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February 08, 2016, 03:20:58 AM Last Edit: October 01, 2022, 03:01:04 AM by <k>
Poland 2z 2003 eels.jpg

Poland, 2003, 2 zloty.  European eels.
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February 08, 2016, 03:21:27 AM Last Edit: October 01, 2022, 03:01:24 AM by <k>
Poland 20z 2003 eels.jpg

Poland, 2003, 20 zloty.  European eels.
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#77
February 08, 2016, 03:22:58 AM Last Edit: August 04, 2022, 02:08:11 AM by <k>


Iceland, 5 aurar, 1981.  Common skate.
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#78
February 08, 2016, 03:24:23 AM Last Edit: May 06, 2024, 04:28:43 AM by <k>
Tuvalu 2c 1994.jpg

Tuvalu, 2 cents, 1976.  Stingray.
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#79
February 08, 2016, 03:25:04 AM Last Edit: May 09, 2024, 09:57:53 AM by <k>
Tuvalu 5 cents  1976.jpg

Tuvalu, 5 cents, 1976.  Tiger shark.
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February 08, 2016, 03:28:43 AM Last Edit: August 06, 2022, 04:01:14 PM by <k>
Singapore 10 cents.jpg

Singapore, 10c, 1969.
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#81
February 08, 2016, 03:29:17 AM Last Edit: August 06, 2022, 04:01:35 PM by <k>
Bermuda $2 1994.jpg

Bermuda, 2 dollars, 1994.  Long-snouted seahorse.
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#82
February 08, 2016, 03:30:23 AM Last Edit: July 29, 2022, 03:45:08 PM by <k>
Rhodesia and Nyasaland 2 shillings.jpg

Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 2 shillings, 1955. 

A fish in trouble with an African fish eagle.
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#83
February 09, 2016, 07:43:16 PM Last Edit: October 12, 2022, 04:31:08 PM by <k>
Cuba 1 peso 1981.jpg

Cuba, 1 peso, 1981.

The garfish (Belone belone), or sea needle.
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#84
February 14, 2016, 05:56:22 PM Last Edit: August 05, 2022, 11:57:52 PM by <k>
Malta 10c 1986.jpg

Malta, 10 cents, 1998. 

Dolphin fish.  Coryphaena hippurus.  Not a dolphin, but a fish: a dolphin fish.
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#85
February 14, 2016, 05:57:59 PM Last Edit: September 19, 2024, 01:46:04 AM by <k>
Barbados 10 dollars.jpg

Barbados, $10, 1973.  Neptune and a dolphin fish.
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#86
February 14, 2016, 05:58:23 PM Last Edit: October 01, 2022, 03:03:01 AM by <k>
BVI 50c 1985.jpg

British Virgin Islands, 50 cents, 1985.  Collector coin only.  BVI uses US currency.
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#87
February 14, 2016, 06:13:02 PM
Mishandled proof collector coin. It looks like this piece was kept in a coin cabinet, fish side up and portrait side resting on a circular piece of paper that affected the metal.

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

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#88
February 16, 2016, 01:45:35 PM Last Edit: August 06, 2022, 04:02:55 PM by <k>
Singapore 20c 1979.jpg

Singapore20c1967.jpg

Singapore, 20 cents, 1979.  Swordfish.  Xiphias gladius.

It looks as though the artist put the fish inside a washing-machine before he drew it.
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#89
February 16, 2016, 01:46:00 PM Last Edit: March 14, 2024, 07:56:07 PM by <k>
Seychelles  10 c 1976.jpg

Seychelles, 10 cents, 1976. 

Sail fish.  Istiophorus platyperus.




Seychelles, 10 cents, 1976.   F.A.O.-themed version.
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