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New Member
Austria
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Hi,
I am new to this forum but I have an question right away. I am searching for an list with all coins over the whole world with an hole in it. I am only interested in coins people use to pay with nowadays!
Updated list of currently circulating coins:
Denmark, Krone, 1, 2, 5
Egyp, Piastres, 25
Japan, Yen 5, 50
Norway, Krone 1, 5
Papua New Guinea, Kina, 1
Philippines, Centavo/Sentimo, 5
Poland, Zloty, 2
I would be very glad if you could help me find more coins like them. Edited by smarknow
02/23/2009 11:40 am
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Pillar of the Community
Poland
3201 Posts |
^ Maybe you ment Japanese Yen 50 (the old, larger type)?
Also doesn't Philippines 5 centavos have a hole?
Edited by DL20K
02/21/2009 03:52 am
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 Australia
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I'm not aware of anyone that's compiled a list of holed coins, current or obsolete; "hole" doesn't give any hits on the WCG topical/subject page.
So we'll have to make our own list. Here are a couple more, off the top of my head:
Hungary 2 filler (though I think this one might be obsolete now)
Papua New Guinea 1 kina
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Pillar of the Community
Poland
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Hungary 2 filler (though I think this one might be obsolete now) I'd assume it is since I've heard they've withdrawn the 1 and 2 forint as well. |
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Pillar of the Community
Spain
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 Philippine 5 sentimos (1995. present) is current Spanish 25 pesetas (1990-2000) not in use anymore more obsolete spanish coin with hole from 1927 to 1963 |
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Pillar of the Community
Poland
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If you're only after the currently circulating coins, you're not going to have a large collection  |
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Valued Member
Poland
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Here's some from my collection  Poland (The General Government) 5 groszy 1939 Poland, zinc Poland 2 zlote 2003, GN (commemorative coin) Poland 10 zlotych 2008, silver (commemorative coin) Denmark 1 krone 1992-present (?),copper-nickel Denmark 5 krone 1990-present (?), copper-nickel Third Reich (in occupied territories) 10 reichspfennig 1940, zinc |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Spanish 25 pesetas (1990-2000) not in use anymore What were the mintage's of these? I made may trips to Rota, Cadiz, Jerez and Cartagena in that decade and never got one with a hole. In fact I don't ever remember getting a 25 Peseta minted after 1988.  OOPS! Just went thru a box of my darkies. Found one, A 1997M. Man what a beautiful coin. That is why I like the world coins. They are not limited to the busts of past leaders on the obverse. Edited by Tim Stroud
02/21/2009 07:10 am
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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It's interesting but difficult to compile if you only include currently circulating. You might add one to the list that gets removed next week. You would be constantly revising it.
It would be relatively easy to compile (but time consuming) if you took a certain time frame. Flipping through Krause they would stand out reasonably well.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I got 761 hits on numismaster but that includes obsolete, nclt collector etc etc. Here is a rather interesting one from Albania  Yes the tunnel is a hole! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Thanks Quick. That one is really nice.
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New Member
 Austria
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First off all thank you for all your fast answers! Thanks to DL20K for the correction, of course it should be Japanese Yen 50. As I already said I only want to have currently circulating coins on the list. I am aware of the problem that a coin could be obsoleted every moment, but that doesn't matter. If it would happen I would take it from the list. I am going to update the list in the beginning of the tread so everybody can see it.
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Pillar of the Community
Spain
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QuickSilver, that is an interesting coin from Albania
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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OK, well the place to start looking is definitely numismaster.com
Search for the keyword of "hole" and then narrow down the complete list of 761 from there.
As DL20K says, this will be a fairly short list. I think the biggest obstacle is establishing whether or not a coin still circulates. Unless you can contact someone in each country there is no definite way of knowing that I can think of.
As an example if you take the USA, there can be coins dated 1909 (and earlier) in circulation as they have had no reforms and the coins still look very similar (at least on one side).
On the other hand a country may still appear to be using a coin, because it is part of a current series, or reform, but in reality they are not as the denomination is virtually worthless. This is information only those on the ground can give you.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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As Sap said the Papua New Guinea 1 Kina
also the Egyptian 25 Piastres.
I am not sure if the 2 Polish coins still circulate.
DL20K or DagonX, over to you?
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Valued Member
Poland
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Poland 2 zlote 2003, GN (commemorative coin)
Poland 10 zlotych 2008, silver (commemorative coin) These two? You can find in circulation (sometimes) 2 zlote Golden Nordic (GN), but 10 zlotych made in silver is impossible, in my opinion, to find in circulation. As I wrote they are commemorative coins 2 zlote 2003   10 zlotych 2008   |
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