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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 17037427, member: 77639&quot;]OK, OK.&nbsp; In plain talk, oval coins.&nbsp; And please, oval when they came from the mint.&nbsp; No PM creations from elongators, trains, etc.&nbsp; One of mine is below.&nbsp; It’s a 500 tenge commemorative from Kazakhstan.&nbsp; It depicts Tulipa greigii, a tulip found in Central Asia and Iran.&nbsp; The species name is in honor of Samuel Greig (1735-1788), the father of the Russian navy.&nbsp; Greig was also a president of the Russian Horticultural Society.&nbsp; Greig&#039;s tulip has been extensively cultivated as an ornamental with many color varieties not only of flowers but of leaves, which are green and purple.</p><p><br /></p><p>Modern Kazak coins typically have inscriptions in Cyrillic and Latin alphabets.&nbsp; The country is undergoing the difficult transition to the Latin alphabet.&nbsp; In area, Kazakhstan is the ninth largest country and is the largest landlocked country.&nbsp; It’s about the size of all of Western Europe.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don’t think the U.S. Mint has ever purposely produced an oval coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1535250[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1535251[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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