Actually please realise this is a GLOBAL forum and not everyone has autumn in September.
Here in New Zealand we have just emerged from WINTER and its just turned into Spring.
However a pile of coins is about to land in my lap in the next few days - they will make my NZ collection WORLD CLASS
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NZ $100 note - Hardie (1981 - 1985), just 1 million printed, this one UNC and very low serial number.
Easily my best and most expensive note!
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These are the ones Im keeping. Isnt that what yall call a collection on numista?
I had to figure out the difference on the categories and seems to be any coins marked not for swap? but I figured out in a certain category they only show up? a bit confusing to set up. "collection/favs vs trade coins"
Ive had one of these since (not telling yall which one- lol), birth year.
-and theme coins. so far, really liking coins with Stars. the Texas and Russia, Chile.
I seem to like larger older coins.
editing is really tiresome and difficult, takes forever to edge out the coins. But here are a few.
Im good at taking pictures but not editing them.
Some of these I didnt even bother, just scanned a few and the white around them was better. I was wondering if the premium service was better about editing the picture, or is that just storage?
Finally some more coins to show and we start with Palestine. Twice every year a popular online dealer has a half off sale and seems to produce coins you seldon see, so I jump in all paws and all. These Palestine pieces include some rarer dates and seldom seen very high grade ones
1937 and 1941 1 mil coins - both EF/AU and less seen dates with lustre.
5 mils 1939 AU and 1941 gVF - both are scarce dates, in fact I only had 1934 until now
10 mils, easily their commonest coin, but 1933/34 and 41 are NOT common dates!
A nice scarce 1933 20 mils (Not as rare as 1931 though, in my opinion all of the 20 mils bar 1927 and bronze 1942 are hard to find and scarce). A very nice and scarce 1940 50 mils. Coin was described as UNC, but I would say its AU at least, still a stunning coin in anyone's book. Nearly all 50 and 100 mils left are either 1st year 1927 or the common 1935 and 1939 dates, other dates are rare.
Gothic Florin will love this one!
A 1933 British Florin - UNC! The black mark seems to be a felt tip! Again photo does not do it justice, coin has a mint fresh appearance.
An 1859 Shilling - sadly its cleaned, but still a decent example for the price. Sometimes a high grade cleaned coin is better than a heavily worn honest coin.
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Some more British silver and some American pennies!
Very high grade 1898 6d, AU heavily toned, but a beautiful piece. Looks cleaned but its not.
1926 6d - Natural Lustre, and its the earlier type too! EF or gEF
AU 3d piece from 1900 - Amazed I paid only $20 for it - this is a little beauty!
1906 Canadian 5 cent coin, gVF possibly cleaned historically - a great coin for just $8!
1860 USA cent, another VF and nice coin. This one is the more scarce pointed bust
1864 USA cent - copper Indian with the L on it - another great little VF coin
Indian cents are rapidly becoming my favourites with the USA. Again the coin has
the usual weak striking above the feather headress you saw on my 1865 coin.
Kiwi delights soon!
PS - I just bought a Victorian Half crown and shilling that will blow your socks off!
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My first high grade Victoria Halfcrown from before 1887. This 1878 is a natural and beautiful EF/AU example. Over the moon about this. Even the dealer who sold it to me, said these seldom come along in NZ. Price was mid 3 figures.
My first truly uncirculated Victorian silver coin - this 1897 shilling is mint fresh! Obviously someone put it aside at the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
NZ 1935 Halfcrown VF - very scarce coin, seldom seen above VF.
1942 Halfcrown, another scarce date in high grade, all NZ silver halfcrowns are common to Fine, but get less common above it and the scarce dates like 1935, 1942 and 1944 are very hard to find above gVF. This is gEF. Only light cheek and hair wear.
Photos don't show the shine well on any of the above 4 coins!
1941 Penny, a coin you would not look twice at most times, as 99% of them are darkened Fine or VF. However in UNC they are truly rare and have a book value in mid hundreds. This one is UNC, but streaky and thus I got for $100. That must be the most I have ever spent on a penny, but its the first 1941 I have seen in this shape ever, let alone owned!
The 1942 is the hardest date to find period outside errors and again in high grade, nigh on impossible. This one is AU and thus I paid around $100 for it, but fault free. Its catalogued $200 in AU and $450 in UNC! Yet a standard fine one will cost south of $5 and VF is about $15. Seriously kiwi penny collectors, go through your old pennies and I doubt you will find many 1941s or 1942s, but lots of 1940s, 1943s and 1945s.
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1955 Halfpenny - this is NZ's rarest halfpenny outside errors alongside 1954. UNC examples like this are super rare. This coin was cheap due to the verdigris spot right of the tiki's arms.
1942 Halfpenny, another very scarce issue and seldom seen in high grades like this with natural lustre (AU)
1940 Shilling - again a hard to find coin above Fine, this one is toned EF - gEF
Some foreign coins
2 Corona coin of Austria Hungary, this was a type issued in 2 years only, 1912 and 1913. This one is decent VF - gVF
2 very worn Walker Halves
1920D a scarce date, but not that collectible in this shape!
1929 S - more common, if it helps I paid barely over face for these.
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A 1933 British Florin - UNC! The black mark seems to be a felt tip! Again photo does not do it justice, coin has a mint fresh appearance.
You are right, I like your 1933 florin! Though I am normally very reluctant to “clean” coins, I might be tempted to try an acetone bath to get rid of that black mark.
Thus the paper £10 completes the last of the paper notes and the first polymer notes series.
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Great group, I love how you have this English/Mexican thing going on. Its a refreshing mix!
This group is great for me, as I grew up with these notes and they would have delighted my 10 year old mind altogether!
As I went to high school and university, we were lucky to see these
Similar to today's notes, but these paper ones were withdrawn in the early 2000s
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Great group, I love how you have this English/Mexican thing going on. Its a refreshing mix!
This group is great for me, as I grew up with these notes and they would have delighted my 10 year old mind altogether!
As I went to high school and university, we were lucky to see these
Similar to today's notes, but these paper ones were withdrawn in the early 2000s
Thanks Moneytane and yours too.
Because I’m within Generation Z the only old U.K. coins and notes I can remember are the round pound coins and the last paper notes.
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I have been searching for an East Africa florin for a very long time, so I snapped at the chance of this one even though the condition isn't great:
I got it at auction in a lot including a 1918 BWA florin, which I also happened to need:
The East Africa florin was only issued in 1920 and 1921 and very rarely appears on the market. (Except for cast forgeries, which unfortunately are quite common.) The other point of interest is that it is larger than most 20th century florins at 30mm.
Yes a great coin that florin. In 1922 they changed the name to the East African Shilling (Shilingi in Swahili) and followed it up with a ridiculous coin that was just 20% silver (Basically turned black after slightest wear in African humidity). They switched the West African silver coins to brass in 1920, but not East Africa until 1962.
The Florin was 30mm as it was a replacement to the Rupee which was replaced in 1920 and was instituted from the Indian Rupee which was used in British East Africa until 1906 and then an African Rupee which was decimalised rather than annas and pies. As we all know an Indian rupee before 1946 was 30.5mm in size and weighed around 11.8 grams being slightly heavier and larger than a Silver Florin. The coin was a bit thinner too.
Part of the reason for this, was before 1890 when the Brits went into Kenya and Uganda, the Arabs were using silver rupees to start off it, and British used Indian Rupees, which also came with Indian labourers for plantations and railway building, Zanzibar was added in 1890. Until Kenya, Uganda and Zanzibar made up the colony, but in 1919 Tanganyika was added after annexation from the Germans after WW1 and like Germany used a decimal mark system, so using a decimalised Rupee then Florin and Shilling made sense.
I followed all this through their stamps.
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I have been searching for an East Africa florin for a very long time, so I snapped at the chance of this one even though the condition isn't great:
I got it at auction in a lot including a 1918 BWA florin, which I also happened to need:
The East Africa florin was only issued in 1920 and 1921 and very rarely appears on the market. (Except for cast forgeries, which unfortunately are quite common.) The other point of interest is that it is larger than most 20th century florins at 30mm.
This Fiji florin arrived recently (and cost next to nothing). The remaining years to complete the date run are proving more elusive: I'm missing 1936, 1937, 1938, 1941 and 1945.
I only need 1937 in my date run, you will find 41 and 45 hard - limited numbers and expensive. 1938 looks hard, but there are a few around. 37 is interesting as it has the word Emperor to the right of the portrait, this was rectified in 38.
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Oh My, This coin is so beautiful to me, has so much character. I would love to trade for one of these. Livonia has become one of my favorites. So jealous 😁
Some banknotes now - Malta one of my favourite countries for stamps and coins.
Malta adopted the Euro in 2008, but before then they used the Maltese Lira (Plural Liri)
This currency was wildly overvalued and in 2007 it was about £1.40 GBP to £1 LM.
Switching to Euros, the exchange rate was LM£1 = 2.30 or so, or a Euro was 43 Maltese cents.
I managed to get these last series Liri notes, very cheap. I never had seen any Maltese liri notes above 1 single lira until now. These are 1994 - 2007 series and the 2 Liri is the last type (Bonello 2000/07) and the 2 higher notes are earlier (Ellul 1995 - 1999).
Demontised now, but in 2007 they had $87 NZD purchasing power ($1NZ = 19.2 Maltese cents)
The notes are really nice - the LM2 had a minor bankers rumple so is gEF, but the LM5 and LM10 are UNC.
There is also an LM20, but these are very hard to find, again given their huge value.
The notes are entirely in Malti, despite the fact English is widely spoken there. Like Te Reo Maori in New Zealand, a large revival of Malti has lead to the country switching from English as a first language in 1968 to it as the second language by 1980.
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Oh My, This coin is so beautiful to me, has so much character. I would love to trade for one of these. Livonia has become one of my favorites. So jealous 😁
I will try if I can find another one for swap. Generally I have some more simle coins from Livonia available for swap if you need…:)
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I bought this very nice 1950 British Proof set, in its original case. The reason it was even issued is really unknown, other than it was a “Mid century” commemorative. Back then Proof sets were only issued for changes of ruler and currency designs - annual sets only started in 1970.
The set contained only 9 coins, no commems and it was all base metal like the coins of 1950. These are also just polished rather than proofed as nothing is cameoed or frosted. The literature alludes to 2 of the coins possibly not issued for 1950. In fact all were but the 3d is a scarce date and the 1d is rare, with only 240k minted and all apparently sent to the West Indies (1951 is even more scarce).
17,053 sets were issued and I already had a proof halfcrown and florin, so some sets must have been broken up. Despite that there is some value with these (£100 or so) and this is a nice one with limited toning or handling.
The case is cardboard and surprisingly nice, no toning or aging at all. They issued a similar set in 1951 which featured the 1951 Festival of Britain crown and a further set in 1953 for Queen Elizabeth II - yet no one in 1950 would have known that. Still it was a bit of excitement in a dull era for British coins. The set merely offers polished versions of circulation coins, no special designs and no precious metal or gold sovereigns.
PS: If anyone knows of any articles or material about this set and why it was issued, I am interested to know, a search on google just lists catalogue pages and dealers trying to sell these coins!
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I also got this nice example 1820 British Half crown - I already had one, but it was George IV and this is George III. He died in January 1820 all 1820 coins show George III, except for an issue of Halfcrowns that have his son.
This coin is near VF and a nice example I think.
Tiny nick on the tails side at about 6.30 - not much wear, possibly cleaned a long time ago (60s or earlier).
I actually fought another guy to get it. My autobid finished 55 cents higher than his (I always autobid in weird amounts).
Best thing about it, is it completes my George III halfcrown series. Well its a pyrrhic victory as only 6 coins were issued 1816 to 1820 and 2 in 1817 (Bull head and small head), and none of the coins are rare.
Even easier to collect is the 4 dates of William IV (1834 to 1837, although 35 and 37 are scarce coins, 1831 was proof only).
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I bought this very nice 1950 British Proof set, in its original case. The reason it was even issued is really unknown, other than it was a “Mid century” commemorative. Back then Proof sets were only issued for changes of ruler and currency designs - annual sets only started in 1970.
Amazing, this is a really quality set, and nice to see its paper trail. Mint sets definitely deserve some more love
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I like it too, I think Numista could show coin sets in general more love. Its annoying having to enter every coin in a proof set individually. It takes a lot of time when you have wade through the mountains of NCLT crap some countries put out.
This one was easy as its so old, but any set in the past 20 years you have like 10 types in various metals and grades.
Numista should have a single check box for well known coin set types (Proofs, Uncirculated, Mint sets etc). Meaning official ones put out by National Mints and Reserve Banks, not privately made stuff like “5 wartime nickels” “1912 Titanic nickel” etc.
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Just one more coin, this gorgeous 1836 William IV Halfcrown - another upgrade.
This is just stunning, easily EF to gEF. Maybe the best I have ever seen.
Photo doesn't do it justice, lots of lustre. Usual strike weakness (Worn die on lower part of shield). Lots of detail, 90% of W4 is usually worn flat and subha Fine condition.
PS: Just won some lots in auction, which include and Edward III groat (14th century), Henry VIII groat and some more Elizabethan silver coins!
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These are my coin purchases from my weekend in London.
U.K. 2012 Silver Britannia
Italy 5 lira 1927
India princely states Hydrabad 4 Annas 1905
Iran 2 Rials 1944 (lamination error)
Iran 50 Dinars 1943
German states Nassau 1 Kreuzer 1859
India princely states Gwailor Quarter Anna 1917
British India Quarter Anna 1939
Spain Quarter Real 1862
Straits Settlements 1 Cent 1876
Italy 10 Centesimi 1862
France 12 Deniers 1792
Portugal 10 Reis 1891
Portuguese India Quarter Tanga 1886
New Zealand 50 Cents 2001
U.K. 1 Pound 1984
U.K. 1 Pound 1989
U.K. 1 Pound 1992
France 5 Centimes 1872
Malaysia 1 Ringgit 1971
By the way the pound coins were from a random guy who wanted to get rid of them so I offered him face for them.
Also I bought some banknotes.
Brunei 1 Ringgit 1996 sequential pair
India 10 Rupees (1985-1990)
Iran 500 Rials (1976)
Iran 500 Rials (1979)
Pakistan 500 Rupees (1964-1967)
Syria 1,000 Pounds 1997
Syria 2,000 Pounds 2017
Thailand 20 Baht (2018)
Türkiye 100 Lira (1979)
England 10 Pound note (Gill signature 1988-1991)
England 20 Pound note (Gill signature 1988-1991)
England 50 Pound note (Somerset signature 1981-1988)
England 50 Pound note (Lowther signature 1999-2003)
So now I’ve got each type of the modern £50 and have now completed the 1970-1994 series notes.
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So now I’ve got each type of the modern £50 and have now completed the 1970-1994 series notes.
Milestone! Congrats! 😀
I also like the 2 Shah 500 Rials notes from Iran (one without the overprint & with the overprint). Great pair in nice condition!
Thank you
Now I just need to get all the signatures found on each banknote which fortunately is much easier because for most years there was only 2-3 different signatures.
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Some very nice French notgeld pieces, a Morrocco circulating coin from the same period,
and a very amusing brass replica of a 20fr.
I don’t believe it’s a replica, it looks like a contemporary counterfeit!
That Morrocan coin is very nice!
Here’s a recent Spanish and Austrian coin that I got, just cleaned the glue off of it today. I guess somebody had it on mounted to a plaque. The Spanish coins not in great condition but from 1870 I’ll take it.
Taking a break from swapping for a while, but still interested in pre 1799 Spanish coins, I will make time for that!
So now I’ve got each type of the modern £50 and have now completed the 1970-1994 series notes.
Milestone! Congrats! 😀
I also like the 2 Shah 500 Rials notes from Iran (one without the overprint & with the overprint). Great pair in nice condition!
+1
I think it is always interesting to have a pair of banknotes like this, showing the march of history, and illustrating the original and the overprint versions of the same note.
The blue Shakespeare £20 note (Pictorial Series D, if I remember correctly) is my favourite of the Bank of England notes from that period – a super design.
You were busy on your trip to London! Nicely done.
So now I’ve got each type of the modern £50 and have now completed the 1970-1994 series notes.
Milestone! Congrats! 😀
I also like the 2 Shah 500 Rials notes from Iran (one without the overprint & with the overprint). Great pair in nice condition!
+1
I think it is always interesting to have a pair of banknotes like this, showing the march of history, and illustrating the original and the overprint versions of the same note.
The blue Shakespeare £20 note (Pictorial Series D, if I remember correctly) is my favourite of the Bank of England notes from that period – a super design.
You were busy on your trip to London! Nicely done.
Thanks
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NZ $100 note - Hardie (1981 - 1985), just 1 million printed, this one UNC and very low serial number.
Easily my best and most expensive note!
Nice note.
I am still kicking myself for missing the opportunity to buy the NZ$100 last paper print s. S.T. Russell for NZ$170 (P175b). That was back in the mid or late 90s, and at that time, I thought it was a bit expensive. I went back later and was told out of stock. I managed to get the full set signed by Brash from $1 to $50. The $100 was not issued with his signature.
Here is my coin purchase for this month - an Australian 1938 proof penny and half penny. Original mintage of 100 pieces for both denominations, although mint records show only 76 halfpennies and 94 pennies were sold respectively, primarily abroad in the USA. These coins are in the midst of the grading process currently.
NZ $100 note - Hardie (1981 - 1985), just 1 million printed, this one UNC and very low serial number.
Easily my best and most expensive note!
Nice note.
I am still kicking myself for missing the opportunity to buy the NZ$100 last paper print s. S.T. Russell for NZ$170 (P175b). That was back in the mid or late 90s, and at that time, I thought it was a bit expensive. I went back later and was told out of stock. I managed to get the full set signed by Brash from $1 to $50. The $100 was not issued with his signature.
It's a tough one. I only got it as a friend of mine is a coin and note dealer and sold it to me only after another buyer of it had fallen through and he knew I wanted an old $100 note.
You were right about there being no Brash $100s of this type. $100 notes were always scarce at this time, of the earlier type, only 2 of the 4 signatures had them (Fleming and Knight) and only Hardie and Russell of the 2nd type. Later issues of $100 are much more common, but have never been “common”, even though the $100 is not worth much now, we are in this age of credit and debit cards - its usefulness has passed.
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All of them are fascinating. Mexican states is an area I working on.
I love that flying angel and the cap of liberty elevated to god like radiance in heaven.😎
Thanks. I liked it too much. This is the type of coins that I most like. I liked a lot the islamic coin. It has 47mm. 😵 Very large for this type of coin.
i just returned from 3hours of scouring Tables at the Toronto coin expo today. It’s been a long time since I found myself enjoying my time there and happy to have parted with my money for these.
ill post a few at a time, but here’s the first one. Not a coin, but for me very interesting and not often something I come across. The seller offered me an set costing $130, but as I don’t collect stamps I only acquired the one out of the curiosity factor for $10
this stamp was printed by Nazi Germany according to the seller. It was for the Azad Hind (Free India) govt. you can make out the way the “Z” is printed that it’s quite German. I am looking forward to doing my own research on these, but from what I know, the Azad Hind Fauj (Army) was founded by Subhash Chandra Bose, a very key figure in Indian independence. He disagreed with Gandhi’s approach and went to fight on the battlefield. He recruited help wherever he got it, from the germans and the Japanese, raising an army from captured Indian POWs who were more than happy to fight instead for a free homeland instead of the British who occupied their land and forced them into war in the first place. The Azad Hind Givt was set up initially in Singapore and then in The Andaman Islands, fought mostly in the mymanmar-North east India theatres but eventually surrendered when the Japanese lost the war. Of course, india quickly gained independence and these people who were arrested by the British were released as national heroes.
Bose himself is an almost mythical figure. He died enroute in a crash in Formosa (Taiwan) in a Japanese aircraft just prior to japans surrender . His ashes are still believed to be interred at a Japanese shrine of war dead. His was a life of mystery and intrigue worthy of a spy film, survived by a daughter from his Austrian secretary-turned wife who still lives in Austria.
Western historians are quick to brand Bose and the Azad Hind fauj as Nazi collaborators, but Indian scholars push back that just because they got support from the Axis forces, they did not partake Or enable the cruel practices of either the Germans or Japanese and as such cannot be lumped into that narrative
Some of the newer Canadian coins along with a couple older ones that I needed to fill gaps in my canada type collection.
the Georgea Vi has the IND IMP legend while the 10c is .500 silver. The commemoratives are Indigenous Art (toonie) and Elsie Mcgill (loonie) both of which I’m not exactly sure what is the significance. So I must do some Reading
Elsie MacGill was an aeronautical engineer who helped manage the manufacture of the Hawker Hurricane here in Canada during WW2. The British struggled to produce the plane economically but she found ways to cut costs & deliver huge orders. This was considered crucial in supplying the British/CDN airforces with the necessary planes. She was later dubbed the “Queen of the Hurricanes,” by her co-workers & historians.
Elsie MacGill was an aeronautical engineer who helped manage the manufacture of the Hawker Hurricane here in Canada during WW2. The British struggled to produce the plane economically but she found ways to cut costs & deliver huge orders. This was considered crucial in supplying the British/CDN airforces with the necessary planes. She was later dubbed the “Queen of the Hurricanes,” by her co-workers & historians.
Thanks! I knew she didn’t actually fly the plane But was involved in its design/engineering .
i couldn’t find the non- coloured version of the toonie. Again, I’m not even sure how to describe this one, when I say indegenous art, I realize the previous black-red-white one comes to mind instead
this stamp was printed by Nazi Germany according to the seller. It was for the Azad Hind (Free India) govt. you can make out the way the “Z” is printed that it’s quite German. I am looking forward to doing my own research on these, but from what I know, the Azad Hind Fauj (Army) was founded by Subhash Chandra Bose, a very key figure in Indian independence. He disagreed with Gandhi’s approach and went to fight on the battlefield. He recruited help wherever he got it, from the germans and the Japanese, raising an army from captured Indian POWs who were more than happy to fight instead for a free homeland instead of the British who occupied their land and forced them into war in the first place. The Azad Hind Givt was set up initially in Singapore and then in The Andaman Islands, fought mostly in the mymanmar-North east India theatres but eventually surrendered when the Japanese lost the war. Of course, india quickly gained independence and these people who were arrested by the British were released as national heroes.
Bose himself is an almost mythical figure. He died enroute in a crash in Formosa (Taiwan) in a Japanese aircraft just prior to japans surrender . His ashes are still believed to be interred at a Japanese shrine of war dead. His was a life of mystery and intrigue worthy of a spy film, survived by a daughter from his Austrian secretary-turned wife who still lives in Austria.
Western historians are quick to brand Bose and the Azad Hind fauj as Nazi collaborators, but Indian scholars push back that just because they got support from the Axis forces, they did not partake Or enable the cruel practices of either the Germans or Japanese and as such cannot be lumped into that narrative
Thanks for sharing.
Interesting story. I read about this Indian guy too sometime ago and he died in a plane crash in Taiwan. Many Indians were also captured in Malaya (Malaysia/Singapore) during WW2. They were given two choices. Fight for the Japs or die. Those who agreed, live to tell another story. Those who refused were then executed. The value of this stamp 1a. What's the 'a' stand for on the stamp?
this stamp was printed by Nazi Germany according to the seller. It was for the Azad Hind (Free India) govt. you can make out the way the “Z” is printed that it’s quite German. I am looking forward to doing my own research on these, but from what I know, the Azad Hind Fauj (Army) was founded by Subhash Chandra Bose, a very key figure in Indian independence. He disagreed with Gandhi’s approach and went to fight on the battlefield. He recruited help wherever he got it, from the germans and the Japanese, raising an army from captured Indian POWs who were more than happy to fight instead for a free homeland instead of the British who occupied their land and forced them into war in the first place. The Azad Hind Givt was set up initially in Singapore and then in The Andaman Islands, fought mostly in the mymanmar-North east India theatres but eventually surrendered when the Japanese lost the war. Of course, india quickly gained independence and these people who were arrested by the British were released as national heroes.
Bose himself is an almost mythical figure. He died enroute in a crash in Formosa (Taiwan) in a Japanese aircraft just prior to japans surrender . His ashes are still believed to be interred at a Japanese shrine of war dead. His was a life of mystery and intrigue worthy of a spy film, survived by a daughter from his Austrian secretary-turned wife who still lives in Austria.
Western historians are quick to brand Bose and the Azad Hind fauj as Nazi collaborators, but Indian scholars push back that just because they got support from the Axis forces, they did not partake Or enable the cruel practices of either the Germans or Japanese and as such cannot be lumped into that narrative
Thanks for sharing.
Interesting story. I read about this Indian guy too sometime ago and he died in a plane crash in Taiwan. Many Indians were also captured in Malaya (Malaysia/Singapore) during WW2. They were given two choices. Fight for the Japs or die. Those who agreed, live to tell another story. Those who refused were then executed. The value of this stamp 1a. What's the 'a' stand for on the stamp?
Glad you enjoyed it.. The 1a would stand for 1 Anna.
we do have first hand testimony from Indian POWs from south east Asia and the North African theatres. In the case of the Japanese, the option was to fight under the azad hind fauj or starve with the English/Australian POWs in the labour camps. So I would not take those accounts you read at face value as there may be biased. Those who decided to go into the labour camps were afraid what would happen to their families in India should word get back to the British govt in India that they deserted. In a nut shell, it’s complicated.
We do not know what exactly was the Japanese end goal should they have won the war, but if indonesia was anything to go by, they seemed to prefer the light touch so long as the local givt did not challenge them. It lit the fire for independence that saw the Dutch having to quit Indonesia in the next few years
another nice one that my uncle is sure to get a kick out of once I show it to him. Many of my extended family lived along the east coast of Africa In todays Kenya, tanzania and Uganda. But things got hairy in the 60s and many of them had to leave. My uncles family went back to India, but eventually came to Canada as well
my uncles case was interesting.. he was born in tanganyika.. in the 60s, his family had a choice between taking indian, Tanzanian, British or Portuguese citizenship. Eventually they chose india as they had family property in goa
Here are banknotes reported by colleagues returning from vacation :
I’ve find It intriguing why don’t more people collect more of the lesser know circulating currencies such as those from Central Asia and those in Europe excluding the Euro.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
one of the dealers at the Toronto coin expo yesterday had these crowned portrait sets. quirk I’ve sworn off British (and most other country) coins post 2020, I figured these were interesting one offs . I’m not sure whether we’ll see another one like these. For $50 for the £5 and 50p, I think it’s more or less what the issue price by the RM would have been
A couple of modern /new coins to fill in the gaps for my type collection from the US. Now I have all the presidential dollars. I don’t normally collect those kinds of nZ coins which are not meant for circulation, but it was just $6 and a nice crown size, so what the heck!
Into older coins now. Here’s an eclectic mix. I picked these up at random as I ran through the flip boxes at various tables. Basically anything that caught my eye either for aesthetic reasons or out of curiosity/ exotic factor. Of course the only guiding principle was I didn’t already have any of these in my collection
im just missing the EVII and GV Christmas crown now, then I’ll work my way back to WIIII and older. the mexican civil war is very interesting. I only have a surface knowledge of the goings on in that complicated time in history, but I believe that is indeed Benito juarez who succeeded but then was replaced by perferio Diaz . The Meiji era sen is always welcome while the North Borneo coins have a very well struck and interesting CoA
Finally imo, the pieces I’m most excited about. now that I have stopped collecting New issues post 2020 for the most part, I’m more inclined to spend money on older pieces and especially ok Indian related history. With British India, I’m trying to look for better grade pieces, so was happy to get this ½ pice.
i absolutely love calligraphy and eager to start understanding the varieties in older mughal- style pieces. there was a Bombay presidency piece as well, but by then I ran out of cash and decided to call it a day :)
Finally imo, the pieces I’m most excited about. now that I have stopped collecting New issues post 2020 for the most part, I’m more inclined to spend money on older pieces and especially ok Indian related history. With British India, I’m trying to look for better grade pieces, so was happy to get this ½ pice.
i absolutely love calligraphy and eager to start understanding the varieties in older mughal- style pieces. there was a Bombay presidency piece as well, but by then I ran out of cash and decided to call it a day :)
Finally imo, the pieces I’m most excited about. now that I have stopped collecting New issues post 2020 for the most part, I’m more inclined to spend money on older pieces and especially ok Indian related history. With British India, I’m trying to look for better grade pieces, so was happy to get this ½ pice.
i absolutely love calligraphy and eager to start understanding the varieties in older mughal- style pieces. there was a Bombay presidency piece as well, but by then I ran out of cash and decided to call it a day :)
The New Zealand dollar was 1 of 4 issued in 1989 for the Commonwealth Games, which were in Auckland in Jan/Feb 1990 during our summer. This one is athletics. Also were coins issued for swimming, weightlifting and gymnastics. They were issued in silver and cupronickel like yours.
Heres the whole set in silver
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
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