Tegan's Coin Box

I'm a coin collector. Not one of those people who collects valuable coins, but a person who loves the interesting and unique of the coin world. If you know anything about a coin I post here, please use the comments link to let me know more about it. Note: due to lighting issues, some coins may appear gold when they are really silver. I can't seem to fix it with my poor equipment, sorry.

These all are identical on both sides. The green and red tokens are cheap plastic, you can see that the green one has warped. The green one says, "Washington Sales Tax Token" with a value of 1. The red one says "Colorado Sales Tax Token" with a value of 2. The silver token says, "Tax Commission State of Washington Sales Tax Token" but has nothing to indicate value. I actually have four of these. You can read a little about how these were used in this FAQ.

Both sides of this bus token. I don't know when this is from exactly, but it is "Good for one fare" in the "Seattle Transit" system. There's a signature: Evro M. Becket, CHM. That's the Chairman of the Seattle Transit Commission in the late 1940s. I like the mountain and trees design, and I've always been fond of diecut tokens.

Tegan's Coin Box

I'm a coin collector. Not one of those people who collects valuable coins, but a person who loves the interesting and unique of the coin world. If you know anything about a coin I post here, please use the comments link to let me know more about it. Note: due to lighting issues, some coins may appear gold when they are really silver. I can't seem to fix it with my poor equipment, sorry.

These are exactly the same coin from two different years. I find these to be very cool. Naturally, I prefer the wavy bordered one to the more standard round coin. On the Queen side, both coins say "Queen Elizabeth The Second". The other side says "East Caribbean States" and "One Cent" on both coins. The wavy bordered coin is from 2000, the round coin is from 2004.

This is a beautiful big coin. I love the sailing ship, Endeavor, on the back. It's a New Zealand coin from 1967. Like pretty much all Commonwealth coins, it features the official portrait of Queen Elizabeth II. My only question would be, 50 what?

Tegan's Coin Box

I'm a coin collector. Not one of those people who collects valuable coins, but a person who loves the interesting and unique of the coin world. If you know anything about a coin I post here, please use the comments link to let me know more about it. Note: due to lighting issues, some coins may appear gold when they are really silver. I can't seem to fix it with my poor equipment, sorry.

This is a single coin, I'm showing both sides. On one side is says "East Africa 1952" with a value of 5. The other side actually says "Five Cents" and also "GEORGIVS SEXTVS REX". I have two of these, one has notches roughly hacked into it at three points near the top. I don't have any idea why, or if it has any significance.

The tails side says "Three Pence" with two different years on the two different coins, but the heads side is much more interesting text-wise. "GEORGIVS VI D:G:BR:OMN:REX F:D:IND:IMP." Anyone know what that long string means?

Tegan's Coin Box

I'm a coin collector. Not one of those people who collects valuable coins, but a person who loves the interesting and unique of the coin world. Nothing excites me in the same way as a pile of "worthless" coins from other countries of the world. I like paper currency too, but the coins really appeal to me. So I'm going to profile a few of them here on the blog, just because I can. If you know anything about a coin I post here, please chime in using the comments link to let me know more about it.

These are what started this desire to document my coins, when I saw the link to this page which mentions these little historical fellows.

All four tokens are identical on the front and the back. The only differences besides wear are the letters on either side of the number "1" in the center of the coin. On the Red Points, the letters are "Y" and "U" on the first and "V" and "U" on the second. On the Blue Points, the letters are "T" and "V" on the first and "C" and "T" on the second.