Animal Motifs on Coins


In my last article on coins, I wrote a hypothesis that the silver collector-investment coins of African countries are not minted for Africans, but for wealthy investors from countries in the so-called global West. Therefore, the designs on these coins are not for Africans, but for these investors.

I think this idea of mine is correct, that everybody actually accepts it. Today I will document it on specific African coins.

Which animal does a non-African consider typical of Africa? I think it would be the elephant. That's why it's on these coins.

They're Somali coins. Somalia is one of the poorest countries on the planet. Somalis often face existential problems. I think there is only a formal unitary state there. Yet they mint silver coins.

I wonder how many Somalis know about the existence of such coins? I don't think anyone there even cares. However, someone must have authorized the issuance of these coins. Some mint must have paid something. To whom? Was the money used for the benefit of the Somali people?

The leopard is a beautiful animal. And a leopard coin is a beautiful coin. I'll be collecting this series too.

But my purchases are definitely not development aid to this country. I'm making money for the mint. And probably someone else.

Giants of the Ice Age - a giant deer, a bull and a bear, a gorilla with a cub. These motifs confirm my idea that African coins most often feature African fauna. I admit that the duel between the bear and the bull is an allegory. The battle of the bear market and the bull market.

Ghana, Chad, Congo. I'm ashamed of how little I know about those countries. I'm interested in how people live there. Ghana has a good reputation. The other two countries have worse reputations. Intertribal, religious and civil wars, coups, murder, corruption, crime. This is exactly how an outsider sees Africa. Yet all three of these countries issue silver coins.

Are there any exceptions? Are there any African coins with the image of a human? Is there a local event depicted on any coins? In the rest of the world there are many coins issued referring to various stories mythical and real and to various anniversaries.

I've been looking. I found something. But it's nothing definitive. An owl and an antelope on the reverse.

But here, finally, people are depicted!

The island of St. Helena may be located in the Gulf of Guinea off Africa, but it has little to do with Africa. The island belongs to Britain. The coin, of course, depicts the monarch Charles III.

On the other side we see a silver Krugerrand with a typical antelope and the likeness of the Transvaal President Kruger. Strange. Very strange. The gold Krugerrand has been minted since 1967. It was sometimes banned in some countries as one of the symbols of apartheid. Apartheid ended in 1994. But the white president remained on the coin.

The middle coin, perhaps. It could depict a particular African. But no. It's a Chadian coin. The first coin designed by artificial intelligence. The head is imaginary.

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I used the Deepl.com translator to translate from Czech to English. The original Czech version is below the banner.

😀Zvířecí motivy na mincích😀
Ve svém posledním článku o mincích jsem vyslovil hypotézu, že stříbrné sběratelské investiční mince afrických zemí nejsou raženy pro Afričany, ale pro bohaté investory ze zemí tzv. globálního Západu. Vzory na těchto mincích tedy nejsou určeny pro Afričany, ale pro tyto investory.

Myslím, že tato moje myšlenka je správná, že ji vlastně všichni přijímají. Dnes ji budu dokumentovat na konkrétních afrických mincích.

Které zvíře považuje neafričan za typické pro Afriku? Myslím, že to bude slon. Proto je na těchto mincích.

Jsou to somálské mince. Somálsko je jednou z nejchudších zemí na světě. Somálci se často potýkají s existenčními problémy. Myslím, že tam existuje pouze formální unitární stát. Přesto razí stříbrné mince.

Zajímalo by mě, kolik Somálců ví o existenci takových mincí? Myslím, že to tam nikoho ani nezajímá. Někdo však musel vydávání těchto mincí povolit. Nějaká mincovna musela něco zaplatit. Komu? Byly tyto peníze použity ve prospěch somálského lidu?

Leopard je krásné zvíře. A leopardí mince je krásná mince. Tuhle sérii budu taky sbírat. Ale mé nákupy rozhodně nejsou rozvojovou pomocí této zemi. Dávám vydělat peníze mincovně. A velmi pravděpodobně i někomu jinému.

Obři doby ledové - obří jelen, býk a medvěd, gorila s mládětem. Tyto motivy potvrzují mou myšlenku, že na afrických mincích se nejčastěji objevuje africká fauna. Připouštím, že souboj medvěda a býka je alegorií. Souboj medvěda a býka o směr pohybu aktiv na trhu.

Ghana, Čad, Kongo. Stydím se za to, jak málo toho o těchto zemích vím. Zajímá mě, jak tam žijí obyčejní lidé. Ghana má dobrou pověst. Další dvě země už mají pověst horší .... Mezikmenové, náboženské a občanské války, převraty, vraždy, korupce, zločinnost. Přesně takhle vidí Afriku člověk zvenčí. Přesto všechny tři tyto země vydávají stříbrné mince.

Existují nějaké výjimky? Existují africké mince, na kterých by byl vyobrazený člověk? Kde by byla vyobrazena nějaká místní událost? Ve zbytku světa vychází mnoho mincí odkazujících na různé příběhy mytické i skutečné, ne různá výročí.

Ale tady jsou konečně vyobrazeni lidé!

Ostrov Svatá Helena sice leží v Guinejském zálivu u Afriky, ale s Afrikou má pramálo společného. Ostrov patří Velké Británii. Na minci je samozřejmě vyobrazen panovník Karel III.

Na druhé straně vidíme stříbrný Krugerrand s typickou antilopou a podobiznou transvaalského prezidenta Krugera. Zvláštní. Velmi zvláštní. Zlatý Krugerrand se razí od roku 1967. V některých zemích byl občas zakázán jeho dovoz jako jeden ze symbolů apartheidu. Apartheid skončil v roce 1994. Bílý prezident však na minci zůstal.

Možná prostřední mince. Mohla by zobrazovat konkrétního Afričana. Ale ne. Je to čadská mince. První mince navržená umělou inteligencí. Hlava je imaginární.

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Wow, all fine coins and rounds. It is too bad that some of the countries in Africa are so unstable. They have a lot to offer if they could just settle their internal differences and the external forces could leave well enough alone.

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Everything always seems simple from the outside. The alcoholic simply stops drinking alcohol, the drug addict stops using it, the obese stop overeating. It's all so simple, after all. And people will stop fighting among themselves.

But I still think it will get better and better. With better and better education. But it's going to take a few more centuries for humanity to move up to the next level.

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Yes, it does seem simple when you are on the outside looking in. Things get much more complicted when your on the inside trying to fix it.

I am glad you look at things on the postive side. I don't think humanity has much hope, I honestly think we are digressing.

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Such nice silver, hard not to love it. Africa has had a rough go over the years, lots of wars and violence. It's a sad reality that our world is more often cruel that it is kind!
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i doubt that the profits have benefited it's African citizens. The respective governments that issue these silver coins are paid a part of this Seniorage by the mints that produced them. It is not even known that the silver was sourced from the country that issued the silver coins either as far as I know.
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Corruption has always and everywhere existed. But I think that, especially in African countries, it is taking monstrous forms today.

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It's true that Somalia faces significant economic challenges, and it might seem surprising that they mint silver coins. The Somalian Silver Elephant Coins are part of the African Wildlife Series, minted by the Bavarian State Mint in Germany. These coins were first issued in 1999, initially commissioned by Zambia, and later by Somalia in 2004.
There's some controversy surrounding the authorization and actual benefit of these coins to the Somali people. Some sources suggest that the coins were minted without proper authorization from the Somali government, and there are doubts about whether the revenue generated from these coins has been used for the benefit of the Somali people.
It's a complex situation, and it's understandable to question how such initiatives align with the broader economic and social needs of the country. I think there should be more transparency and accountability in such cases. Don't you think so @trautenberk?
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There are interesting coins from cameroon and chad! Chad has a collection of egyptian thematic coins! Cameron has even bible theme coins! Remember that most of african coins arent minted there, on’y keugerrand is minted by south african mint!

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