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Identifications of plants on Mozambican coins
Hello,
I recently bought a set of 8 Mozambican coins from 1975. Their reverses all depict local plants. For various reasons this set was never issued, so I can't find any documentation on the designs. Would anyone here be willing to attempt an identification of the plants for me? Unfortunately I don't have a web site to display them on, but I can send you jpegs of each coin. The jpegs range in size from 15 KB to 28 KB. Can anyone help? Regards, Adetola Obembe, Croydon, England. |
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Why not post the pictures on alt.binaries.pictures.gardens.
-- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
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Thanks, Dave, I've done just that. (I didn't know about the binaries group).
Regards, Adetola. |
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"obembe" wrote in message ... Thanks, Dave, I've done just that. (I didn't know about the binaries group). Regards, Adetola. Not sure of all of them, but : 1. Cashew, Anacardium occidentale 2. Madgascar Palm, Pachypodium sp. 3. sugar cane, Saccharum officinarum 6. cotton, Gossypium sp. 8. Protea, Leucospermum sp. hope this helps a little, -- elizabeth, Baton Rouge, LA http://community.webshots.com/user/elott63 |
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Thanks, Elizabeth. Unfortunately my images are no longer available on the
server, but you can still see them he http://home.houston.rr.com/snaps/Obembe.doc To re-jig your list by coin, Elizabeth:- 1 centimo. Protea, Leucospermum sp. 1 metica. Madgascar Palm, Pachypodium sp. 10 centimos. Sugar cane, Saccharum officinarum 50 centimos. Cashew, Anacardium occidentale 2 M 50. (2 meticas and 50 centimos) Cotton, Gossypium sp. (The coins are all dated 1975 from Mozambique but were never issued into circulation). I know nothing about plants, so I've had fun looking up your suggestions on Google images. With cashews you're obviously spot on. Sugar cane too looks absolutely right. As for the 1 centimo, I've just found a coin site whose owner thinks it could be either eucalyptus (which IS cultivated in Mozambique) or else knapweed (he doesn't give any scientific names). Both look sort of right but not quite - the petals on the coin are tighter and not spread out like the wispy ones on the knapweed or eucalyptus, so I'm going with your protea, Elizabeth. The 2M50 (cotton) - well, cotton looks very close but the cotton leaves seem to have 3 points, whereas there are 5 on the leaves on the coin. I managed to dig up an old coin catalogue (German) in the library today, which gives the 2M50 design as "Wunderbaum" (literally "miracle tree" - religious connotations?). After much searching this seems to be a castor bean plant (ricinus communis) - the leaves do seem much closer to those on the coin design and otherwise very right. The German book identified only one other coin, describing the 1 metica as "sisalagave". I've still got to look for that on the web. Looking for images of cashews, I also came across images of cashew apples (!), which look just right for the plant on the 5 centimos coin! As luck would have it, a newer, CURRENTLY circulating Mozambique coin is documented as showing cashew apples and they do look similar to the 5 centimos design. Thanks, Elizabeth - I'll keeping looking for the others. Regards, Adetola Obembe. ================================================== ======================== "Elizabeth" wrote in message news0Qcd.105493$a85.78988@fed1read04... Not sure of all of them, but : 1. Cashew, Anacardium occidentale 2. Madgascar Palm, Pachypodium sp. 3. sugar cane, Saccharum officinarum 6. cotton, Gossypium sp. 8. Protea, Leucospermum sp. hope this helps a little, -- elizabeth, Baton Rouge, LA http://community.webshots.com/user/elott63 |
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