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250 Euro (The Battle of Cowpens 1781)

Country:: France
Series:: 2020~Today - History of American Independence
Catalog codes:: Col:FR-010937, WCC:Unlisted
Themes:: Battle | Flags | Generals | Headgear | Symbols | Weapons
Issued on:: 2024-07-19
Last issue date:: 2024-07-19
Distribution:: Numismatic Product
Mints:: Monnaie de Paris (A), Paris, France
Composition:: Silver
Edge:: Plain/smooth
Orientation:: Medal alignment ↑O↑
Shape:: Circular
Rim:: Raised. Not decorated. Both sides
Weight:: 500 grams
Diameter:: 85 mm
Face value:: 250 € - Euro
Known mintage:: 250
Composition Details:: Silver Ag. 0.999 Antique finish. High Relief
Description:: Obverse: Daniel Morgan's Victory, depicts him full-length, about to be crowned by an Indian queen, an allegory of America; a female figure wearing a short breastplate and a feathered headdress; theme in Latin in exergue COMITIA AMERICANA (american committee) and original designer below Dupré F. (Augustin Dupré); country monogram at top RF (French Republic), date ⤸ at right 2024. Theme ↷ at top DANIELI MORGAN DUCI EXERCITUS (Daniel Morgan's Army leader).

Reverse: General-in-Chief leading the charge on horseback, followed by his troops on foot and overthrowing the fleeing English adversary; mintmarks at top right, engraver ⊞ (Joaquin Jimenez) and "cornucopia" (Paris), face value at top right 250 𝄓 EURO. Motto and date of event in latin in exergue FVGATIS CAPTIS AVT CAESIS 𝄓 AD COWPENS HOSTIEVS 𝄓 XVII. JAN. MDCCLXXXI (Fugitive, captured and killed in Cowpens battle 17 January 1881), original designer and engraver below DUPRE INV ET F (Augustin Dupré). Theme ↷ at top VICTORIA LIBERTATIS VINDEX (Victory of Freedom).
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50 Hryven (Cradle of the Ukrainian Sossacks)

Country:: Ukraine
Series:: 1996~Today - Numismatic Hryvnia (Ukrainian heritage)
Catalog codes:: Col:UA-000488, WCC:km609
Themes:: Buildings | Coats of Arms | Golden Objects | Historic Sites | Musical Instruments | Weapons
Issued on:: 2010-12-20
Last issue date:: 2010-12-20
Distribution:: Numismatic Product
Mints:: Ukrainian Mint, Kyjiv, Ukraine
Composition:: Silver
Edge:: Lettered-Signs-Numbers (plain)
Orientation:: Medal alignment ↑O↑
Shape:: Circular
Rim:: Raised. Not decorated. Both sides
Weight:: 500 grams
Diameter:: 85 mm
Face value:: 50 ₴ - Ukrainian hryvnia
Known mintage:: 1,500
Composition Details:: 999/1000 Silver 16.0580 oz. ASW999/1000 Silver 16.0580 oz. ASW
Score:: 99% Accuracy: Low
Description:: Front: above there is the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine with the semicircular inscription НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine); in the centre there is depicted a fragment of the National Historico-Cultural Heritage Site `Zaporizka Sich`; in the foreground there is a gilded composition representing a bandura and Cossacks` weapons and power insignia, to the left whereof there is the coin face value 50/ГРИВЕНЬ (50 hryvnias) and to the right the issue year 2010.
Back: against the background of ornamental stripe there is depicted the dovbysh (Cossack drummer) beating the kettledrum used among the Cossacks at the time of celebrations and big events in Cossacks` life; to the right there are the lines of Taras Shevchenko`s poem `I mertvym, i zhyvym...` (`To the Dead and the Living...`): У нас воля виростала / Дніпром умивалась, / У голови гори слала, / Степом укривалась! / ТАРАС ШЕВЧЕНКО (The liberty grew up among us / Washing itself in the Dnieper water, / The mountains pillowed its head, / And it covered itself with the steppe! / Taras Shevchenko); over the stripe there is a conventionalized image of the island with the inscription Острів Хортиця на Дніпрі - колиска українського козацтва (Island of Khortytsia in the Dnieper - the cradle of Ukrainian Cossacks); below the image, to the right, there is the legend ЗАПОРІЖЖЯ / XVI-XVIII ст. (Zaporizhia / XVI-XVIII century).
Designer: Volodymyr Taran, Oleksandr Kharuk, Serhii Kharuk
Engraver: Sviatoslav Ivanenko, Volodymyr Demianenko
Thickness:
Edge: smooth with in-depth legends
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