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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 26608397, member: 10461&quot;]<b><b><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Esperanto (Universal League): 1959 copper-nickel 10-steloj fantasy, struck in 1960 at Utrecht</font></font></b></b></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">PCGS MS66.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/37681947" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/37681947" rel="nofollow">Cert. #37681947</a>.&nbsp; The top-pop example as of 2025 (population 1; none higher).</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="https://en.numista.com/23988" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/23988" rel="nofollow">Numista-23988</a>.&nbsp; <a href="http://ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/esperanto-10-steloj-x-5-1959-cuid-1056394-duid-1244769" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/esperanto-10-steloj-x-5-1959-cuid-1056394-duid-1244769" rel="nofollow">Krause-Mishler-X-5</a>.&nbsp; </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Diameter: 28 mm.&nbsp; Weight: 8.6 g.&nbsp; Mintage: 10,000.&nbsp; </font></font><font size="5"><font face="Georgia">Dated 1959 but struck in 1960 at the Royal Dutch Mint in Utrecht.</font></font></p><p><font size="5"><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></font></p><p><font size="5"><font face="Georgia">Quoting the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stelo" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stelo" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a> article about these coins:</font></font></p><p><font size="5"><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></font></p><p><font size="5"><font face="Georgia"><i>&quot;The <b>stelo</b> (&quot;star&quot;; plural: steloj) was from 1945 to 1993 a monetary unit of Esperantists, one of whose aims was to achieve a single world currency. Attempts at an earlier currency, the speso, were cut short by the First World War. For a time the Universal League (Esperanto: Universala Ligo), part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_movement" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_movement" rel="nofollow">Esperanto movement</a>, issued coupons and coins denominated in steloj, making attempts to link the Stelo to existing currencies on the basis of relative purchasing power in different countries.&quot;</i></font></font></p><p><font size="5"><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></font></p><p><font size="5"><font face="Georgia">So essentially these coins were a proposed universal world currency.&nbsp; I knew an Esperanto speaker in my youth, and found that movement and its goals of world unity interesting.&nbsp; When I inexpensively acquired a couple of these 10-steloj fantasy coins, I submitted them to PCGS.&nbsp; One graded MS65 and the other MS66.&nbsp; I kept this MS66, which remains the top-population example as of December 2025.&nbsp; These coins are listed in the Krause <i>Unusual World Coins</i> volume.</font></font></p><p><font size="5"><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></font></p><p><font size="5"><font face="Georgia">Ex-<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/mark-metzger.86472/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/mark-metzger.86472/">Mark Metzger</a>.</font></font></p><p><font size="5"><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></font></p><p><font size="5"><font face="Georgia">[ATTACH=full]1696105[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1696106[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1696107[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1696108[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1696109[/ATTACH] </font></font></p><p><font size="5"><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></font></p><p><font size="5"><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #ffffff">006500</span></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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