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GUINEA
2000 Guinea Francs - 1970
KM-031 - 8,00 g
Edge - Reeded
Mintage -2.840
This NCLT coin celebrates the 10th anniversary of Guinea's independence. The obverse had a sepiction of the USSR's Soyuz spacecraft with the country's name REPUIBLIQUE DE GUINÉE at the top.The reverse has the nation's crest with the issue date 1970 and the denomination 2.000 FRANCS GUINEENS below and with ther legend for the 10th anniversary of independence 1958-1968 X-ANNIVERSAIRE at the top.
GUYANA
$100 - 1976
KM-046 - 5,47 g
Edge - Reeded
Mintage -0.021M
This NCLT coin celebrates the 10th anniversary of Guyanese independence. The obverse has the nation's crest with the issuing authority's name BANK OF GUYANA and the date 1976. At the top is the motto OUR PEOPLE - OUR MOST PRECIOUS ASSET. The reverse has has an Arawak Indian with the denomination 100 DOLLARS below and the annotation ELDORADO 1596 - A NEW GUYANA 1966.
HAITI
Haiti occupies the eastern third of the island of Hispaniola. The Arawaks arrived about 250 BC. They were followed in about 700 AD by the Tainos. Columbus arrived and his flagship Santa Maria was destroyed on Haitian reefs. After the native population died out, the Spaniards introduced African slave labor. French incursions finally led to cessation of the territory to France in 1777 when the region was named Saint-Dominique. In 1803, rebel leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines vowed to drive the white man out of the country. On January 1, 1804, Dessalines declared independence for Haiti. It was the first black-led republic in the modern world. Shortly after that Dessalines declared himself emperor with absolute power. A civil war ensued with President Henri Christophe and General Alexandre Pétion fighting the emperor's forces. Christophe declared himself king over the northern provinceand Pétion was elected president in the south. When Pétion died in 1818, Jean-Pierre Boyer succeeded him as president for life. Christophe was assassinated soon after that and Boyer reunified the country. Taking advantage of a civil war in Santo Domingo, Boyer annexed the rest of Hispaniola in 1821 (the eastern end of the island stayed under Haitian control until 1849, when it declared independence as the Dominican Republic). A period of many presidents, assassinations/depositions, followed. There have been a number of foreign interventions in the 20th century to restore order, an unfortunate necessity in so many black controlled countries.
Haitian coins have been minted in France, Italy, and the UK.
1000 Gourdes - 1874
KM-118.1 - 13,00 g
Mintage - 3.040
This NCLT "coin" was issued to commemorate the bicentennial of American Independence (two years before the event but in the year where Americans could again possess gold). The obverse features a scene of the Battle of Savannah with the country's name REPUBLIQUE D'HAITI at the top. At the top and the bottom of the vignette are inscriptions in French and English denoting the event. The reverse features thar arms of the Republic with the French legend LIBERTE EGALITE FRATERNITE at the top and the denomination 1000 GOURDES and the date 1974 at the bottom. The hallmark 900 is to the top left of the G in GOURDES.
HAMBURG
The history of Hamburg starts in the year AD825 with the building of the "Hammaburg," a moated castle built between the Alster and Elbe rivers. Commerce took over as the principle function of the city. The founding of Lübeck on the Baltic coast, allowed Hamburg to become its port on the North Sea. It was in 1188 that a group of Hamburg merchants received a charter for the building of a new town, close to the old one, with a harbour on the Alster and Elbe. This was confirmed and enhanced the following year of 1189, by the emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, in a charter giving the budding port, special trading rights, toll exemptions and navigational privileges. Over the next century, Hamburg's economic importance grew with the development of the Hanseatic League, founded in Lübeck. Hamburg provided port facilities for Lübeck that opened up the way to the rest of the world. Towards the end of the middle ages, the Hanseatic League began to decline and Hamburg began to make its own way and develop its own economic infrastructure. After Napoleon's defeat in 1814, Hamburg was able to become a member of the new German Confederation and after 1819 was known as "The free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg."
Hamburg had minting facilities in the Middle Ages. One of the BDR's current mints is located in Hamburg (the mintmark J).
20 Mark - 1897-J
KM-295 - 7,97 g
Edge - Reeded
Mintage
- 0,500M
The obverse depicts the arms of the Free State of Hamburg with the German name FRIE UND HANSESTADT HAMBURG (Free and Hanseatic State of Hamburg). The mintmark J (for the Hamburg mint( is at the bottom. The reverse has the Royal Arms of the German Empire encircled by the German legend for GERMAN EMPIRE and the date 1897. At the bottom is the denomination 20 MARK. The reverse is Type III.
There are more Hamburg gold coins in this section if you are interested - Page Hamburg 1
HEJAZ
Hejaz is in the
northwest region of the of present-day Saudi Arabia. Jeddah is the capital
city. The Moslem holy cities of Mecca and Medina, the original seat of
Islam, are in the region. Hussain ibn Ali, the Sherif of Mecca, was Emir of
Hejaz in 1908. T E Lawrence persuaded him, in 1916 to join an Arab Revolt
against Ottoman Turkish rule. After the Ottomans were overthrown, he became King of the
Hejaz. In 1919 he proclaimed himself king of all the Arab countries which led to
led to conflict with Ibn Saud of the neighboring emirate of Nejd. Hussein
accepted the caliphate in 1924 but was forced to abdicate in 1924 by Abdul Aziz
Al-Saud (known as Abdul Aziz ibn Saud). In 1924 ibn Saud declared himself
as King of Hejaz and Nejd which later became the unified Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia.
Dinar Hashimi - 1334
KM-31 - 7,25 g
Edge - Reeded
The coin was minted in Makka al-Mukarrama (Mecca) in 1334 Hegira, accession year 8 (1924 AD). The central panel on the obverse has the Hashimi, the emblem of the Hashemite dynasty (which includes the current Jordanian Royal Family as well as the deposed Iraqi Royal Family). The lower panel says that the coin was struck at Holy Mecca. The reverse has the regnal year 8 in the left centre panel and the accession year 1334 in the right centre panel. The central panel has the king's name and the bottom panel is the statement "Servant and son of a servant."
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