Musical instruments & music on coins.

TommyNumis,those guitar-shaped are fantasies,as Somalia's currency is the Shilin (or 'Shilling' in English) not Dollars.The same thing applies to those things denominated as $5 depicting the Titanic & bearing the name of Somaliland.They're fantasies as well,as Somaliland's currency is the Somaliland Shilling.

Aidan.

 

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I won four of these in NGC holders as door prizes at the FUN show.

 

Nobody keeps you from buying them, and they sure are nicely designed. It would just be very interesting to know why the Republic of Somalia, which had neither a working central bank in the year of those issues, nor a national government, would issue coins with fictitious face values ...

Christian

 

Christian,Somalia is still a hell-hole with a very weak transitional government.As for a central bank,that fell apart after 1991 when Mohammed Said Barre was overthrown.

The only central bank that has been established out of the wreck of a 'Greater Somalia' is that of the independent Republic of Somaliland - the Bank of Somaliland.

Aidan.

 

Yep, and while "my" coin catalog says the country's central bank was re-established in 2005, that did apparently not last for long. Somailand OTOH seems to be more stable, politically and economically, but has not really been widely recognized yet.

Of course there are many other countries that have coins minted for international collectors only - Liberia, Congo, Palau, etc. But in these cases there is actually a government that OK'd the issues. With Somalia, I think that most of those issues around the turn of the millennium are "authorized" only by this or that civil war party ...

Christian