Farm and garden motifs on coins...

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Oklahoman Numista team
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Posted: 21 Feb 2016, 23:57 #
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Just this morning I made my first harvest of asparagus. So yummy it never got to the house. It occured to me that I dont have a coin with asparagus on it...I have a number of coins with edible plants and animal themes...might make a good exhibit at a coin show. Who has coins that would fit this thread?
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ZacUK Numista team
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Posted: 22 Feb 2016, 00:05 #
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I only have medallions with farm and garden ...






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neilithic
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Posted: 22 Feb 2016, 00:08 #
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There's all the FAO coins.
chomp-master
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Posted: 22 Feb 2016, 00:10 #
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Not all... Did you already see the North Korean FAO transportation series?

To come back to the initial theme: cloudberry
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces96.html
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Oklahoman Numista team
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Posted: 22 Feb 2016, 00:24 #
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Those are beautiful medals. I have a lot of FAO coins. I like the ones from Tonga.
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Posted: 22 Feb 2016, 00:28 #
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Concerning new French franc former circulating coins, there are wheat obverse of 1 centime and 5 centimes, olive branches on 1/2 franc and 1 franc...
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Oklahoman Numista team
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Posted: 22 Feb 2016, 01:18 #
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Is the lady on the pre euro coins also sowing grain? The USA has a beautiful design of a sower reminiscent of that beautiful motif..
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chomp-master
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Posted: 22 Feb 2016, 08:27 #
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That's why we call her The Sower (La Semeuse). Notice the stylized equivalent in euro coins.
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces101.html
And notice the original design is really old, as can be seen in the original silver edition:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces682.html
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Jarcek Numista team
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Posted: 22 Feb 2016, 08:30 #
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So much farm as you can get: http://www.richtera.cz/numismatics/pict/interest/50s_1920.jpg - 50 Stotinek
Czechoslovak trial strike from 1920, where it was not even clear that we will have korunas and halere.

(Going to add it in the catalogue soon :wiz:)
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antonpieter
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Posted: 23 Feb 2016, 17:04 #
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https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces66314.html

this one about family farming!
Jesse11
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Posted: 23 Feb 2016, 17:54 #
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The German 50 pfennig had a woman planting a tree:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces847.html

A couple of Czechoslovak coins had planting and harvesting motifs:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1225.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces2644.html

And a sheaf or stalks of wheat was used on a number of other German coins:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1921.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1913.html
rhino
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Posted: 23 Feb 2016, 18:05 #
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I like these Romanian ones because of the tractors
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1874.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces838.html
SRV5490
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Posted: 23 Feb 2016, 18:34 #
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U.S. wheat pennies
Mexican centavos KM#417 & KM#418 (oat or wheat sprigs)
Mexican 10 centavos KM#434 (ear of corn)
Gambia has several coins with peanuts
Nigeria has different coins with peanuts, corn and cocoa beans
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Posted: 11 Mar 2020, 13:47 #
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https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces633.html
Beekeeper
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Posted: 15 Mar 2020, 00:19 #
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I have a few medallions with an agricultural topic. Here are some photos.










ZacUK Numista team
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Posted: 15 Mar 2020, 00:30 #
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Oh my goodness. Wow !
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Posted: 17 Mar 2020, 23:18 #
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A few Scottish coins depicting the thistle

They range from 1594 to 1706.

The earliest coin to depict the thistle: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces111431.html
Dutchgalego
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Posted: 18 Mar 2020, 10:49 #
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Quote: "Oklahoman"​Just this morning I made my first harvest of asparagus. So yummy it never got to the house. It occured to me that I dont have a coin with asparagus on it...I have a number of coins with edible plants and animal themes...might make a good exhibit at a coin show. Who has coins that would fit this thread?
​You should take a look to FAO coins... it's all about food and farming.
Cents are money too!
Dutchgalego
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Posted: 18 Mar 2020, 10:51 #
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Quote: "rhino"​I like these Romanian ones because of the tractors
​https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1874.html
​https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces838.html
​yes, they're beauties.
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alfonz
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Posted: 18 Mar 2020, 11:57 #
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Medal celebrating a jubilee of the agricultural association from the Kingdom of Hannover:
ThePoet
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Posted: 19 Mar 2020, 07:10 #
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I searched Google for coins with asparagus. Lo and behold there are many recipes with asparagus coins. You can make them in your kitchen.
That was the only reference that came up but maybe if you look in a cornucopia on a coin you might see one. There are many coins with a cornucopia.
Oklahoman Numista team
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Posted: 19 Mar 2020, 08:27 #
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That was witty!
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lidianb
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Posted: 25 Mar 2020, 19:12 #
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Check these out:

Nude sower:

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces24313.html

Farmer plowing land with ox:

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces24272.html

Italian coins from Vittorio Emanuele III from 1911 - 1943 has many motives of farming as well.
Check my coins for sale:
http://www.ebay.com/usr/lidianb
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