Flags on coins

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This one is from Eastern Turkestan
Y-E38.1 20 CASH

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This one from Sinkiang
Y-B39.1 10 CASH

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From the Kashgar mint (Sinkiang)
KM-43.3 5 MISCALS Silver

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A very crude coin from Aksu mint (Sinkiang)
C-30-18 10 CASH

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And a Shensi mint coin with a double strike error making appears on the flag two suns instead of one
C-23-13 CASH

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I can also add two Russian Roubles dated 1987 showing both flags

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And 100 Lire 1981 from Italia

[SquareEarth]

Don't ask me. I don't wave flags, and I don't sing anthems, but if they are used (on certain holidays for example), fine with me. Here is a "not-so-obvious" flag on euro circulation coins, by the way: The French mid-range pieces (10, 20 and 50 cent) have the Tricolore background; in heraldry, horizontal stripes represent blue while vertical stripes mean red. So you see "blue" on the left, "white" in the middle, and "red" on the right - like on the flag.

Christian

I've red during childhood that when representing color in black and white map, red should always be vertical stripes, and blue horizontal stripes.

There must have been rules for other colors as well, but what are they? Is it from heraldry? Arts? Or cartography?

[chrisild]

See here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tincture_(heraldry)#Metals - particularly the "Metals" and "Colours" sections.

Christian

[SquareEarth]

Thanks

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Cuba, 40 centavos, 1952.

50th anniversary of Cuban independence: the site of the battle of San Juan hill, where a tree has grown up through the debris of war.

[chrisild]

Interesting font use too. Not only are the C's and A's quite round, but the V looks like a U ... 40 centauos.

Christian

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Papua New Guinea, 100 kina, 1980.  Fifth anniversary of independence.

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Suriname, $400, 2005.  30th anniversary of independence.

[chrisild]

Interesting that, even though they replaced the gulden/guilder by the dollar, Suriname did not introduce the plural-s that usually comes with it.

Christian