I visited some relatives this weekend and received a very awesome belated Christmas present. As a World Coin Collector I was excited to see some coins I don't have and even some countries I never even knew existed (Kiribati and St Helena). Now I have to decide if I'm going to leave it as is, or break it out and add it to my world type set. I'm leaning towards breaking it out, but it looks really cool as is.
Leave the coins in that album. If you later decide that you want to get an entire set from one of the countries, you can either buy the set without the coin you already have - or get the whole set as that one coin is unlikely to be terribly expensive. Nice how they drew the coins for the cover page. That makes up for the various spelling errors on that one page, hehe. Christian
That is a nice gift! I picked up this much smaller set at my local flea market yesterday. I want to break it up also but it does look nice like yours. $7 bucks and I haggled down to $5
I have one of these as well. Anything in hard plastic like that, I usually just leave; they are nifty.
Enjoy the Kiribati one. I have a friend from there and the island will be eroded away in less than 100 years.
I wonder why they thought the Canada Cent and Netherlands coins were odd shaped? Unless maybe this was made by a country that made odd shaped coins? And I guess no one ever told them that square pegs don't fit into round holes. Not finding fault, it's a nice set.
The term "Netherlands" for that coin is somewhat misleading, by the way. That coin was issued for the Netherlands Antilles. And while they do have pieces with interesting shapes there, such as a square with rounded corners, this one is not of them, I think ... Christian
The Canada Cent was 12 sided (instead of round) between 1982-1996. Mint went back to round in 1997 to save costs in production.
