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Belize KM 135 1997 Dollar
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Pillar of the Community
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Spot on! Welcome back snowman!
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Pillar of the Community
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As always, I'll give you the whole coin. I picked this one up for $10 at a coin show about a week ago:  |
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Didn't think that would last long! Nice coin.
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wd1040 got it. I'm going to have to start trying harder.
Does anyone know anything about this coin? With 2,000,000 originally minted, it appears as if it were originally meant for circulation. Krause says that better than half were melted down, but doesn't say why.
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It appears in the Krause, Circulating World Coins catalogue so if Krause is correct I would assume it was meant for circulation, although I would suspect that most were hoarded.
With the Irish change to decimal coinage only five years later I assume the government recalled as many as they could get their hands on prior to the switch over. These must have been what were melted.
I'm hypothesising here though. Do we have any Irish members we could ask?
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Pillar of the Community
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Right... I don't know enough about Irish coinage so I'll just not say anything... Here's a new one! Which country's centisimo is it?  Edited by wd1040
12/09/2008 9:08 pm
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Peru is correct, KM 304 I believe, although no pic in my Krause.
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Rest in Peace
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Peru is right! Thanks all who confirmed for me!
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Saudi Arabian sovereign. Gold 1947 Unusual World Coins X2, KM35.
Interesting history as they were used get around a loophole and pay off the Saudis for oil!
Edited by QuickSilver
12/11/2008 09:33 am
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