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mot777mot

Mon May 24 2010, 03:23pm

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Here's another one for you guy's, think its a medalion.

KSP

Tue May 25 2010, 10:30am

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Ooh, interesting. I don't know anything about medals, but at first thought it's Portuguese commemorating the Spanish Armada...but wait a moment! That Can't be right...so a check on the text on the medal reveals it to be a place on he coast of South Africa where the Portuguese had a naval conflict...February 1488..so the medal was probably made in 1988 or possibly 1888. That's about all I can add to the discussion.

mot777mot

Tue May 25 2010, 12:36pm

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LOL, jip your absolutely right. Dias 88 Commerative Coin - 1988
Bartolomeu Dias (Anglicized: Bartholomew Diaz) (c. 1450 – May 29, 1500), a Nobleman of the Royal Household, was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so. He named the what became known as the Cape of Good Hope "the Cape of storms." He helped to open up the route that Vasco da Gama would take to India, accompanying him part of the way. This subsequently opened up the East to trade and to European colonialism, although ironically since the Portuguese pioneered the route, it would be the British and the Dutch who would dominate imperial expansion East of the Cape. Until the building of the Suez Canal, this route would be the main channel of travel and communication West to East.

KSP

Tue May 25 2010, 01:29pm

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Heh, see, this is why I collect coins and such. Each item tells a history. Fascinating. Thanks for that.

Nicholas

Thu May 27 2010, 09:06am

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I agree. I love learning small tidbits of history from different coins. There are many facts you can easily learn that just are not mentioned in an Introduction to World History class. :)

Ripley

Sun Jul 18 2010, 03:29am

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The obverse of your coin is the first King of Italy. There were only 3 kings. Ripley
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BCNumismatics

Tue Jul 20 2010, 08:21am

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There were actually 4 Kings of Italy,but only the first 3 had their own coins.

King Umberto II was forced into exile after a reign of just over a month in 1946.He died in 1983.

Aidan.