DWI 10 cents coin 1859 reverse legend translation

Обсуждение Датская Западная Индия • 10 Cents - Frederik VII

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For this coin:

 

N#30345

 

and others from the DWI with the same reverse legend, shouldn't “Mont” in “Dansk Vestindisk Mont" be translated into English as “coin” instead of “mint”? 

 

In Danish, “Mont” can be translated as “mint” or “coin”. Since Denmark did not mint any coins in the Danish West Indies, (the 1859 10 cent coin itself was minted in Copenhagen, Denmark), wouldn't “Danish West Indies Coin” be a better translation for the part of the reverse legend in question (and eliminate any confusion about where the coins with this reverse legend were actually made)? 

I agree.

As a Dane, I would agree with you. Refer also to Swedish “Sølvmynt”, where “mynt” means coin, and not the industrial site, where coins were minted!

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Coin varieties in French:
https://monnaiesetvarietes.numista.com

The same can happen in German where Münze usually means ‘coin’ but can as well be the place where coins are made (a bit dated today but in a historical setting still relevant but usually it's not written on coins but rather used in documents or names … like made in the Alte Münze [old mint]).

If there is no mint in the West Indies it's a no-brainer and should be changed.

Reminiscent of Dutch colonial currency of Curaçao, which is inscribed ‘Munt van Curaçao’, e.g.:

N#3012

 

Dutch munt can equally mean both ‘mint’ and ‘coin’, but an other, less common meaning is actually 'currency'. Both in case of Curaçao and DWI, I think the translation ‘currency of …’ is more adequate.

 

For the Dutch word meaning ‘currency’ cf. the saying met gelijke munt terugbetalen, ‘pay back in the same currency’, which you say when you trick someone back in the same way he/she tricked you before.

Hm it can mean something like currency but coin is usually used in most languages with that idiom (WikiDe)(WikiEn).

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