Coins in Alphabetical Order.

[Triggersmob]

Nice error Nancy. 

[Nevol]

Thanks Steve, it's one of my favourite errors. 

[Redlock]

Another one from Fiji. 2 FJD 2012.

[Nevol]

Pretty birdie! 

[Triggersmob]

Finland 1938 5 Pennia

[Redlock]

Pretty birdie! 

That's why I had chosen this coin from the very few I have from Fiji 
(I'm not a world coin collector. I came upon a set of Fiji coins by accident).


Here's one of the first €2 cc coins ever released. Finland 2004

[Nevol]

Finland 1 Markkaa 1922 #27

[Triggersmob]

1966 France One Centime

[Paint Your Wagon]

100 FF from A the Paris mint
Augustine Dupré
During the last days of the monarchy Augustine won a competition with the desing of a Lucky Angel

It has a kind of angel - neutered - writing the constitution on a tablet in french they call it a Genie
The wooden bundle on the left is a Roman symbol of power Fasces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces
The rooster is a symbol of valor and the eye is the highest point of the coin for graders

The story has it that Augustine was going to loose his head to the guillotine but that he bribed
his guards with a 20ff gold coin whence the name lucky angel http://www.coinweek.com/bullion-report/the-extraordinary-legend-of-the-french-angel-coin/

The design of the coin was used by later mint masters
The one shown is produced by Barre

[Nevol]

France 10 Francs 1988 #965 Dove Roland Garros

[Triggersmob]

1975 French Afars & Issas 5 Francs
(Later became Djibouti)

[Nevol]

Well, I did not know this: 1975 French Afars & Issas 5 Francs (Later became Djibouti)
Thanks Steve.

France 10 Francs 1984 #954 

[Triggersmob]

Well, I did not know this: 1975 French Afars & Issas 5 Francs (Later became Djibouti)
Thanks Steve.

Just proves, you are never too old to learn something new.

[Triggersmob]

French Polynesia 1967 50 Francs

[Paint Your Wagon]

This is one of my favourate french modern designs

genie de la Bastille 1988
an angel that is not neuter

the white gold is 75%yellow gold 15% palladium 10% silver 5000 pc

The genie stands on the july collum in the place de la bastille commemorating glorious july 1830

[Nevol]

French Indochina 1 Cent 1920 #12    

[Redlock]

French Polynesia 100 fr 1984

My brother was on a world tour in the mid 1980s and brought this coin back home. It has been in a drawer he still has here at my place since then.

[Triggersmob]

French Somaliland 1965 2 francs.

[Nevol]

Sort of a series.

France 10 Francs 1955 #915 Rooster      


France 20 Francs 1952B #917 Rooster      


France 50 Francs 1952B #918 Rooster     

[Paint Your Wagon]

There are many marianne variants
The nicest is la semeuse walking and throwing seeds into the earth

The 20 f franc marianne in gold is still easy to get in mint state at meltprice 
the  Phrygian cap is the symbol of freedom

the one attached lookes like MS64

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne

[Triggersmob]

This is an image of the seed sower on a 50c coin,
Although very stylised.

[Paint Your Wagon]

This is an image of the seed sower on a 50c coin,
Although very stylised.

That is the money de paris design
 

[Nevol]

Let's get this one back up & running too.

France ½ Franc 1973 #931 

[Triggersmob]

Let's move onto the Gs.

Gabon 1985 500 Francs

[Nevol]

Gambia 1 Butut 1998 #54

[Triggersmob]

1993 Georgia 2 Thetri.

[Nevol]

Hmmm..I havent got a 2 Thetri, but have a 1,10,5 & 20.

Just checked and I have a 2 thetri in my 'bird' coins. 
Georgia 10 Tetri 1993 #79 Duo   

[Redlock]

Germany, 2017, 2 Euro ''Rheinland-Pfalz,'' mint-mark ''A'' -- part of the German 2€ cc state-series

[Triggersmob]

How many in the series, Ralf?

[Redlock]

How many in the series, Ralf?

Germany is a Federal Republic consisting of 16 states. So, there will be 16 coins in this series. There is one state/coin per year. It started in 2006. So, this is the 12th coin in the series. Hence, it will end in 2021.

[Triggersmob]

1991 100 Cedis from Ghana

[Nevol]

Gough Island (Tristan da Cunha) 2009 ½d #1 Gough Bunting, Finch   

[Paint Your Wagon]

from the german unesco series
the most billiant proof I have ever seen
A for Berlin

[Triggersmob]

Gibraltar 2003 one pound coin.

[Paint Your Wagon]

Before the Euro existed the symbolic ECU
European currency unit
Some countries struck money in ECU to sell at a high price
here a 21 ecus piece

[Paint Your Wagon]

Knight
70 ecus
note that ecu has a plural ecus
Euro as no official plural other then euro

[Triggersmob]

Nice coin PYW.
I haven't heard of the ECU coins before.

[Triggersmob]

Greece 1922 10 Lepta

[Paint Your Wagon]

Nice coin PYW.
I haven't heard of the ECU coins before.

The ECU was for long an electronic payment without exchange risk in Europe
I do not think that circulating coins were ever issued
But there were many pattern coins and gold coins
For political reasons when the time came to make circulating coins the name Euro was selected
and 1 Ecu became 1 Euro


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Currency_Unit

[Erik]

Guatemala one centavo 1964  km# 260

[Nevol]

Guernsey ½ N.Penny 1971 #20 

[Nevol]

Guernsey 1 Penny 2006 #89 

[Triggersmob]

1987 Guinea 25 Francs

[Nevol]

Guinea 1 Franc 1985 #56 15.5mm Bs/Sl Bird   

[Redlock]

This is the first coin I ever ''collected.'' I got it as a christmas gift from an aunt in the year it was minted.
I have always kept this coin, even when I (had to) sell an earlier collection many years ago.

[Triggersmob]

I still have my first coin too.
A George III penny from 1806,
that my father gave me.
Slightly out of alphabetical order
if I post it here, but what the heck.
My father found it when he was a lad
on the bottom of a creek.

[Nevol]

England 1671 Crown, 1 Crown (5 Shillings) #435 .925 Ag    

[Triggersmob]

We took a slight diversion there for a while and that's OK.
Now back on track with Guinea-Bissau 1952 2.5 Escudos.

[Nevol]

A curious snippet re the 1671 Crown.  I like to get the KM# or Y# for all my coins, and this one had me stumped for a while until I saw England in the Alpha list in Numista, and there it was.  Couldn't find it in UK though, and there's no GB in Numista. 

Sneaky eh? 

[Triggersmob]

A curious snippet re the 1671 Crown.  I like to get the KM# or Y# for all my coins, and this one had me stumped for a while until I saw England in the Alpha list in Numista, and there it was.  Couldn't find it in UK though, and there's no GB in Numista. 

Sneaky eh? 

I guess that makes sense, as the UK wasn't formed until 1707.
Would have thought Great Britain would have been in the list though,
as the title is United Kingdom of Great Britain etc.

[Nevol]

Guyana 1 Cent 1989 #31 Tiny 15.99mm Canje Pheasant 1967-92 NiBs

[Nevol]

Haiti 5 Centimes 1958 #62 CN Duo 1958-70

[Triggersmob]

1956 Honduras 2 Centavos

[Nevol]

Honduras 1 Centavo 1974 Tiny 16mm CuSl 1974-98 #77a   

[Paint Your Wagon]

Marie jeanne of Haiti is one of my favorites

[Nevol]

Hong Kong 1 Cent 1865 Bz 1863-1901 KM#4

[Triggersmob]

Nice old coin Nancy.

Here's something a bit more modern.
1965 (KN) Hong Kong 50 cents.

[Nevol]

Hong Kong 5 Cents 1888  Ag .800 1866-1901 15.53mm #5

[Paint Your Wagon]

hong kong 1997 1000$

[Nevol]

Hong Kong 10 Cents 1949 #25 NiBs 1948-51
 

[Triggersmob]

Hungary 1983 10 Filler

[Nevol]

Hungary 2 Filler 1896 #481 

[Paint Your Wagon]

The broken cross on that 2 filler solves a 20 year old discussion of mine
It is said that the emperor during one of the many wars ordered his crown buried and it got damaged digging it up

On the other hand there were those that said the designer ran out of space and had to break the cross to get it on the 100 korona coin your coin has space enough so it must have been damaged

100 korona 1908 attached

[Nevol]

Very interesting info, thanks PYW.

I'd never really noticed the broken cross before.  I just checked and I have 7 Hungarian coins with that reverse design and the cross is broken on all of them.

2 Filler 1896, 1897 KM#481
20 Filler 1917 KM#498
1 Pengo 1944 KM#521
1 Forint 1996 KM#692
10 Forint 2004 KM#695
100 Forint 1997 KM#721

[Paint Your Wagon]

Very interesting info, thanks PYW.

I'd never really noticed the broken cross before.  I just checked and I have 7 Hungarian coins with that reverse design and the cross is broken on all of them.

2 Filler 1896, 1897 KM#481
20 Filler 1917 KM#498
1 Pengo 1944 KM#521
1 Forint 1996 KM#692
10 Forint 2004 KM#695
100 Forint 1997 KM#721

I guess it was broken somewhere before 1897

[Nevol]

Hungary 100 Forint 1997 #721 

[Triggersmob]

Hutt River Province 1994 5 Dollars

[Nevol]

Iceland 1 Eyrir 1942 #5 15mm Bz 1926-42   

[Triggersmob]

1992 Iceland One Krona

[Nevol]

Iceland 50 Aurar 1970 #17  NiBs 1969-74

[Paint Your Wagon]

when iceland was settled men could have as much land as they could walk in one day

women too but they were obliged to walk that distance whith a cow 

[Paint Your Wagon]

men walking

[Triggersmob]

when iceland was settled men could have as much land as they could walk in one day

women too but they were obliged to walk that distance whith a cow 

I believe that might be the story told by the four images on the front of the coin, if my memory serves me correctly. 

[Paint Your Wagon]

when iceland was settled men could have as much land as they could walk in one day

women too but they were obliged to walk that distance whith a cow 

I believe that might be the story told by the four images on the front of the coin, if my memory serves me correctly.

The four images look like the whole story
Ingolfur Arnarson landing
his weaponshield
his boat
a cow

[AnotherKnight]

Lovely coins PYW 

[Nevol]

India 1 Pice 1944 #533

[Triggersmob]

Indonesia 1961 50 Sen

[Nevol]

Indonesia 100 Rupiah 1978 #42 

[Paint Your Wagon]

India 1 Pice 1944 #533

What is the thing in the middle ? A hole with a different background or a bimetal ?
I never heard about 1 pice as monetary denomination

[Nevol]

That's just a hole in the coin and the background cardboard showing through.

India - British - Rupee (1862-1947)
3 pies = 1 pice • 4 pices = 1 anna • 16 annas = 1 rupee

[Triggersmob]

That's just a hole in the coin and the background cardboard showing through.

India - British - Rupee (1862-1947)
3 pies = 1 pice • 4 pices = 1 anna • 16 annas = 1 rupee

An we thought pounds, shilling and pence were confusing.

[Paint Your Wagon]

Isle of Man

Called Manx coin
Same values as UK coins from half a pound to five pound

[Triggersmob]

Isle of Man

Called Manx coin
Same values as UK coins from half a pound to five pound

Very nice PYW.

The little, 3 legged, symbol above the sword, is a representation
of their motto, which is something like, "Which ever way
you push me, I shall stand".

[Paint Your Wagon]

Isle of Man

Called Manx coin
Same values as UK coins from half a pound to five pound

Very nice PYW.

The little, 3 legged, symbol above the sword, is a representation
of their motto, which is something like, "Which ever way
you push me, I shall stand".

I had seen that 3 legged symbol before but never heard the motto and you
got sharp eyes since I did not notice it on this coin 

[Triggersmob]

Isle of Man

Called Manx coin
Same values as UK coins from half a pound to five pound

Very nice PYW.

The little, 3 legged, symbol above the sword, is a representation
of their motto, which is something like, "Which ever way
you push me, I shall stand".

I had seen that 3 legged symbol before but never heard the motto and you
got sharp eyes since I did not notice it on this coin 

I like the symbol, so I notice it. I had a friend who was from I.O.M.

[Triggersmob]

We skipped a few countries, so I'll go back to Indonesia.

1954 Indonesia 5 Sen

[Nevol]

India ¼ Anna 1939 C1 #530

[Nevol]

India, British ½ Anna 1835 #446, sorry it's a bit blurry, too lazy to take it out of the 2x2 for the image.   

[Triggersmob]

..sorry it's a bit blurry, too lazy to take it out of the 2x2 for the image.   

We'll forgive you this time.

[Paint Your Wagon]

..sorry it's a bit blurry, too lazy to take it out of the 2x2 for the image.   

We'll forgive you this time.

was that majestatis pluralis or clairvoyant 

[Triggersmob]

..sorry it's a bit blurry, too lazy to take it out of the 2x2 for the image.   

We'll forgive you this time.

was that majestatis pluralis or clairvoyant 

I'll say clairvoyant. Now I'll go for a right royal wee.

[Triggersmob]

1986 Iran 50 Rial

[Nevol]

Iraq 50 Fils 1981 #128

[Nevol]

Ireland 1 E.Cent 2008 Tiny 16.25mm #32 2002-16   

[Nevol]

Isle of Man 5 New Pence 1975 #22 

[Triggersmob]

1991 Isle of Man 50 pence - Christmas

[Nevol]

Israel 100 Prutah 1949 #14

[Nevol]

Israel 10 Agorot 2010 #158 

[Triggersmob]

Italy 1911 10 Centesimi

[Nevol]

Italy 50 Centesimi 1941 Eagle #76a Ni 1936-38