Post a coin from a World Cup country
wybrit
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It's almost World Cup time. Post a coin from a country that is in the final 32. They are:
From Asia: Australia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea
From Africa: Algeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa (hosts)
From North America: Honduras, Mexico, United States
From South America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay,
From Oceania: New Zealand (note: Australia joined the Asian qualifying groups a few years back and no one could be happier about that than New Zealand)
From Europe: Denmark, England, France (shoulda been Ireland), Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland
Here is a coin from the host country:
I would suspect that everyone on this board is more adept at geography than these guys at WGN:
From Asia: Australia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea
From Africa: Algeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa (hosts)
From North America: Honduras, Mexico, United States
From South America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay,
From Oceania: New Zealand (note: Australia joined the Asian qualifying groups a few years back and no one could be happier about that than New Zealand)
From Europe: Denmark, England, France (shoulda been Ireland), Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland
Here is a coin from the host country:
I would suspect that everyone on this board is more adept at geography than these guys at WGN:
Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
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'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'
CU #3245 B.N.A. #428
Don
Blondie, you're supposed to post a coin.
Pangaea actually - and there is a difference between theory and established fact.
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'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'
CU #3245 B.N.A. #428
Don
And on "Blondie" too
It's just that I got my PCGS grades.
Go Germany!
Ranked #6
Jim
Here's one from the, ahem, "Asian" contingent...
Hey, I'm an exile in "Regime-land".
Anyway, here's my 'coin' entry for U.S.A. football.
Proud (but humbled) "You Suck" Designee, February 2010.
But really, I wanted Ukraine - winner of 2009 UEFA cup - to advance.
Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.
Still need:
From Asia: North Korea, South Korea
From Africa: Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana
From North America: Honduras
From South America: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay
From Europe: France, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain
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The 50c bit reminds me of newbie.
first "" big"" silver coin issued in the Netherlands by Karel van Egmond , Duke of Gelre &Gulik (province of Gelderland)
1509-1538 , 34mm , 7,1 gramms
this coin is called a Snaphaan = bushwacker
(Feel free to show me a yellow card if I am wasting your time with this rule breaking!)
Algeria
France
a) There's no point having a dedicated Oceania group because we'd win it all the time (well us or New Zealand, they have a pretty good side too).
b) We have had years of having to play off against group runners up from the middle east, South America and North America. We're certainly a lot closer to Asia than any of those places. For example when we qualified for the 2006 cup (our first for more than 30 years) we played off against Uruguay, we had virtually no run up matches to these games while Uruguay had a hardened squad who had played many qualifying matches against top opposition.
c) As part of an Asian group we actually get to play real qualifying matches against real opposition and can qualify or not based on our merits. Earlier in the 2000's as part of a pointless Oceania group we beat one of the small Pacific Island nations 26-0. Honestly what is the point of that?
Speaking of the World Cup - Here is a great commercial from Nike.
Check it out: Football
Hint: Switch the YouTube player to 1080p and Full Screen for better effect.
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Gerrard has already put the US down 1-0
Collecting:
Conder tokens
19th & 20th Century coins from Great Britain and the Realm
Jim
U-S-A!!!
Their game yesterday was as beautiful as well as heroic especially when exhaustion settled in,
and though I feel for Ghana, the Portuguese referee wasn't friendly to the South Americans, and he even denied them a penalty,
so in my opinion the better team went ahead. Besides, if you lose a penalty at 120' you're not qualified to advance.
This beauty is no longer mine, but in the caring hands of a good Darksider.
But it never left my heart and the all time top ten of my gut/temporary purchases.
Yes, I'd love to see them in the final, but Holland won't make me unhappy either if they advance.
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reedited to add:
When I was reading Rob Hughes' article in last weekend's IHT, about the new world order in football, I wouldn't have dreamed that 7 days later, and with 3 out of 4 quarterfinals completed, the most likely scenario would have been to have 3 Europeans and one South American team in the semifinals (without disrespecting Paraguay), without Brazil or Argentina, and a possible repeat of the 1974 finals.
I wonder if Tavarez, the Uruguay coach, has a blackboard like Phil Jackson, noting the remaining number of games needed to be won for the trophy. Before game 6, and at the return of the team in Staples Center, the number on the Lakers board was also 2 and the number noone wanted to think about was 1, one game from ellimination. Uruguay has the same numbers for and against it right now, but it looks like a long shot. Having just beaten Ghana, they will probably face a hostile crowd too.
It seemed that the old European powerhouses were finally stepping aside for a South American Cup, for the first time away from their continent. The article closed with an upbeat sentence: They will not be missed. The old order is dead, long live the new. Blow those vuvuzelas.
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