Today's theme is dedicated to the coins of the Principality of Liechtenstein, the fourth most populous and largest state in Europe, located on the border of Austria and Switzerland . It will not be a surprise that coins for a state with a population of 9,000 people (at the beginning of the 20th century) were issued in extremely small editions, and therefore are quite expensive and rarely found.
The Swiss franc is rightfully considered one of the most stable world currencies. And this is not surprising, because from the founding of the Swiss Confederation in 1848 to the present, not a single monetary reform has been carried out in the country, and the only 30% devaluation occurred in 1936, during the Great Depression. Most of the coins, first issued in 1879, are still issued without change in design.
After the proclamation of the Irish Free State , the question arose of creating its own currency. The Irish government took this issue very seriously - a committee was organized, headed by Senator W. B. Yeats, who was to determine the basic principles for the formation of the design of the future national currency. It was decided that the symbol of Ireland from the 13th century - the Celtic harp - would be present on the obverse of all issued coins without fail, and the inscriptions would be in Irish in Gaelic script. It was also decided to abandon the image on coins of personalities and religious symbols in order to avoid disagreements in society...
I want to start the review of British coins issued in the first half of the 20th century by showing coins from the reign of Edward VII. Edward ascended the throne at a fairly mature age, at the age of 60. In the short period of his reign, he issued only one line of coins.
In the early years of Poland's independence from the Russian Empire, the country had the currency of foreign states that replaced the occupying German East rubles and East kopecks. By decree of the Head of the Polish State, Jozef Pilsudski, dated February 5, 1919, it was decided to name the future Polish monetary unit "Lech," in honor of the legendary founder of Poland, and 1 penny was to become its hundredth part.