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A "tooled" coins slabbable?

Another already?

Who or what is a "JP MORGAN and BOSTON"?

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Wow, very nice!

Excellent post!

Always a delight to see your new pieces! I must say this is the first time I've seen a Judaic silver piece.

Congrats!

Interesting. Did they have their own note issues, or only temp / emergency issue overstamped Austrian notes?

Wow, vn!

2006 San Fran. Also got a nice VF '06 $1 from the Richmond FRB in the same transaction - a bit of a surprise since most East Coast $1s I see here are usually in pretty rough shape.

Got a star note for the first time in years.

Reading top-bottom-right-left, the Chinese characters: Hong Kong One Cent On other random trivia - the Hong Kong mint only operated for several years in the mid 1860s, after which it was dismantled and sold to Japan where it served as the basis for Japan's first milled coinage. Hong Kong's coins from the 1870s onwards were struck at either London or Heaton. After the changeover in gov't in 1997, the Royal Canadian Mint has been producing the circulation coinage. To expand on the 1-cent: During 1941 an emergency issue of 1-cent notes was issued to tide over the shortage in the coin. Post-WWII, the 1-cent note continued to be issued, though its use primarily was restricted to situations which required exact payment (e.g. taxes, utility bills) as virtually all other transactions were rounded to the nearest 5 cents (a denomination which itself fell out of use in the 1970s)

Ignoring the unissued 1941 small cent of King George VI, the Hong Kong 1 cent type set only requires 4 coins: Queen Victoria King Edward VII King George V (large cent) King George V (small cent)

Hong Kong is probably one of the easier and least expensive of the colonies to collect type coins from. Despite a dramatic rise in value of Chinese Imperial and Republican coinage (especially silver dollars), Hong Kong coinage of the same eras (1860s-1930s) is still readily available - even a modest budget of $10 / month can allow a good portion of a type set to be completed in nice circulated grades. Part of the reason why HK coinage was struck in larger numbers than would otherwise be expected for what was just an small city-island is that its coinage also circulated in Kwangtung (Guangdong) province next door, and the seignorage (HK subsidiary coinage was .800 fine) offered the British crown a good profit as well. The popularity (and profitability) of the one-cent coin was a significant reason for the Kwangtung Mint to be the first Chinese mint to start issuing milled 10-cash coins, of which the first issue was denominated as "one cent", a denomination which technically didn't exist in China!

wish I could had been of more assistance

Probably a NCLT item geared for tourists

Neat pieces!

Maudy coins are amongst my favs since they're practically the only small silver coins of the last century from Europe. (The only other tiny* silver coins I can think of beside the 1d and 2d that were struck with any regularity in the past two centuries are silver fanams from the Indian subcontinent) *Smaller than 3d, half dime, or Dutch 10c.

A promise to pay doesn't mean much if it just means lower denomination notes of the same, assuming you don't get shot or arrested for asking

Neat theme! Was this an smaller expo? I have to say I haven't heard of it before.

Interesting Macau notes! I have to say that the Chinese on the BNU notes looks like some variant of Comic Sans MS in Chinese?!

Beaut!

So are those technically FRNs then?!

Haven't seen it with US, but some modern Canadian silver proofs are hitting the pot, indeed.