D-Day Coin

Hi

I dug this out of a drawer the other day and I thought it might be interesting to some of you - particularly the non-Brits here who have probably never seen it.

It is a UK D-Day 50 years on commemorative 50p piece dated 1994 showing the invasion forces heading for Normandy. It is a slightly oversize coin and is the only 50p that has come into my possession that I have not spent soon afterwards.

 

That's neat. The Canadian Royal Mint probaly did a quarter for that but you probably had to by one for like 20 bucks or something. Haven't sen one anyways. I should have a Rememberance Day quarter though....

Edit:
didn't find a quarter but I did find this nickle

 

i'll give you 30 p for it

FNG

 

What is the significance of the 1943 - 2005 thing exactly ?

 

Hmmmmm....

 

Dunno. Any important battles that year?

 

Doesn't it say 1945 -2005 then?

 

Eureka ! It actually says 1945 2005 - there's some details of it and other stuff on this page -

http://members.shaw.ca/kcic1/veterans.html

 

Stupid scanner..... I saw it say '45 bt didn't catch on and remember. the '43 thing messed me up on that.

 

Not that you'd be able to spend it anymore since the larger sized 50ps were withdrawn in about 1997...

 

well , the better! now this coin will remain in his hands, being a collector's item... :wink:

 

Very neat, and feeling the need to reciprocate:

The Australian mint issues commemorative versions of some coins into circulation on a yearly basis, usually the 1 dollar or 50 cent but some times the 20 cent as well. Mostly stuff like "the international year of" or "the centenary of" kind of things. If I get one in my change that I haven't seen before I normally toss it into a jar as a sort of collection. So in 2005 all three were WWII related, the image on the dollar is from a newspaper photo taken on the day, I think the 20 cent one is too:

20 Cent reads: "World War 1939-1945 Coming Home"
50 Cent reads: "World War 1939-1945 Remembrance"
1 Dollar reads: "World War 1939-1945 Peace"

 

awesome pictures. Thanks a lot for sharing! I wish the Dutch would ever do a thing like that... but they probably cannot anymore anyway, because of the euro.

 

Gryle -

Very nice coins indeed.

Panzer - Euro would be a problem I imagine - I was never against the Euro in Uk but now you've made me think.

 

I got this 50 pence coin the other day - anybody know what it is for? I'm guessing it is in commemoration of the Victoria Cross?

 

I've got that one too, according to the Royal Mint:

http://www.royalmint.com/RoyalMint/web/ ... 0pCoin.asp

(Near the bottom of the page.)

 

That would explain the little 'CD' in there. Thanks Simon