I collect Millenium coins and have come across a couple of real odd ones LOL the 1st is from the Island of Turks & Caicos, 25 crowns. One half is silver and the other is Gold The second is the Isle of Man Millenium depicting a sundial with a Gold center strip that I believe actualy lifts to form a real sundial LOL Any of you guy's got any strangly shaped coins? De Orc
The only `strangely shaped' coins I have are ones that have been mechanically altered (ie. `box' coins / magicians coins/ smugglers pieces/ fake altered die axis etcetera.....)..... or spanish cobs. Mind you, come to think of it, I do have a couple from Andorra that have gold inlays to them.
Here are a couple of encased coins. I rather like the Windsor Canadian example, in both coin and fluid product Take Care Ben
I don't have any, and don't ever expect to, but these Somali coins have to be the oddest ones available:
I have looked at these in the past and wonderd just what sort of change you would get if spending them, couple of fiddles or a sax LOL they would make a nice gift for a muscian though De Orc
And let's not forget "UN ULTIME FRANC", the last French Franc ever minted, with its wavy planchet. Obverse & edge: Reverse:
Don't forget that Nauru has had medal-coins in the shapes of maps,as did Uganda,Zambia,Tuvalu,& the Cook Islands. Bermuda has also had medal-coins in the shape of a triangle with the sides bowing outward,but meeting at the corners. Aidan.
I gotta wonder, How did they ever know what each was worth??? What do their currrent coins look like?
Poland issued a rectangular piece last year ... ... a 20 zloty coin showing the 19c artist Aleksander Gierymski. Still better than all those oddities like the World Cup 2006 countdown timer coin, pieces that are shaped like maps, wooden and acrylic coins, in a word, shudder. That ultime franc I have and like. But like the others it does not have anything to do with circulating money. Christian
How on earth do you store them LOL the dolphin I can figure ways , Cook Island a bit more difficult but the Nauru !!! LOL De Orc :bow:
Roy,I was actually shown a picture of these showing the other side.As seen as these are denominated in Dollars,which has NEVER been the official currency of Somalia,these would qualify for listing in Krause's 'Unusual World Coins',which is being reprinted later on this year. Aidan.
