Mountains and volcanoes on coins

[bart]

Some coins of the Philippines show a smoking volcano.

[Figleaf]

Practically all modern coins of San Marino have three mountains, which is unfair, because it's their coat of arms and because there's not enough place for three mountains in the whole country.

Peter

[translateltd]

Practically all modern coins of San Marino have three mountains, which is unfair, because it's their coat of arms and because there's not enough place for three mountains in the whole country.

Peter

I thought it was three peaks on the one mountain, a bit like the twin peaks on Mt Tsukuba in Japan (which leads, not surprisingly, to numerous maternal references to the mountain in Japanese folklore ...)

[WillieBoyd2]

The United States Colorado State Quarter has Longs Peak on the reverse.

I hiked up Longs Peak in 1980.

[bart]

Here's another coin with a mountain: 1 rial SH1371 (1992) from I.R. of Iran

[Figleaf]

Amazing how mny of these mountains are on real coins. Maybe a mountain is the ultimate neutral symbol that people still can relate to.

Peter

[Bimat]

The latest Iranian 1000 Rial (2011) commemorative showing mountain. (The top coin)



Aditya

[<k>]

Austria, 10 Groschen, 1925.  Tyrolean woman, with the Alps in the background.

[Prosit]

Not a coin.....which is a common response when I post in these thematic areas.
Which I wish had a slightly more broader scope than coins,...


Großglockner is, at 12,460 ft above sea level, Austria's highest mountain and the highest mountain
in the Alps east of the Brenner Pass. This makes it, after Mont Blanc, the second tallest mountain in
the Alps, when measured by relative height.

I am quite proud to say this one is in my own collection.

While I have a love affair with cheap tokens and medals, this one is not in that catagory.
Those days I could afford to pursue this interest is long past.
However I can still enjoy the ones I do have 
Dale

[chrisild]

As for the scope, well, I believe that in a coin forum we should focus on coins - but that does not mean medals or other exonumia are verboten, of course. The point where I would start sighing is when (if) people started posting all kinds of topic-related but not really numismatic images: of paintings, videos ("here we are in front of the Mount Blahblah"), colored mini-versions of mountains ...

Here is another "non-coin" with mountains. Or rather a "not-yet-coin" - the piece will be issued in early February. This is next year's €2 commem from the German States series, honoring Bavaria. Usually the pieces from that series feature one building only, but here the artist (Erich Ott) added a line in the background which indicates that the castle (Neuschwanstein) is in the mountains.

Christian

[andyg]

Both the Iranian coins upthread show Mount Damāvand, the highest volcano in Asia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damavand

(I'll not link to the picture lest I get in trouble )

[<k>]

Here is a nice pattern coin from Nicaragua dated 1860. Note the misspelling of centavo.

[<k>]

And a rare one peso coin of Chile, dated 1825.

[translateltd]

Note the misspelling of centavo.

Funny, but not entirely beyond imagining, especially as in parts of Latin America B and V are pronounced exactly the same (I once had a friend from Nicaragua who was regularly asking me - I know not why - if I had seen his pal Bustos anywhere; the question "Has visto a Bustos?" always came out as "Ah bihto a buhtoh?")

[Figleaf]

Some people from what is now Indonesia have the same tendency. One colleague early in my career had a roommate called Varkevisser, who he referred to as Parkepisser.

Peter