Post a coin with most of lettering lines

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Hi, - a small competition. Who will post a coin with most of horisontal or arc lines ?!  :)

I mean lettering lines of oficial coin legend, and not lettering on some things on a coin image ( for example, flag, arms, book, shield or so)

arc lines = 1 line
circular legend = 1 line.
horisontal lettering = 1 line
lets Go !  :)

Coin from my collection :

Ethiopian 1 Piastre / 1/16 Thaler Union of Traders and Industrialists of Dire-Daoua

7 LINES  !!!! Who will more ?


15 lines (Lord's Prayer) on a 12.7mm planchet:

is it a coin???
No it's a token and so is your example.
Here is a privately issued halfpenny token of the Province of Upper Canada:



The reverse is my profile picture. There's a mistake in the name which should be BROCK. I love the way they dealt with the problem of lack of space at line 7. The Romans occasionally did exactly the same thing on their stone inscriptions.

The areas of weakness are usual with these tokens, even in UNC condition, and are due to the fact that the tokens were very thin (to make a profit, of course) with not enough metal transfer into the letters where the ship's sails are on the opposite side.
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Here's a good one:
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces13273.html
zoom in on the face
This one that I have has 12 lines in the circle plus others outside ...

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces80453.html
Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins
Quote: "Steve27"​No it's a token and so is your example.
my one is quite payable "token" . It used as money on the territory without money. but okay  :) its a game, nothing more  :)
An interesting one
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces42364.html
medallic coinage
Catalog Master Referee & Referee for UAE
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Amer Salmeh
That's quite a modern coin.
Here's a small example
These aren't tokens, but circulated coins:

6 lines: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces34670.html

and most of the coins in Islamic states have 8~10 lines
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces76498.html
Referee for Spain, Iberia (ancient), Suebi Kingdom and Visigothic Kingdom
In case we can count also lines with music notes, then this coin has 18.
Luxembourg 2013; 2 euro commemorative.
Who more?

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces50740.html
Every single coin on the world should meet its collector!
I'm not sure it actually counts as lettering, what with being partly covered by the design, but I did find an example of this Israeli commemorative in circulation once (maybe twice, since I seem to have two of them in similar condition).

I count 24 background lines, plus 5-7 regular lettering lines (not sure how to count them exactly).
I got this one recently with 10 lines ...
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces108385.html Token - Civet cat
then this with 14 lines ...
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces108163.html ½ Penny - Thomas Wood
Token collector [1600-1899] with some coins
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces87916.html
ROMA AETERNA
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces87447.html
ROMA AETERNA
Tokens-schmokens :P
http://wcn.pl/archive/51_1119?q=talar+po%C5%9Bmiertny
http://wcn.pl/archive/59_0927?q=talar+po%C5%9Bmiertny
http://wcn.pl/archive/51_1119?q=talar+po%C5%9Bmiertny
http://wcn.pl//auctions/68/593
Grosz do grosza i będzie kokosza.
On a circulating commemorative Canadian coin, a lot of the background lines are covered by the design, but I can count 14 in total. And if one were to count the 25 cents, De Salaberry, and 1812 as separate lines, that would push this coin up to 17 lines total.
So what coin is in the lead?
Taking a break from swapping for a while, but still interested in pre 1799 Spanish coins, I will make time for that!

Looking for pre 1783 coins
From Sweden a 200 kr commemorative.

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces44090.html
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces122638.html

I think we've got a winner here!
The UK are not so good at this nowadays...

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces6856.html

I did find this though...

https://www.westminstercollection.com/p-T384/The-2017-Remembrance-Silver-5-Pound-Poppy-Coin.aspx

P.S Its a good job that an I prefer striking imagery to tiny scrawl although the examples here would be a lovely edition to any collection
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There's this Albanian coin
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces40659.html

with their declaration of independence on it, literally, but I'm unsure if that counts as lettering.

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