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<p>[QUOTE="gxseries, post: 1603080, member: 4373"]I'm going to add in some more. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now feel free to break them if my facts are wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>Did you know that Japan is the only insane country that has issued a face value of 100,000 yen on a 20gram gold coin back in 1986, which makes it to 5000 yen per gram? 5000 yen is approximately 43USD ish. Not too bad if you can buy the coin in bullion value, that is if you can! (as gold is approximately 20USD per gram!) Definately legal tender but no one sane enough would use it! </p><p><br /></p><p>Link: <a href="http://www.mint.go.jp/eng/data/page02_e.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mint.go.jp/eng/data/page02_e.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.mint.go.jp/eng/data/page02_e.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Did you know that Japan's colored coins are actually "inspired" from the colored Korean coins for FIFA2002? (as well as, the first colored coin is extremely expensive - you DON'T want to know the price) </p><p><br /></p><p>Did you know that because of the high value of 500 yen coins, counterfeiting of such coins occured by modifying the Korean won and hence it caused a new "goldish" design. Yet this did not stop counterfeiters to target this high denomination coin. This did cause a havoc with the vending machines as many machines had to be adjusted. You are talking about several tens of thousands of machines here! </p><p><br /></p><p>Did you know that Japan's 1 yen is actually perfectly 1 gram, as in perfect 1 gram? Try putting 100 of them together and see if they really come up to 100 grams exact. Undamaged coins please <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Feel free to add or comment on mine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="gxseries, post: 1603080, member: 4373"]I'm going to add in some more. Now feel free to break them if my facts are wrong. Did you know that Japan is the only insane country that has issued a face value of 100,000 yen on a 20gram gold coin back in 1986, which makes it to 5000 yen per gram? 5000 yen is approximately 43USD ish. Not too bad if you can buy the coin in bullion value, that is if you can! (as gold is approximately 20USD per gram!) Definately legal tender but no one sane enough would use it! Link: [url]http://www.mint.go.jp/eng/data/page02_e.html[/url] Did you know that Japan's colored coins are actually "inspired" from the colored Korean coins for FIFA2002? (as well as, the first colored coin is extremely expensive - you DON'T want to know the price) Did you know that because of the high value of 500 yen coins, counterfeiting of such coins occured by modifying the Korean won and hence it caused a new "goldish" design. Yet this did not stop counterfeiters to target this high denomination coin. This did cause a havoc with the vending machines as many machines had to be adjusted. You are talking about several tens of thousands of machines here! Did you know that Japan's 1 yen is actually perfectly 1 gram, as in perfect 1 gram? Try putting 100 of them together and see if they really come up to 100 grams exact. Undamaged coins please :) Feel free to add or comment on mine.[/QUOTE]
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