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<p>[QUOTE="Jhonn, post: 297343, member: 5418"]At the last coin show I attended, I saw some silver "bullet" money (from Southeast Asian, I think - can't remember which country or region) that I meant to pick up but forgot to do near the end of the show, and thinking about it now has prompted me to start a thread similar to Bone's about square coinage...</p><p><br /></p><p>So, have some interesting, odd, and curious money? They needn't be coins per se, since the thing about 'odd' money is that they usually are not round disks of metal! Other than the 'bullet' money, I can think of a few off the top of my head that I've seen or read about, including Chinese 'pants' money, Chinese ceramic gambling tokens, ceramic notgeld, cowrie shells, glass trading beads, and gold packets. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anybody got any to show off? I'll start. I've got some Celtic ring money and a silver wire kopek. The kopek isn't that weird, but it's definitely not the norm, and they are EXTREMELY small![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jhonn, post: 297343, member: 5418"]At the last coin show I attended, I saw some silver "bullet" money (from Southeast Asian, I think - can't remember which country or region) that I meant to pick up but forgot to do near the end of the show, and thinking about it now has prompted me to start a thread similar to Bone's about square coinage... So, have some interesting, odd, and curious money? They needn't be coins per se, since the thing about 'odd' money is that they usually are not round disks of metal! Other than the 'bullet' money, I can think of a few off the top of my head that I've seen or read about, including Chinese 'pants' money, Chinese ceramic gambling tokens, ceramic notgeld, cowrie shells, glass trading beads, and gold packets. Anybody got any to show off? I'll start. I've got some Celtic ring money and a silver wire kopek. The kopek isn't that weird, but it's definitely not the norm, and they are EXTREMELY small![/QUOTE]
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