Citação: WhatacoinThis Beauty right here, 1725 Louie XV Burgundy Token.
Feuardent 9836 (Tome II)
The meaning of the sundial:
Regit me (sol) et dirigit orbem.
(Le soleil) me régit, et dirige la terre entière.
Sounds like a bunch of Symbolism. Thanks for the info!
We get also an historical perspective with:
J. de Fontenay (Manuel de l'amateur de jetons - Dijon - 1854) :
The Duke of Burgundy died March 8, 1712, leaving the legacy of the throne to the one who had to be Louis XV. The Duke of Vendôme passed away the same year, and Louis XIV followed on 1 September 1715, with Europe being calmed by the Peace of Utrecht. France had fallen under a regency. In 1724, the king is now an adult so it is at the vault of the heavens that the sun appears to animate a sundial.
"He governs me and the universe is subject to its laws."
who said that the names of African countries were as long as a line of wildebeest during the seasonal move to summer pastures in the arid steppes of the wilderness when the heat of late summer is mixing flowery scents dilating nostrils and tangling hairs of bare virgins while you snooze in the stifling warmth of the beer and the rocking chair...
I guess they are considered easy to exotic, depending on the region you live or the places you collect.
Saint Helena & Ascencion (Erdvilla I know you are having this in your wishlist...)
Kiribati
Samoa
Tuvalu
Tonga
French Indochina
Laos
Lesotho
Seychelles
Comoro Islands
French Polynesia
Malawi
Mali
Guinea
Liberia
Sierra Leone
Latvia.
Republic of Vanuatu! They only got independence in 1980 - countries that got their independence late are always hard to track down.
Mutawakelite Kingdom of Yemen! It's a good thing it was labeled when I bought it or else I would have a really hard time identifying it.
I know it's not a coin, and I know it's not really a country (with circulating currency).
But I've just received an Antarctica 1 Dollar.
Fantasy money. (What's the paper money version of a token?)
But nevertheless, a nice centenary commemorative. 1911-2011
Will go well with my Bristol Pounds!
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Burma/Myanmar! This has been missing for such a long time. Now I just need two more non-tiny countries to mostly fill in my dashboard map - North Korea and Greenland...
Hey nalaberong if you want i will send you a north korea coin free. Alway ready to help a fellow coin collector
Just PM me with address and tell me. Can send in regualer mail. It would please me to help a fellow coin collector. Can not help with greenland only have one of them
Rwanda-Burundi. Yes it's listed as a separate country by Numista. From 1916 until 1960 the territory used the Belgian Congolese Franc and from 1945 the coins actually bore the names of both Belgian Congo and Rwanda-Urundi. This is why Rwanda-Urundi should not be listed as a separate country as those coins are the same currency as the Belgian Congolese Francs of before 1945.
After Congo gained independence in 1960 Rwanda-Burundi had its own currency until Rwanda and Burundi became independent from Belgium in 1962.
Frenchlover, you are completely right. My point is: Rwanda-Urundi used the same currency as Belgian Congo, but before 1945 this wasn't mentioned on the coins. SCWC knows a lot about the U.S. but little about 'foreign'.
I mean, the French West African coins that include the name Togo aren't separately listed either. Same situation (in both cases former German African colonies)
Also, I just got my first coin from German State of Prussia. It is not my first coin from German States but it is my first coin from the State of Prussia.
Mombasa, basically British East Africa Protectorate but from 1885 until 1895 it was administered by the Imperial British East Africa Company, which went bankrupt.
It is often said that the Europeans drained Africa for its resources, but actually most African colonies were loss making endeavours.
Few exceptions were the Dutch who shipped slaves from Ghana to the Americas. Guess the Belgians ran Congo quite profitably as well.
Citação: jokinen... Guess the Belgians ran Congo quite profitably as well ...
There is a French proverb that says: "It's better to shut up and look like a fool than to speak and leave no doubt about it"
there is a film about horrors, embezzlement, killing and depravity of Leopold II in the Congo, the Hitler of early century: The white king, blood rubber, black death
The Cook Islands is the last one added to my collection. They use the NZ$ as their currency, with a few local issues. (It makes the counter get to 100.) Still no coin from New-Zealand itself though.
NZ$ 10, Rev picturing Colombus, Sailing vessel and '500 Years America 1492-1992'
Citação: Mark240590
For me Tobago, before it was unified with Trinidad.
This is prob the ugliest coin I wish to have :)
Seriously, there is some kind of strange beauty in it. I love it. Congratulations Mark!
Thanks man,The whole West Indies cut and counterstamped series are awesome, i find with them the uglier the better. This is not a black dog though because of the O underneath its a 2-1/4D they are the same cooins but the Annulet up-valued it.
thiis is definately the ugliest coin im proud to own but then at the other end of the scale i just got the Brunswick- Wolfenbuttel coins 3 at the same time this being the best example.
I Suppose this is my first coion from the duchy of Brunswick Wolfenbuttel so fits into this thread.
many years ago I stopped to divide numismatic world by countries....
More acceptable for me terms like " coin era" or "coin territory" " numismatic borders" or something like this
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1. Armenia
2. Botswana
3. Ghana
4. Gibraltar
5. Guernsey
6. Isle of Man
7. Malaya and British Borneo
8. Mozambique
9. North Korea
10. Rhodesia
11. Uzbekistan
Thank you erdvilla, I got myself an early birthday gift.nice central american republic, most of taken along time to find one. I have only seen pic of them.
Good thing is that most are divided by areas, America being the "easiest" at the moment, I am missing few from Africa so that is also a good option, and there are the Emirates but those are expensive and I really don't like them that much because of the repressive nature of those states, but I have coins from many other repressive and Human right violating nations just like the Emirates, so I'll eventually get over it. Besides it is not like I am buying directly from them. Europe has the most but Asia and Oceania have some difficult ones.
Numista referee for the "Viceroyalty of the New Spain" (most of it).
History through coins.
Eli V
Does: What is the most recent country to leave your collection counts? Seems finally all French Antarctic Territories coins where moved to the token section of Numista For being fantasy coinage.
I hope they do the same for some of the countries that I don't have yet, like:
South Sudan
Northern Mariana Islands
Hutt River
Cocos Islands
Araucania & Patagonia
Please move those to the tokens section to be fair.
Numista referee for the "Viceroyalty of the New Spain" (most of it).
History through coins.
Eli V
Citação: erdvillaDoes: What is the most recent country to leave your collection counts? Seems finally all French Antarctic Territories coins where moved to the token section of Numista For being fantasy coinage.
I hope they do the same for some of the countries that I don't have yet, like:
South Sudan
Northern Mariana Islands
Hutt River
Cocos Islands
Araucania & Patagonia
Please move those to the tokens section to be fair.
Citação: erdvillaDoes: What is the most recent country to leave your collection counts? Seems finally all French Antarctic Territories coins where moved to the token section of Numista For being fantasy coinage.
I hope they do the same for some of the countries that I don't have yet, like:
South Sudan
Northern Mariana Islands
Hutt River
Cocos Islands
Araucania & Patagonia
Please move those to the tokens section to be fair.
The older plastic Cocos Islands tokens are in my catalog with KM numbers. So I assume that means they circulated enough that Krause decided to include them. ( https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces27785.html )
Hutt River certainly needs to be moved. Also Sealand.