Verweis : "Fluke"I am lost, what is the question?
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Hi, Thank you.
The portuguese "Casa da Moeda"of Lisbon ( Oficial coining house) produced miniature coins between 1938 and 1987. These (confidential) miniatures are perfect reproductions of the real coins, coined in a miniature coining press, a replica at 1/4 scale of the well known Ralph Heaton (1891), and was mainly utilized as "gifts". Some of the miniatures (5mm to 7mm) coins are now very rare. In this first catalogue I show my own collection (1946 to 1987), with some complet annual series.
I'm preparing now a Catalogue II with some new miniatures and photographs of the famous miniature press still in place at the museum of Casa da Moeda.
You can find my Catalogue here: http://www.blurb.fr/books/5945497-moedas-miniaturas-da-casa-da-moeda. I'm trying to give this information to collectors, because I think that this coins are more than a simple curiosity.
Regards, Jörge
Verweis : "Clops!"Now that's interesting. I never knew about miniature coins.
But then again, I did wonder about the German 3 Marks I have that is smaller than a dime. Were these made also?
Probably in Germany. Other countries, as US, Germany, as made miniature coins generally as toys or pieces of games. Thse coins are much less sofisticated and some times they are for advertising purposes...
Never heard about that, neither that the INCM produced these coins.
Shall this mini-coins be considered as tokens? Apparently, its issuing was not stable, and not so many exists.
Verweis : "pietr"Very interesting.
Never heard about that, neither that the INCM produced these coins.
Shall this mini-coins be considered as tokens? Apparently, its issuing was not stable, and not so many exists.
Keep up the good research on that field!
The miniature coins of INCM Lisbon (gold, silver, bronze, brass, are now very rare mainly those before 1980. The series were coined since 1938/9 until 1987, as far as I Know. Detailed information and catalogue in my book :
Those portuguese miniature coins are common here in Brazil, I see they often here and there.
I would like to know if some of them are just modern mini-replicas, otherwise they are not rare at all. And would be nice to know how to check the autenticity.
Clops!Now that's interesting. I never knew about miniature coins.
But then again, I did wonder about the German 3 Marks I have that is smaller than a dime. Were these made also?
This is Play Money. There are many different once, some with their own design, some emmulating coins that were issued. The Aschoff Guide lists many of these Play Money. I myself have quite a few.
I am just starting to organize my years long collection of tokens. I have quite a few miniatures. Most are gold coin miniature replicas. They are strange and cool at the same time.
These are all “gold colored “ replicas of US and Mexican coins as well as “silver colored “ replicas of US coins. I am cataloging a bunch of misc. tokens that I found in a box that I forgot about 20 years ago.
It would be nice if you could add a pdf of your book so that it will always be available, even when the blurb-website would disappear.
Maybe you also can add some of your pictures to the relevant Numista pages (both as examples for the different years and as missing coinpage-pictures).
As there was no swap, I'll need to do a public review on Jörge. He sent me 5 great pieces, that now almost complete my type collections of the basic metals of Portuguese miniatures from the mint.
1 escudo 1985, 2x 25 escudos 1982 (so 1 for swap for other miniatures) and a tiny medal and an aluminium flan!
Just to give you an idea of the size of them, here next to a regular 25 escudos … they all have space to spare if they took a ride on top of it 😉
So for now I've 10 pieces, still some dates to complete and some brass, silver and gold versions … though they might be a bit too hard to get hold of. When you look at the pictures, remember they are between 7mm and 10mm … so they are half the diameter of a US cent!
Just call me Bram
No new swaps for the moment, still too many half-ongoing swaps to clean up!
(confidential) miniatures are perfect reproductions of the real coins, coined in a miniature coining press, a replica at 1/4 scale of the well known Ralph Heaton (1891), and was mainly utilized as "gifts". Some of the miniatures (5mm to 7mm) coins are now very rare. In this first catalogue I show my own collection (1946 to 1987), with some complet annual series.
