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<p>[QUOTE="areich, post: 1484656, member: 37479"]<b>Babirusa - Republic of Indonesia</b></p><p><br /></p><p>The Bank of Indonesia released in 1987 as part of the WWF 25 anniversary series its Babirusa Coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Babyrousa babyrussa is one of the many forest species of animals en danged in the growing Indonesian nation. Many myths in the Indonesia center on the species including the myth that they sleep in trees hanging from the tusks.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]188038.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babirusa" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babirusa" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babirusa</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The Babirusa is mostly will be found on the isolated Indonesian islands of Sula, Sulawesi, and Togian. It is likely that their distribution was affected by human intervention, as they seemed to be cherish and gifts between the native tribes.It appears that they have been confined to the higher grounds in the interior despite historically occurring in lowland areas and coastlines in the past. They are active in the daytime and are similar to pigs in their diets and biology. They eat about anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]188039.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is a denomination of 10,000 Rupiah with a silver fineness of 92.5% It weighs 19.44 grams, somewhat smaller that the other coins in the series, has a diameter of 36mm. The mintage of this proof silver coin was 25,000 from the British Royal Mint.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="areich, post: 1484656, member: 37479"][b]Babirusa - Republic of Indonesia[/b] The Bank of Indonesia released in 1987 as part of the WWF 25 anniversary series its Babirusa Coin. Babyrousa babyrussa is one of the many forest species of animals en danged in the growing Indonesian nation. Many myths in the Indonesia center on the species including the myth that they sleep in trees hanging from the tusks. [ATTACH]188038.vB[/ATTACH] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babirusa[/url] The Babirusa is mostly will be found on the isolated Indonesian islands of Sula, Sulawesi, and Togian. It is likely that their distribution was affected by human intervention, as they seemed to be cherish and gifts between the native tribes.It appears that they have been confined to the higher grounds in the interior despite historically occurring in lowland areas and coastlines in the past. They are active in the daytime and are similar to pigs in their diets and biology. They eat about anything. [ATTACH]188039.vB[/ATTACH] The coin is a denomination of 10,000 Rupiah with a silver fineness of 92.5% It weighs 19.44 grams, somewhat smaller that the other coins in the series, has a diameter of 36mm. The mintage of this proof silver coin was 25,000 from the British Royal Mint.[/QUOTE]
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