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German New Guinea, 20 Gold Mark (1895)

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Original – Colonial German New Guinea, 20 mark gold coin issued by the German New Guinea Company.

Reason

High quality image, high EV, excellent condition.

Articles in which this image appears

German New Guinea, New Guinean mark, German New Guinea Company

FP category for this image

Currency

Creator

German colonial empire (coin)
From the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History.

• Support as nominator – Godot13 (talk) 09:57, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support Can't object to a coin featuring a bird in a comedy wig. Belle (talk) 15:11, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support -- Crop is a bit tight or what ? -- DreamSparrow ^Chat 18:08, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
  • DreamSparrow- You are correct. I have overwritten the file with the identical image, and a slight bit more margin...--Godot13 (talk) 22:20, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Yup Godot13, looks nice now. DreamSparrow ^Chat 15:47, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

• Support  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:23, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support Excellent quality image, with lots of EV. It's interesting to see that even the colonial German administration was using the bird of paradise as a symbol of New Guinea. Nick-D (talk) 10:26, 2 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Tremonist (talk) 12:29, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:German New Guinea 1895-A 20 Mark.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:58, 11 September 2015 (UTC)