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Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Numismatics/Cryptocurrency task force

So I just did a overhaul to the main project page of Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Cryptocurrency like adding a orange-like color format to the page and made a userbox and a barnstar, but I'm now finding out there is a task force also for Cryptocurrency via Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Numismatics/Cryptocurrency task force. Was WikiProject Cryptocurrency approved through here instead of the Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Council/Proposals? Or did anyone here not know about WikiProject Cryptocurrency? Jerm (talk) 20:28, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

I think we're very shorthanded and probably these things go unnoticed.--Wehwalt (talk) 23:03, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, and a lot of editors are becoming less active too. I had marked like three WikiProjects this year as inactive and others as semi. I actually just marked WikiProject Cryptocurrency to semi because there are only two members who are still active editors. Jerm (talk) 23:37, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Cryptocurrency is the "active" one. This task force is pretty much inactive so I marked it as Category:Inactive task forces. Coin (talk) 22:08, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

I added the assessment table of the task force to the page of the wikiproject, but I'm not sure if the wikiproject has the same amount of articles assessed according to the task force assessment table. Jerm (talk) 03:58, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

200 euro note

Hi. I noticed that 200 euro note (a Good Article) has an empty subsection (this one). This seems like something that can be easily fixed by someone with the right expertise, which is why I'm bringing it to your attention. Thanks! Lennart97 (talk) 15:17, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

1 yen note

I need someone to copyedit this article for me. It took a few days but I feel enough information has been poured into the article to bump it up to a "B" rating. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 16:39, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Good article reassessment

Please see Misplaced Pages:Good article reassessment/Silver center cent/1 ---Another Believer _(Talk) 21:50, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Talk:Coins_of_the_United_States_dollar

Some bot keeps trashing the talk page of Talk:Coins_of_the_United_States_dollar can someone look into it? There is a new coin/bullion Morgan/Peace dollar coming out this year, and it may need to be added, but the bot keeps deleting the section to talk about how to add it to the page. shadzar-talk 12:46, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

FAR for Order of St Patrick

I have nominated Order of St Patrick for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Z1720 (talk) 21:22, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

Usage of coin colour templates

Hello numisticians, I thought I'd drop this thought I had here for some initial feedback, before I go on and propose something more formal, as I know this is a passionately watched category of articles. The three templates used to add colour to tables of coinage (Template:Coin-copper-color, Template:Coin-yellow-color, and Template:Coin-silver-color) are all applied as per the numistics MOS, with entire rows being coloured (example taken from MOS):

Prewar series - Regular issues (link to official page about this series if exists)
Image		Value	Technical parameters				Description			Date of
Obverse	Reverse		Diameter	Thickness	Mass	Composition	Edge	Obverse	Reverse	first minting	issue	withdrawal
		1 f	17.0 mm	1.0 mm	1.66 g	Bronze 95% copper 4% tin 1% zinc	Smooth	"MAGYAR KIRÁLYSÁG", Holy Crown of Hungary, year of minting	Indication of value, mintmark	1926	27 December 1926	31 December 1945

Couldn't we make it so that only the cells in the 'composition' column get the colour instead? This has two benefits, as I see it:

• The reader may be confused about why a row is seemingly arbitrarily coloured, but if it's just one cell, the contents of that single cell should make it very clear what the colour refers to
• I suspect minimising the use of coloured backgrounds will improve accessibility

Here's what it could look like:

Prewar series - Regular issues (link to official page about this series if exists)
Image		Value	Technical parameters				Description			Date of
Obverse	Reverse		Diameter	Thickness	Mass	Composition	Edge	Obverse	Reverse	first minting	issue	withdrawal
		1 f	17.0 mm	1.0 mm	1.66 g	Bronze 95% copper 4% tin 1% zinc	Smooth	"MAGYAR KIRÁLYSÁG", Holy Crown of Hungary, year of minting	Indication of value, mintmark	1926	27 December 1926	31 December 1945

I've made the above update 'manually', but I'd imagine the templates can be updated if there's consensus that this is a good idea. Any thoughts? EditorInTheRye (talk) 09:24, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

EditorInTheRye You make some valid points, but one problem I see with your proposal is that it would be impossible to color rows for bi-metallic coins, such as the Canadian $2 coin. - ZLEA _T\ 09:30, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

ZLEA That's a good point, I hadn't thought of that, actually. It's doable, but I'll be the first to admit that editing this table (taken from the article you linked) was rather painful (but then again others may be more at ease with wikitable markup than I am)...

Canadian coins
Image		Value	Technical parameters				Description			Common name	First minted	Discontinued	Withdrawal
Obverse	Reverse		Diameter	Thickness	Mass	Composition	Edge	Obverse	Reverse
		$2	28 mm	1.8 mm	7.3 g	Ring: 99% nickel	Intermittent milled/smooth	Queen Elizabeth II	Polar bear	Toonie	1996	2011	Still in use
						Centre: 92% copper 6% aluminium 2% nickel
					6.92 g	Ring: nickel plated steel	Intermittent milled/smooth/edge lettered		Polar bear with 2 security features		2012	Still produced
						Centre: aluminum bronze
These images are to scale at 2.5 pixels per millimetre. For table standards, see the coin specification table.

EditorInTheRye (talk) 10:05, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

EditorInTheRye Well, you addressed my only concern. I support this idea. - ZLEA _T\ 19:37, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

US nickel coin has changed design?

Hi, it looks like the nickel now has a different design from the one(s) displayed in Jefferson nickel, Nickel (United States coin), and Coins of the United States dollar HydroniumHydroxide 05:31, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Someone got the 2013 design deleted, I've readded it. Reywas92 13:15, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

There have been problems with a number of recent US coins that were designed by people who are not Mint employees and to which the US government has acquired the copyrights. While we can freely use government works, the US Mint has been restrictive in its image use policy. Thus, the best we can do is a fair use, and people haven't been uploading low-resolution versions and filling out fair use rationales. Wehwalt (talk) 13:26, 20 April 2023 (UTC)

Editions Victor Gadoury article is proposed for deletion

FYI, Editions Victor Gadoury has been proposed for deletion. The article's lead says:

• "The Editions Victor Gadoury is a Monaco publishing company specialized in numismatics and selling coin catalogs."

Deletion will occur automatically after 20:37, 9 August 2023 (UTC) unless someone removes the tag.

If you think deletion is a good idea, you can second the proposal by adding a {{prod2}} tag.

--A. B. 20:34, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Has anyone here heard of Fanery, the traditional money used in Madagascar (well, maybe not)?

For the interested: Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Fanery. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:35, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

Proposed Design for Eco Banknotes

I am interested in seeing possible designs for the proposed Eco banknotes. 2603:6080:D00:6862:CD9B:571F:7457:784 (talk) 11:41, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

I would suspect those would be copyrighted Wehwalt (talk) 11:48, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Minimum window width in WikiProject Numismatics

Why do the "yellow/orange frames" in WikiProject Numismatics force a minimum screen window width of nearly 2.000 px (or permanent sideways scrolling) instead of gracefully adapting to the actual windows width? This is contrary to proven WP style elsewhere and counterproductive both on mobile devices (though not my personal interest) as well as multi-window workmode even on 4K screens (myday-to-day practice). I would be grateful for an explanation, if there is a good one, or else a remedy. Thanks --HReuter (talk) 22:04, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

panama balboa coin question

https://en.wikipedia.org/Panamanian_balboa This page discusses the balboa coins, and the picture shows the half balboa coin being produced from 1973 on, but the text below the picture says that is was first produced in 1930, then changed in 1966 and again in 1973. I am assuming the text is correct, I recently found a 1966 half balboa in pocket change. Expat somewhere (talk) 16:16, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

Expat somewhere It looks like the table is describing the coin in its current dimensions/composition, which was introduced in 1973. The section, as well as the article as a whole, is largely unsourced. - ZLEA _T\ 16:43, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

Fictional money?

Y'all include money for which absolutely no example exists because it is a confabulation? Book of Mormon monetary system is under this WikiProject. Is that appropriate? jps (talk) 22:48, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

I'm not sure that falls under numismatics. Fantasy money might as its exonumia. Like the brass-colored "bitcoins" that you see out there that have no validity. But the main article on bitcoin probably isn't numismatics. Wehwalt (talk) 22:57, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I removed the listing. jps (talk) 23:44, 15 March 2024 (UTC)