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Message:: [QUOTE="ericl, post: 69787, member: 2697"]Famous villians on coins and notes. In Africa, it was traditional to have the head of state on the coins, especially if he's a homicidal maniac. I've got stuff from all sorts of countries. As to Milton Obotoe, when he came back to power after Idi "VD" Amin was overthrown [Amin's ephemeral successor's ephemeral successor lived near me as an exile and the local paper had the following headline: Local Man to Head Uganda] he became even more bloodthirsty and deranged than Amin ever was. Collecting monsters is an interesting challenge. The easiest one to get, of course, is Generallissimo Francisco Franco, who put his ugly mug on the coins starting in the late 1940s. The next most common was Leopold II of Belgium, who being a king was of course on the coins. Gottwald of Czechoslovakia put his face on a coin, and there were some dead German Communists who were put on East German commemeratives. there are patterns with Hitler's face on them, and they're very expensive indeed. Only slightly cheaper are the Petain five franc coins of the Vichy regime. The Famous italian Mussalini fantasy piece is rather common too. The following Islamic dictators are on coins: Saddam HusseinMohamar QaddafiHaefaz AssadGamel Abdul Nasser[/QUOTE]