NEW ONE ON ME

[Templar]

I GET FREQUENT CATALOGS FROM DIFFERENT COIN COMPANIES......HOW ODD YOU SAY ...NOT REALLY BUT ANYWAY WHILE LOOKING AT THE PRETTY PICTURES OF WORLD COINS I SAW AN ADD FOR A SET OF 2009 ISSUED COINS FROM A COUNTRY I HAVE NEVER HEARD ABOUT BEFORE.......THE ISLAND OF GOUGH(LIKE COUGH)...IN THE SOUTHERN ATLANTIC OCEAN BETWEEN THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE AND ASSOCIATED WTH THE ISLANDS OF ST. HELENA....THE SET IS AN EIGHT COIN COLLECTION WITH BIRDS OF THAT REGION........ON ONE SIDE IS THE QUEEN AND THE BACK OF THE COIN IS A VARIETY OF BIRDS NATIVE TO THE ISLAND...THE DENOMINATIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS ...A 1/2 PENNY--A ONE PENNY--TWO PENCE--FIVE PENCE--TEN PENCE--TWENTY PENCE--TWENTY FIVE PENCE--AND ONE CROWN-----I DO NOT KNOW THE COMPOSITION OF THE COINS OR THE TYPES OF BIRDS AS I COULD NOT FIND THEM IN A BOOK.........

ENJOY AND LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE HAD ANY COINS FROM THIS ISLAND BEFORE....

YOUR FRIEND AND SERVANT..........THE TEMPLAR

[Nevol]

I'm a bit partial to bird coins. Very nice!

I just Googled them & found this:

Gough Island is major bird sanctuary in the Tristan da Cuhna group.  Gough Island recently issued a set of eight legal tender, each featuring a different bird.  I sincerely doubt the coins circulate as the small island  is only  inhabited by about six people who man a weather station, along with thousands of birds.  The sale of the coins help raise funds for the school and hospital on Tristan da Cuhna. The coins . Included in the set is a 39mm copper-nickel 1 Crown, bimetallic 25 Pence, brass 20 pence, copper-nickel 10 and 5 pence and bronze 2, 1, and 1/2 Pence, all dated 2009, struck by the Commonwealth Mint.  The coins picture Queen Elizabeth on the obverse and bear the names of both Gough Island and Tristan da Cuhna.

[Goose]

Six people on an Island....no traffic, no T V, no taxes, no trouble...Ahhh!

[OldDan]

Six people on an Island....no traffic, no T V, no taxes, no trouble...Ahhh!

I think you forgot all those birds flying overhead............and they are protected!

[Templar]

WHAT A PLACE TO SELL UMBRELLAS.........

[Nighthawk]

Nice set of coins Joe.   

[NoHope587]

[scottishmoney]

Joel Anderson has tonnes of these coins from barely existent countries.  He has none from my inane little duchy run by some fanatic though.