So here's some coins from my coin collection:
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- The 3 Largest in my collection. Don't know were the 1st is from but the rest is from Trinbago.
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- 3 Generations of Trinbago Pennies.
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- The Oldest American Coin In My Collection. It's a 1906 Barber Quarter.
A friend of mine used to collect coins. Took years of therapy before he stopped believing he was a parking meter.
^Are you sure that wasn't just a parking meter and you're the one that needs the therapy?
Quote from: AkiraTheFighter on April 17, 2016, 08:36:23 PM
^Are you sure that wasn't just a parking meter and you're the one that needs the therapy?
I checked with the voices and they said I was right. I always agree with them.
When I was a boy my grandmother gave me a set of coins in an old tin and told me that someday they would be worth an "awful lot" and to "be careful with them, don't let anybody get them from you"……so I buried them……somewhere…..out there…..some *sob* where *sob*
^Welp, grab a shovel.
My Maryland Quarter:
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My Montana Quarter (This is one of my fave coins cuz of the Bull Skull):
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My Georgia Quarter:
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I have 30 + something out of the 50 states.
I have a small chest full of currency from foreign nations, both bygone and currently still used.
Wouldn't call myself a real collecter, though once in a blue moon I'll buy a coin I like and ask to buy the money my friends and family have left from their vacations. But it is nice to look at that, slowly growing, chest once in a while.
A nice quiet hobby, like stamp collecting. People who don't collect, don't get it. I could imagine collecting cars, but where to put them? My collection is a stimulus to my imagination. Life gets in the way of enjoying anything though, and life trumps hobbies ... though certainly other folks hobbies in other strings ... are nice activities too.
Quote from: Mr.Obvious on April 19, 2016, 06:13:47 AM
I have a small chest full of currency from foreign nations, both bygone and currently still used.
Wouldn't call myself a real collecter, though once in a blue moon I'll buy a coin I like and ask to buy the money my friends and family have left from their vacations. But it is nice to look at that, slowly growing, chest once in a while.
I rarely collect. Most of the stuff I have is either given to me by relatives or when i visited America or looked around my house. The only time I collect these days is when my county releases a special note or coin. Still I wouldn't mind it if one day I can go in America or the UK and do what those guys do on Diggers. But unfortunately that'll involve talking to people.
BTW post some pics of them. You know you want to.
Quote from: AkiraTheFighter on April 18, 2016, 07:43:07 PM
My Montana Quarter (This is one of my fave coins cuz of the Bull Skull):
That's a buffalo skull, and females have horns in that species.
Actually a Bison
http://www.livescience.com/32115-bison-vs-buffalo-whats-the-difference.html
QuoteEarly American settlers called bison “bufello†due to the similar appearance between the two animals, and the name "buffalo" stuck for the American variety. But it's wrong.
The American bison (Bison bison) lives only in North America, while the two main buffalo species reside in Africa and Asia. A small population of bison relatives called the European bison (Bison bonasus) lives in isolated parts of Poland.
Like buffalo, bison belong to the Bovidae family, which includes more than 100 species of hoofed mammals, called ungulates â€" buffalo, bison, antelopes, gazelles, cattle, sheep and goats. Two main buffalo species exist: African cape buffalo and Asian water buffalo.
If you were to stand eye-to-eye with a buffalo species and a bison â€" and neither killed mowed you down â€" you’d notice stark physical differences. Unlike any buffalo species, the American bison sports a large shoulder hump and a massive head, which gives this symbol of the West its burly appearance.
Bison have a shoulder hump and a massive head versus a buffalo. I have been close enough to a Bison to pet one. they are now raised for meat.
My collection
Quote from: stromboli on April 19, 2016, 11:44:05 AM
Actually a Bison
bison-vs-buffalo-whats-the-difference.html
Bison have a shoulder hump and a massive head versus a buffalo. I have been close enough to a Bison to pet one. they are now raised for meat.
I've called them buffalo since 1956. ;)
Everybody else does too. I'm just on a superiority jag this morning.
Quote from: Mr.Obvious on April 19, 2016, 11:55:46 AM
My collection
Awesome collection. The Guy on the 5 mill note looks like a rapist though. XD I want that chest so bad. _D:
Quote from: AkiraTheFighter on April 19, 2016, 02:44:50 PM
Awesome collection. The Guy on the 5 mill note looks like a rapist though. XD I want that chest so bad. _D:
Lol
Shoe should know those, btw; Turkish Bin lira
Quote from: Mr.Obvious on April 19, 2016, 03:15:08 PM
Lol
Shoe should know those, btw; Turkish Bin lira
Dude the back makes him look like a child molester:
(http://c8.alamy.com/comp/C49HGD/front-and-back-views-of-former-100000-yuz-bin-turk-turkish-lirasi-C49HGD.jpg)
LOL
I don't collect any coins/money, but I've run across quite a few different currencies during the course of zooming around the globe. My favorite paper money is the Jordanian Dinar series.........always thought they were attractively designed bills.
****! I've still got over; well, what started out back when I got it, as well over $100.00 in New Israeli Shekels (NIS).........I didn't exchange it my last opportunity to do so due my flight being late and having to run to get to the connector. I live in a one horse village, and the local banks won't touch it. :(
We used to see some honkin' big (to me) bills on my Iraq gigs..................think the largest I saw was a 100,000 dinar note........which was slightly over $80.00; if I remember rightly. The Iraqis always preferred USD as it was worth more in whatever black market exchange skullduggery they were into. They always wanted to be paid in cash; the newer the bills, the better, as there was a sliding BM exchange rate based on the bill's condition. The band new shiny ones direct from the Federal Reserve Bank were the most desired.
Oh yea.........................coin collecting!
My Grandfather was an avid coin collector, and as there was a more than 60 year gap in our ages; he'd been collecting since back when many of his coins weren't all that old. And he had a lot of them.....................so many he'd give lesser quality duplicates/triplicates from his silver dollar collection to us grand kids for Christmas. The newest I had was like a 1916, and the oldest was from (I think) the 1850s. To this day........................I'm completely baffled why my mom didn't take them away from us for safe keeping and give us some green money in their stead. Yea! You can guess where this is going........................the nearest candy store. Twiddled every last one of those silver dollars away at local stores for candy and comic books and such.
Quote from: AkiraTheFighter on April 19, 2016, 02:44:50 PM
Awesome collection. The Guy on the 5 mill note looks like a rapist though. XD I want that chest so bad. _D:
Ataturk... the guy who secularized Turkey and almost single-handedly dragged it out of a failing Ottoman state into a 21st century power. And not that I would expect you to... but I probably wouldn't say that around a Turk. Some of them take him very seriously :P.
As for me... I have a few yen...an Irish and a couple Canadian coins... then a bunch of bills from Latin America. Nothing special
, I just keep any foreign coins I find at work.
Quote from: stromboli on April 19, 2016, 11:44:05 AM
Actually a Bison
http://www.livescience.com/32115-bison-vs-buffalo-whats-the-difference.html
Bison have a shoulder hump and a massive head versus a buffalo. I have been close enough to a Bison to pet one. they are now raised for meat.
I have eaten buffalo, but I don't like it as much as Angus beef. And not as much as elk (which is much less gamy than venison).
I'm not sure how I missed a coin collecting thread, as it's among my vices. I do Jefferson nickels, slabbed Ikes, British pre-decimal, Polish, Soviet Russian, and am working on a world birth year set for myself (which will ultimately be some 470 coins I'll need to get; I'm only about a third of the way there). Some of mine can be seen at Omnicoin (http://omnicoin.com/collection/ikaros), which site I recommend, as well as coinpeople.com (http://www.coinpeople.com) for a collector-specific forum.
I am a coin collector. I collect quarters and put them in rolls. I then put the rolls in a sock and inside another sock. Somebody tries to steal my shit I introduce them to my quarter collection on their cheek bone a couple of times. They don't try to steal my shit any more.
Not really coin collecting per say, but I just got back from buying 25 silver coins for us to give to my sister this weekend for her 25th anniversary. I got 10 silver eagles including a 1991 (the year they were married) and a 2016 (25th anniversary year). Plus I got 5 Canadian maple leafs, 5 Chinese Pandas and 5 Australian Koalas. Dude didn't have 25 silver eagles on hand...
Quote from: PopeyesPappy on August 25, 2016, 01:13:38 PM
Not really coin collecting per say, but I just got back from buying 25 silver coins for us to give to my sister this weekend for her 25th anniversary. I got 10 silver eagles including a 1991 (the year they were married) and a 2016 (25th anniversary year). Plus I got 5 Canadian maple leafs, 5 Chinese Pandas and 5 Australian Koalas. Dude didn't have 25 silver eagles on hand...
Nice present - what do I need to do to be related to you? :D
I like coin collecting. It's a very sacriligeous hobby.
Judas Iscariot did it. Ending his collection with 30 silver pieces.
Quote from: trdsf on August 25, 2016, 10:12:59 PM
Nice present - what do I need to do to be related to you? :D
It's from my brother and parents too. As for the last part I guess you could marry my brother, but I'm thinking he probably wouldn't go for that.
Quote from: AkiraTheFighter on April 19, 2016, 08:34:30 PM
Dude the back makes him look like a child molester:
(http://c8.alamy.com/comp/C49HGD/front-and-back-views-of-former-100000-yuz-bin-turk-turkish-lirasi-C49HGD.jpg)
LOL
The image with children is about a national holiday called Naitonal Soverignty and Children's Day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Sovereignty_and_Children%27s_Day
QuoteBackground[edit]
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (mid) in Ankara on the "Day of National Sovereignty", present-day the "National Sovereignty and Children's Day", on April 23, 1929.
This national day, 23 April National Sovereignty and Children's Day, in Turkey is a unique event. The founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, made a present of April 23 to all the world's children to emphasize that they are successor of the future.[1][2] It was on April 23, 1920, during the War of Independence, that the Grand National Assembly met in Ankara and laid down the foundations of a new, independent, secular, and modern republic from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire. Following the defeat of the Allied invasion forces on September 9, 1922 and the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne on July 24, 1923, Ataturk started his task of establishing the institutions of the new state. Over the next eight years, Ataturk and his followers adopted sweeping reforms to create a modern Turkey, divorced from her Ottoman past. In unprecedented moves, he dedicated the sovereignty day to the children and entrusted in the hands of the youth the protection of this sovereignty and independence.
April 23 National Sovereignty and Children's Day[edit]
Every year, the children in Turkey celebrate this "Sovereignty and Children's Day" as a national holiday. Schools participate in week-long ceremonies marked by performances in all fields in large stadiums watched by the entire nation. Among the activities on this day, the children send their representatives to replace state officials and high ranking civil servants in their offices. The President, the Prime Minister, the cabinet ministers, provincial governors all turn over their positions to children's representatives. These children, in turn, sign executive orders relating to educational and environmental policies. On this day, the children also replace the parliamentarians in the Grand National Assembly and hold a special session to discuss matters concerning children's issues.[3][4]
Children from Macedonia performing folk dance on the street on the "National Sovereignty and Children's Day" at Beykoz, Istanbul in 2014.
Over the last two decades, the Turkish officials have been working hard to internationalize this important day. Their efforts resulted in large number of world states' sending groups of children to Turkey to participate in the above stated festivities. During their stay in Turkey, the foreign children are housed in Turkish homes and find an important opportunity to interact with the Turkish children and learn about each other's countries and cultures. The foreign children groups also participate in the special session of the Grand National Assembly. This results in a truly international Assembly, where children pledge their commitment to international peace and brotherhood.
The importance of April 23 as a special day of children has been recognized by the international community. UNICEF decided to recognize this important day as the International Children's Day.
The man you thought looked like a child molestor is the Turkish general who defeated Ottoman Empire along with quite a few of European forces, the first Prime Minister of Republic of Turkey who abolished monarchy and caliphate, founded a secular state, introduced laicist system and so brought and enforced standardized secular education for boys and girls and formally recognized children’s rights in 1928 when its signed the Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child, four years after the document was drafted.
Forget who he is, not important at all. I find it very odd that the first thing comes to a person's mind looking at a standard picture on a note of money; an offical piece of paper depicting a man -obvioulsy an official- giving a group pf children in school uniforms a bouqet of flowers -obviously in an official ceremony- 'makes him looks like a child molestor'.
PS That money is not current.