Seeking oddball currency
Paul Ciszek
it should have some token money in it for good luck. (She was making
a purse as a craft project at the time.) As things turned
out, I didn't get the chance to hit the right shops last time around,
but next time I want to be prepared to put some unusual form of currency
in a gift purse, without spending too much. Some things that I think
would look cool:
Coins in any shape other than round: Are there any such that are
sufficiently common that they would not be too expensive or hard
to get through coin stores?
Absurdly high denominimation bills: Zimbabwe, Wiemar Germany, and I'm
sure there have been others. Are any of these sold through ordinary
numismatics dealers?
Other visually distinctive coins: Two-part coins like twoonies, coins
with durable coloration, other novelty effects. Anyting like that in
the ordinary hobby market? Has there ever been a coin assembled from
*more* than two separate parts?
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Paul Ciszek
In article <io7io3$ejc$1...@reader1.panix.com>,
Paul Ciszek <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
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>Coins in any shape other than round: Are there any such that are
>sufficiently common that they would not be too expensive or hard
>to get through coin stores?
Duh! I just remembered the British constant-width shapes after I
posted this. What are good sources for recent, non-collectable coins
not from one's own country? I.e., I don't think there is anyone in
Denver who can exchange dollars to Pounds or Euros for me as a
financial transaction, and I don't think the coin shops dabble in
recent, non-precious-metal stuff very much.
Jud
Frank Provasek
oly
> I like the $3 bill from the Cook Islands.
You would. Most people would consider a three dollar bill to be an
insult.
oly
Jud
You are damned right I would! Cook Islands $3 bill had bare breasted
babe riding a shark!
Michael Benveniste
> Coins in any shape other than round: Are there any such that are
> sufficiently common that they would not be too expensive or hard
> to get through coin stores?
Perhaps the easiest to find are the "Somali" coins in the shape
of guitars, motor cycles, etc.
> Absurdly high denominimation bills: Zimbabwe, Wiemar Germany, and I'm
> sure there have been others. Are any of these sold through ordinary
> numismatics dealers?
The Zimbabwe bills are trivial to find on eBay and elsewhere.
I carry a 50 billion in my wallet, and even the 100-trillion
bills only costs about $10. These are both the highest dollar
denominated bills I've heard of, and also the bill with the
biggest number representation on the bill.
The highest-denomination bill I know of is from Hungary in
1946. It's a 100 million B-pengo's note, where "B" stood
for billions. And that's in the "long scale", where a
billion is 10^12. So that's a 10^20 pengo note. If you buy
6023 of them, you'll have approximately a mole of pengos.
> Other visually distinctive coins: Two-part coins like twoonies, coins
> with durable coloration, other novelty effects. Anyting like that in
> the ordinary hobby market? Has there ever been a coin assembled from
> *more* than two separate parts?
The Somali coins are also colorized, as are many other recent
coins. Some are issued that way, but a good many get colorized
in a secondary market.
There's an entire club for collecting of bi-metallic and
tri-metallic coins:
http://wbcc-online.com/
I've dealt with Valley View coins for material like this in
the past, with good result.
http://www.valleyviewcoins.net/
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Paul Ciszek
In article <90r527...@mid.individual.net>,
Michael Benveniste <m...@murkyether.com> wrote:
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>I've dealt with Valley View coins for material like this in
>the past, with good result.
>http://www.valleyviewcoins.net/
Thank you! They seem to have some very affordable unusual looking
foreign coinage.
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beekeep
wrote:
>On Apr 14, 8:42=A0pm, oly <oly2...@aol.com> wrote:
>> On Apr 14, 3:07=A0pm, Jud <numismat...@aol.com> wrote:
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>> > I like the $3 bill from the Cook Islands.
>>
>> You would. =A0Most people would consider a three dollar bill to be an
>> insult.
>>
>> oly
>
>You are damned right I would! Cook Islands $3 bill had bare breasted
>babe riding a shark!
The only 3 dollar bill that I have has Hillery Clinton on it.
beekeep
Mike Benveniste
> The only 3 dollar bill that I have has Hillery Clinton on it.
I have an unissued one from Herman Ely, the founder of Elyria Ohio.
It's not an uncommon denomination for obsolete U.S. Banknotes.
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proximity to Canada but they are now worth more that US$2.