Cape Verde – 2 Coin Set – Sailships Senhor das Areias & Carvalho – 50 & 10 Escudos – 1994
Netherlands Antilles – Willemstadt Harbor – 1 Gulden – 1970 – Pick 20a – Crisp Uncirculated
Fiji – Nadi International Airport – $5 – 2002 – Pick 105b – Crisp Uncirculated
Uruguay – Jose Pedro Varela Monument – $50 – 2003 – Pick 84 – Crisp Uncirculated
Antigua – Admiral’s House & Trafalgar Falls – $10 – 2003 – Pick 42a – Crisp Uncirculated
St. Kitts – Admiral’s House & Trafalgar Falls – $10 – 2003 – Pick 42k – Crisp Uncirculated
St. Vincent – Admiral’s House & Trafalgar Falls – $10 – 2003 – Pick 42v – Crisp Uncirculated
Macau – Modern Skyscraper – 20 Patacas – 2005 – Pick 81 – Crisp Uncirculated
Kazakhstan – Spaceship Vostok – 50 Tenge – 2008 – Br. Uncirculated – KM-New
Kazakhstan – Soyuz-Apollo Mission – 50 Tenge – 2009 – Br. Uncirculated – KM-New
Russia – USSR – Centennial – Birth of Sergey Prokofiev – 1 Rouble – 1991 – BU – Y-263.1
New York – Seatrain Lines Inc. – 100 Shares – 1959
East Caribbean States – St. Kitts – Admiralty Bay & The Warspite – $10 – 2003 – Pick 43k – Crisp Uncirculated
All five banknotes in this set are in Crisp Uncirculated condition.
Russia – USSR – 120th Anniversary – Maxim Gorky Birth – 1 Rouble – 1988 – BU – Y-209
Russia – USSR – 160th Anniversary – Leo Tolstoi Birth – 1 Rouble – 1988 – BU – Y-216
Russia – USSR – Centennial – Birth of Tschaikovsky – 1 Rouble – 1990 – BU – Y-236
New York – Railroad Grade Crossings – $1000 – 1940
Eagles are large predatory birds that have been symbols of power, courage, and immortality since ancient times. The more than 50 species all belong to the HAWK family, Accipitridae, order Falconiformes. Eagles inhabit all major land regions except Antarctica and New Zealand. Although once abundant, some eagles are becoming rare and face extinction. One rare species is the bald eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, the national emblem of the United States. Although protected by law, some large eagles are killed by farmers and gamekeepers or captured for use in falconry. In addition, the bald eagle, like other birds, has been affected by the widespread use of pesticides that, ingested, can weaken eggs.
” What General Weygand has called the Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.” Winston Churchill House of Commons, June18th 1940
On 2 May 1945, after one of the most intense battles in human history, the guns at last stopped firing amongst the ruins of Berlin. According to Soviet veterans, the silence that followed the fighting was literally deafening. Less than four years after his attack on the Soviet Union, Hitler’s self-proclaimed thousand-year Reich had ceased to exist.
This beautiful uncirculated Crown was issued by the government of Gibraltar to commemorate the International Year of the Ocean in 1998. Featured on the reverse of this Crown is a scene with two windsurfers plying the waves.
For years I have been trying to find enough quantities of nice, brilliant uncirculated world coins with a ship motif, and have finally succeeded. This beautiful set of coins represents fifteen different “ship” coins from fifteen different countries. The countries represented are: Cyprus, Eastern Caribbean States, Gambia, Gibraltar, Greece, Great Britain, Isle of Man, Israel, South Korea, Kuwait, Maldives, Portugal, Qatar and South Africa. This set would make a beautiful and unique gift for any young numismatist or collector of ship and/or world coins.
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