Scottishmoney

The one I own, curiously enough from Hiroshima prefecture, is printed on some sort of rice substrate type stuff that may have another substance in it too like mulberry bark.

Authors:

Kirsten Flagstad

Sigrid Unsted who was actually Danish, but immigrated to Norway at a young age.

250th anniversary of Tumba Bruk Printing House:

Hemp paper and intaglio printing - sounds like something I need to research more for a little project I am involved with in Maine - where people are a bit more attuned to doing things in a tried and true fashion.

On Monday a 1919 Lincoln in my change when I bought a hot chocolate through the drive-thru of a well known fast food restaurant. I hope I look so good whence I am 94 years young.

How about when they are printed by a well known figure in American history - a man of writing, politics, inventions:

Certainly not my prettiest or highest graded note - but this one packs a lot of historical punch - because it was printed personally and handled by the Man - Benjamin Franklin himself.

It would really be cool to find a post war occupation coin from Germany that had been overstruck.

Neat! If I'm not mistaken, the Third Reich zinc minors continued to circulate in Austria for some time (while in Germany they were removed after the 10:1 conversion from the Reichsmark to the DM.

One thing I have wondered about is the early ie the pre-1940 coins that were struck in aluminium bronze - could they have seen some circulation in Germany after the DM was introduced - they were very similar compositions to the DM era pfennig coins - especially the 10pf coin. I never saw any coins dated before 1950 in circulation in Germany when I was there - even though there were 1948 and 1949 Bank Deutscher Lander coins circulated at that time.

Austria went back to the schilling and kept the minor coins but despite discussion of revaluing the schilling they never did. So it kept the old 1:1 value with the older RM. Curiously I was reading that there is an passage in the current German constitution about the possibility of Austria joining Germany in a Federation - a bit curious that such was allowed after the Allied Control Commission that oversaw everything in Germany from 1945-1990.

My dog, General Douglas MacArthur lived a nice long life, started life on a 40 acre ranch in California before he came to live with us back in 2004. He was adopted back 1997 by my grandmother when our previous dog passed away at age 22 years. He was a watch dog, hyper protective of my grandmother, my wife and my daughters - put up with three cats and for the last year a younger female Aussie/Siberian mix. Today after much putting off I finally had to take him to the vet on his last journey of life. Unfortunately I can think of many more extended family members that I would have preferred be in his place if I could have kept him instead.

I believe that God made dogs to give us the one soul who loves us unconditionally - like we should love God.

Clarkston is still not a very big place in Oakland county. CWT's are so fascinating, I have one I bought last year from the finder who dug it up in a church garden where it must have been laying for the last nearly 150 years. It is from a village that was absorbed by a larger locale later in 19th century.

 

It must be the Russian women...

 

 

 

Shut up:

This silver rouble is of the epic historical proportions, hence the mintage numbers. The first truly popularized form of art that portrayed the soviet idea of industrialization and moving into the future. It sort of saying to the peasants "I work at a factory. Industrialization will take us into the future (communism). Come I'll show you where the sun rises, that's where we are going, this is our way"... It has a massive idealistic propaganda attached to it, and I love it! Apart from all the problems of soviet era, they did inspire common people to become more educated and help to engineer the future (which is now in the past), that people could be proud of and in which they could dream... It took the mind of the nation into the space eventually. As much as I hated the regime for the bad stuff, some achievements of soviet era were great, and this rouble is one of the first milestones that was making the new generation of common people feel important and inspired them to dream...

Very well said. And to think that men like Korolyev, Tupolev, Ilyushin worked with a threat of time in the Gulag if they didn't perform. Tupolev and Ilyushin lived long enough to receive accolades for their work, but Korolyev's work was unrecognised during his lifetime. It is okay to condemn the regime that kept everybody in poverty - but there were truly great individuals that put country and mankind ahead of their personal comforts.

I have always wondered what the Dutch monarchs, ie Queen Beatrix and now King Willem, really think of their portraits on the coins? There were times when Queen Beatrix looked almost cartoonish.

from the article Jan 2014

good I can get my Euro collection up to date

 

any word for Luxembourg? they also changed monarchs

Yeah they did, way back in 2000 when Grand Duke Jean stepped down and his son Henri ascended the throne.

Agree. If I weren't pinching pennies, I'd add a few more to my collection

Lately I have been pinching pennies out of my collection, and banknotes too. Just way too many doubles, stuff I am not interested in. I only have one Swiss Shooter the one from Bern Langenthal.

The Detroit notes were some of the best around - obviously they looked to ABNCo for printing which resulted in a higher quality of note. I have some from Reading PA and they were locally printed at the time and are considerably cruder.

One of my great great grandmothers lost her life savings when the bank failed in 1932 - this was before FDIC, before Social Security etc.

But the best ones are the ones with Swiss misses on them.

From Rod's site:

There are some early 19th century electrotypes of the Higley coppers and they are pretty collectable and pricey.

They are cast replicas of American colonial coins.

 

I believe BU is really difficult to find, especially from 1903 and at a reasonable price.

'only' 103,392 circulated.

by the way i have paid almost 200$.

I hope ...it was worth!!

The mintage seems low, but for a small country like Denmark it was actually a large mintage. Couple that with the fact that outside of Denmark they are not collected much - makes for a very attractive but affordable design.

It would get a details grade if it were graded by a TPG - as noted it is harshly cleaned. It is one of those coins I am looking for myself - but alas I haven't found a blast white example in BU yet.

Communism and coins should be incompatible - the objective of pure socialism was the eventual elimination of money as a capitalist imposition on the masses. Expediency and people's emotions dictated the necessity of the New Economic Plan or NEP by Vladimir Lenin - which saw the Russian SFSR and later the USSR start with a return to gold and silver standard based money with subsidiary paper money. Most of the early gold coins minted in the RSFSR never saw actual circulation like the silver coins did. With a return to some economic stability with first the implementation of the NEP and then the first "Five Year Plan" in 1928 the USSR could begin pulling precious metal coinage out of circulation and replacing it with base metal. The long term objective was supposed to be the elimination of money as a circulating medium - but even Stalin's terror couldn't pull off such a radical idea - eventually the objective was quietly dropped while the fiat money system implemented in the early 1930s continued.

Communism was not compatible with hoarding or saving of money and never was. In 1947 and again in 1961 the authorities performed a revaluation of the currency to root out and devalue money that was allegedly hoarded. Curiously the revaluations did not effect coins - they kept their value - but paper money from previous issues was demonetized.

The long term effect on the mentality of people is still in effect to this day. Both in the later years of USSR and now into post Soviet era getting change in coins can be a process. I have always been one to hoard change myself and not pay for purchases with coin! Literally I have had many the arguments with cashiers in grocery stores, markets etc over not "having" change and insisting they give me coins in change for purchases. So amass the kopeks I still do - a mentality I guess.

 

Nope. I use notebooks. I currently have 6 notebooks, 1 for each continent

I have notebooks also for all my roll searching finds etc. I keep thinking about putting them in Excel - but it is the permanence factor of putting things on paper and laying them on the bookshelf that I cannot get over.

I have gotten that too, ignored it and went on.