Scottishmoney

Two silver quarters, a 1958-D and a 1964. I do love finding silver in the reject slot.

Huh?

One of the fascinating aspects of platinum in the 19th century was that it was an exotic metal with properties similar to gold in atomic weight etc but had very low demand or usage. So counterfeiters used the metal to make gold coins - primarily in the Iberian countries, plated them with gold and passed them off as the real thing.

Not spoons, but I collect little tea kettles that were made from USA or Canadian cents in the 1930s at a Massachusetts prison. Sometime I will photograph the ones I have and post here.

Conversely silver is reputed to have some antibiotic qualities to it. But nickel allergy is common to people from N. Europe, so I wonder if they settled in Canada when they had pure nickel coins how they managed with allergy to metal?

Was uploading a few coins to omnicoin and got into this situation.

 

I was trying to look for the nation "New Caledonia" but it seems I can't find anything. This also applies to coins that have already been uploaded to omnicoin.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Caledonia

 

 

 

French Pacific Territories?

They will likely disappear for awhile until the furor over their theft has died down. They may go to E. Europe where they will acquire serial numbers and come back later on.

The source for these as well as the current Lundy, Cabinda, Palestine et all appears to be from China. That is just what the Chinese need to be doing, riling the Russians with legitimising these independence movements by making fake coins purporting to be from these places.

Early Japanese banknotes are immensely fascinating - they even issued "National" style banknotes in the 1870s that look very much like contemporary United States Nationals - they were printed by Continental Banknote.

The issue you have was preceded by an issue that was the first to ever depict a woman in 1881 - an Empress Jingu who ruled Japan in the 2nd century. No other woman was depicted on a banknote in Japan until Ichiyo Higuchi was depicted on the 5000 Yen note in 2004.

Nice hanhatsu notes - I wish I knew more about them. I only have one of them so far - curiously from Hiroshima.

But there are few places where you're guaranteed such footfall and, more often than not, you will get close to market value if you do your homework.

I think many sellers don't now think about footfall - but feel like a football.

Thanks so far. MMMM, you are right - it is P-A1 and I am quite certain that it's genuine.

 

The interesting thing is that the banknote only uses one language - German - in an area where one should think that Russian would be relevant as well. But I suppose there's a reason for that.

 

Does anyone have suggestions as to where I could find more info? Google is not that helpful

 

// Marcel

German was business language in that part of world - a result from Hanseatic era. Until end of second war 1941-5 there were many Germans living in Baltic states.

I saw a 1508 when I was digging through my SDB the other day - of course it is Hungarian and I believe the oldest Christian dated coin I have.

I still buy stuff on eBay occasionally for my model railroad hobby - but I stopped selling on there back when they did another fee increase in 2008. Now they are attuned to big sellers like retailers etc and not to sellers selling off an extra coin or two. The whole seller cannot leave a negative feedback thing is a major put off when you think of all the foolish bidders out there.

Happy Happy Joy Joy - Art is a birthday boy boy

Hmm, I wonder why I only sell directly via BSTs on forums? If it doesn't sell at least I don't take a loss.

I have some from Ukraine(of course), France and Canada.

I have bellows on my 1915 Kodak Brownie(was my great great grandmother's and it still works) - kind of funny how some things fell out of usage and then reappeared with a new application later on.

BTW BRG - lovely photographs!

In the US, the media report most types of protests including anti-(US) government, anti-anything. One can run out in the street or stand in front of the White House and yell nasty things about Obama without getting arrested. They will only risk arrest if they threaten to harm the President physically, but other than that, one can say just about anything about the government or the President (including calling him a thief) and not risk arrest. It's called freedom of speech. I wonder what happens in Russia if one repeats the slogan on the coin in public, shouts it out in the street? Will the Russian media publish that?

Indeed there is a difference - but I read media from both countries and they both do a lot of bashing of others. In Russian media I can read all about Obama's woes, Russians getting killed in USA, all about social problems, disasters etc. In American media I can read all about Putin, Americans being harassed in Russia for being gay etc.

There was old Soviet era joke where an American and Russian were discussing their freedoms. The American said he can go in front of the Whitehouse and denounce the American president. To which the Russian replies "I too can go in front of the Kremlin and denounce the American president".

I really liked the one from Netherlands when Princess Amalie was born a lot better than these - at least the coin had an actual portrait of her.

But ask yourself, what is morally and or socially acceptable form of protest? In west there are many reports of anti-Putin movements, similarly I can find reports about anti-USA government protests in Russian media.

A risky move, think of the band that got arrested and sentenced to prison.

Wow, Scottishmoney, this is right in your wheelhouse! Isn't this your collecting genre?

On banknotes, medals and coins.

Looks like you can get errors too

When I have seen this stuff for sale, sellers always insisted that it was a fake - because I have an accent they know I am foreigner - so maybe they think perhaps I think they are real? Anyway I have bought some as samples for 30-35 hryven.