Here's a small contest!

Check the four coin obverses below:

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All you need is to find out which is the COLONY, DENOMINATION and YEAR of all four coins to win a dozen of nice world coins of my choice (OK, mostly Portuguese coins...)

The pics where resized, blured and sharped to make it a bit more difficult, but if you have a small collection of commonwhealt coins, a KM book and/or a good eye for details, guessing where are they from should be easy.

Hints:
1) All coins are from different British colonies.
2) All coins have different denominations.
3) All coins are from different years.
4) At least one coin where minted outside the UK.
5) At least one coin don't use the "Pound/Shilling/Pence" system.
6) George V was king of England from 1910 to 1936 (Duh!)
7) All coins are from my collection and i don't have a great coin budget. (This will help you guess the date on each coin...)


The number of guesses for each contestant is not limited but it has to be at least 5 posts in this thread from other Coinpeople members between a guess of the same member! One try in each post!

Good luck!

Argh, I sure hate this one. I don't even collect any British colony coins

1) New Zealand 6 pence 1934
2) S. Africa 6 penice 1931
3) I am quite sure this is a token, but guessing that it's a Straits Settlement coin.
4) India 1 Anna 1933.

Oh well I did some random search...

1 Florin New Zealand 1933- 1936
2. 6 Pence South Africa 1923-1936
3. 25 Cents Ceylon 1919 - 1936 (Calcutta mint - no dot under the King's bust)
4 One Quarter Anna India 1911-1936

banivechi, i want exact dates...(but i don't need mints, just year).

gx, you're good...

Results so far:

Country - Denomination - Year
(? = missing/wrong)

1) ? - ? - ?
2) South Africa - ? - ?
3) Straits Settlements - ? - ?
4) India - ? - ?

Notes/Hints:
banivechi: The denomination in coin 1 is "equivalent" to the denomination you guessed!
gxseries: Coin number 4 is a round coin!

EVERYBODY CAN TRY AGAIN (inc. "GX" and "bani")

1) ? I have no idea
2) South Africa - 1929 - Penny
3) Straits Settlements - 20 Cents - 1935
4) India - 1 Rupee - 1916

-Bobby

1) Fiji 1 shilling, 1935
2) South Africa 1 florin, 1928
3) Straits Settlements, 20cents 1927
4) India 1 rupee (gah), 1920

You know I have been abusing google horribly just for this

So you are the one slowing it down

If Im alowed ot add to my guess:

1. Fiji 1 shilling, 1934
(I had the hardest time finding this obverse)

-Bobby

Darn, I shouldn't have blown the cover

1. Southern Rhodesia - 2 shillings - 1932
2. South Africa - shilling - 1924
3. Straits Settlements - 5 cents - 1920
4. India - 2 annas - 1911

what they said. . . .

This time, it was Sir Sisu that gave the biggest push:

So far:

1) Southern Rhodesia - 2 shillings - ?
2) South Africa - ? - ?
3) Straits Settlements - 5 cents - 1920 (OK!)
4) India - ? - ?


Hint: The India coin is very "characteristic" of George V...

EVERYBODY CAN TRY AGAIN!


Jose

1) Southern Rhodesia - 2 shillings - 1936
2) South Africa - 3 pence - 1933
3) Straits Settlements - 5 cents - 1920
4) India - 1/12 anna - 1912

I never knew Straits used that obverse! Then again, I've never seen a Straits nickel coin.

1) Southern Rhodesia - 2 shillings - 1932
2) South Africa - 3 pence - 1932
3) Straits Settlements - 5 cents - 1920
4) India - 1/2 rupee - 1919

1) Southern Rhodesia - 2 shillings - 1935
2) South Africa - 3 pence - 1927
3) Straits Settlements - 5 cents - 1920
4) India - 1/12 anna - 1920

This is going fast...

Sir Sisu guessed the year of the Southern Rhodesia coin and the denomination of the South Africa coin!
And ccg the year of the Indian coin!

1) Southern Rhodesia - 2 shillings - 1936 (OK!)
2) South Africa - 3 pence - ?
3) Straits Settlements - 5 cents - 1920 (OK!)
4) India - ? - 1919


Sir Sisu won the prize i was going to give to the contestant that guessed more "points" (he already guessed 6, ccg guessed 1 and gxseries got 3), but for the main prize i still need the date of the South Africa coin and the denomination of the India coin.

So...
EVERYBODY CAN TRY AGAIN!

Jose

1) Southern Rhodesia - 2 shillings - 1936 (OK!)
2) South Africa - 3 pence - 1923
3) Straits Settlements - 5 cents - 1920 (OK!)
4) India - 1/2 pice- 1919

1) Southern Rhodesia - 2 shillings - 1936 (OK!)
2) South Africa - 3 pence - 1935
3) Straits Settlements - 5 cents - 1920 (OK!)
4) India - 8 annas - 1919

1) Southern Rhodesia - 2 shillings - 1936 (OK!)
2) South Africa - 3 pence - ?
3) Straits Settlements - 5 cents - 1920 (OK!)
4) India - 8 annas - 1919 (OK!)

I just need the year of the SA coin...

EVERYBODY CAN TRY AGAIN!


Jose

The last unknown: 1934

1) Southern Rhodesia - 2 shillings - 1936
2) South Africa - 3 pence - 1936
3) Straits Settlements - 5 cents - 1920
4) India - 8 annas - 1919

1) Southern Rhodesia - 2 shillings - 1936 (OK!)
2) South Africa - 3 pence - 1926
3) Straits Settlements - 5 cents - 1920 (OK!)
4) India - 8 annas - 1919 (OK!)

1934 it is...(will post the anverses of the coins when i get home)

gxseries wins! Congratulations, that dozen coins are yours! PM me your address!

Thanks to all the contestants for playing!


Jose

Cool contest. Congrats gx!

Neat game, Jose! Congrats gxseries!

As promised:




Jose

Nice looking coins!!

You did a good job at disguising them.

Nice coins! (especially the 8 Annas!).

Wow... I must be lucky!!! PM sent!

Nice coins... I couldn't figure out the first coin...

Thanks!!!