Islands

Cita: pnightingaleThere is a Nightingale Island with it's own coinage. It's not named after me but after one of my illustrious ancestors. We are a family with a fine seafaring tradition.

Cita: bam777Did I ever tell you guys that my brother is Tristan da Cunha?  

Cita: ZacUK

Cita: bam777Did I ever tell you guys that my brother is Tristan da Cunha?  

Well in that case my father was Papua New Guinea   

Cita: pnightingaleThere is a Nightingale Island with it's own coinage. It's not named after me but after one of my illustrious ancestors. We are a family with a fine seafaring tradition.

Cita: bam777There was an island called Brazil of the coast of Ireland once. I wonder if they used the Real?  

Cita: Scotty

Cita: bam777There was an island called Brazil of the coast of Ireland once. I wonder if they used the Real?  

Excuse me while I check my portolan..wot I have pieced together from a bunch of ancient maps that were lying around. Ah yes.... Hy Brazil. Hmm, in Tir Nan Og..they used a currency called 'Iridi'...or maybe that was some other place famed in myth and lies...westwards of Breifne anyway.

Anyone got a coin of Sealand?

Cita: Chasinva69that one is also avail on Ebay right now - can't say as I'm going for it. Apparently, Sealand is an abandoned oil rig platform in the North Sea.

p.s. ended with no bid. Guess nobody wants to shell out $20 US for a nice Sealand 50 cent.

Cita: Scotty

Cita: Chasinva69that one is also avail on Ebay right now - can't say as I'm going for it. Apparently, Sealand is an abandoned oil rig platform in the North Sea.

p.s. ended with no bid. Guess nobody wants to shell out $20 US for a nice Sealand 50 cent.

Well, it's not abandoned (except in the original intended structure sense). Prince 'somebody' and his family live on it. Recently Sealand played a football international against the Chagos Islands. Chagos Islands won 3-1. Now I wonder if there'll be a coin of Chagos Island anytime soon.

Cita: bam777Seychelles and Mauritius have the rupee and they trade with it.

There was an island called Brazil of the coast of Ireland once. I wonder if they used the Real?  

Cita: "ZacUK"​

Cita: "bam777"​Did I ever tell you guys that my brother is Tristan da Cunha? :O
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​ Well in that case my father was Papua New Guinea :o

Cita: "johnspa"​

Cita: "ZacUK"​
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Cita: "bam777"​​Did I ever tell you guys that my brother is Tristan da Cunha? :O
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​​ Well in that case my father was Papua New Guinea :o

​​HaHahaHa, That is funny...HaHaHa

Cita: "COINMAN1"​Due to their illegal issue, I cannot add my 2011 coin to Numista.

Cita: "GiannaReggio"​some info on island's coins
​- Azores are now part of Portugal and so you use the current portugueise coins
​- Reunion is part of France and in the past has its own franc coins (some of then were given to me by visitors of that island)
​- Mauritius and Seychelles have their own coins that are currently used, again some tourists give some of them to me

Cita: "COINMAN1"​I would like to add Lundy Island, situated 12 miles off the Devonshire coast in south west England.
​Coins were issued firstly in 1929, but were considered illegal. Subsequent issues 1965, 1977 and 2011.
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​Face values of 1/2 and 1 Puffin
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​Worth reading through Wikipedia
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​Due to their illegal issue, I cannot add my 2011 coin to Numista.

Cita: "Chasinva69"​

Cita: "Scotty"​

Cita: "bam777"​
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​There was an island called Brazil of the coast of Ireland once. I wonder if they used the Real? :D
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​Excuse me while I check my portolan..wot I have pieced together from a bunch of ancient maps that were lying around. Ah yes.... Hy Brazil. Hmm, in Tir Nan Og..they used a currency called 'Iridi'...or maybe that was some other place famed in myth and lies...westwards of Breifne anyway.
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​Anyone got a coin of Sealand?
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​that one is also avail on Ebay right now - can't say as I'm going for it. Apparently, Sealand is an abandoned oil rig platform in the North Sea.
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​p.s. ended with no bid. Guess nobody wants to shell out $20 US for a nice Sealand 50 cent.

Cita: "0gramz"​ I've read something about islands dissappearing then reappearing due to tide, so on any given day it could probably change. I'll do some research and try to find out how many are habitable. I'd love to get a coin from each one.

Cita: "Mark240590"​The British Antarctic, Indian Ocean and South Georgia and Sandwich Islands coins are produced by the Royal Mint same as the Alderney coins. It's only commemoratives and I will get them probably but it's not the same as circulating money and is struck for collectors.. The thing is at least they are proper coins as these territories belong to us !

Cita: "halfdisme"...
​Solomon Islands, St. Pierre and Miquelon, San Blas Islands (Panama territory).
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Cita: "ZacUK"​

Cita: "bam777"​Did I ever tell you guys that my brother is Tristan da Cunha? :O
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​ Well in that case my father was Papua New Guinea :o

Cita: "halfdisme"​True story:
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​An eBayer sent me a message, asking if I had mailed the coin from Meeting that he had purchased. I puzzled over that one a while, then, by process of elimination, determined that he had bought one from Reunion.
​You should see what translation routines can do to messages!

Cita: "alfred1"​strange that no one has mentioned prince edward island

Cita: "SquareRootLolly"​Will you consider Hong Kong an island?

redsmithstudiosI keep learning about random islands that no-one really knows about, because of their coins. How many islands actually used the coins and how many have them just for looks …

I've long been passionate about studying numismatics and the various exonumia found exclusively on various islands around the world. I collect all the numismatic information, and if you're interested in a particular region with islands or an island in a particular country, I can provide information about the coins and tokens of that region on the islands. I can answer your questions on this specific topic and even show you some photos. Does anyone else collect island numismatics?

halfdisme

Quote: "Mark240590"​The British Antarctic, Indian Ocean and South Georgia and Sandwich Islands coins are produced by the Royal Mint same as the Alderney coins. It's only commemoratives and I will get them probably but it's not the same as circulating money and is struck for collectors.. The thing is at least they are proper coins as these territories belong to us !

​Coins for these countries are all, or almost all, struck at the Pobjoy Mint, not the Royal Mint. The issues are legal tender. 

The British Indian Ocean Territories is where the military base of Diego Garcia is located.

One wonders how much less commem coins we will get from now on after Pobjoy went tits up last year

halfdismeDon't forget the Washington and Fanning Islands, which issued a $1 aluminum token circa 1900. (The islands are now part of Kiribati.) 

Some of the leper colony coins are for colonies that were on freshwater islands (Venezuela's Isla de Providencia, for example). 

Solomon Islands, St. Pierre and Miquelon, San Blas Islands (Panama territory). 

You mentioned Maui. Maui issues trade dollars each year, that are accepted by the merchants in the year that they are issued. Several of the other islands issued trade dollars in the 1970s-1980s.

Washington & Fanning Islands had other denominations as well.

I have an example of the 12 ½ Cents token in my collection.

Aidan.

BCNumismatics

Washington & Fanning Islands had other denominations as well.

 

I have an example of the 12 ½ Cents token in my collection.

 

Aidan.

Washington & Fanning Islands had other denominations as well.

Here is the continuation of the research:

redsmithstudiosI keep learning about random islands that no-one really knows about, because of their coins. How many islands actually used the coins and how many have them just for looks (like Palau)? Interesting how many were British..
 I know there are a ton in the south Pacific, but I am talking about the random ones like inaccessible island. I am really wondering about lonely islands, is there a list of them all? 

I have the most comprehensive lists of all geographical islands that have existed in numismatics, including tokens and exonumia. If you're interested in a specific region or country with islands, I can help you find this numismatic information..

In short, there are numismatics for over 200 different individual islands in Britain, and I've been collecting this information for a long time. In the Pacific Ocean, there are about 500 different islands represented in numismatics..

If anyone is interested in collecting information or searching independently, I can offer a game of searching for islands in numismatics for any country or region of interest.

Madeira has coin issues from the 18th and 19th century 

I'm looking for information and live photos about this token for Terceira Island in the Azores: