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Thursday 02 February 2012
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| George V 1932 One Florin Florins from Great Britain were first struck in 1849 as silver coins weighing 11.3 gms and and a 28mm diameter. These coins were among the first kind of coins which had the portrait of the monarch wearing a crown. Later on, these florins were redesigned as and when the monarch changed. The George V florin had the portrait of George V facing towards the left. George V coins were issued between the years 1910 and 1936. Florins were minted in all these years except in 1910 and 1934. The weight and diameter of these coins remained unchanged but their metal composition kept changing again and again. The metal composition was divided into silver and copper or silver, copper and nickel or silver, copper, nickel and zinc. In this article we would discuss more about the 1932 George V florin. The metal composition of the 1932 florins is silver and the edge of these coins is reeded. Until 1926 the inscriptions on the obverse of these florins were GEORGIVS V D G BRITT OMN REX F D IND IMP* and on the reverse were ONE FLORIN and the date, while from 1927 the obverse inscriptions were changed to GEORGIVS V DEI GRA BRITT OMN REX* and the reverse ones were FID DEF IND IMP*, date and ONE FLORIN. Obverse of the 1932 coin shows the bare head of George V facing towards the left and the reverse of this coin has four crowned shields arranged in cross, and with accepters in angles. The 1932 coins had a very low mintage of 717,041 as compared to the other years. The highest minted coin was 16,397,279 in the year 1929. In 1936, these coins showed a dramatic change as with the end of George V’s reign, the word “florin” no longer appeared on British coins. This article and photos were submitted to us by coinbragger qsera who runs rareindiancoins.com and also sells coins on eBay as the_great_jodhpur. Check out the_great_jodhpur's eBay store As of presstime the exact coin in the photos is available for sale: here *Based on varying abbreviations of Latin words, they mean "George V, By the Grace of God, King of all the British Territories, Defender of the Faith, and Emperor of India". |
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Coin Spotlight: 1 Tangka from Tibet
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| Tibetan Tangka Tibet is situated in the north-eastern part of the Himalayas and is a plateau region of Asia. Tibet has always had a complex relationship with its powerful neighbor, China. History reveals that the relationship between Tibet and China has never been as one-sided as how it appears to be now. In 1570 Tibet started circulating its first coinage. These coins were those of the neighboring country Nepal. After 1720, the Nepalese government started striking specific coins which were then used in Tibet. Finally, in 1791 the first Tibetan government started minting its own coinage. However, two years later their operations were suspended. Then, in 1792, the Chinese started their second operation of minting coins in Lhasa. They were successful in producing coins until 1836. Soon after that, the Tibetan mint was reopened and its government started minting coins until 1953. The monetary system of Tibet is: 15 Skar = 1.5 Sho = 1 Tangka. There were many different rulers under which the Sino-Tibetan coins were issued. The names of these rulers were Chen Lung, (1735-1796) Chia Ching, (1796-1820) Tao Kuang (1820-1851) and Hsuan Tung (1909-1911). Among the different types of coins issued in these years, one of the common coins was the Silver Tangka. Different types of Tangka’s were minted in different years and under different names like the “Kong-par” Tangka, Ga-den Tangka and some miscellaneous Tangkas. To know more about Tangkas, kindly refer page number 404 of “The Standard Guide to South Asian coins and Paper Money”. Some Tangkas were minted in Silver metal, whereas some were minted in Billon. Billon is an alloy of a precious metal with copper being the majority of its base metal content. There were many different die varieties of Tangkas minted with “five petals around lotus center”, “five dots around lotus center”, three elongated dots on either side of the lotus center” and so on. Other than tangka, the other denominations of Tibet coins include Sho, Skar, Srang and Rupee. This article and photos were submitted to us by coinbragger qsera who runs rareindiancoins.com and also sells coins on eBay as the_great_jodhpur. Check out the_great_jodhpur's eBay store Today's photos supplied by: aspencoins.com |
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