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AuldFartte

Jun 16 2005, 03:01 PM

Here's a couple of mine ... okay, the first one isn't actually a ship

1988 Samoa 10 Tala, 0.999 Silver, Proof. Comemmorates the voyage of the Kon-Tiki, a balsa log raft sailed from South America to Tahiti in 1947 by Thor Heyerdahl.
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1986 People's Republic of China, 5 Yuan. Obv: Great Wall. Rev: The Ship Empress of China.
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Ray

Jun 16 2005, 03:18 PM

I am just starting to collect ship coins. The two you posted are both very nice. I like the Kontiki coin, as I have read the book a couple of times, the Chinese coin is very nice on both sides.

gxseries

Jun 16 2005, 03:39 PM

I know Bermuda has some coins, but in palladium, but I am not too sure. I am a Russian coin collector.

I am going to spam a few links here.

Russia has TOO many: (this is just a list of them)
I could have missed some too

ENJOY

Trantor_3

Jun 16 2005, 04:06 PM

Italy, 500 Lire, KM# 98
0.8350 silver,
raised edge lettering holds year 1966

AuldFartte

Jun 16 2005, 04:07 PM

WOW!!! Those are some gorgeous Russians

Guess I need to start searching for some of those

AuldFartte

Jun 16 2005, 04:08 PM

oooohhhh ... I love that one, Trantor

Trantor_3

Jun 16 2005, 04:12 PM

me too

here's one

gxseries

Jun 16 2005, 04:15 PM

I'm sure you don't want to find out the total price tag of those Russian coins if you ever wanted them... there are some that is 1kg of gold and silver coin... and one of them is a 3kg silver coin... + Russian coins are ultra ultra ultra hard to get hold of... trust me... I struggle pretty hard ti get hold of just some of them... platinum and palladium are a lot worse...

Here is one unique one that I found.

A "glass" coin featuring a Chinese junk.

http://www.joelscoins.com/oops.htm#congojunk

Meh, there should be a Taiwanese coint hat depicts the Chinese junk too but I can't find it right now at the moment.

AuldFartte

Jun 16 2005, 04:16 PM

QUOTE(Trantor_3 @ Jun 16 2005, 10:07 AM)

me too

here's one
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Does not look anywhere near as nice as yours

Trantor_3

Jun 16 2005, 04:32 PM

nope, itdoesn't.

But if you look on ebay for "Italy 500 Lire" in the coins section, you'l find quite some more, aslo UNC and proof, that look awsome .

But those will go for (quite) more than $0.10 ....

I bought mine in a little coin shop in Italy, last october. Dude running the shop didn't speak a single word english, french, german, dutch ,spanish and I do't speak a single word of Italian... Oh well, with hands and feet one achieves a lot

gxseries

Jun 16 2005, 04:35 PM

Bermuda does have quite a fair bit actually. I am quite suprised. Most of them were minted in German mints except for the palladium one, was supposely is minted in Singapore.

Palladium:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...8310851467&rd=1

Gold:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...8311112181&rd=1
http://www.pandaamerica.com/details.asp?it...grp=1&categ=116
http://www.pandaamerica.com/details.asp?it...grp=1&categ=116
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...8312054861&rd=1

Silver:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...8311514428&rd=1

Grrrrrrr there is no official homepage for Bermuda coins, so I don't know if there are a lot more. I presume there still are.

gxseries

Jun 16 2005, 04:58 PM

Sorry, I just remembered some more.

Korea 5 won coin (and it should be one of the cheapest out of all the coins above mentioned!!!):

http://www.24carat.co.uk/southkoreaframe.html

N.Korea has slightly more.
http://www.similarcoin.com/underweb/Korea.htm
(sorry, you gotta find them... should be 5 or so there.

)

Another commemorative Singapore $10 ni-cupro coin
http://auctions.yahoo.com/sg/i:%2A%20RARE%...%20%29:89925944

Will post more when I can think of more.

Tiffibunny

Jun 16 2005, 06:29 PM

Tiffibunny

Jun 16 2005, 06:33 PM

Tiffibunny

Jun 16 2005, 06:39 PM

Sir Sisu

Jun 16 2005, 06:41 PM

QUOTE(Tiffibunny @ Jun 16 2005, 09:28 PM)

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I have been to the Vasa museum in Stockholm. The museum was constructed around the boat after it was brought to the surface. It is an amazing site. When you see a wooden ship like that, you can see why they were the Boeings and Airbuses of their days, yet infinitely more beautiful and intricate.
If anyone ever makes their way to that city, it is a must see IMO.

Tiffibunny

Jun 16 2005, 06:48 PM

AuldFartte

Jun 16 2005, 07:41 PM

Wow, folks ... awesome coins

I have to stick to silver, though ... the gold ones are just a wee bit too expensive for me, as well as palladium.

Tiffibunny, those proofs look awesome ... What does your lighting setup look like? I've managed a couple of "dark mirror" shots, but not as nice as yours. (If you don't mind sharing trade secrets

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Tiffibunny

Jun 16 2005, 07:45 PM

There's no secret at all. I just put the coins on a blue book with a gooseneck lamp over it with one of those Reveal bulbs in it. Nothing fancy. Sometimes you gotta play with the angle though. Since my good lamp got thrown away sometimes I get too much gold color on the coins.

AuldFartte

Jun 16 2005, 08:02 PM

QUOTE(Tiffibunny @ Jun 16 2005, 01:40 PM)

awfully good results, though !!! I've seen proof pics from folks with $3,000 worth of camera and lighting equipment that don't look that good !!!

Tiffibunny

Jun 16 2005, 08:17 PM

I'm a pretty naturalist photographer, I do photography as one of my hobbies/passions outside of coins. I find the more complicated doodads you use the harder it is to make a good photograph. I like simplicity. A good camera helps too. And zoom is a must. I know exactly what notch I have to have on the zoom for it to work right.

daggit

Jun 16 2005, 11:36 PM

AAHHH words of wisdom and beautiful coins too!

gxseries

Jun 17 2005, 09:38 AM

You know, I had a good laugh with this coin here:

http://www.arcamax.ru/files/au/100/1996-00100-2-900-014.htm

While most of the ship coins depicted here are ancient or "old" boats, that coin up there is a bit way too modern...

daggit

Jun 17 2005, 09:01 PM

Does part of a ship count

Trantor_3

Jun 17 2005, 09:27 PM

28Plain

Jun 18 2005, 02:46 AM

Great pics, Tiff. That Spanish coin that Erik showed is going on my list, too. Thanks for some great pics, everyone.

banivechi

Jun 18 2005, 07:43 AM

I saw here only the beautiful ships... but what about the ugly Russian 20 Kopecks 1967 coin with Aurora Cruiser?

gxseries

Jun 18 2005, 11:40 AM

OMG banivechi, you rule XD I fail to remember that XD;;;

akdrv

Jun 18 2005, 11:51 AM

There is more than one ugly Aurora.

gxseries

Jun 18 2005, 12:06 PM

OMG LOL I have those coins in my collection and I failed to notice them.

Nice proof coins.

Hehehe.

Trantor_3

Jun 18 2005, 01:09 PM

QUOTE(28Plain @ Jun 18 2005, 03:41 AM)

Great pics, Tiff. That Spanish coin that Erik showed is going on my list, too. Thanks for some great pics, everyone.
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Ehh, I showed an italian coin.....

Daggit showed that Spanish coin with the anchor.

I've got this in my collection too (Picture borrowed from Tiffibunny):

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banivechi

Jun 18 2005, 01:32 PM

QUOTE(gxseries @ Jun 18 2005, 02:35 PM)

OMG banivechi, you rule XD I fail to remember that XD;;;
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What is XD? I don't understand...

gxseries

Jun 18 2005, 03:59 PM

What does "XD" means:

http://boards.ym.com/thread.jspa?threadID=475022&tstart=60

^_^

16d

Jun 18 2005, 05:11 PM

Here's a Bahama $5 that I rescued from a thrashed 1970 proof set:

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cowhodan

Jun 18 2005, 06:34 PM

In 2002 a series of 10 coins was produced with the theme "Nautica", by Argentina, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal and Spain. All are very nice, below is the picture of the mexican coin:

Tiffibunny

Jun 18 2005, 06:39 PM

That's a beauty.

daggit

Jun 19 2005, 12:36 AM

Yes I really like that one!

whohah

Jun 19 2005, 05:30 PM

Here's a coin with two 'ships' and an airplane on it, thus, satisfying the ships-on-coins collectors and the airplanes-on-coins collectors.

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geordie

Jun 20 2005, 07:28 PM

UK OfferMay as well add the obvious from the UK

The picture is not so good! The coin is in a 2x2. I should have photographed it before!

josemartins

Jun 21 2005, 11:58 AM

QUOTE(cowhodan @ Jun 18 2005, 06:29 PM)

Here's a pic of the Portuguese coin of these series, it was the first Portuguese commemorative Euro coin in "Silver":

From INCM's website

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Jose

Scottishmoney

Jun 21 2005, 02:34 PM

QUOTE(josemartins @ Jun 21 2005, 02:53 PM)

Here's a pic of the Portuguese coin of these series, it was the first Portuguese commemorative Euro coin in "Silver":

From INCM's website

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Jose

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Isn't kind of difficult to find a Portuguese coin WITHOUT a ship?

josemartins

Jun 21 2005, 02:59 PM

...Since the 2nd republic, definitely (before we had mainly crosses, COA's, kings and queens or woman faces... )

Replying to the topic question, let's say I'm an involuntary collector of coins depicting ships or naval themes.

Jose

kryptonitecomics

Jun 22 2005, 02:45 AM

1794 Condor Token....

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Ray

Jun 22 2005, 04:50 AM

QUOTE(kryptonitecomics @ Jun 21 2005, 07:40 PM)

1794 Condor Token....

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kryptonite...you have some very nice coins!

kryptonitecomics

Jun 22 2005, 05:12 AM

QUOTE(Ray @ Jun 22 2005, 12:45 AM)

kryptonite...you have some very nice coins!
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Thanks a lot Ray......I have seen a lot of nice coins over here...............I have plenty more to share so keep an eye out for color

Ray

Jun 22 2005, 05:28 AM

QUOTE(kryptonitecomics @ Jun 21 2005, 10:07 PM)

Thanks a lot Ray......I have seen a lot of nice coins over here...............I have plenty more to share so keep an eye out for color

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Looking forward to it.

Mediccoin

Jun 22 2005, 06:41 PM

Beautiful coins indeed.

ccg

Jun 23 2005, 01:52 AM

For current circulating ones, none more common than the Canadian 10c, I'm sure you've all seen one

ageka

Jun 23 2005, 11:58 AM

I am not into ships but into proofs
Here is two Italian 2003 ship proofs

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt...8314034619&rd=1

Ray

Jun 23 2005, 12:26 PM

QUOTE(ageka @ Jun 23 2005, 04:53 AM)

I am not into ships but into proofs
Here is two Italian 2003 ship proofs

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIt...8314034619&rd=1
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Both are nice. Are you bidding on these?

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