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[<k>]

Parent topic:  The world's oldest coin designs still being issued.
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[quaziright]

Costa Rican coins would also be pretty old from the early start of the 20th century atleast. Their rather plain design with the coat of arms on one side and the denomination on the other has not changed in nearly a century I believe

[<k>]

I thought they had changed slightly in recent years, but I'll check that out and return to my post here later.

[brandm24]

The only three US coin series that I can think of, <k>, are the Lincoln Cent (1909 to present), the Roosevelt Dime (1946 to present) and the Washington Quarter (1932 to present). All had design changes to the reverse but the obverse has stayed nearly identical.

Bruce

[Pabitra]

The current circulation coin series which have been issued in piece meal fashion and should go for total redesign are, IMHO, are Israel and Pakistan.

[<k>]

Pakistan's current designs date from 1998 at the oldest. Israel's coins date from 1985, the 1990s, and this century. So in terms of age they do not fit this topic.

[<k>]

That just leaves South Korea to look at, I believe. Or do you know of any more sets with designs from the 1970s or older?

[Big_M]

That just leaves South Korea to look at, I believe. Or do you know of any more sets with designs from the 1970s or older?

West Africa BCEAO:

https://www.bceao.int/fr/content/pieces-en-circulation

100 Francs from 1967 (last released in 2019)
50 Francs from 1972 (last released in 2019)

5 Francs, the design is from 1957 (for French West Africa + Togo) first released in 1960, last released in 2018.

1 Franc from 1976 (last released in 2011)

10 and 25 Francs bear FAO themes introduced in the 80s

[quaziright]

Sri Lanka just introduced a design change to their coinage in 2017. Else they were using the same reverse design since the late 60s for some if not all of their denominations

[<k>]

That's disgraceful. I think Sri and Lanka should be split into two different countries, then we'll get two new coin sets. 

[chrisild]

Cuba. The designs of the lower denominations date from 1915! A new design series is desperately needed.

The setup is somewhat strange too – 1, 2, 5, 20 centavos, and 1 peso. No 0.10 or 0.50 coins? Oh well. Yes, the designs are old, but the convertible peso coins look better.

(Kind of strange, by the way, that the 5 centavos coin in the set you show here still had the old "patria y libertad" motto. That was changed to the usual "patria o muerte" a few years ago. Ha, there you have some change!  )

Christian

[Offa]

The oldest continuously used design has to be Switzerland

[andyg]

Most of the designs of the current coins of Belize date back to 1973 and 1974. The dollar design dates from 1990.

Even older is Mary Gillick's crowned portrait of the Queen that appears on the denominations lower than a dollar. It dates back to 1953 and is no longer used by any other country or territory.

These designs, bar a change to the country name from "British Honduras" to "Belize", date back to 1894.

[<k>]

These designs, bar a change to the country name from "British Honduras" to "Belize" date back to 1894.

Definitely time for a change, then!

[Figleaf]

If a change in the name of a country is OK, this one may be of interest. The first Dutch ducats were struck in 1586. At the time, the coins were hammered and the dies were made in an uncoordinated fashion in a number of Dutch mints. In time, many more minor variants occurred. The coin shown was struck in the Middelburg mint; the obverse legend ends in ZELandia and a castle

The major change came after the Napoleonic period, when the government of the Dutch federal republic (ORDinum PROVINciarum FOEDERatorum BELGicarum) was replaced by the Kingdom of the Netherlands (REGni Belgii). The type survived the second world war because it was in demand in the Netherlands Indies and de-colonisation was not on Dutch political radar screens.

Current strikes have been sold way above par, but the coin still figures in Dutch legislation as a trade coin. It is not a commemorative. The 2022 will be struck in the Utrecht mint and issued in September 2022.

Peter