Watercraft on World Coins: Volume III -- Africa & Oceania, 1800-2011

by Yossi Dotan

Overview

The book is organised as a catalogue of "ship coins" according to the popular KM-numbering system. Coins that have a common design are grouped under separate headings. Included are both circulating coins and collector oriented commemoratives. The coin images represent the many different ways in which the ships are depicted. Volume II included over six hundred narratives, and follows on from the publication of "Volume I -- Europe, 1800-2005" (2007), acclaimed as a book that should be owned or at least read by every collector of world ship coins.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781898595519
Publisher:	Sussex Academic Press
Publication date:	12/01/2015
Series:	Watercraft on World Coins
Edition description:	None
Pages:	460
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.60(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Yossi Dotan is a numisnautical researcher, a recognized expert in modern coins depicting watercraft. Since retirement after a 46-year career with a major firm of certified public accountants, he has devoted himself to researching ships and coins, and writing the narratives for this book. He is a contributor to the Standard Catalog of World Coins. In recognition of his non-numismatic volunteer service, Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands has made him a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xii

Watercraft on World Coins 1

Africa

Angola 3

Benin 4

Cameroon 17

Cabo Verde 18

Cape Verde 18

Central African Republic 22

Chad 23

Comoros 23

Congo, Democratic Republic of the 33

Congo, Republic of the 25

Congo-Brazzaville 25

Congo-Kinshasa 33

Cote d'lvoire 59

Dahomey 4

Djibouti 44

Egypt 47

Equatorial Guinea 51

Eritrea 53

French Afars and Issas 45

French Equatorial Africa 53

French Somaliland 44

French West Africa 54

Gabon 54

Gambia, The 55

Ghana 57

Gold Coast 57

Guinea-Bissau 58

Ivory Coast 59

Lesotho 67

Liberia 67

Madagascar 102

Malawi 102

Mauritius 109

Mozambique 109

Namibia 111

Reunion 113

Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic 114

Saint Helena 118

Saint Helena and Ascension 123

Saint Thomas & Prince 124

Sao Tomé and Príncipe 124

Senegal 126

Seychelles 127

Sierra Leone 130

Somalia 133

Somalia Republic 142

Somaliland 143

South Africa 143

Stoltenhoff Island 149

Tanzania 154

Togo 154

Tristan da Cunha 160

Tunisia 177

Uganda 180

Zaïre 33

Zambia 181

Oceania

American Samoa 191

Australia 191

Cook Islands 220

Fiji 283

French Oceania 298

French Polynesia 298

Kiribati 300

Marshall Islands 304

Nauru 304

New Caledonia 307

New Zealand 307

Niue 318

Palau 328

Papua New Guinea 346

Pitcairn Islands 348

Samoa 356

Solomon Islands 369

Tokelau 399

Tonga 403

Tuvalu 411

Vanuatu 422

Western Samoa 356

Select Bibliography 429

Additions and corrections to previous volumes 433

Index 441

Editorial Reviews

The format is identical to Volume I, which I reviewed in November 2007. Much of what I said then still applies to Volume II: … I have to say this is probably one of the best books I've ever seen on a topical numismatic subject. No mere catalog, the book delves deeply into the background of each coin, providing anywhere from a few sentences to a full page of information about each coin, its history and design, and the history of the watercraft depicted. … Krause–Mishler (KM) numbers are used, providing easy cross-reference to the standard price catalogues. This is ideal, for a topical book has a far longer shelf-life than price catalogs, and had any prices been included they would quickly become outdated. … QUICK QUIZ: which coins in the U.S. Statehood Quarter Dollar series picture watercraft? They are all listed and pictured here. How many other U.S. coins (including commemoratives) picture watercraft? This chapter of the book would make a great guide for building an interesting collection and exhibit of U.S. coins. … There are quite a few coin designs that I really like. Some of the U.S. design are among them, but I also like a 1964 25 fils coins from Yemen, picturing a traditional fishing dhow (p. 331). … The volume passes my back-of-the-book test: there is a detailed six-page index and an impressive five-page Select Bibliography. Thoughtfully included is a section with additions and errata to Volume I, Europe.”  —Numismatic Bibliomania

“The first thing I did when I got my hands on Dotan’s Watercraft, Volume II, was to turn to the section on Canada to see how he described our famous voyageur silver dollar. He devotes a page and a half to our iconic dollar coin, with detailed descriptions of the voyageur, the aboriginal guide, the rays of the aurora borealis and the rocky island in the background with the wind-swept pines. (He even includes a footnote about the disappearance of the voyageur dies that were supposed to have been used for the aureate circulating dollar coin. The loss of these dies forced the Royal Canadian Mint to use a backup design to produce the dollar coin known as the ‘loonie.’) … Yossi Dotan is described as a numisnautical researcher. He has collected ‘ship coins’ for over thirty years. Since his retirement as an accountant he has done extensive research on ships on coins and written the appropriate narratives. … Dotan’s attention to detail is evident in the descriptions of nearly every coin in the book. For the numismatist, he writes about the coin’s size, metallic content and year (or years) of issue. For the mariner, he provides details about the ship’s size, function, history, destination, and, in some cases, the ultimate fate of the vessel. Even if the ship is only a tiny part of the coin’s design, we get a detailed description. For example, the Caribbean island of Dominica has its coat of arms on the four dollar coin dated 1970. In this case, the ship is a small native craft in the lower left quadrant of the shield. You almost have to look twice to find the ship. … All types of sailing vessels have been described on coins, from Noah’s Ark (Israel) to the Titanic (North Korea), from a rowboat (USA) to a large ocean liner (Bermuda), from an Olympic catamaran (Aruba) to a threemasted in full sail (China, among others). … Dotan has incorporated several improvements in Volume II. There are about 500 coin photos, more than twice as many as in Volume I. He has three pages of ‘Additions and Corrections’ to Volume I. Also there is an extensive index and bibliography. The only typos that eluded his proofreaders were his description of coins from the British Antarctic Territory. These coins mark the 100st (sic) Anniversary of the Declaration of British Sovereignty in the area. … This book will appeal to the casual topical collector, to the dedicated numismatist and to the naval historian. I look forward to Dotan’s Volume III, Africa and Oceania, 1800 – which is in preparation.”  —Review

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