Falkland Islands

[ElleKitty]

I've always wanted a set of the Falklands Islands, most especially the Penguin Penny.   I feel I must be missing the ten cent coin, though.

[ElleKitty]

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. 

[NumisMatty]

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....

[ElleKitty]

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. ^^;

[NumisMatty]

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!  ... 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..

[ElleKitty]

*laughing*  Matty, when I wrote that this morning I was still half asleep, and I was thinking about more modern coins of South America.