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  75 Pfennig 1920, Notgeld from Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) |
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United States
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48 Stuivers -- Lion Daalder from W. Friesland. I scanned this for the how far back can we go thread, but saw 48 hasn't been covered yet.   |
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Pillar of the Community
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Harrar( Ethiopia) Besa: not listed in Krause. Gill lists it incorrectly as a Token. I may have the reverse upside down  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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A couple of recent ones from Euroland: France - one-and-a-half Euros:  Spain - 12 Euros:  France tends to use unusual denominations for its NCLT coins - they have also issued 25 cent and one-and-a-quarter euro coins. The Spanish 12-euro coins (which are available at face value from banks) continue a series that started in pre-Euro days with silver 2,000-peseta coins. The denomination of 12 euros is equivalent to 1,992 pesetas, and the coins are of the same specification as the old 2,000 pesetas. |
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United States
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Large for a small coin.   |
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United States
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 Canada
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 Soviet Union, 3 rubles, 1989 (Armenian Earthquake Relief) The Russian Empire, and its successor state the Soviet Union, both famously made weird fractional denominations like 3 and 15 kopeks. Apparently, this is because Russia was the first country to adopt a decimal system of currency, so nobody had any idea what denominations would be useful. So 3-kopek coins are not difficult to find - but 3- ruble coins are a bit less common. The unraveling Soviet state went out in a blaze of numismatic glory, issuing scores of commemorative coins between 1989 and 1991 as the ruble began to lose almost all of its value. This 3-ruble signifies the beginning of the end. |
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United States
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Canada
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Recently I have been delving into the field of Canadian municipal Trade dollars. The vast majority of these tokens were redeemable in a certain area for $1 during a certain span of time; but here are two with more interesting denominations.  Hinton, Alberta, 2.50 dollars, 1981 The denomination here is actually a commemorative denomination - $2.5 for 25 years.  Wainwright, Alberta, 3 dollars, 2003 |
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Australia
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United States
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Bump. I liked this thread when it was alive.
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Sweden
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 7.2 candareens. Can also be written as 1 Jiao/0.1 Yuan. Regardless, its written denomination is nothing but odd. |
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Canada
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   Three odd coins from Brazil, whose currency had inherited an already-low value from its Portuguese overlords and then continued to decline for more than a century after independence. |
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Canada
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 El Salvador, 3 centavos, 1974 A strange denomination for a lesser-known country. El Salvador is the only country in North America (...assuming that you include Central America in North America, which you should) to have a Pacific coastline but no Atlantic coastline. |
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Canada
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 Portuguese Timor, 30 centavos, 1958 - yet another strange attempt to reconcile a decimal system with a pre-decimal one. |
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