Do you have any funny or strange coins?

Show some coins you find funny and/or strange!

I found this 1988 2 Dollar from Cook Islands in a lot yesterday. The coin is made from cupronickel, is 24 mm from top to bottom, minted from 1987 to 1994, did circulate and is, as you can see triangular.

Nothing valuable, but a funny, strange and cool coin

 

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I do have a couple of Somalia guitar coins. Don't have any pictures now.

 

That's a pretty goofy looking coin. I like it. Here is a strange one I recently aquired. Ripley

 

Nice coins.
The triskele you show, Ripley, is a very ancient figure, featured on the Syracusian coinage 2500 years or so ago :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskelion

Q

 

Very nice coin Ripley....and welcome to the forums!

 

UFO coin

JC

 

you mean a falling shield coin Lots of shields on coins...like this one...



lady leaning on a UFO? But lets not get into THAT again...

here are a few oddballs





naked guy digging

 

It really do look like an UFO

 

Thanks for the welcome ... encil:

 

Nice doggy. Should be notgeld from Aachen ...

Christian

 

Kamnaskires-Orodes
Kingdom of Elymais
AE drachm – 16mm
c 150 AD
bust facing with long beard wearing diademed tiara; to right, pellet within crescent above anchor with two bars
series of dashes
Alram 478, Sear GIC 5910

 

Ummm Cris... All that glitters is not geld??? You got it right good going. Ripley

 

another from the cook islands

 

Defiantly another UFO. Ripley

 

What about this naughty Cuban peso from the "Pirates of the Caribbean"-series. It depicts Anne Bonny.

bart

 

You might want to delete that pic, because I have already gotten in trouble about the same thing. Just a hint to save yourself...

Don't say I didn't warn ya.

And Dutchman, I don't know what to say about yours.

 

I missed it! Why couldn't you wait to tell him that!

Ribbit

 

It was up for 12 hours. I figured it best I get on to him before a moderator does and infractions given out, since their was recently a hardy discussion on this subject.

 

Umm, try a web search for Anne Bonny, or Mary Read, plus some appropriate term(s) to narrow the search down. You'll get quite a few results. And of course, since these are coins*, they will even be depicted in plain old regular coin catalogs.

* In my opinion, however, the coins from that Carribbean Pirates series are quite poorly done. Look like pieces with comic book type stickers.

Christian

 

I agree...I am a big fan of the ladies and their assets but they are cheap looking...they look like stickers from an old comic book.