They must have also had currency or electronic forms of payment as well, according to Capital One's 'What's in YOUR wallet?!' tv commercials....
Also Sammler.com .
I found several with 1mm thickness like yours, more common, as well as one about 2mm in width. The best way to tell is to have one of each for...
Is this a giveaway? :D Is that her below the goose?
1255, year 19 would be about 1856-57.
The three on the left are 10 piastres coins and the two on the right are 5 piastres coins. There are 100 piastres in a Pound. Arabic numerals
Dutch68 is correct as this coin has the shield and crown design and not just a crown as the 5 and 10 lepta coins do.
BTW, the 10 reichspfennig is an aluminum bronze alloy, not bronze.
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I suggest asking the experts on the South Asia Coin Group.
I am interested and collect them but only for my personal collection and not as a dealer.
Nicknamed 'hell notes'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_Bank_Notes
Interesting info on the mint order! I suppose the French followed a similar system since their mintmarks extended the length of the alphabet...
I'd say it is a copper-nickel 1 qirsh from Egypt, KM-299, and almost quarter sized. Roy correctly supplied the date and reign info. The mintage of...
Yep, that's it! These midnight to noon shifts are hard on the brain cells! :)
:D That is a 25c game arcade token! At the moment I forget the name but an arcade found in many malls in the U.S.
A couple links: Notgeld info Notgeld coin list My few notgeld coins
It is indeed from Sweden (Sveriges) but would be a bronze 1 ore coin. There are 100 ore to a Krona. This type was minted 1952-71 during the reign...
wildwinds.com From Malter Galleries: '157. --, Arsinoe III, sister-wife of Ptolemy IV. 221 – 204 BC. Gold Octodrachm. Alexandria. 27.87g. Her...
Been there, done that! Ain't it great?!? :)
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