Question About Unusual Coinage Materials/Post Your Unusual Materials Coins!

You know, if material collecting ever takes off, countries might end up doing some element series coins. Scandium is one of the few feasible metals that hasn't been tried yet.

2006 5 Australes Fantasy Coin; Fred Richard Zinkann; Falkland Islands; Tantalum (6.8g); 22mm dia; 1.5mm thickness

Oh yes. Fred Zinkann made a number of interesting fantasy coins c. 1989. Some include metals that are otherwise not seen anywhere else in numismatics, such as rhenium and hafnium.

I have this coin from Zinkann also. This one is a Vatican fantasy coin, 999 silver, 30mm dia, 1.4mm thick, 8.5g.

2007 10 Euro Josephus

nice additions JohnQ

This medal was issued by the Numismatic Society of Vienna in 1880. It features Joseph Hilarius Eckhel, sometimes called the Father of Ancient Numismatics for being one of the first to publish research on the matter.

And wouldn't you know it, the medal says AES PRAEBVERVNT NVMMI ANTIQVI CONFLATI i.e. these medals were made with melted-down Roman bronze coins.




Tenino's covid money doesn't really need an introduction or explanation. I called their City Hall, they told me they were made of sitka spruce, much like many of their originals.




May as well add in another lava medal. This one shows Luigi Palmieri, director of the Vesuvius Observatory during the late 1800s.

Fantastic examples, nautilator!

very nice examples nautilator