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A possible candidate to tie this would be the Canadian $2 of 2012, which depicts the HMS Shannon, and an unidentified ship, possibly the USS Constitution, in the background.

Does the Dominican still use 10c, or is the FV too low?

The standard catalogue of Hawaiian Money by Donald Medcalf and Ronald Russell would be my suggestion, since it covers the basics of Hawaiian money, but also covers scrip, tokens, offical orders/medals, and exonumia. I've got a copy of the first ed ('78), though I believe there are later ones - the Wikipedia article seems to refer to a 2nd ed.

Danish West Indies 1905 10 Cents / 50 Bits 2.50g, AR800 And from America's other Carribean territory we have this dime from 1905, when it was the Danish West Indies rather than the U.S. Virgin Islands. It's denomination of 10 cents and weight fits in with an American dime, but its 800 alloy is that used by Denmark, and the "50 bits" a reference to the franc coinage system. Indeed, the reverse is somewhat similar to that of the French 50 centimes of the day, and the Danish West Indies Franc was pegged at par to the French Franc. When the DWI was purchased by the US to become the USVI in 1917, the local currency was converted to USD at a slight discount of about 3%, meaning that unlike with Puerto Rico, the local currency likely disappeared soon after the changeover.

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I must say that portrait of QV appears to be higher relief than that I see on the lower denomination silver coins.

Excellent dollar - it's kind of funny how Kwangtung was by far the largest issuers of 10c and 20c, but year it doesn't seem they were the largest issuer of dollar coins - perhaps due to the easy availability of trade dollars.

I think that's the only 2011 I'm missing :-)

A neat theme - come to think of it - Japan seems to issue more commemorative Expo coins than anyone else.

It's a silver coin with some gold plating applied after the coin was struck, so no, it would not be bimetallix but NCLT would indeed be the right place for it!

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Puerto Rico 1896 10 Centavos 2.50g, AR900 Puerto Rico's only coinage was in 1896. I believe that even after becoming a US territory in 1898, that the local currency continued to be valid / used until the 1910s, with they were withdrawn and replaced with regular US currency.

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Personally, I'm torn. I consider plugged coins/tokens such as the aforementioned tin farthings, the St. Patrick halfpennies, and also the late 1700s US silver centre cent to be a precursors to modern bimetallics - related in the sense that they contain a visibly identifiable second metal, but which were not part of the design. The model halfpennies and pennies of the mid 1800s that showed up in England IMO was the first piece to be bimetallic, and have the bimetallism worked into the design, and IMO is the first true bimetallic, though it is technically a private issue of trial composition (like the US Feuchtwanger 1c and 3c of 1837). But tin itself is such an unusually used non-copper/brass base that it could easily be put into a category of its own. For such interesting conflicting reasons, I vote for the last option.

Excellent piece! Outside of auctions, I seldom see Straits 50c better than F.

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I think that I am fairly confident that the piece shown is the (common) small beads variety. Grade is probably fine or so.

Chile 1879 1 Decimo 2.50g, AR500 First year of issue for debased Chilean dimes. Chile issued regular full weight and fineness gold 10 peso pieces until 1892 and silver 1 peso pieces until 1891, so it can likely be assumed that the reduction of the fineness from 900/1000 to 500/1000 for the 5c, 10c, and 20c in 1879 was purely for cost saving purposes, and that they continued to be redeemable for gold coins at the same rate.

Small beads. Key is the position of the "II" relative to the beads.

I'll join in on non-ancient.

Also, as with in other countries that have eliminated their lowest denomination coin, smart retailers round down since the good pr is worth much more than a few cents.

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