"Follow The Leader" coin thread BY THEME (for ALL types of coins, tokens, and medals)

The Hamsa bird is a religious bird from Hindu and Buddhist cultures, thought to be a swan or a goose.


Cambodia
No Date, 1847 CE
Billion - 1/8 Tical or 1 Fuang
Obv: Hamza bird facing left with small circle to left
Rev: Uniface
KM#32.1

Cambodia
No Date, 1847 CE
Billion - 2 Pe or 1/2 Fuang
Obv: Hamza bird facing left with Chi (luck) above
Rev: Uniface
KM#11​

 

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How about a theme shift to war coins, either issued during the war in a way that impacted it (ie US steel cent) or commemorating or depicting something from the war?

United States
1932 - Bicentennial of Washington's Birth
Private token depicting General Washington's crossing of the Delaware River in 1776 in the lead-up to the Battle of Trenton
American Revolutionary War​

 

Algeria 5 Dinars 1974 - 20th anniversary of the Algerian revolution

 

I've posted this before but wanted to share it again, I don't know of any other commemorative coin that was issued during the war that it commemorates, but I'm sure they're out there.

Ukraine - 10 Hryven
2018
Defenders of Donetsk Airport Commemorative
Showcases the war-torn traffic control tower​

 

How about this one - celebrating the battles of Wellington during the Peninsular war:

 

This German token (or notgeld?) iron piece is rather warlike

 

That fellow looks like he got booped on the nose during a fight. Also, he looks a bit too old to be doing battle with twenty year olds.

 

War can age one quickly.This the second of these I have bought. The first one got lost in the mail. Being a former marine engineer, I like the idea that this was made from the bronze of the propeller from that ship.

 

Poland 10 Zlotych - 50th Anniversary Battle of Upper Silesia, 1971

 

1997 Eritrea 100 cents - soldiers with machine guns

 

Commemorating the Battle of Hastings in 1066 which started the Norman Conquest of England

 

Here is a remnant from a little known historical event. During the British Occupation of Java from 1811-1815 the British made a quick incursion into nearby Sumatra and overthrew the ruling Mahmud Badaruddin II, head of the Palembang Sultanate. The British then occupied the Palembang region and also conquered Bangka Island nearby (a valuable source of tin mines). It was during this time that this coin was issued; Zeno places it 1812-1816 which is based on articles by Mitchiner and Yih in JONS. The stylish Arabic script calls Palembang the "seat of Inglistan", or England. This particular piece, like many, was collected by divers from the bottom of the Musi River that flows through Palembang.

British Occupation of the Palembang Sultanate
Sumatra, present-day Indonesia
Tin Pitis
1812-1816
Obv: "Alamat fi bilad Palembang dar Inglistan" (Mark of the city of Palembang, seat of the State of England)
Rev: Blank (Uniface)
1.05 grams, see Robinson#4​

 

You learn something new every day. Thanks for sharing your coin, history behind it

 

Always glad to share some knowledge! Here is (so far) my only notgeld coin as well.

Germany - Weißenfels of Saxony-Anhalt
1918 - Steel Notgeld
10 Kriegsgeld Pfennig
​

 

was that struck by Marxist revolutionaries?

 

To the best of my knowledge and research, no. I want to say that the communist movement had yet to adopt the symbol (they did it in either 1918 or 1919) and the hammer and sickle mainly stood for the workers class movement or something similar? Chile used the symbol (not stylized as similarly to the Soviet one as this German notgeld) in the 19th Century so it definitely held importance before much of the Marxism powers spread. I may be off on a bit of that but I think that's what I found last time.


The coin below was minted by the US San Francisco Mint (and presumably distributed to the islands by American forces) because of WWII and the very difficult logistics of the British safely getting coinage to their colony.

British colony of Fiji
1942
Sixpence - San Francisco Mint​

 

Vichy France & Allied Occupation, 1944

 

1944 D 1/4 Gulden. Was minted by the US due to WWII

 

Also minted by the United States due to WWII.

Australia
1944 - 1 Florin
'S' - San Francisco Mint​

 

Belgium 2 Frank, 1944. Struck in the U.S. on the same planchet used for the 1943 steel cent.

edit: When checking this before posting also noted in the Standard Catalog that there were also errors struck on on the silver Netherlands 25 Cent planchets. A pricey error coin if you could even find one for sale.