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The E-Sylum: Volume 26, Number 9, February 26, 2023, Article 13

A COIN POSTCARD ALBUM

Sally T Davies of the UK writes:

"I recently came by this album of coin postcards and thought you or your readers might be interested to see some images. Together with the 45 postcards, which I believe is a complete set, was a contemporary guide to using the postcards as a reference source for exchange rates.

"The cards appear to have been collected from different sources and have various identifying marks such as Printed in Bavaria, Printed at works in Saxony, and Made in Germany. I've yet to examine them all ."

Thank you. We've published examples of the postcards before, but I don't believe we've seen this text. -Editor

  Coin postcards album 1 Coin postcards album 2
  Coin postcards album 3 Coin postcards album 4
  Coin postcards album 6 Coin postcards album 5

Sally adds:

"There is no card for Canada which I would have expected. It seems like it's a rare one as one selling site has multiple cards for sale all around $10 and a Canada one for $374. Would you have any idea why Canada would not be included in the original sets?"

  Canada coin postcard

Sally continues:

"Here's a complete list of the cards, as you can see, two countries have two cards each. It may explain why a country might be missing, I'm not sure if the original sets were 45 cards or 45 countries."

A-M M-Z
Argentina
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Bulgaria
Chili (sic)
China
Denmark
Ecuador
Egypt
Finland
France
Germany
German East-Africa
German New Guinea
Great Britain and Ireland
Greece
Hungary
Japan - 1 rin , 1 sen to 1 yen
Japan 2 to 40 new yen
India and Ceylon
Italy
Marocco
Mexico
Netherlands
Netherlandish India
Norway
Persia
Peru
Portugal
Roumania
Russia
Serbia
Siam
Spain
Straits - Hong Kong
Sweden
Switzerland
Transvaal
Tunis
Turkey - gold and silver coins
Turkey - other coins
United States
Uruguay
Venezuela

To read the complete sale listings, see:
Coin & Currency Postcards (https://www.oldpostcards.com/coin-postcards.html)
Canadian, Super Rare, Very Hard to Find, Canada Coin Postcard (https://www.oldpostcards.com/c/con002129-canadian-very-rare-very-hard-to-find-canada-coin-postcard.html)

Standard Guide to Coin Postcards I don't know about the Canada card, but we do have some good information in the earlier E-Sylum articles which mention complete sets as having 43, 45 and 46 cards at various times. The best source of information may be the Standard Guide to Coin Postcards published in India in 2011. I don't have a copy. -Editor

To read some earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
NUMISMATIC POSTCARDS (https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v08n02a14.html)
COIN CARD POSTCARD ALBUM CENSUS (https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v17n02a29.html)
MORE ON NUMISMATIC POSTCARDS (https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v17n04a19.html)
BOOK REVIEW: STANDARD GUIDE TO COIN POSTCARDS (https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v19n41a05.html)



Wayne Homren, Editor

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