Not interesting designs, but here's my set of Mongolian coins from when my grandparents visited there. Kinda odd they use a 15 not a 20, but I guess that's what you get when politicians instead of engineers make decisions...
@sc.rednek
I think the choice to have a 0,15 coinage denomination was probably taken from the Soviets, who've been using one since the 1930s (and continued to do so up until the end of the USSR). They hugely influenced Mongolian coinage, from the first issues in the 1920s up to the end of the first Togrog in 1992.
引用する: "CassTaylor"Can't get enough of these 100 Francs but unfortunately the next year's commemorative, for the centenary of Émile Zola's "Germinal", is still missing from my collection.
Way too late to post it on the thread, I know, but I ended up doing a last-minute bid on one of those 1985 Germinal coins, and I just won it for about 6€, or just slightly above silver value. Here's to many more Ebay wins!
1978 Tristan da Cunha 1 Crown - Elizabeth II (Silver Jubilee) https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces19729.html
Fun fact, this is the most geographically isolated, permanently inhabited place on Earth.
Neither of those are silver, or particularly rare/expensive, but at least they're from parts of the world most people don't know of!
1978 is my birth year, so although I don't have any coins from that year in my collection, I always carry around a 5 cent piece in my wallet that I found when digging a drainage ditch around our tent when we went camping one year
引用する: "CassTaylor"My only 1977 coin worth posting, unless you want to see the underwhelming 1977 Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Crown....
I just googled it, is that a British coin, without the queen's image? Is that even legal?
Well, technically it does have her image (riding her favourite horse, Burmese) It's not a bad image, but the coin itself is revoltingly common (in the UK, at least): https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces5488.html
The reverse is an image of the ampulla, a container for holy oil used to anoint the monarch at their coronation, and the accompanying spoon. It's pretty regal if you know the history behind it, but to everyone else it just looks like a weird bird with a spoon.
I don't think there's a British law that mandates the monarch's portrait to appear on coins... someone correct me if I am mistaken on that.
This coin is marked as a common (circulating) coin on it's Numista page, but it did not circulate widely; according to an expert source on the French forum; the rates of inflation of the franc during the 5th Republic (1958-) and the New Franc (1960-2002)'s lifetime meant that the silver coins issued by France went from a 10 F coin at 37mm (1964-73), to a 50 F coin at 41mm (1974-80), to finally a 100 F coin at just 31mm (1982-2001).
1976 Isle of Man 1 Crown - Elizabeth II (Bicentenary of American Independence) https://fr.numista.com/catalogue/pieces19998.html
A coin commemorating American independence with a British monarch on the other side never fails to be a conversation starter amongst non-numismatist friends.
For some reason Olympic coins tend to usually be issued one or two years before the actual games being commemorated happen; in the case of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, the commemorative coins were issued as early as 1977!
引用する: "sc.rednek"...
From looking at the link I know it's supposed to be the horizon, but does yours have a die crack or something that's connecting it to the mouth?
I added 100% crop of the area near the camel's mouth -- I don't see any die crack?
From the numista catalog, the line doesn't connect to the face. Not saying anything is wrong with your coin, just the first thing that popped into my head was the cigarette camel, made me laugh
I checked online images for the 1975 50 francs coin. About half of them are like mine, and half like the one in the Numista catalog. It looks like you have discovered a variety here.
引用する: "phfoticus"It looks like you have discovered a variety here.
Yes indeed. Congratulations. Unfortunately, my 2 coins are the same.
You can make a change request and use your picture and sc.rednek's picture to show the difference. The year line is locked, so you first have to contact the referee to unlock the year lines.
This being said, I've never understood why year lines are locked. I've seen so many times locked year lines without being complete. If we want more members to contribute to our catalogue, let's make it easier and not more difficult. If a member is going to contribute for the very first time, and the first thing he bounces against is a locked year line, the easiest way to react is quitting the contributing. And that's not what we want, on the contrary, right?
引用する: "Essor Prof"
This being said, I've never understood why year lines are locked. I've seen so many times locked year lines without being complete. If we want more members to contribute to our catalogue, let's make it easier and not more difficult. If a member is going to contribute for the very first time, and the first thing he bounces against is a locked year line, the easiest way to react is quitting the contributing. And that's not what we want, on the contrary, right?
I think it's ostensibly to prevent new unexperienced members who haven't checked to add new year lines wily-nily, but I agree with you; even in that case the referee should still be able to demand hard evidence before verifying the new line(s). I know I certainly do.
1974 Poland 200 Złotych (30th Anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland) https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces7120.html
Apologies for the awful flash photos, those were taken a while ago before I refined my techniques.
1974 Macau 20 Patacas (Macau-Taipa Bridge) https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces15407.html
A coin I've posted recently in the countries per letter thread, but the only other non-common 1974 coins I have are the CuNi New Zealand and Samoa Commonwealth Games coins.
1973 - Paraguay - 150 guaranies CERÁMICA PLUMBATE:
1973 - Paraguay - 150 guaranies VASIJA POLICROMA:
1973 - Paraguay - 150 guaranies VASIJA ZOOMORFA:
The 3 coins share the same design on the observe ;-)
Rarity index = not yet on numista so 100+ :-)
au contraire , every coin hold some interest! check this -
i thought I had nothing for 1973, but remembered that I just dumped out my penny jar to look for prime numbers, one of which is 1973.
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
I had this specially lined up; a (non-proof) 1972 FRG set of 10 Mark coins for the Olympics that I assembled myself: 1972 West Germany 10 Deutsche Mark set (1972 Munich Olympics)
1971 West Germany 5 Deutsche Mark (Albrecht Dürer) https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces3046.html
Another coin I saved from getting scrapped; but if I'd had to pay anything more than approx. silver value for it I wouldn't have bought it; West German coins are either incredibly well designed or flat out dull and boring in my opinion.
The numismatic, commemorative equivalent of forgetting to do your homework and copying it off someone else at the last second. Honestly though, this is a very uninspired design.... I mean two busts, really?
Yesterday for 1970 I missed my Umm Al Qaiwain coin because coins with Arabic dates and Gregorian dates in parentheses don't show up in "Advanced search".
I'm going to be on vacation for a few days, so I won't be able to update the title. But I trust you all are smart enough to keep track of what date it is
1968 United Kingdom 1 Sovereign (£1) - Elizabeth II https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces11461.html
Originally my choice for MPCC Gold, but I switched it out for a French gold coin instead. Turns out there were a few other sovereigns competing in there too, so it looks like a good decision to have been made.
1967 Canada 50 Cents - Elizabeth II (Centenary of Confederation) https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces306.html
I've already posted the rest of my 1967 Canadian Confederation on the "Countries by alphabet" thread, but this coin (and my photo of it) was simply impossible for me to not post.