Interesting Hole Shapes: post your pics

I have seen coins with square holes and round holes. Have there been coins with any other shapes of holes in them? 8-pointed star in Muslim countries? Triangle? Post piscs.

 

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British brass threepence were twelve sided.

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

 

Australia's 50 cent is massive and 12 sided.



And then you have the British coins with 7 sides:



You have holed oval shaped coins for early Japanese coins (don't have a picture for it yet)

Interesting bi-metal 7 sided coin for Jordon


Scallop shape for Hong Kong


And... can't think anything off right now at the moment.

 

Awesome coins.

I meant this thread to focus on coins with a hole in and the shape of such holes.

 

Obviously I wasn't reading properly. My apologizes. Here's what I have from what I can remember:

Supposely a square hole but somehow ended up to be a circular hole as well as some casting issue at the back - don't know how that can possibly happen


Not particularly interesting but notice how the number 5 makes use of the hole - pretty interesting


Speaking of which I don't think I can think of any at the moment other than circles and squares.

 

I like the romanian issue !

 

Here are some interesting pictures of transport tokens with all kinds of oddly shaped holes. http://foto.mail.ru/mail/ml_alexb/914/ Yeah, tokens and not coins ... but great holes.

Christian

 

Thank you Christian!!!

Vielen Dank noch einmal Christian!
The fact that they are tokens is irrelevant to me; it does not diminish my enjoyment at all.

These are my favorites.


How did you find this page? Do you know some Russian? I am quite curious about some of the other pieces.