Birds Among Most Popular Coin Subjects

It has been my experience since starting the Coin Critters column that collectors of coins depicting birds may outnumber collectors of other specific groups of animals including mammals or butterflies.

My main downfall, according to my wife, is that I prefer collecting any coin with any animal on it. It does not make any difference if it has a backbone or not. Exceptions are coins of the Chinese Lunar Calendar series, which always have a non-specific animal on them such as a snake or rat. These have never appealed to me, although many collect them.

I have told you about the ruby-throated hummingbird and red-breasted nuthatch on coins from Canada in the February issue of World Coin News. In this article I want to tell you about two more birds on Canadian coins and one on a Belarus coin. Each is a common species. One is the northern . . .

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