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Worldwide Coins & Bank Notes => Other World Coins => Topic started by: Tobyle on April 09, 2008, 10:23:34 PM

Title: Unusual shaped coins
Post by: Tobyle on April 09, 2008, 10:23:34 PM

Now, who was it that likes unusual shaped coins? Having a bit of trouble taking to this one!

http://www.downies.com/australia/store/product.asp?id=3453

Title: Re: Unusual shaped coins
Post by: Triggersmob on April 09, 2008, 10:38:06 PM

No!  Not keen at all.

 

Title: Re: Unusual shaped coins
Post by: Paint Your Wagon on April 09, 2008, 11:30:42 PM

Pardon my ignorance but is it obliged by law to have monarchs on one side ?
That is in the empire where the sun never sets  ;)

Title: Re: Unusual shaped coins
Post by: EgCollector on April 10, 2008, 12:58:39 AM

That is a real beauty
Thanks Tobyle

Title: Re: Unusual shaped coins
Post by: Sap on April 10, 2008, 01:03:26 AM

Quote from: Paint Your Wagon on April 09, 2008, 11:30:42 PM

Pardon my ignorance but is it obliged by law to have monarchs on one side ?
That is in the empire where the sun never sets  ;)

The Empire is long gone, and no uniform rule or regulation now applies throughout the Commonwealth in this regard. Each independent country where Elizabeth II is sovereign would have different rules on whether or not the monarch's portrait had to be on the coinage, and which design of portrait is to be used.

Australia, for instance, does have this requirement. It's not enshrined in Law - Section 13A of the Currency Act of 1965 (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1965120/s13a.html[/url) simply states that the Treasurer shall decide on the coinage design. But the Treasurer back in 1965 left strict guidelines to the bureaucrats in charge of actually implementing the law that all approved designs had to have the monarch's portrait on the obverse, and no Treasurer since then has been sufficiently anti-monarchist to change that.

On the other hand, Papua New Guinea is constitutionally almost identical to Australia (an independent constitutional monarchy with Elizabeth II as sovereign) but almost never uses a portrait of the Queen on it's coinage, unless the coin is actually commemorating a royal event.

Back to the Topic of the heart-shaped coin.... um, yeah. ::)

Will somebody please tell the Perth Mint marketing department to quit the gimmicks?  >:(

Title: Re: Unusual shaped coins
Post by: Paint Your Wagon on April 10, 2008, 02:14:01 AM

Thank you Sap

That is probably why a lot of my coins are from France
They try hard to be 100% commercial (not fully succeeding )
With 50 plus coins a year you are bound to have some super coins  ???

Title: Re: Unusual shaped coins
Post by: scottishmoney on April 15, 2008, 12:23:41 AM

Gimmicks are created because people buy them, Perth mint is a for profit enterprise and I am sure they do well because of it.  As for me, if I want unusual shaped coins, which I do, I prefer they have been made for circulation:

(http://www.geocities.com/scottishmoney/bigcoins/katangacross.jpg)

19th century Katanga cross, with a Indian nickel I had just gotten in change about 18 months ago.

Or how about this entry from Siam:

(http://www.geocities.com/scottishmoney/bigcoins/siamboatmoney.jpg)

Boat money from the 19th century or before.

Or some of the first proto monies from Olbia ca. 600 BC:

(http://www.geocities.com/scottishmoney/blacksea/delfin2)

Or these:
(http://www.geocities.com/scottishmoney/blacksea/skythianarrows.jpg)

Title: Re: Unusual shaped coins
Post by: S.George on April 15, 2008, 02:11:45 AM

 :D

Tobyle:
Beautiful cons, indeed.
As usual Sir Scotishmoney makes all of us happy by displaying wonderful coins that can be seen in Musuems only.
Hats Off to him
george