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What are your highest denomination world coins ? I had a 750,000 Lira coin from Turkey, sold it & some 500k Liras on ebay.  |
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Very nice!  I have a 500 peso coin from the same era (before re-denominzation to the nuevo peso in 1993). |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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In terms of actual buying power, or just the numbers on the coin?
Highest buying power I own is a Japanese 10,000 yen, hovering around USD $98 right now.
Highest numerical is probably a 500,000 lire from Turkey.
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United States
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Yes, it's notgeld, but it is issued by an entity that had issued coins as late as 1914, and minted by an official mint.   |
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 United States
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I wonder if Zimbabwe made any "Trillion Dollar" coins ?
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United States
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I found this on Google Images.  |
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United States
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The bottom dropped out too quickly to make coins. According to Numista, they never got higher than a $25 coin in 2003, then ceased until 2014 when they released a "bond" series pegged to the USD.
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My numerically highest denomination coin is an 1867 Brazil 20000 reis. Purchasing power was probably pretty high, since it contains over 1/2 oz of gold.   |
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Canada
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This happened to be sitting on my desk ... I would need to set my camera up for larger images to capture the whole coin, but you get the idea  |
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Russian Federation
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Don't have a photo at the moment, but I have one of the 750,000 lira coins from Turkey (found it in a bargain bin).
Highest buying power is either Swiss 5 francs (bought in 2011/12 when exchange values were better and I was more careless with my money) or Japanese 500 yen (gift by a teacher who'd been to Japan). Not sure which is higher; it seems to vary.
Highest denomination I have from somewhere other than Turkey is, I think, a 5000 lei from early 2000s Romania. I'm still looking for their higher denominations from the 1940s, but they're mostly very rare and expensive - the highest I have from that period is a 2000 lei. (I also have a 2000 dong from Vietnam.)
The Romanian 2000 lei from 1946 is the highest denomination coin I have listed in my Numista collection, incidentally.
I'll probably try to get a (reasonably) full listing of denominations I have some day. (I'm not a weird-denomination collector, as many CCF members are, but only because I don't have that kind of money.)
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United States
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I also have a 750,000 lira and other high denomination coins from Turkey, but my highest buying power coin is probably a 5 pound coin from the UK. I have a few unusual denominations such as Brazil's 300 and 400 reis coins from the 1930s, but nothing spectacular.
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I also have a 750,000 lira and other high denomination coins from Turkey, but my highest buying power coin is probably a 5 pound coin from the UK. I have a few unusual denominations such as Brazil's 300 and 400 reis coins from the 1930s, but nothing spectacular. I also have some Brazilian 300 and 400 reis, and definitely don't have anything that I would call "spectacular". Don't have a 5 pound coin though - way to expensive! |
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United States
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january1may, I've purchased a few of them from my local shop for less than the exchange rate (only $1 or $1.10 per pound when it was around $1.55 per pound)
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my highest buying power coin is probably a 5 pound coin from the UK. Picked up a 5 pound coin commemorative in the junk box (6/$1). My daughter took it to N. Ireland, and a vendor in Belfast accepted it when he sold her a scarf for 4 pounds. My understanding is that the cupro-nickel 5 pound coins are not legal tender, and are accepted at the choice of the vendor. It didn't hurt being a sweet 19-year-old American to get the coin accepted. |
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january1may, I've purchased a few of them from my local shop for less than the exchange rate (only $1 or $1.10 per pound when it was around $1.55 per pound) That's still $5 mind you. Way over what I'm comfortable paying for a single coin (that isn't extremely rare or unusual). Quote:
My understanding is that the cupro-nickel 5 pound coins are not legal tender, and are accepted at the choice of the vendor. As far as I understand, they are technically legal tender, but the definition of "legal tender" is so narrow as to be essentially useless in practice; it definitely does not include "has to be accepted by a vendor". (Imagine your local vendor being presented with a bunch of SBA dollars - they probably wouldn't accept them either. That doesn't mean SBA dollars are not legal tender.) [And after a recent case where a guy bought loads of 20 pound commemoratives and immediately deposited them back to gain credit card points, it became even narrower; it used to be that you could at least deposit any legal tender at the Bank of England, but even that is not possible today.] |
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United States
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I found my 500,000 Lira Turkish coins.  |
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Posted 07/11/2016 10:33 am
