Hello everyone, Welcome to my 71,000 likes celebration thread! Thanks to @dwhiz for that much needed like this morning. Here is a recent Coinstar reject tray find. I thought at first that it was a small silver or platinum bar .. But it turned out to be a square coin from ARUBA Aruba has a unique 50 cent coin that is square-shaped. It's also sometimes referred to as a "yotin" by locals. The coin is made of nickel-plated steel and is part of the Aruban florin currency system. Here's more detail: Shape: The coin is a distinctive square shape with rounded corners. Composition: It's made of nickel-plated steel. Value: It represents 50 cents of the Aruban florin. Other names: Locals sometimes call it a "yotin". Year: The 50 cent square coin was introduced in 1986. ________________________________________________________________ Fun Fact - There are 71,000 7-ELEVEN stores worldwide (There are no 7-ELEVEN stores in Aruba)
Nice find! The square coins have long fascinated me. I don't know how much harder it is to mint them, but they have the great advantage that if you drop a handful of them they are not going to roll far! Here are mine, bought from assorted local coin store junk boxes: Aruba: Philippines: Malaya: British Ceylon: Which after independence became Sri Lanka:
All I have to offer is a picture: I don’t have any info on it, I just saved the pic because it was odd…Spark
