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<p>[QUOTE="skully53, post: 5493798, member: 117121"]Looking through the inherited hoard and I notice that many different countries sure do mint beautiful coins. I know that currency minted in all countries is meant to reflect pride, history and patriotism. But, it sure seems that some countries have gone above and beyond with detail and just flat out beauty. I have been in 8 different countries and 3 Continents (The US is in the count obviously) and the common currency in all at the time were pretty mundane. I didn't see anything special about the Franc's or the Solis. Europe wasn't the EU when I was there. But, seeing coins from all over the world that are decades old sure does open my eyes. Singapore has some fancy coins, for example. </p><p><br /></p><p>I do wonder how much money was spent by various countries to have so many different coins depicting things like the Olympics, World Cup or even just fisheries? How much money did some of these less than booming economies waste on special coins? Were they trying to make them rare to boost value? Collectible? </p><p><br /></p><p>Rabbit hole getting deeper...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="skully53, post: 5493798, member: 117121"]Looking through the inherited hoard and I notice that many different countries sure do mint beautiful coins. I know that currency minted in all countries is meant to reflect pride, history and patriotism. But, it sure seems that some countries have gone above and beyond with detail and just flat out beauty. I have been in 8 different countries and 3 Continents (The US is in the count obviously) and the common currency in all at the time were pretty mundane. I didn't see anything special about the Franc's or the Solis. Europe wasn't the EU when I was there. But, seeing coins from all over the world that are decades old sure does open my eyes. Singapore has some fancy coins, for example. I do wonder how much money was spent by various countries to have so many different coins depicting things like the Olympics, World Cup or even just fisheries? How much money did some of these less than booming economies waste on special coins? Were they trying to make them rare to boost value? Collectible? Rabbit hole getting deeper...[/QUOTE]
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