The Globe on Coins

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The UK five pound coin celebrating the Millennium and Greenwich Mean Time.

See also: Maps on coins

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Egypt, 1973, 5 piastres. 75th anniversary of the National Bank.

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Italy, 2 euros, 2004.

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Jamaica, dollar, 1981.  World Food Day.

See also: Coins commemorating the Caribbean Development Bank.

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Jersey, £5, 2000.

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Guernsey, 1999, £5.

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Vatican, 500 lire, 1992.

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On the few coins with something looking like an actual globe (Jamaica is a real laugh), you get the well-known effect that the side facing the viewer will show the country where the globe was made. I guess the big yellow thing in the sky is either the Isle of Man, sliding on a monorails, or a waffle iron.

Are you sure the foggy disc on the UK coin is meant to be a globe and not e.g. a clock face?

Peter

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Are you sure the foggy disc on the UK coin is meant to be a globe and not e.g. a clock face?

Peter

It's meant to be both, since it also celebrates Greenwich Mean Time: symbolically, for the world's time, London represents the centre of the world.

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KM#817 5 Pesetas 1980 World Cup Soccer


Spain 12 Euro (2008) International Year of Planet Earth

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The Expo, 2005, Aichi, Japan.  500 yen.

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Ukraine 1995 UN commemorative.

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South Africa 1995 UN commemorative.

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Cuba, 1980, 1 peso.  Soviet-Cuban space flight.

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Egypt, 5 piastres, 1968.  International Industrial Fair.