Great to see everyone in the community enjoyed viewing and posting their coins in the B thread, there's some nice countries in C that I'm really looking forward to.
Cambodia Cameroon Canada Canadian provinces Newfoundland Carthage Cape Verde Cayman Islands Celtic Britain Celtic Danube Central African Republic Central African States (BEAC) Central American Republic Central Asia Chad Chile China - People's Republic China - Empire China - Japanese puppet states China - Republic China - Ancient Hong Kong Kiau Chau Macau Tibet Cilician Armenia Cocos (Keeling) Islands Colombia Comoro Islands Belgian Congo Ruanda Urundi Congo - Democratic Republic Congo Free State Katanga Zaire Congo - Republic Cook Islands Costa Rica Crimea Croatia Ragusa Crusader states Cuba Cyprus Bohemia and Moravia Czech Republic Czechoslovakia
Interesting to note that they don't use coins in Cambodia today. If you go visit (my profile picture is from when I was there in 2016) you'll most likely use US banknotes for everything, and make change with their Riel banknotes (1000 Riel = 25¢). I don't recall ever seeing a banknote other than the 1000 in use, everything you buy will be in multiples of 25¢, it's really quite convenient.
Citação: "sc.rednek"Interesting to note that they don't use coins in Cambodia today. If you go visit (my profile picture is from when I was there in 2016) you'll most likely use US banknotes for everything, and make change with their Riel banknotes (1000 Riel = 25¢). I don't recall ever seeing a banknote other than the 1000 in use, everything you buy will be in multiples of 25¢, it's really quite convenient.
That's what devaluation and currency inflation'll do to you.
I might take some more pictures and post some more later as well, but here are some of the older silver dollar commemorative issues: 1935 Canada 1 Dollar - George V (Silver Jubilee)
If I'm not mistaken, this is actually the only instance in which this colonial bust of George V (seen only also on colonial coins of Fiji, New Zealand and Southern Rhodesia) appeared on Canadian coinage. It's very striking but I think I prefer the regular colonial portrait (as seen in the 1936 coin below).
1936 Canada 1 Dollar - George V
Can someone please tell me if the regular issue silver dollars circulated widely, a little or not at all between 1935 and 1967? Or for that matter, how about the commemoratives? I seem to keep picking these up in fantastic condition.
1939 Canada 1 Dollar - George VI (Royal Visit)
Commemorating the newly-crowned King George VI and Queen Elizabeth's Royal Visit to Canada and the US; this visit was the first time a crowned British monarch officially met with a sitting US president (FDR) on an official visit.
1949 Canada 1 Dollar - George VI (Newfoundland Ascension)
1958 Canada 1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (British Columbia Centenary)
1964 Canada 1 Dollar - Elizabeth II (Charlottetown Conference Centenary)
In addition to those I also have examples of the regular issue silver dollars of Elizabeth II, with both 1st and 2nd portraits. That means I need the regular issues of George VI with and without IND:IMP; otherwise I have a complete type set of the Canadian .800 silver dollars! (Unless you include that rare 1911 trial strike.)
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The complete 1967 Confederation set; I actually assembled this set myself by buying the cheapest coins of each type I could find. The 50 cents coin is so brilliant that you'd be forgiven for thinking it's a proof based off the photos:
The Dollar; these coins aren't really rare or even scarce, but they're a good addition to any collection! My example has some marvellous toning on both sides that these pictures don't do justice to.
I don't collect Canadian commemorative silvers past 1967, but being an avid competitive swimmer myself, I chose to buy this particular (swimming-themed) coin; part of a set issued for the 1976 Montréal Olympics the year before, in 1975. I don't really feel like getting the rest of the set, though; I have other things I want to buy before that.
Following up Zac's post, here are my own examples:
1850 Upper Canada 1/2 Penny Bank Token
1850 Upper Canada 1 Penny Bank Token
Edit: For these coins (fine, "Bank Tokens"), I've always hated the asymmetrical Union Jack in the upper right of the obverse design... it just throws what would otherwise be a very pleasing symmetrical motif off!
Otherwise, to collectors for whom British crowns and sovereigns are out of price range, you might call these coins the poor man's Pistrucci.
Newfy had 20 cent coins for many years, before finally switching to 25.
I have thought that was because formerly, french francs circulated there, and 20c is about equal to one franc.
i make the same presumption about the 1915 cuban 20c., to replace the Spanish pesatas as near as possible.
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
Citação: "Mr. Midnight"Newfy had 20 cent coins for many years, before finally switching to 25.
I have thought that was because formerly, french francs circulated there, and 20c is about equal to one franc.
As in the provinces of Canada and New Brunswick, Newfoundland went with a 20¢ since it was seen as a continuation of the British shilling. Canada and New Brunswick realized they had made a mistake: the 20¢ was causing much confusion because, by the 1850s, the American quarter was already much more common than the shilling. So, when Canada became a dominion, it switched to a 25¢ coin.
When Canada started to strike some of the coins for Newfoundland after the establishment of a branch of the Royal Mint in Ottawa,¹ it put pressure on the Newfoundland authorities to substitute a 25¢ for the 20¢ coin.
Here are some more NF coins:
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¹ It was not yet the Royal Canadian Mint, which happened only in the early 1930s!
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I wasn't going to post this initially, but seeing the Maklouf and Broadley portraits being posted, here's another humble low denomination coin; the KM#1; a 1972 1 Cent with the Machin bust (my favourite QEII bust out there).
The last of my crownsized .999 silver bullion coins; I didn't want to sell because of it's limited mintage, and dealers probably wouldn't have accepted/given me a fair price for it anyway.
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3 (1910) China - Empire 1 Dollar - Xuantong
My favourite Chinese silver dollar. I was going to get a Fat Man, but couldn't resist the design on this instead.
34 (1908) China - Empire 7 Mace 2 Candareens - Guangxu
My other Chinese silver dollar.
AH 1322 (1904) 5 Miscals - Guangxu
Issued for use in Sinkiang province (East Turkestan/Xinjiang), hence the Chinese on the obverse, and the Arabic script on the reverse.
ND (1905) 5 Miscals - Guangxu
Sinkiang is honestly my favourite Chinese province to collect from; the mixture of two exotic cultures makes their coins all the more attractive.
China - Empire - 1 mace and 4.4 candareens - Kwang Tung Province
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29 (1940) Reformed Govt. of China (Nanking) 10 Fen/Cents
Issued by the Reformed Government of China, an unrecognised Japanese puppet administration headed by Chinese collaborator Wang Ming.
12 (1923) China - Republic (Yunnan) 1 Jiao/10 Cents
ND (1917) China - Republic (Yunnan) 3 Mace 6 Candareens/50 Cents (Tang Jiyao)
Issued to commemorate a local warlord that ruled over Yunnan province in the Warlord Era.
1949 China - Republic (Sinkiang) 1 Yuan
Another favourite of my Sinkiang collection, this one from the Republican era.
China - Republic - 2 Jiao/20 Cents - Kwang Tung Province
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Xin Dynasty, Wang Mang -- 1 cash, 14-23AD (Hartill 9.32):
Probably a modern forgery, so I got one of the most common ancient coins of them all (according to Hartill), and one of the cheapest (just to claim a Numista country for my OFEC subcollection).
I found them on ebay a while ago, I was just going to get the coins as part of my "unique and odd" collection (Wu Zhu is the longest running coin pattern in history, 736 years), but then noticed the molds and thought they were pretty cool, and surprising not too expensive. So, I ended up spending more than I originally planned, but eh, worth it. From all the info I've been able to find online, they're probably authentic, but I could be wrong since I couldn't find many reputable sites. Mostly people just talk about the coins and mentioning that they were cast in molds, which clogs up google searches about the molds themselves. I'd love more information if any experts here have any!
Mold
Mother Mold
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If the molds do end up being fakes, then I simply have 2 expensive clay pigeons for my 12 gauge
Such a common coin it's probably not valuable enough to counterfeit! The tree connections (8:30 and 12:00) are still visible, and look kinda narrow, but that's the only odd thing I can see. Of course I'm VERY much NOT an expert, wouldn't even call myself an amateur.
Such a common coin it's probably not valuable enough to counterfeit! The tree connections (8:30 and 12:00) are still visible, and look kinda narrow, but that's the only odd thing I can see. Of course I'm VERY much NOT an expert, wouldn't even call myself an amateur.
Are there any ancient Chinese experts on here?
Not an expert on Chinese ancients, but from my experience with the later Qing dynasty Chinese cash, you'd be surprised at what gets faked.
With Chinese cash, there's no "value" threshold forgers generally stay on one side of. Common cash coins worth no more than a few dollars are regularly faked, sometimes for decorative or feng shui purposes, sometimes to sell to tourists, sometimes to dupe numismatists. Those are generally easy to tell from their unnaturally straight and neat characters, but it's still amazing that coins worth next to nothing are still being faked.
Until it's proven fake, I'm going to pretend my stuff is real because that's what ebay told me
Convince me it's fake, and I'll post a video of it getting obliterated American redneck style! (although I might spend more on ammunition and explosives than the item itself cost...)
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Convince me it's fake, and I'll post a video of it getting obliterated American redneck style! (although I might spend more on ammunition and explosives than the item itself cost...)
Side question, is "redneck" an insult or term of endearment in the USA? I've seen a few selectively-offended folk getting their knickers all up in a twist over it, yet here you are with it in your username?
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Side question, is "redneck" an insult or term of endearment in the USA? I've seen a few selectively-offended folk getting their knickers all up in a twist over it.
Depends where you're from, and what kind of lifestyle you enjoy. I live on the TN/AL border, but you call someone in Washington a redneck they'll probably get mad. As for me, I hate cities, I think the city of 9,000 people I live in is FAR too big and restrictive and can't wait to move back out to the country. I drive a big ass lifted jeep, big truck, and motorcycle. I started shooting guns when I was 5 and "owned" my first gun when I was 10, although I only have 13 guns right now, I really need to spend less on coins and buy a few more guns already. Also I drink WAY too much beer and moonshine like most of us rednecks do. Being a redneck is a style of living, and a freedom that we enjoy to just be ourselves and not be constrained by rules. Rednecks also like to wear cheap and dirty clothes, drive old trucks, and BLOW SHIT UP! Basically, don't give a shit, just have fun.
Don't think it means any of us rednecks are smarter or stupider than the average person, I have a masters in computer engineering and work with our missile defense programs. But yeah there's plenty of dumb idiots as well, we're about as evenly distributed in intelligence as any other group of people. (although maybe a bit on the dumber side on average, but don't stereotype)
People that live in big cities and want to act all rich and fancy, yeah to them we look like uneducated hicks, and if you call one of them suit wearing city slickers a "redneck", yes they'd be upset.
