Sea birds on coins

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British Virgin Islands, 50 cents, 1980.  Collector coin.  Sea pelicans.

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USA state quarter 2002, Louisiana.  Pelican.

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, 100 dollars, 1988.  Pelican.

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Mongolia, 500 tugrik, 1996.  Pelican.

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Isle of Man, 1 penny, 1984.  Cormorant.

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Seychelles, 100 rupees, 1978.  White-tailed tropic bird.

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Kiribati, 1 cent, 1992.  Frigate bird.

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Alderney, 5 pounds, 2000.  Gannets. 

Millennium issue.  Design by Claire Harper.

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Falklands Islands, 5 pence, 1974. 

Black-browed albatross.  Thalassarche melanophris.




Falklands Islands, 5 pence, 2019. 

Black-browed albatross.  Thalassarche melanophris.

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Alderney, 2 pounds, 1999.

Design by Dutchman Willem Vis. His surname is Dutch for fish. His signature fish mark is at bottom left.

St. Anne's Church against an illuminated horizon. In the foreground are two of the gannets that are found in large numbers around the coast of Alderney. The island of Alderney has Europe's largest gannets colony. Motionless they regard the eclipse because, according to past descriptions, during an eclipse animals may behave as they do at nightfall and birds may go to roost. The sentence "Total eclipse of the sun 1999", the streamers around the sun, the strips above the horizon and the foreground of the charge are inward and polished on the sterling silver and gold coins.

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Tristan da Cunha, 25 pence, 1977.    Albatross.

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Lundy, half puffin, 1929.

Privately issued token for Lundy Island.

Lundy Island is located in the Bristol Channel, England.


Martin Coles Harman was the owner.

He designed these tokens and had them minted.

He issued them on Lundy.

They actually circulated in the tavern.

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Lundy, 1 puffin, 1929.

Privately issued token for Lundy Island.

Lundy Island is located in the Bristol Channel, England.


Martin Coles Harman was the owner.

He designed these tokens and had them minted.


He issued them on Lundy.

They actually circulated in the tavern.

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UK, 20 pence, 2023.  Puffin.

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Alderney, 2 pounds, 1997.   Puffins.