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For some reason I failed to equate James I with Scotland

Personally, I prefer that things be spread out. That way a major accident/incident wouldn't be so bad. The loss of the most intact Spinosaurus fossil during WWII is an example that stands out to me. Other examples of loss of artifacts and items/sites of cultural importance include Afghanistan (over the 1990s and early 2000s, many non-Islamic sites were destroyed) and China (mid-1960s)

I'll try again. Sunflower?

Is that a crowned grenade?

The '80s £1 are neat, but the regular £1 with the ship and the 20p with the lighthouse are quite neat to me. All I've got to show for the measly £200 or so of coin that I've handled over the past year is a 2004 Gibraltar pound.

I quite like the Jersey coins!

re: Hong Kong - there was also a 10-sided $5 coin in the mid-1970s. It was withdrawn and replaced with the slightly smaller but thicker $5 coin used today.

I have a $2 coin in a official-looking cardboard sleeve so I believe that it probably wasn't meant to circulate. The Bahamas silver 50c I have encountered in circulated grades on several occassions. St. Helena - never seen those before! I better put the 50p on my watch list Falklands - only seen the 1p and 20p - very nice to see the rest of the set.

A Panamian quarter?

Very neat, you just don't see this stuff everyday, that's for sure!

I'll go with East Indies, thanks!

That's Qian Long?! I wouldn't had guessed.

Central Bank of Manchuko? Definately unusual. I wonder who that guy is.

Nice Irish piece!

That nickel's better than the one in my type set!

Very neat notes! I don't think I've seen Standard Bank before either. (only post-merger)

VN farthing!

Pretty!

That's quite the color variation

Congrats!

I'll toss my name in.

10p as a quarter. Haven't had that happen for a while, but 10p as 25c and 1p as 1c are not too unusual occurances...

Nice HSBC and MB notes everyone! I'm still waiting to come across a nice Mercantile note at the right price, but none have yet to turn up around here in any grade.

I don't recall ever seeing that type.