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I know a lot of you have seen my coin shots but maybe there are a few who would still be interested. I got a lot of feedback at GIM2 saying my pictures motivated them to buy.
That can't be all bad.
Here's a Panda. This really nice coin series had the misfortune to be probably the most counterfeited coin ever. It got so bad that, unless you bought from a major dealer, you almost certainly got screwed with a fake. And almost all the counterfeiters were Chinese nationals.
I though it was weird, Pandas are the Chinese national coin, produced by their national mint like our Silver Eagles. I'm pretty sure that, if a bunch of groups of Americans had counterfeited SAE's to the point that they destroyed the market, the Secret Service would have been all over them.
But in a country that allowed export pet food makers to place a actual poison that mimicked protein in their food to boost their profits? Who knows what in the hell is going through their minds.
Real Pandas were a really nice coin series though.
Edited by TomD - 4/19/2024, 04:49 PM
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I would think the CCP endorses and probably finances the knock off practice.
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Silver lunar coins from the Perth Mint in Australia
Two coins shown: a Dragon from Series 1 and a Tiger from Series 2
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I've said it before, Tom, your pictures are fantastic. Thanks for the images.
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QUOTE (TomD @ 4/19/2024, 11:48 PM) I know a lot of you have seen my coin shots but maybe there are a few who would still be interested.
Always interesting. I never tire looking at beautiful coins and you capture them magnificently in your shots. Post as many as you can. 
And thank you!
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Australia, considering it's population, mints way more than its' fair share of the really nice coins. Here are a few of their Kookaburra series, from early to later.
I was lucky since, like a lot of us, started buying bullion coins before they got really expensive.
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QUOTE (TomD @ 4/21/2024, 07:54 PM) Australia, considering it's population, mints way more than its' fair share of the really nice coins.
If I'm not mistaken, it was a post by Irons on GIM2 that got me to looking at Kookaburra coins. They are beautiful coins. I've bought some since reading posts on GIM2. I just wish I had bought more!
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For a number of years, a female Mexican coin seller and I where pretty good friends. I helped her get US stuff and she sent some stuff to me that I would have never heard of otherwise. It helps that I really like their coins.
Below are a few offbeat coins that she's sent. These are wild enough that I've posted them a few time before. One of them, "Numeracion Maya" has a funny story. I've sold a few pictures here and there but the people wanting to purchase rights to use that coin picture surprised me. They were a Mexican textbook publisher who ended up putting that image into a Spanish language grammar school arithmetic textbook. If you look closely at the coin, you'll see why, it shows how the Mayans counted.
The Don Quijote coin is a riot! I've never seen anything to equal that. And the Azteca Calendario is a classic.
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These are all Canadian. Not sure Canadian coins have ever been appreciated no matter what iteration of GIM. It somehow morphed into a near universal hate for the (then) Queen, which I never understood. The image on the gold maple below is from just after WWII. I don't know how much was for show at the time but she supposedly worked during the war as a truck mechanic.
I seem to have ended up with lots of Canadian coins. Some of my garden variety silver Maples ended up with the "milk spot" disease.
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