This is a coin commemorating the Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. I do not have a high opinion of that genre (Borges, Beckett, Pinter, etc.); I am simply interested in the maze that appears on the reverse. Presumably it figures in one of his fables. You often see a maze in the garden of a palace, but I think this is the only maze on a coin. Can anybody prove me wrong?
You've chosen a theme or concept that it is difficult to assess. What about this Sri Lankan coin (left-hand side)?
(http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=13426.0;attach=19975;image)
Mozambique, 20 meticais, 1980. I am certain that this is the only armoured carrier on a coin in the whole of the known universe. 8)
(http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=39360.0;attach=72099;image)
United Arab Emirates, 1973, 1 dirham. Arab coffee can. Any more coffee cans?
(http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=9492.0;attach=13092;image)
(https://sites.google.com/site/malstokens/_/rsrc/1320021749053/efi/Epa348.jpg?height=200&width=198)
British forces currency in Afghanistan, issued 2004.
(https://sites.google.com/site/malstokens/_/rsrc/1302051202510/efi/Ep012.jpg?height=200&width=195)
Force Protection patrol exiting Shaibah Log Base, Iraq. Apr 04 issued 2008.
An Act of Parliament in 1775 required that all coin weights be submitted for examination because there were many irregularities found, an examination mark of a ewer of the Founders Company to be used within a radius of 3 miles around the City of London. This stamp was more commonly known as a coffee-pot.
Skeletons on coins.
Yeah, but those are animals (like the one attached here - Germany 2011). Not sure whether there are other human skeletons on modern coins, so Dale may well be right ...
Christian
Ain't that repeated on the Gibraltar £1?
Does he means that the skeletons in general are unique - or just the skeleton man?
The coin should be judged and not my intention.
Your post, your rules, your decision.
Dale
I think a little audience participation is fun, and some decisions are genuinely difficult because of grey areas. However, I would say that a full human skeleton on a coin is unique (unless somebody proves otherwise). Given your position on my rules, I've just added a rule: "If Dale has any of his challenges moved to the Rejection topic, he will be made into a pie". >:D
A human pie.....hummmmm....In spite of what you may think, I do not know of a specific instance where a human was made into a pie. Considering the long history of the human race and the colorfulness of it ::)
I think the likelyhood of that having already been done is approaching 100%.
Therefore, your new rule is REJECTED as lacking uniqueness and must be moved in the rejection topic forthwith! ;D
Dale
There are several anchors on coins, but how about rudders? Italy, 5 lire.
The Latvian 1922 50 Santimu shows a large part of a rudder....but certainly not entire.
Dale
A human pie.....hummmmm....In spite of what you may think, I do not know of a specific instance where a human was made into a pie. Considering the long history of the human race and the colorfulness of it ::)
I think the likelyhood of that having already been done is approaching 100%.
Therefore, your new rule is REJECTED as lacking uniqueness and must be moved in the rejection topic forthwith! ;D
Dale
BTW, I was referring to the amphora under the owl, not the owl itself. Of course, owl is quite common.
I know of turnips on coins but not beets.
Dale
Give me an example?
So far I haven't been able to find another coin depicting a stethoscope. :o
Only bimetallic coin showing another bimetallic coin on it? (5 Rand 2009, Nelson Mandela)
Some San Marino designs - apologies if we had them before :)Poland 2 zlotys 1997 Stag beetle
Beetle
Stocking?
If not will try Candy.
Isle of Man 50p 2013.
(I get told off if I don't let on what the coin is)
Would a trade token count?
Peter
Dale found a better sock anyway. :)
I did think about trying "Candy in a Stocking" but thought that might be pushing things a bit 8)
What about modern contact lenses? The Czech Republic dedicated a collector coin to Otto Wichterle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Wichterle), a chemist who invented the soft contact lense. Designed by Josef Oplištil ... the coin, that is. :)
Christian
I think the Isle of man had a coin with knitting needels on it but no person knitting.
Pretty sneaky...refering to a very specific fly such as a blowfly...what about a Tse Tse...or a drqagonfly which isn't reallyt a fly,
Maybe unique as a blowdly but not as a fly.
Dale
Comoros, 25 francs, 1982. Chicks hatching. One of a kind?
Perhaps you mean this: 10 dobras, 1977. Similar - but there are no hatchlings!
Egg boxes must be pretty unique though :)
Another -
Musical notes are quite common - but an entire piece of written music?
I could actually play this one from the coin....
"FIGHT HUNGER THROUGH SPACE EXPLORATION". Interesting slogan. "We're starving to death - what to do? I know - let's catch a spaceship to the moon. I've heard it's made of cheese. :) It would probably be cheaper to go to the supermarket - if only we had one in our country."
Mozambique, 20 meticais, 1980. I am certain that this is the only armoured carrier on a coin in the whole of the known universe. 8)
(http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=39360.0;attach=72099;image)
Some San Marino designs - apologies if we had them before :)
Beetle
(http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=13509.0;attach=92183;image)
Solomon Islands 25 dollars 1992
Rejected - 2 Zlote Poland 1997
(http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17841.0;attach=89143;image)
splitting the atom
Only coin to show a horse driven cart? :)
Aditya
You mean you've never seen THIS topic?
On Horseback or Chariot (http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php/topic,16321.0.html)
:o
Whoops, my bad! Please split my post to 'Rejections' part. It actually deserves deletion. ;D ;D
Aditya
UK, 2 pounds, 2009.
The design shows the handwriting of Robert Burns but without his signature. Dheer's topic, Signatures on Coins (http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?topic=33651.0), has many examples of handwriting, but always with the famous person's signature. Apart from the Dickens design, are there any others that show a famous person's handwriting but without a signature?
How about this Irish coin commemorating James Joyce? I'm not sure if this is his handwriting...
It's an interesting coincidence, in view of dheer's topic, that the quotation includes the word "signatures". :)
Latvia €5 (2015): Rainis and Aspazija. Only coin showing same signatures on both sides?
(http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=32919.0;attach=56337;image)(http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=32919.0;attach=56336;image)
Nobody challenged me on this, shall I take it as I have successfully made it to 'one of a kind' list? ;D ;D
Aditya
For now, yes. Though I'm sure one of the smaller mints could knock me up something very quickly for a tiny fee. >:D Haven't you ever previously posted a piece that was not rejected, then?
One of a kind.
ISRAEL - SILVER 1 NEW SHEQELS UNC 2010 YEAR JONAH IN BELLY WHALE
The only coin that shows a human that has been eaten. (Jonah)
Dale
However, as Malcolm stated, it's a fire truck. A horse driven one.
This may also be the only coin with an exploded pie graph as well as the only coin with an organisation chart on it. That would make it the only coin with three one-of-a-kind features, so that it would actually have four one-of-a-kind features, which would also be a one-of-a-kind feature and therefore it would be the only coin with three real and one virtual one-of-a-kind features, which would give it five one-of-a-kind features :)
Peter
Are they solar panels beneath the wind turbines?
Malta, 1 lira, 1986.
Is this the only coin that shows a worm? Botswana issued a coin featuring a but that creature is in fact a caterpillar.
Well, there is the Chalmers Shilling but I don't even know if that is an official coin or not.
Had to Google it. Disgraceful that the Merkins would desecrate the noble shilling with a worm. :o
What else could it be - a seal?
The paws look right for a mole. It's not meant to be highly realistic, I think.
An otter?
Moles eyes don't show as they are almost blind
It's not an otter because otter ears are visible. It's not a seal because seals have no claws and it's not a mole, because the longest "finger" of a mole claw is the central one. Surely that decides the real question of this thread. It is one of a kind.
Peter
What else could it be - a seal?
I think a seal is a good bet.
Malta, 1 lira, 1986.
Is this the only coin that shows a worm? Botswana issued a coin featuring a "mophane worm" (http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php/topic,37409.msg235963.html#msg235963), but that creature is in fact a caterpillar.
I believe there is a slovenian pre euro coin with a worm on it
(http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17769.0;attach=27354;image)
Do you mean this? It's an olm - a blind salamander. Worms don't have hands and feet - at least not where I live. ;)
Russia, 1 ruble, 2006. Took me a while to find it. You should always add that info, where you know it.
Somalia, 50 shillings, 1970. 10th anniversary of independence.
The only coin design to show incense?
The ball point pen is not a unique theme. A 1995 crown with the image of Lazlo Biro and some people using a ball point pen was issued by the Isle of Man as part of a series of coins celebrating the inventions of the modern world.
Indeed rare but not unique. The Solomon Islands, world-renowned for their pizza's, issued a pizza coin in 2015. The thing even smells like pizza..
(http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=39617.0;attach=103713;image)