cowhodan

Hi everybody,

Mexico will issue 4 new $100 bimetallic coins, with a silver center and an aluminum-bronze ring. The themes will be the following:

1.- 400th ann. of Don Quijote

2.- 80th ann. of foundation of Banco de Mexico

3.- 470th ann. of Casa de Moneda de Mexico

4.- 100th ann. of 1905 Monetary Reform

The first one will be issued until december 2006 (design is below):

I don't know the issue date of the others, but the designs look promising:

2.- Independence Angel

PICTURE

3.- minting press

PICTURE

4.- design of C&R pesos

PICTURE

There will be also other commemoratives of silver:

6th Iberoamerican Series - Historic Buildings

Bicentenary of Benito Juarez

Mexico's participation in soccer world cup (2 coins)

And the previous listed 4 themes will also have the silver version.

Daniel

St. Thomas & Prince also issued a similar coin in 2000, celebrating the new millenium. When the watch arrived to 0 then it began to count how many time had passed since then. I wonder what do you do when the battery finishes?

I have noticed that its easy to get low and facy serial numbers from India and Lithuania, I don't know why but if you browse through ebay you will find many, specially from India, I've got a 000006 and a 0000056 from those countries.

Around a year ago a US $20 note was sold at ebay with the number 12345678, below is the image:

Good link for US fancy serial numbers with many images:

http://www.usarare.com/fsndb.html

Interesting group of India notes:

When you mentioned the modern looking design, two countries came to my mind: Hong Kong and Lebanon. They look similar, maybe they are printed by the same company?

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:

While I was reading your messages I couldn't resist to post one of the strangest "coins" that I've seen: Somalia $1 2004 with the shape of a guitar