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35 cents US, 10 cents Canadian, and a 1951 French 10 Francs.

That is what I am talking about, they just ooze femininity.

Rod, do by all means avoid the fleaBay venue for letting of your fine medals and offer them in more meaningful venues such as the BST here on this board. Avoid the usurious fees, and endeavour to find loving homes for especially your Swiss Misses - I know someone personally - well I think I know him most days, he likes adding Misses from all around the world into his numismatic harem

Watch it, I don't have to take out a second mortgage , just draw on reserves.

Nice addition Ian, and still I have nothing to show for my efforts at acquisitioning such a medal, but mine has to have a Swiss Miss on it of course - narrows down the choices quite a bit.

Nice notes and nice numbers, canna get over how the Clydesdale is doing lookalike notes from the Bank of Scotland series of new notes. At least they have different portraits on each denomination as opposed to having Sir Wally Scott on each note like BoS. Here is my latest addition, very old for the locale, and very dear in price accordingly: I have been chasing one of these for awhile, never thought I would find one with this early of a date so easily. Usually I can find 1920's and 1930's dates fairly commonly, but even they are pricey.

It is from the Kingdom of Croats, Serbs and Slovenes, the immediate predecessor to what would become Yugoslavia.

2002 Canadian 10 cent coin.

I like that Bahrain note also, very colourful. Notice the sail shaped hotel that I believe has gotten some architectural awards also. I hope I will be able to post a rare West African States - Benin note soon if I can buy it.

Wowza - I see several that have been on my "get it now" list for awhile, especially the Malian 100 Francs. The great thing about French inspired notes is all the ladies on them. The Djibouti note is in a class all its own with the colour and design. Tres belle!

What is apparently a shower token for a campground, blank on one side, and just Showertrol Trumbull on the other side. One of my weirder finds, though I have previously found bar tokens for one beer etc.

Two brand new Mexican commemorative banknotes this time... Porfirio Diaz ruled Mexico as it's dictator for nearly 44 years, from 1877-1911. Despite having given lip service to democracy, in practice he did not believe in it. In the 1910 election in Mexico it is conjectured that in reality he lost the election, but vote rigging and a refusal to acknowledge reality only prompted him to stay in office, in opposition to Franscisco Madero. Shortly after the election a revolt broke out, which initiated the Mexican Revolution, which lasted from 1910-1920 and saw the rise and fall of several characters in Mexican history, including Diaz, Madero etc. In the end forces led by Venustiano Carranza prevailed and the Mexican constitution of 1917 insured more liberal rule, and some degree of political stability. This 100 Pesos note was issued recently to commemorate the start of the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and features a locomotive with the rebels and a group of campesinos, or farm workers on the reverse of the note. It is printed on polymer and features several security devices and colours that make for a very lovely note. The year 2010 is also the bicentennial of the declaration of Mexican independence from Spain in 1810, and fittingly is commemorated on the brand new 200 Pesos note that features a vignette of Fra. Miguel Hidalgo, a Roman Catholic priest that lead peasants under the banner of Nuestra Señora de la Guadalupe banner in the original revolt against Spanish rule beginning in 1810. The reverse of the note features a vignette very familiar to collectors of Mexican gold and silver coinage, the "El Ángel de la Independencia" or Angel of Independence in Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City.

Slabs are for "investors" not purists collectors. When at all possible I like to liberate my coins.

Nice Honduras notes, Central America is one of those great overlooked areas in collecting.

Slabs are merely someone else's opinion. All that really matters is my opinion ;)

Mine is in boxes still to, from a recent move. But I have a dedicated room, and the layout table is already set up - just no time and I am headed back over to Ukraine soon so it might be next year before it gets touched. I have mostly Wabash stuff, and some SP stuff - family history! BTW you might like this: Lucin Cut-Off - Great Salt Lake Causeway

Nice coins jtryka You will like the brand new Mexican 100 Pesos with the steam locomotive design, I like it because my great great grandfather was a road engineer in northern Mexico during the 1910's. I have an example winding my way up from old Mejico as we speak, will post when it comes. My other hobby, model railroads - if you hadn't guessed.

Practically anything will sell if you have the right buyers who really really want it.

Two brand new polymer Mexican notes, a bit out of my main collecting interests, but at least one of them has the Winged Angel on it, and the other one has a steam locomotive. Will post when they come in from Mejico.

Good catch Siluska, particularly with the obligatory feminine theme on the reverse of the note.

One of the formative years Lincoln cents, found in my wife's desk - along with lots of pre-1982 bronze cents.

You lucky so and so

I have been looking, love those feminine themes on them, there is one "Pro Patria" up there in the thread that I would love to have.

Nice HK note See, it has to be one of the last dated notes with the Bradbury imprint on it.

Coahuila is a Mexican state that is just to the south of the US state of Texas, in fact Texas was originally part of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas until Texas split off and became an independent republic in 1835. The largest city and capital city is Saltillo, and the region is known for mining and more recently manufacturing of automobiles. El Banco de Coahuila engaged American Banknote Company of New York to print this lovely series of banknotes ca. 1910. This note features Ceres as an allegory of agriculture. Curiously this vignette was also used on several Ecuadorian 5 Sucres notes, and a Russian 100 Ruble note in 1918. Like all private bank issues from Mexico, the bank was made to stop issuing it's own currency when the Mexican Revolution engulfed all of Mexico, and the issues of paper money were made a privilege of Banco de Mexico exclusively beginning in 1920. And there are several more recent Mexican acquisitions here: More Mexican Acquisitions