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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 8155101, member: 112&quot;]I&#039;d have to say no that one. And even the MTTs were widely used in commerce both local and international, not just as trade coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>And I&#039;m making that distinction because a lot of folks seem to think that just because a coin has been labeled as a trade coin that they weren&#039;t used or used widely in everyday commerce. And that simply isn&#039;t true in many cases.</p><p><br /></p><p>The definition of a trade coin is a coin minted and issued by the govt., but one that may, or may not, have legal tender status in the home country. Take the MTT for example, it was legal tender in its home country for over a 100 years. And it did not lose its status as being legal tender until 1858, almost a 100 years after the death of Maria Theresa. But yet it as used as a trade coin long before that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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