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Israel
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Israeli coins are tri-lingual
Hebrew Arabic and English
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Australia
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China, provincie Sinkiang(Xinjiang) period Guang Xu 3 miscals(3mace) 27mm AH 1320 (1902) Kashgar mint  |
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United States
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been mentioned, sorry.   |
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United States
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Tare dollars are also bi.
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 United States
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Awesome! Wow, I can't believe how fast you all were! The Pakistani and Israeli one were exactly what I was imagining. The Chinese coin is very beautiful as well. Are they hard to come by?
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Germany
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Bosnian coins and perhaps a few others are in Cyrilic and Roman alphabets, same language though.
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Australia
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I think you can generally apply this to countries that have been occupied previously hence there might have been the need to use two different languages. This also applies to countries that have history of lots of ethic groups migrating into the country. Here's some of my examples: Hong Kong  Indonesia  Yugoslavia  South Korea  China featuring minor ethnic groups   The list goes on and on. |
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Belgium
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Belgium has several bilingual coins (België-Belgique), but issued also some commemorative coins in 4 languages: French, Dutch and German on the obverse and Latin on the reverse. Here's an exempel: the 500 francs 1999 coin commemorating archdukes Albert and Isabella.   Edited by bart
05/25/2012 1:44 pm
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United States
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A couple more to add, Straits Settlements (trilingual)  South Africa (bilingual)  Gambia (bilingual)  Many Middle-Eastern countries have legends in Arabic and English, like this Bahrain piece,  |
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United States
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This may be stretching it, but a number of coins have been issued with Braille on them. Here's one:  One more:  |
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Israel
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The Pakistani and Israeli one were exactly what I was imagining. The Chinese coin is very beautiful as well. Are they hard to come by?
Sheeptotherescue PM me your address and I will gladly send you some Israeli samples. |
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United States
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Lots of countries use more than one language, like Canada (especially on commems).
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Russian Federation
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Coins of the British Mandate of Palestine are trilingual in the same languages as the later Israeli ones, but much more prominently (the inscriptions take up most of the coin's design instead of being just a side-show as on Israeli pieces). Coincidentally, some Israeli coins have inscriptions in the old Phoenician alphabet (the new series 10 shekels coin even has a several-word one), so they could be considered as having four languages (it's actually three, of course, as "Phoenician" is basically identical to modern Hebrew except for being written in a long-obsolete alphabet).
Also, while a Yugoslavian bilingual coin had already been featured, their coins of some 1970s (IIRC) series have four languages on them (all closely related though, and only two alphabets).
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Israel
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instead of being just a side-show as on Israeli pieces). The Israeli pieces show the name of the country and the name of the currency on coins in all three languages. That is hardly a sideshow. The fact that the Israeli pieces also show interesting designs whereas the Palestine mandate pieces had at best a hole does not detract from the fact that they are trilingual |
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United States
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Israeli and Palestinian Mandate coins take very different approaches, and each has its appeal. I like how straight forward and utilitarian the Palestinian coins are because it highlights all the languages, but other than that, there isn't much to look at. The Israeli coins have much more symbolism, which is nice.
Angielczyk, I'm not able to PM you because I am a new member, but I will try to contact the admins and see what they say.
Thank you again everyone for generously sharing your knowledge. This has been so helpful!
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