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<p>[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 3567037, member: 39"]I sure did - see my reply #3 in this very topic. Problem is, as several people have written here before, the answer is not as easy as the question may sound. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Another issue is that the question [USER=33176]@Kentucky[/USER] asked here a little later is worded a little differently ...</p><p><br /></p><p>If local notgeld is included too, then that Westphalian 1 Billion (US: 1 trillion) Mark piece is pretty much at the top of the list. Except it was not a circulation coin. (Oh, and Billion is written as a word.)</p><p><br /></p><p>If we focus on government issued coins, there was a Turkish <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces113839.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces113839.html" rel="nofollow">150 million lira</a> coin in 2000. Problem is, that was not a circulation coin either - and worse, it did not say "150 000 000" but "150 milyon". Thus, not digits only ...</p><p><br /></p><p>According to Numista, <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces9269.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces9269.html" rel="nofollow">this piece</a> was actually a circulating commem: 1,000,000 lira 2002. Now would that be "general circulation"? Dunno, but we sure see lots of zeros there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1345.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1345.html" rel="nofollow">this coin</a> was definitely a circulation coin. So we have a 250,000 piece there ... except it says "250 bin" instead of using digits only (bin = thousand).</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 3567037, member: 39"]I sure did - see my reply #3 in this very topic. Problem is, as several people have written here before, the answer is not as easy as the question may sound. ;) Another issue is that the question [USER=33176]@Kentucky[/USER] asked here a little later is worded a little differently ... If local notgeld is included too, then that Westphalian 1 Billion (US: 1 trillion) Mark piece is pretty much at the top of the list. Except it was not a circulation coin. (Oh, and Billion is written as a word.) If we focus on government issued coins, there was a Turkish [url=https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces113839.html]150 million lira[/url] coin in 2000. Problem is, that was not a circulation coin either - and worse, it did not say "150 000 000" but "150 milyon". Thus, not digits only ... According to Numista, [url=https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces9269.html]this piece[/url] was actually a circulating commem: 1,000,000 lira 2002. Now would that be "general circulation"? Dunno, but we sure see lots of zeros there. Now [url=https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1345.html]this coin[/url] was definitely a circulation coin. So we have a 250,000 piece there ... except it says "250 bin" instead of using digits only (bin = thousand). Christian[/QUOTE]
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