What are some currencies with weird names

Isn't the small unit in Croatia the lipa? The pula is used in Botswana. But your example is still funny.

In Andorra they have a semi-official currency, basically for collectors only: the diner. If you pronounce that word the actual (Catalan) way first, then the French way and then the English way, you could say, let's spend some diner coins to have a diner at a diner. Except nobody uses those as money ...

Christian

 

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Unless you have the 2010 edition like I do if I'd known I'd have cut them out of my '98 edition prior to tossing it when I ordered the new one.

Any word if we can expect this and other handy charts to reappear in newer editions? The actual size diameter layout was great also.

 

gobble-gobble - "obol"

 

Tetrobol

Awesome lion coin Mr. Stevex6. I hope that everyone has an opportunity to enjoy your awesome archaic obol. Let me post a coin that was issued a few Centuries later.

I believe this little coin from Euboia is four obols (Tetrobol) and there were six obols to the drachm. Of course it is the same coin I recently posted in an ancient thread.

EUBOIA, Histiaia.
AR Tetrobol.
3rd-2nd Century B.C.
1.88 grams, 13.5 mm
Obv: Head of Nymph Histiaia facing
right with hair rolled & wreathed
w/ vine.
Rev: IΣT I AIEΩN Nymph Histiaia
seated rt. on stern of galley holding
a naval standard.
Grade: gVF with deep cabinet toning
Other: similar to Sear 2496
[possibly 197-146 BC or Macedon
imitation prior to 168 BC]
From Eye Appealing Coins
4/2013, purportedly Ex Heritage.


I need small change. I'm looking for someone willing to trade four of your lion obol coins for my tetrobol.

 

What about the Dobras of Sao-Tome? Or the Guarani? Ariaries from Madagascar? The Albanians even use the Lek which sounds like Blech! :biggrin:

But, of course, my all time favorite... is the Mongolian TOGROG, subdivided into a hundred MONGO.

 

What about the Dobras of Sao-Tome? Or the Guarani? Ariaries from Madagascar? The Albanians even use the Lek which sounds like Blech! :biggrin:

But, of course, my all time favorite- is the Mongolian TOGROG, subdivided into a hundred MONGO.

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Thanks Collect89 => yup, ya gotta love the ancients, eh?!!

 

[h=2]Rai Stone[/h]
thats some big currency




i wonder how much one of these holy water silver dollars cost

 

im guessing no one has one of these in there collection


Rai, or stone money, are large, circular stone disks carved out of limestone formed from aragonite and calcite crystals.[SUP][2][/SUP] Rai stones were mined in Palau and transported for use to the island of Yap, Micronesia. They have been used in trade by the locals and are described by some observers as a form of currency.


"Rai stones are circular disks with a hole in the middle. The size of the stones varies widely: the largest are 3.6 meters (12 ft) in diameter, 0.5 meters (1.5 ft) thick and weigh 4 metric tons (8,800 lb). The largest rai stone is located in Rumung island, near Riy village.[SUP][3][/SUP] Smaller rai stones might have a diameter of 7-8 centimetres.

The extrinsic (perceived) value of a specific stone is based not only on its size and craftsmanship but also on the history of the stone. If many people—or no one at all—died when the specific stone was transported, or a famous sailor brought it in, the value of the rai stone increases.
Rai stones were and still are used in rare, important social transactions such as marriage, inheritance, political deals, sign of an alliance, ransom of the battle dead or, rarely, in exchange for food. Many of them are placed in front of meetinghouses or along pathways. The physical location of the stone may not matter—though the ownership of a particular stone changes, the stone itself is rarely moved due to its weight and risk of damage. The names of previous owners are passed down to the new one. In one instance, a rai being transported by canoe was accidentally dropped and sank to the sea floor. Although it was never seen again, everyone agreed that the rai must still be there, so it continued to be transacted as genuine currency.[SUP][4][/SUP] What is important is that ownership of the rai is clear to everyone, not that the rai is physically transferred or even physically accessible to either party in the transfer."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones

 

Bumping a 4am post

 

The Spanish "Peseta" sounds funny to me. In the northern part of Jalisco, Mexico (Los Altos region) the term "me cae peseta(s)" roughly means "I can't stand him/her" or in other words it means that you feel a strong antipathy towards someone. The direct translation is, "Him/her falls heavy to me."

But throughout Mexico most people use "me cae gordo." Directly translated, "He falls fat to me!" :3three:

 

Of course , thank you for correcting me. I mixed up the croatioan currency with the quiet popular croatian tourist destination of Pula, where you can spend the Kuna.

 

leeuwendaalder

This is my understanding:

We got "dollar" indirectly from "taler." (originally "thaler"). The Dutch version of the taler, spelled daaler or daler, which made it to America via the Dutch colonists, is where we get the word "dollar" from. Both tal and dal mean valley ("dell" or "dale" in English). The silver rich valleys in Europe were where the talers were minted. Originally in Joachimsthal (St. Joachim's Valley in Bohemia) thus the coins were called Joachimsthalers meaning they came from Joachimsthal.

Here is a leeuwendaalder (lion dollar) from the colonial period (1641), which I believe is THE original American dollar coin. Then when in the 18th century the Spanish Peso (AKA 8 Reales coin or Piece of Eight) became the common coin coin in America due to the huge quantities minted in the Spanish colonies, it was called a "dollar" due to its similarity to the daler. The "Spanish Milled Dollar" is mentioned by name in the Coinage Act of 1792 as the basis of the American Dollar.

 

How about mace and candereens

 

Heller-Austria

Hungary-Filler

I have a near complete set if Hellers and a few Fillers went to post photos dont have any! I can't believe I haven't taken ANY photos of them!
Guess I need to do that.......

 

We need Siberian Man for this one.

 

I always thought the word Rupee was both weird and funny sounding. Ha.

 

How about a Kip. (Laos)

 

I've got Meticais from Mozamique, Stotinka, Stotinki, and Stotiki from Bulgaria, a Dram from Nagorno-Karabaka, but my favorite is the Kopijok from Ukraine.