Please help with Grainy pictures.

Started by Triggersmob, January 09, 2014, 11:15:31 PM

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Triggersmob

Browsing through my coin pics today and noticed how many different countries have grain of one type or another on their coins. Lets see how many different countries we can find.
I'll keep a list running on this first post. Please post pics if you have them.

I'll start with these few...

Australia


Afghaniistan


Syria


Viet-Nam


Turkey


Pakistan


United States


Russia


Germany


Come on, dig them out, don't be sheep (sheep might eat the grains).

List of countries so far (42)...

Australia
Afghanistan
Albania
Austria
Bolivia
Bulgaria
Burma (Myanmar)
Czechoslovakia (German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia)
Chile
China
Croatia
Denmark
France
French Indo-China
Germany
Hungary
India
Iraq
Israel
Italy
Japan
Mexico
Morocco
Mozambique  
Nepal
New Zealand
Nigeria
Pakistan
Romania
Russia
Singapore
South Korea
Syria
Thailand
Tunisia
Turkey
Ukraine
United States
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
Viet-Nam
Yugoslavia
Steve

OFEC count = 258

ausjack

interesting, I'll have to suss what I have and get back to ya Steve :good:
A wise person knows there is something to learn from everyone.

Unicorn

Trout's sure to have some Grainy Bait :laugh2:

Yeah, I know it's the threepence again, but ....


ausjack

here's some and I have others but didn't know if they'd be classed as grain and same as the corn one, I can put single pic's up later if you'd like :) So here we have top left to right, Italiana, china looking at the stars on the other side of coin, CCCP russia, US, nigeria and singapore
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Unicorn

Geez, you're on the ball AJ!

Albania has lots of coins with grain on them ....



(pic from the web)

ausjack

:( I'm not a ball any more, oh sorry, on the ball, well better than the soap box I suppose :winkextra: mum loves saying that to me :laugh2: Sorry Uni I wanna be good :D
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purplepennyhunter

Co-Founder Australian Coin Forum

ausjack

come on PP I know ya'd have one or two stashed away there somewhere, time to break'em out mate :winkextra:
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trout

I don't have many foreign coins , i will look through my US,Canadian and NZ collections later.
What a great concept Mate :good:
Here are a couple more Aussie ones.



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Illegitimi non carborundum

Triggersmob

Lovely coins guys.
AJ corn is OK too.
Don't mind seeing more coins from the same countries too.
keep them coming.  :)
Steve

OFEC count = 258

ausjack

don't know how many I'll find asI was mainly looking for the stalks but also found this one so do they count and what about sugar cane and other plants or just stick to the wheat for now :winkextra:
A wise person knows there is something to learn from everyone.

trout

As Wheat is and has been for millennium a staple food world wide I imagine there are a huge amount of different coins depicting wheat on them.
I imagine that even some of the ancient coins may have wheat on them as well.
Great thread Mate :good:
Aim well to enjoy life. You only get One shot at it.
Illegitimi non carborundum

ausjack

yeah I thought about that so what about this little beauty :winkextra:
A wise person knows there is something to learn from everyone.

Triggersmob

Do we know that is a grain for sure?
Which country is it from?

Here's some more I've found...

Croatia


Denmark


Chile


Austria


Bulgaria


French Indo-China
Steve

OFEC count = 258

Triggersmob

and some more...

Iraq


Israel


Hungary


India
Steve

OFEC count = 258