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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Euro, post: 1123182, member: 28879&quot;]Hello to all Forum Users.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I am looking for coins that are wrong, weird, flawed, out of the ordinary etc. due to whatever history attached to them. I do not mean extraordinary/fabulous designs as beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, nor do I mean minting errors.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A few examples.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1) In 2006 the Dutch issued commemoratives in silver and gold to celebrate the bicentenary of their tax department. Apart from the fact this is an unusual theme (in some countries probably not likely to be ever celebrated of official legal tender) the coins were minted incorrectly. The coin presented the years 2006 to 1806 in backwards order but some years were omitted or placed incorrectly. So, both unusal + wrong.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>2) In 2007 the Dutch issued a 2 Euro piece bearing the text &quot;The Kingdom of The Netherlands&quot;. That turned out to be a huge mistake as the kingdom consisted of three independent countries and two of these weren&#039;t even using the Euro.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>3) The Russian company Arctic Coal has minted coins and paper money several times for its employees at the coal mines on Spitzbergen/Svalbard (the majority of the population is Russian). According to a treaty all nations (or in any case many) are allowed to exploit the natural resources of Spitzbergen. Norway was granted governance over the isles. For a long time already the Russians have been the only ones to make use of this right. Previous coins just named the company, but in 1993, however, they had Rouble coins minted in Russia with the text &quot;Russian Federation&quot;. This lead to a row with Norwegian authorities who banned the coins from Spitzbergen.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I would like to collect coins with such stories attached to them. Unfortunately, it&#039;s easy to look up coins but not the histories attached.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Perhaps this could be a thread where everyone can post who knows about weird, flawed, forbidden, out of the ordinary etc. etc. coins. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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