24 hours per year, starting at UTC/GMT/Zulu midnight (google "zulu time" if you're unsure what the current time is).
Include a link to the Numista catalog for the coin(s) you're showing, so it's easy for people to see more info.
---- If it's not in the catalog, please create a new catalog entry if possible
Picture must be of your coin, currently in your collection. Not what you just ordered on ebay, or a coin you sold last year, or the photo from the Numista catalog, etc.
Try to limit the number of pictures to help with page loading times (combine multiple coins into one picture when practical), and keep them all in one post.
Non-Gregorian dates count for the Gregorian year they MOST overlap.
---- HERE is a reference for Arabic dates if you need it.
---- Non-dated coins made only one year are good for that year.
2018-2001 2000-1951
1950 - 11 September
1940 - 21 September
1930 - 1 October
1929 - 2 October
1928 - 3 October
1927 - 4 October
1926 - 5 October
1925 - 6 October
1924 - 7 October
1923 - 8 October
1922 - 9 October
1921 - 10 October
1920 - 11 October
1919 - 12 October
1918 - 13 October
1917 - 14 October
1916 - 15 October
1915 - 16 October
1914 - 17 October
1913 - 18 October
1912 - 19 October
1911 - 20 October
1910 - 21 October
1909 - 22 October
1908 - 23 October
1907 - 24 October
1906 - 25 October
1905 - 26 October
1904 - 27 October
1903 - 28 October
1902 - 29 October 1901 - 30 October
1900- New Thread
I'm pretty sure I used to have better (less blurry and/or non-rotated) photos of this coin, but they seem to be on a SD card that one of my laptops doesn't recognize and the other doesn't have a slot for, and I would normally have just copied off the CCF upload, but CCF just happens to be offline at the moment.
So you get those pics for now, and maybe I'll fix the post later.
1946 North Vietnam 5 Hao (Rebel issue) https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces4985.html
Issued by Ho Chi Minh's Communist guerilla forces after French rule was restored de facto to Indochina in 1945, after WWII. An 8 year long war would follow before French rule ended in 1954.
Απόσπασμα: "CassTaylor"We are now finally, officially entering the period that I specialise in collecting (1815-1945)!!!
I'm excited about the wartime years, so many oddities, especially '43-'45.
Yeah, you read my mind perfectly!
In fact, I've actually got a bunch of wartime coins lined up for the next few days. Coins minted by Axis puppet states, with, strange designs, or in strange materials, or circumstances.
Can you tell me how much you got your porcelain Japanese 1 Sen for? I have the red fibre Manchukuo coins, but not that one. All the ones I see for sale seem to be priced rather exorbitantly for me....
Manchukuo - 1 Fen 1945 https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces22469.html
Coin made of red fibre and minted in the name of the Kangde Emperor. Kangde's personal name was Puyi and he had previously ruled as the Xuantong Emperor, the Qing Dynasty's last emperor. He is often described as living one of the most unusual lives of the 20th century. His autobiography and that of Reginald Fleming Johnston, Puyi's Scottish tutor and friend, are well worth a read if you get the time.
Απόσπασμα: "cmaclean" the name of the Kangde Emperor. Kangde's personal name was Puyi and he had previously ruled as the Xuantong Emperor, the Qing Dynasty's last emperor. He is often described as living one of the most unusual lives of the 20th century. His autobiography and that of Reginald Fleming Johnston, Puyi's Scottish tutor and friend, are well worth a read if you get the time.
Just ordered the book, looks like just over 100 pages so should be a pretty quick read. I'm currently reading the Enuma Elish & Atrahasis, but I'll be done with that in a couple days. Also been working on the Mahabharata since May and only got 2 volumes done...
Απόσπασμα: "sc.rednek"Just ordered the book, looks like just over 100 pages so should be a pretty quick read. I'm currently reading the Enuma Elish & Atrahasis, but I'll be done with that in a couple days. Also been working on the Mahabharata since May and only got 2 volumes done...
Nice. What book exactly? There are a few different copies of Puyi's memoirs out there, I'm not aware of any that are just over 100 pages long. I have the 1989 Foreign Languages Press edition of 'From Emperor to Citizen: The autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi', it is just under 500 pages long. I also have the shorter version, 'The Last Manchu', which was edited by Paul Kramer. I found it to be an easier read than the original and it cuts out a lot of the communist propaganda.
If its Reginald Johnston's 'Twilight in the Forbidden City' you are interested in then there are many reprints available. I've been on the lookout for a 1st edition for a while but I've had no luck. If you enjoy that then I'd recommend Shiona Airlies's 'Scottish Mandarin: The Life and Times of Sir Reginald Johnston'. It's a biography of his whole life.
Απόσπασμα: "cmaclean"Nice. What book exactly? There are a few different copies of Puyi's memoirs out there, I'm not aware of any that are just over 100 pages long. I have the 1989 Foreign Languages Press edition of 'From Emperor to Citizen: The autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi', it is just under 500 pages long. I also have the shorter version, 'The Last Manchu', which was edited by Paul Kramer. I found it to be an easier read than the original and it cuts out a lot of the communist propaganda.
If its Reginald Johnston's 'Twilight in the Forbidden City' you are interested in then there are many reprints available. I've been on the lookout for a 1st edition for a while but I've had no luck. If you enjoy that then I'd recommend Shiona Airlies's 'Scottish Mandarin: The Life and Times of Sir Reginald Johnston'. It's a biography of his whole life.
I don't care about 1st editions or the book itself being old, but I do like books that let me better understand history and other cultures (if you couldn't tell from the books I'm currently reading...)
Last Christmas I got my great-great-great-aunt's bookcase because my parents didn't want it anymore, and my technical manuals and reference books and college books I kept for reference filled only 1/4 of it. So I've been working (slowly) on filling it with other stuff. I'm also slogging my way through the qur'an, that is a seriously boring read
And you're right, I see now it's 488 pages. Dunno where I saw 100-ish, I clicked a few different links trying to find it, must have remembered that from the abridged version!
1945 -Territory of New Guinea - 1 Shilling - George VI
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." ― Isaac Asimov
Blog : https://parimalscoincollection.blogspot.com
1944, our first full wartime year!
Since @phofoticus has already posted the Slovak 10 Korún coin I was planning to post, here's its commemorative 50 Korún equivalent: 1944 Slovakia 50 Korún (5th Anniversary of Independence) https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces6088.html
As well as a couple of wartime numismatic oddities: 1944 France 2 Francs https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1179.html
These coins were minted in the Philadelphia Mint, and first circulated in North Africa; Allied forces brought the coins with them to metropolitan France in Operation Dragoon, the invasion of Provence (a region in the southeast of France) and as a result even today these coins are far more prevalent and easily found, in the south of France than in other regions.
1944 Belgium 2 Francs https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces3103.html
Minted at the Philadelphia Mint as well, this time on leftover planchets for the 1943 US steel pennies, these were also introduced into Belgium by Allied forces.
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." ― Isaac Asimov
Blog : https://parimalscoincollection.blogspot.com
Speaking of Vichy, Prince Louis II was totally down with Vichy. Marshall Pétain was a personal friend and comrade from their military service together in the first world war, and Mussolini was quite popular with the Monégasque population.
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." ― Isaac Asimov
Blog : https://parimalscoincollection.blogspot.com
For 1942, a couple more zinc Vichyste colonial coins from me:
1942 French Indochina (Vichy) 1/4 Centime https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces10055.html
French Indochina was initially occupied partially by Japan in September 1940 to cut off supplies going to China; this was just the areas around Hanoi (Tonkin) until Pearl Harbour, when Japan occupied the entirety of French Indochina. Ultimately Vietnamese resistance groups would form to harass both Vichy and Japanese administrations, as well as the post-war 4th Republic's colonial administration (see also my 1946 5 Hao from Ho Chi minh's Viet Minh, above).
1942 French Tunisia (Vichy) 10 Centimes https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces8188.html
This is an issue in zinc of the pre-war nickel-bronze issues, Tunisia has the distinction of being the last French colonial territory to be fully wrested from Axis/Vichyiste control (except French Indochina, if you count Japanese occupation), which happened only in May 1943, providing a base for the invasion of Sicily later that year.
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." ― Isaac Asimov
Blog : https://parimalscoincollection.blogspot.com
1941 Slovakia 20 Korún (St. Cyril & St. Methodius) https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces6483.html
For a country that existed for just 6 years in WWII (1939-45), this is the third coin from Slovakia we've seen on this thread.
1941 Romania 500 Lei - Mihail I (Bessarabia Reunion) https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces18468.html
Bessarabia (roughly modern Moldova) was part of the Russian Empire until 1918, when it became part of Romania in the wake of the chaos of the Russian Revolutions; this lasted until July 1940, when the Soviet Union demanded the region along with North Bukovina. When the Axis invaded the USSR in June 1941, Romania retrieved Bessarabia (what this coin is commemorating), but only for a few years; the region would be incorporated back into the USSR in 1944 as the Moldovan SSR.
29 (1940) China - Japanese puppet states (Nanking Govt.) 10 Fen https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces18349.html
Issued by the Japanese for the Reformed Government of China, a collaborationist, unrecognised government headed by Wang Mang comparable to Vichy. This coin was issued by the Hua Hsing Bank, whose logo is visible on the obverse.
1939 Hungary 5 Pengö (Admiral Horthy) https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces17790.html
Not many people know Hungary continued to be a monarchy for 28 years after the abdication of the last Habsburg Apostolic King of Hungary, Károly IV (also Emperor Karl I of Austria) and the dissolution of its political union with Austria after WWI, in October 1918. The monarchy was not abolished, but rather an Admiral, Miklós Horthy (depicted rather regally here) became regent and head of state; it was considered too risky to invite the Habsburgs back to rule. This "Regency" era in Hungary lasted through WWII until the Kingdom's abolition in 1946.
1939 Canada 1 Dollar - George VI (Royal Visit) https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces450.html
Commemorates the first time a reigning British monarch visited Canada and the United States, right before the outbreak of WWII in Europe.
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." ― Isaac Asimov
Blog : https://parimalscoincollection.blogspot.com
.
