ccg Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 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becoming a US territory in 1898, that the local currency continued to be valid / used until the 1910s, with they were withdrawn and replaced with regular US currency. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wabnoles Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 Cool coin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art1.2 Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 Very nice and interesting info too. So they must have made quite a few coins in 1896. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted March 1, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikaros Posted March 1, 2013 Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 What great coins! I never knew that Puerto Rico ever had their own coins... ya learn something every day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trantor_3 Posted March 1, 2013 Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 Republica Dominicana 1967 10 centavos Copper-Nickel, 2.5 g Notice the die break on the obverse, at almost 3 'o clock. And another one at 7 'o clock, from the edge to the ribbon [edit] forgot to mention the second die break[/edit] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trantor_3 Posted March 1, 2013 Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 Republica Dominicana 1978 10 centavos Copper-nickel, 2.5 g Duarte is one of the "founding fathers" of the modern Dominican Republic, padre del patria. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trantor_3 Posted March 1, 2013 Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 Republica Dominicana 1984 Diez centavos Copper-Nickel, 2.5 g This coin is one of a series of "human rights" coins, each denomination depicts one or more persons that fought for the human rights, The 1984 is struck in Mexico City Mint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trantor_3 Posted March 1, 2013 Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 Republica Dominicana 1984 Diez centavos Copper-Nickel, 2.5 g This coin is one of a series of "human rights" coins, each denomination depicts one or more persons that fought for the human rights, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trantor_3 Posted March 1, 2013 Report Share Posted March 1, 2013 Republica Dominicana 1989 Diez centavos Nickel clad steel Reverse image: Indigenous fruits and vegetables. Strange things happen at the top of the last letters in DOMINICANA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art1.2 Posted March 2, 2013 Report Share Posted March 2, 2013 Nice coins T3. Are they from you visits there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted March 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2013 Does the Dominican still use 10c, or is the FV too low? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trantor_3 Posted March 2, 2013 Report Share Posted March 2, 2013 I have quite a bunch of Dominican Republic coins, most I have collected by asking the people I worked with if tey still had some old coins. Usually I they had some and I could get them. They used to have the same denominations as the USA and Canada : 1 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent, 25 cent, half peso and peso, also the same sizes. but, the peso devaluated quite a lot, so these small denominations aren't used anymore for a long time. When I first was there in 1999, they were already no longer used. It was a 1 peso coin that was circulating and for the rest notes (5, 10, 20 etc)A 5 peso coin was introduced too and since a few years they have 10 and 25 peso coins too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worth Posted September 29, 2016 Report Share Posted September 29, 2016 Nice tread and interesting topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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