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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kuhli, post: 140047, member: 86&quot;]Quite to the contrary.&nbsp; Yugoslavia went through a couple of changes in politics&nbsp; which included a name change from the Democratic Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1946-1963 to the&nbsp; Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1963-1992 (although they were a Communist government, they were not aligned with Moscow, nor were they part of the Warsaw Pact.&nbsp; they made individual accords with Russia and other eastern nations as well as with the US and other western nations).&nbsp; With the name change came a whole new series of coins, dated 1963, and the withdrawl of the 1953/55 series.&nbsp; These coins, many of which had never left bank vaults during the 10 years they were legal tender, became fodder for western uses.&nbsp; Littleton, H.E. Harris, and other coin companies bought them en-mass for &quot;approval&quot; issues to customers (you can still find them in dealers&#039; stocks or eBay, still in the Littleton envelopes).&nbsp; They were used in various &quot;collecting&quot; programs, such as the world-wide coins program sponsored by Typhoo Tea in the UK (a card stock similar to a Whitman folder that housed a dozen or so worldwide coins, with tidbit information about each country; you collected the coins in &quot;specially marked packages&quot;).&nbsp; They were also used as cereal &quot;premiums&quot;. (I believe it was a Post cereal in the US, perhaps &quot;Honeycombs&quot;?, but I cannot remember definitively.)&nbsp; If memory serves correct, McDonalds&#039; even used some in a promotion during the early 1980&#039;s, part of a give-away with purchase of a certain new product.&nbsp; I do remember that there were also a few Central American coins in this promotion, as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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