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argentum Pillar of the Community United States 1195 Posts	Posted 11/13/2013 02:41 am So on a whim, I decided to browse the website for La Casa de Moneda de México and keep my Spanish reading skills half-way sharp, and ¡Que interesante!. Information about a tri-metalic commemorative minted three years ago! Was this a first in numismatics? Report this Post to the Staff

thai-vic Pillar of the Community Thailand 1509 Posts	Posted 11/13/2013 03:54 am This one sprang to mind straight away but I don't know if it's the earliest: France 20 Francs 1992 #1008.1 Report this Post to the Staff
gxseries Pillar of the Community Australia 3831 Posts	Posted 11/13/2013 05:39 am Definitely not the world's first. I think France may be the first country to have circulating tri-metal coins. Don't know about other countries to be honest but there have been other countries that produced tri-metal coins, usually in precious metal content. Australia is one of them. Think Isle of Man could be another but I could be wrong. My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseries My numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htm Regularly updated at least once a month. Report this Post to the Staff
thai-vic Pillar of the Community Thailand 1509 Posts	Posted 11/13/2013 07:00 am Just did a find search on the catalog and France was definitely the first to produce tri-metallic circulation and commemorative precious metal coins in 1992. As gxseries says other countries have followed suit and usually precious metal commemoratives. The only other country I could find was Somalia (1999-2000) in a series of non precious metals but I think they are still commemorative. But then I only did the 20th century catalog. Edited by thai-vic 11/13/2013 07:08 am Report this Post to the Staff
Conder101 Bedrock of the Community United States 17884 Posts	Posted 11/13/2013 4:39 pm Are the French pieces tri-metalic or just three part coins? The center and outer ring appear to be the same metal. Report this Post to the Staff
argentum Pillar of the Community United States 1195 Posts	Posted 11/13/2013 4:44 pm The french coin is merely bimetallic, but is tri-part. Not the same as having three distinct alloys exposed in one coin. Report this Post to the Staff
thai-vic Pillar of the Community Thailand 1509 Posts	Posted 11/14/2013 05:15 am But surely an alloy is an alloy and a metal is a metal so the use of the term tri-metallic would actually be correct as the French coin is made up of copper, aluminium and nickel. In fact, technically, shouldn't most coins be described as bi-metallic? Oh, and I think France still has the earliest tri-metallic (by your definition). 20 Francs 1993 #1016. Aluminium-bronze; Nickel; Copper-aluminium-nickel. Report this Post to the Staff
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