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Here's about 100 years of the Thai Baht, starting out as a freshly decimalized 15-gram silver coin, moving into base metal, downsizing some more, and ending as a little thing worth about 3 cents.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
 United Kingdom
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Nice coins, nalaberong!
Never seen one of those big silver Bahts!
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OK, here's a real history of the real penny. Not so much "ravaged" by inflation as having been inexorably worn down over the centuries, like a jagged boulder to a smooth pebble. As the penny is the descendant of the denari then you could actually go back 2 and a bit millennium instead of centuries  Edited by austrokiwi
09/18/2013 06:56 am
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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If people keep changing the size of coins, imagine the poor kid at a gum ball machine. Or would they start making all sorts of gum ball machines? Oddly enough I've seen bum ball machines that take Quarters. |
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Canada
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Isn't that the normal gumball price?
You can pop in 10 yen or 1 franc and it works just as well (same with bathroom condom/tampon/etc. dispensers).
In Iceland, gumballs are 100 kronur... 80 cents! They have a perfectly good 50 kronur coin, but apparently it's not good enough.
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United States
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There's some cool stuff in here! Great idea, NumisRob, thanks for starting this thread and thanks to all of the others who shared their examples. I enjoyed seeing all of the foreign coinage.
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Canada
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Here's one year of Russian Federation 50 ruble coins:  From bi-metal to aluminum-bronze to brass-clad steel on one year, and they kept the same design and size. I guess it would get confusing otherwise... |
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Canada
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Here's the Austro-Hungarian kreuzer from 1816 to 1881. I think there are a couple others that came between, but I haven't got them:  |
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 Sap, stop, you're making me salivate. Maybe one day if I'm real good Santa will gift me a penny from Alfred the Great's reign.  |
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United States
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nalaberong - and yet to the average Thai earning 300 baht/day minimum wage, those tiny coins are still valuable. (The mandatory 300 baht/day is new this year; formerly it was typically 100 baht/day).
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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Spanish 5-peseta coins:  1870 - 1899: .900 silver, 25 grams 1949 - 1950: Pure nickel, 15 grams 1958 - 1989: Cupro-nickel, 5.7 grams 1989 - 2001: Cupro-nickel-aluminium-steel-maganese alloy, 3 grams 2002: Coin abolished as Spain adopts the Euro. Edited by NumisRob
12/28/2013 06:16 am
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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French 2-francs. This coin stayed the same size but changed alloy and metal!  1803 - 1859: .900 silver 1862 - 1920: .835 silver 1920 - 1941: aluminium-bronze 1941 - 1959: aluminium 1960: France adopted New Franc. Coin redenominated as 2 centimes. Edited by NumisRob
12/28/2013 06:17 am
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Belgium
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Belgian Franc coin: 1904 - 1989 Upper left 1904 silver coin (23 mm, 5 g, 0.900 silver 1833-1850 and 0.835 silver 1866-1914) Upper Middle 1923 nickle (23 mm, 5 g, pure nickle 1922-1935) Upper right 1939 nickle (21.5 mm, 4.5 g, pure nickle 1939-1940) Lower left 1946 zinc (21.5 mm, 4.2 g, zinc, 1941-1947) Lower middel 1975 copper-nickle (21 mm, 4g, 1950-1988) Lower right 1989 steel(18 mm, 2.75 g, 1989-2001)  The 1923 pure nickle franc has the inscription "Goed voor" = "Good for", claiming in vain that 'temporary base metal coinage' may be reverted to silver again. French "Chambre de commerce" brass coinage of that period has the same inscription "Bon pour". The obverse sides:  |
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Anyone with some pics of Brazilian coins from 1970s-1980s post them. They are quite interesting. Mexico recently downsized their centavos coins and some aren't in use anymore.
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