series quite a bit-nice example!
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  • thatoneguythatoneguy Posts: 285
    What grade would you give it? Value?
  • olmanjonolmanjon Posts: 1,187 ✭
    xf-au $1.75-xf, $3.50-unc
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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,895 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like these, too. They're a nice size and I like the color they acquire- they almost look silver sometimes. I found several in a junk bin and snaffled 'em all up, at the last show I went to.

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  • BailathaclBailathacl Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭
    I've always wondered about the use of the Hammer & Sickle emblem on the reverse of some Chilean coins. The earliest usage I found was 1895, which seems to predate the Bolshevik Revolution by a generation or so. Was the symbol used in Chile for political reasons? Was it associated with Marxism then? Or is it unrelated to the later use/co-opting by the Bolshevik Party? (Wikipedia suggests the emblem was made during the Bolshevic revolution, but an 1895 Chile Peso sorta refutes that.) Any ideas? I just found it interesting that this symbol was in use 20 years and half-a-world away before it took center stage in Eastern Europe.
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  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,275 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some more from Chile:

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    Chile 2 Pesos 1927

    A different representation of the bird:

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    Chile 50 Centavos 1870

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  • JoesMaNameJoesMaName Posts: 1,067 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I've always wondered about the use of the Hammer & Sickle emblem on the reverse of some Chilean coins. The earliest usage I found was 1895, which seems to predate the Bolshevik Revolution by a generation or so. Was the symbol used in Chile for political reasons? Was it associated with Marxism then? Or is it unrelated to the later use/co-opting by the Bolshevik Party? (Wikipedia suggests the emblem was made during the Bolshevic revolution, but an 1895 Chile Peso sorta refutes that.) Any ideas? I just found it interesting that this symbol was in use 20 years and half-a-world away before it took center stage in Eastern Europe. >>



    This is an excellent question and some good points as well.
    I had noticed the imagery but never gave it a second thought.

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