Customers Wait for days on long lines for new coins

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/06/29/crowds-queue-12-hours-and-rain-coins-malaysia.html

 

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I hope the silver at least was real after a 12 hour wait.

 

What's Nordic gold?

 

Base metals such copper, aluminium, tin, zinc.

 

I have a couple of modern Polish 2 zloty coins that are nordic gold. It's not gold, but an alloy of copper and aluminum with small amounts of other base metals. They look like our presidential "golden" coins.

 

If you're going to make coins sets out of pot metal, why not make more than 500? This makes the US Mints 25th anniversary ASE set fiasco look friggin' well planned and executed.

And why are they still using the Reichs Mark?!?!

 

Noted.
Thanks.

 

Nordic Gold is Cu89 Al5 Zn5 Sn1, so mostly copper. The name refers to the origin of the alloy; one of its first uses was the Swedish 10 kronor coin. The "mid range" coins in the euro area (10 cent, 20 cent, 50 cent) are Nordic Gold pieces as well. The name and the composition are trademarks, so the composition of a Nordic Gold is always the same, whether in Sweden, France or Poland ...

Christian

 

Really, good point? Why only 500 of base metal coins?

 

I hope you are kidding. The Malaysian currency is the Malaysian ringgit...which is abbreviated RM.

 

One only needs to read Shelly.......

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Or listen to Ben.......