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Worldwide Coins & Bank Notes => Other World Coins => Topic started by: ElleKitty on December 14, 2007, 02:45:20 PM
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I've always wanted a set of the Falklands Islands, most especially the Penguin Penny. :D I feel I must be missing the ten cent coin, though.
(http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/936122.jpg)
(http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/936123.jpg)
(http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/936125.jpg)
(http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/936126.jpg)
(http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/936127.jpg)
(http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/936130.jpg)
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Aha! Response to an earlier inquiry; the line across the 50 cent piece is not a diecrack, it is embarrassingly enough ... a strand of white cat fur. :D
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Elle, I found a couple of Falklands Isles coins in a job lot recently; there was a 1 pence and a large 10 pence coin which looks like it has a couple of sea-lions on it? There's a couple of lighthouse 20-pence coins from Jersey I've never seen before and a large stag 10 pence from I.O.M. (19840. There is also a modern-spendable 10 pence Gibraltar with the famous gibbon and a couple of interesting 3-pence coins from Guernsey with a cow (why is the 1959 coin about 3 x as thick as the 1956?)
It is interesting how so many of the British outlying territories coins like these have animals on them as against Britannia....
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So many coins come from countries that were British Colonies, Territories, Possessions; and either still are or are Commonwealth countries, they probably had to think hard to come up with something different from everyone else?
Animals are a wonderful subject to portray on coins, as a birds and flowers. I'm so glad most countries do more than slap a bust of some politician/royalty on one side, and big numbers on the back. Those make for boring collecting unless you really just like unrealistic portraits of old guys. ^^;
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There aren't just unrealistic portraits of old guys - I have a 1 Rupee coin here from 1901 and it has a portrait of Victoria looking about 30! :D ... she was almost dead :-\
Yes I'd have to agree with you about the fact that there are soo many Brit territories coins with plants and animals but I was mainly just thinking of the more local territories like i.o.m. etc..
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*laughing* Matty, when I wrote that this morning I was still half asleep, and I was thinking about more modern coins of South America.