6 Square Coins From My Collection

TANZANIA.

 

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JORDAN.

 

IRAQ.

 

MALAYA.

 

MACAO.

 

Yes, that is what I am talking about. That flan started as perfectly square, the force of the strike bulged out the sides from the metal flow. Its more severe the thicker the flan. Luckily yours is a thinner coin, so it was not as severe.

I just wanted to share that in case people wondered why ancients made "weird" shaped coins. They were trying to make a square one, but the technology at the time was not allowing it.

 

There are some great-looking rectangular coins from Japan. Here is one of mine:

 

We have been known to make some weird shaped modern coins also.


Sorry for the crummy photo. The coin is actually bright silver in color.

 

The fifteen cents coin in this 1966 Bahamas coin set is square.

 

Another square ancient Indo-Greek: Antialkidas

 

ichibu gin is surrounded by 20 stylized cherry blossoms. Look closely. One cherry blossom on each side will be upside down. This is done so the quality control inspectors can identify which sand cast was used to make the coin. If the flaw is in the sand cast, then the sand cast would be destroyed.

 

Here is a modern square-baby (man, I love this "3" dollar owl coin)




Here is an ancient square-baby (India, Pushkalavati => 185-160 B.C.)





Ummm, and here is an ancient cast-coin ... yah, it's a triangle, not a square, but I figured that it kinda fit-in with the rest of these eamples, eh?!!
Selinos, cast AE Onkia => 450-440 B.C. (amongst the first bronze coins)

 

I was always told I was a square but I always new I exhibited roundish qualities...
Apollodotos I...

 

Here are some other square coins I am planning to have as soon as possible.
Bangladeş km 10 1977-1981 10 poisha fao
Bhutan km 37 1974-1975 5 chetrums
Surinam km 12.1b 5 cent 2004 1 lol
Strait settlemnts 1/2 cebt 1932 km37
Sri lanka km 149 1987 10 rupees unc
Sri lanka km 139 5 cent 3,3 gr nikel-brass 1974
Sri lanka km 139a 5 cent 1 gr Aluminum 1978-1988-1991
CURACAO KM40 5 CENTS 1943 4,5 GR CU-Nİ
India 1/2 anna 1940-1946
India 2 anna 1923-1946
India 1 paisa 1965 km 10.1
India 5 paisa 1964 km 17
Iraq 500 fils km 165 1982
Jersey 1 pound km51 1981
Myanmar 10 pyas km40 1966
Myanmar km27 2 pyas
Myanmar 2 pe 1949 km29
Muscat and uman km27 20 baisa 1365