Every Friday I do some work for a biological farmer. This morning he had a carrot collection laying on the table, of carrots and parnips that have grown in a strange way. Most peculiar was a parnip that had grown naturally through the hole in a metal ring that it had found under the surface of the farmers field.
Not a coin I admit, not even a token, but it shows it must be possible to grow a carrot or parnip though the hole of for example a 1943 Indian 1 pice coin.
In case you have strange/mysterious coin story then please share it here. In case this catches on, then I'll share some of my own weird coin experiences here as well.
Besides coins I love geometry. The avatar consists of each of the 35 hexominoes used precisely once. With the 5 large yellow shapes placed like this, the solution for tiling the remaining 30 hexominoes is unique.
However, I for one am interested in your strange coin stories.
Thank you for your response! As you forgot the ‘i’ in coin in the second sentence, I'll start with a con story involving banknotes.
In 1988, two friends and I went on a Euro-rail trip, crossing through Europe by train for 30 days for a great price for people of ages 18 to 25. The three countries in which we spent most time were Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece, as well as some time in Yugoslavia and Venice, Italy. In Bulgaria, one of my friends found a black market guy who offered him 150 Levas for 100 Dutch Guilders, which was a great deal at that time. My friend asked me to have a look at the three ‘50 leva’ banknotes, but this Bulgarian guy kept saying ‘hurry hurry’ and my friend was very excited and scared at the same time. Due to the pressure I could not focus on what was written, it did look strange though and the banknotes were quite small. I noticed they were dated 1978, while the Bulgarian banknotes that went from 1 to 20 levas all were dated 1974, so I told him that and that I didn't trust it.
My friend ignored my warning, quickly made the exchange and got the three banknotes. When he calmed down, I finally could focus on the text and told my friend the banknotes to be Greek, with a value of about 5 guilders. My friend went out of his mind, screaming while on a sideway of a large street in Sofia in a still communistic Bulgaria, though luckily the street was rather empty. After calming down he did not want to have anything to do with the banknotes anymore. He gave them to me and that is how they ended up in my modest banknote collection. Later in Greece only 50 drachmes coins were used, so I was pleased to have them!
Besides coins I love geometry. The avatar consists of each of the 35 hexominoes used precisely once. With the 5 large yellow shapes placed like this, the solution for tiling the remaining 30 hexominoes is unique.
Thank you for starting with this amusing story! Some rather obvious questions come to my mind: at which side of the dog did the coin come out, how did you manage to find it, how did the stomach acids impact the coin and did you end up spending it?
My second story involves a coin with an animal on it. Many times I went to India for spiritual reasons, in an ashram at some point I decided to collect a bunch of 25 paisa coins in order to use them for a game. At some point at home having a loser look at them, I noticed that one of them has a very unusual error. Above the rhinoceros partly the letters ‘IND’ in mirror image are visible. When you flip the coin, then on the other side they correspond with the three first letters of India. Clearly, the rhinoceros has swollowed the ‘IA’ (or “AI”?) of ‘INDIA’. In the image I mirrored the obverse, to make it easier to compare the mirrored ‘IND’ and ‘INDIA’. As the coin has a small rotation error as well, I made both images tilt a little on purpose:
Besides coins I love geometry. The avatar consists of each of the 35 hexominoes used precisely once. With the 5 large yellow shapes placed like this, the solution for tiling the remaining 30 hexominoes is unique.
Thank you for starting with this amusing story! Some rather obvious questions come to my mind: at which side of the dog did the coin come out, how did you manage to find it, how did the stomach acids impact the coin and did you end up spending it?
My second story involves a coin with an animal on it. Many times I went to India for spiritual reasons, in an ashram at some point I decided to collect a bunch of 25 paisa coins in order to use them for a game. At some point at home having a loser look at them, I noticed that one of them has a very unusual error. Above the rhinoceros partly the letters ‘IND’ in mirror image are visible. When you flip the coin, then on the other side they correspond with the three first letters of India. Clearly, the rhinoceros has swollowed the ‘IA’ (or “AI”?) of ‘INDIA’. In the image I mirrored the obverse, to make it easier to compare the mirrored ‘IND’ and ‘INDIA’. As the coin has a small rotation error as well, I made both images tilt a little on purpose:
Coin in poop- found with a stick. This was on the 2nd or 3rd day after consumption.
Doggy was in pain and rushed him home for comfort.
Didn't bother retrieving coin.
That means it’s still out there! You’ve got to go find it.
🤣 - a fortune awaits the brave
Here is a Dutch 1942 zinc 1 cent my aunt gave to me about 45 years ago, she told me she found it in the garden. Should I have second thoughts? Anyway, luckily no surgery was neeed. I heard of an operation room story, where some Dutch coins made of nickel were removed from a human stomach. They had turned black.
Besides coins I love geometry. The avatar consists of each of the 35 hexominoes used precisely once. With the 5 large yellow shapes placed like this, the solution for tiling the remaining 30 hexominoes is unique.
Fully independently of each other, I received each of the above coins in my change here in the UK (Both times in place of a 1p). Neither were from shops I frequented often so it's not even as though the cashier knew I collected coins & would be interested.
Sure, we've all had foreign or old coins turn up in our change at some point. Except check those dates; one was minted about 2,100 years ago & the other about 1,700 years ago.
I don't even understand how they wound up in circulation, let alone in the tills of shops!
It must have been a stunning experience, the first Roman coin you received as change. Did you realize it right away? Getting a second one is just magical, unless it simply was caused by a kid spending his dads Roman coin collection oblivious of the value, or an angry wife spending it fed up with her husbands expensive hobby taking too much attention away from her. I would love to see some pictures of the Roman coins you received as change!
It made ma think for a while last Friday, what story to reply with. I ended up deciding for some seemingly unrelated events that led to finding 2 coins on that very Friday evening that now are part of my collection. I'll share the events in chronological order:
-About 5 years ago I received some Turkish coins from the owner of the local Turkish food restaurant in my village. The coins got stranded on the wooden table I inherited from my parents, which has two wooden shelves on top with some space inbetween.
-About a year ago I briefly worked part time for a petrol station as an experiment of how that would work out. Not so well, although it did get me a nice special issue Romanian 50 bani coin. One day, I asked a guy for some change in addition to the bill he gave me, on which he dropped some coins on the counter. From half a meter distance I immediately noticed a bimetal coin that resembles a 2 euro coin with the same colors and size, yet it had a 5 and a tower on it. I looked at it for a few seconds going through my memory and then pointed at it, saying ‘that coin is from Morocco’. The guy looked stunned, picked up the coin a bit nervously, looked at it closely and put it back in his pocket. Before I went to the restaurant again, I thought about just telling about this experience.
-A few weeks ago I accidentally pushed a few of these Turkish coins into the space between the shelves, they fell on the rug below the table. I left them there.
-Later that same Friday as the story about the Roman coins was shared, I briefly went to that same Turkish restaurant. There were 2 shiny bimetal coins laying next to the cash register. At some point my curiosity caused me to ask wether I could have a look at them. One was this 2020 coin from Morocco, similar to the one that guy tried to spend at the petrol station, a type I already had in my collection. The other one was a 2023 Turkish 1 lira coin, that I thought I already had in my collection as well. When I told the value of the Moroccan coin to the restaurant owner, he gave me both coins.
Back at home I grabbed one of the 1 lira coins below the table. It was a VF 2009 coin, I compared it with the 2023 coin to see if anything had changed in the design. I noticed the 2023 edge to be smooth, while the 2009 coin has lettering on the edge. So I looked them up on Numista, where I found that in 2009 there are 2 varieties with a thick and a thin digit 1. It was the thick variety, which at the moment is listed with just 7% owning it’, versus 61% owning the thin variant. As the UNC coin in my collection also is 2009 with the thick 1, most likely most people have registered their 2009 coin incorrectly. In the 'thin 1' version the down-right point of the 1 points at the İ in LİRASI, while in the 'thick 1' variety it points at the R.
Adding a 2023 1 lira with a plain edge, as well as adding a AU 2018 coin that had been laying on my table for years to my collection is a nice surprise. A future story will be about the reason the tulips on the 1 lira 2009-2022 edges are meaningful to me, involving a strange discovery a week ago, concerning 2 types of Iranian coins.
Besides coins I love geometry. The avatar consists of each of the 35 hexominoes used precisely once. With the 5 large yellow shapes placed like this, the solution for tiling the remaining 30 hexominoes is unique.
Foreign coins have the strange habit of just turning up in the weirdest places don't they? Funny how it was the same type of Moroccan coin each time. Impressive that you could tell it apart from a 2 euro coin so far away! Suppose once you have your eye in, it's a little easier, but even still.
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It was a bit of a “huh, weird” moment. I noticed it instantly when the server gave me my change, but decided not to say anything. Took me ages to discover back exactly what I had before I was on Numista. Even then took a little while to find in the catalogue. Have to admit, definitely got a surprise seeing them both.
The Roman coin, I got it from a town called Bishop Auckland - just in my change in a chain supermarket. Co-incidentally, it's not far from the partially excavated ruins of a roman camp - Vinovium (Or Binchester) it's called. At the time, it was being further excavated. About the same time they discovered the Vivovium ring (of which I attach a picture) so ~2014. I did wonder if maybe someone working there found it, put it in their pocket & accidentally spent it. Pure speculation of course.
The older Judean coin I got about six weeks later, whilst I was on holiday up in Scotland (Inverness specifically) from a charity shop. Again, just in my change. I can't even hazard a guess how that got there!
I attach some photos of the coins - I apologise for the quality but I hope they'll do! I put them beside a penny for size comparison. The Roman coin is in the centre & you can see the she-wolf & the twins suckling on the upper picture, and then the helmeted portrait of the Emperor below. The Judean coin on the right, you might be able to pick out the “starburst” on the upper picture, and the anchor on the lower one. Took me ages to discover what that coin was - I thought it was a man not an anchor! (turn it upside down, you'll see what I mean - a “blob” head shape with two arms)
The Roman coin, I got it from a town called Bishop Auckland - just in my change in a chain supermarket. Co-incidentally, it's not far from the partially excavated ruins of a roman camp - Vinovium (Or Binchester) it's called. At the time, it was being further excavated. About the same time they discovered the Vivovium ring (of which I attach a picture) so ~2014. I did wonder if maybe someone working there found it, put it in their pocket & accidentally spent it. Pure speculation of course.
The older Judean coin I got about six weeks later, whilst I was on holiday up in Scotland (Inverness specifically) from a charity shop. Again, just in my change. I can't even hazard a guess how that got there!
The Vinovium finding and spending possibility definately is plausible! Does the time the coin you got near Vinovium make sense compared to the time the Romans had that settlement? That could be another clue. The distance between Bishop Auckland and Inverness is large, for there to be any connection between those events would be very unlikely.
Very nice little coins. I made a cutout and made the colors lighter to get a better view, now the anchor looking like a man certainly is clearly visible! No wonder it took a long time identifying the coins, even with really good looking ones it is a challenge! Today I'll take on the challenge to list my Indian coins from various states on Numista, I think from a previous investigation already I correctly figured out the state or princedom they're from.
What is the third picture showing, with the red coin-shape on something that looks like a bowl?
Besides coins I love geometry. The avatar consists of each of the 35 hexominoes used precisely once. With the 5 large yellow shapes placed like this, the solution for tiling the remaining 30 hexominoes is unique.
That third photograph was a ring with a red gemstone (Carnelian) which was found at Vinovium about the same time I got my coin. It was considered one of the best finds from the excavation so thought I'd share a picture since I was talking about it briefly. It's one of the earliest examples of a Christian ring, it incorporates an anchor & two fish.
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Vinovium - Well, it was established ~AD79, and the Roman occupation of Britain as a whole ended around AD400. The coin was minted in AD 334/5, in Siscia (Modern day Croatia). Of course, roman coins did circulate in Britain after the Romans went home, but we believe Vinovium was abandoned ~AD500 as some of the stone from the fort was reused in later settlements - including the nearby Escomb Church (built ~AD670 - I think it's the third oldest existing church in the UK).
My knowledge of roman coins & the various reforms is pretty sketchy, but I'm given to understand that Constantine reformed the roman coin system in AD310 and that the Nummus (The denomination of which I have) was the lowest possible denomination. (In the same way a penny is the smallest denomination of the current pound sterling.)
Anyway, that's all background, got a little distracted, sorry! 😛 I suppose such small value coins would've flowed with traders (though probably not the soldiers initially, as the pay would be in higher value coins). So the coin would've had ~100 or so years to get from Croatia to the UK to have wound up being left behind in the fort before it was abandoned. Google mentions both the earlier emperor Vespasian (AD69-79) and the slightly later “usurper emperor” Magnentius (AD350-353) have had their coins found there, so the window is certainly right.
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I don't believe there's any connection between the two events beyond the fact that it was the same method. I.e. received in change in place of a penny - which is odd, but obviously only co-incidence. How a coin got from Judea (~Israel today) to a till in Scotland… total mystery.
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Gosh, the Indian princedom coins. Good luck! I've looked at some of those before & they look far beyond my comprehension. Feels like there's a hundred different princes issuing incredibly similar looking coins.
In Bristol, in South West England they have a lot of old, unused metal cabinets, that were once telephone control boxes, but are now vacant.
They are now being used as book banks, where you take a book or two to read, and put a couple in their place.
Sometimes a few other things appear like 1,000 piece puzzles, which I also enjoy.
Whilst walking the dog, my son in law visited a couple of them and found a coin in one of them. Knowing I am a collector, he sent me a photograph. As strange as it might seem, but the coin, as shown in link below, was missing from my collection.
@ A Collector: The history of Vinovium is fascinating. That coin traveling from Croatia to England, from pocket to pocket, a great story as well. Indeed the time frame is correct! If only one could communicate with such an old coin, to find out where it has been during its existence! 😉
@ COINMAN1: What a nice way to get another Alderney coin in ones collection! Over here on mainland Europe these coins are relatively hard to find, most online offers are from the U.K., unfortunately with high shipping prices and taxes these days… For many years my main focus was on circulating coins only, causing Alderney still to be a tiny gap on my collection map… Anyone in need of a cup of tea?
This month the first Trisan da Cunha coin made it to one of my coin books (KM# 1!), a South Georgia and the Sandwich Islands coin should be on the way as well soon. These islands have a dot on the Numista map, thus so should Alderney!
@ Amraan Amjad: Thank you for sharing you love these stories! Here is another one of mine, another one about bank notes. In the nineties I had many hitch-hiking adventures. This earlier trip I wrote about led to meeting some Bulgarians, who gave my address to a Bulgarian English teacher. We started writing to each other, his writing style was a bit stange, still I felt I should keep the communication going. Through him I met one of his students during my second trip to Bulgaria. At that time still a 16 year old girl, I found her to be too young for me, but she wrote to me in a very nice way and again I kept it going. This eventually led to multiple very low budget trips to Bulgaria. Generally it took me about two and a half day to get there, often including a very cheap night train through Romania.
At one of these trips, a guy from Ukraine stopped to pick me up somewhere in Hungary. He spoke mostly just Ukrainian and Russian, as well as a few English words, which made it quite a challenge to communicate. In Hungary we shortly stopped for a meal, the place turned out to be closed. It was when returning to the car that I found a 5000 forint banknote on the ground, at that time worth around 50 German marks. I offered the money to him and he refused. About 15 minutes later we were stopped by the police for speeding, the policeman asked for 2000 forint. The driver had no Hungarian money, I didn't think of the banknote and started counting my coins. I had about 1600 forint in coins, the policeman accepted them and off we went again. At the Romanian border I changed some money, made it clear to the driver to change some money as well. He refused. Luckily he listened to fill up the jerrycan he had in the back of his car though.
The driver made it clear that he was going to the Ukraine and that he wanted to pass through Brașov. In Arad I got us both a coke, he was in a hurry though and against the ladies wishes he took the bottle with him on the road. Once he was finished with it, he opened the door and threw it out, breking it. I felt it was better to act as if that was a normal thing to do. Shortly after passing Deva, the driver turned right. I told him correctly to keep going straight, direction Sibiu. He started to drive backward and from out of nowhere suddenly there were three policemen. They made it clear to go direction Sibiu indeed, but a fine of 20000 lei had to be paid for driving backward on an empty road at night time. They did not accept the drivers German marks. I still had some 10000 lei notes in my pocket, took one out of my pocket, offered it and shrugged acting that was all I had. The policeman accepted it, gave us back our passports and off we went again. Thanks to that gesture I still have a 10000 lei not from that trip in my collection.
Shortly after Sibiu, the driver missed the exit to Brașov. Close to Pitești, there was a sign for București. The driver wasn't happy about that, but there was nothing he could do at that point but to continue towards the capitol. A bit later the car needed petrol, but the petrol stations were closed though, at 3 or 4 in the morning. A a perking place there were some men with jerrycans, but they did not accept German marks. Luckily, there was the jerrycan in the back of the car. The men helped us putting the petrol into the car. When on the road again, the Ukrainian looked at me strangely and asked ‘do you know this country’? I nodded yes.
In Bucharest morning traffic, he opened the window and said something in Russian to the taxi driver next to us. The taxi driver waved at me to get into his car. I qiuckly went out and in, sitting in the back. In the front there was a lady, they both were very friendly but only spoke Romanian. They were kind enough to drop me at the start of a road leading south towards Bulgaria, they didn't want any money from me. It was an amazingly peaceful drive with them through the city, I truly felt blessed.
The Hungarian 2000 forint pictures show a banknote I kept from this years rather odd adventure to Hungary and Romania. It was the only 2000 forint note I've seen during that trip, so I deicded to keep it. To keep a 5000 note still was a bit much.
Besides coins I love geometry. The avatar consists of each of the 35 hexominoes used precisely once. With the 5 large yellow shapes placed like this, the solution for tiling the remaining 30 hexominoes is unique.
Whilst I was reading through the last few stories, I remembered a “funny” one. Or a horror story depending on your perspective.
A friend of mine was just starting collecting & decided he would collect the small standard UK circulation coins (rather than the commemorative ones) in every year. So that's all the 1p / 2p / 5p / 10p / 20p / 50p coins starting from 1968 up to then present day ~2008/9. Maybe about 150-175 coins in all? [Note: not every coin was issued in every year]
Eventually manages to get respectably large amount after about 6 months but decides some of them are a little dirty and could use cleaning, but didn't want to use a brush in case it damaged them. He spent ages making a wire frame which would allow the coins to stand upright with only the tiniest amount of coin touching the wire.
He then submerged them in water, left them for an hour or so, then drained the water out & left the coins to dry. But it hadn't really made any difference. So, he tried again - this time he decides to use a soluble metal cleaner.
Now, I'm not entirely sure what happened. But I think he messed up the water to cleaner ratio really badly, and I know he also accidentally left them to their bath for about 24hrs. He put them in, forgot about them, went to bed, got up, went to work, and then found them again when he came home. Removed the water & left them to dry. When he came back, they were all lovely, shiny, and clean. But…
Every single coin was also pale pink.
It was especially noticeable on the silver colour coins (5p/10p/20p/50p) but even the copper colour ones (1p/2p) had a slight pinkish hue to them.
Sadly, he dumped them all in one of those coin machines & exchanged it at face value so I only saw a handful of pics later. If I'd have known he was going to do that, I'd have bought them just for the sheer comedy value! 😛 I think he was basically ashamed & wanted to destroy the evidence.
I still wonder if any of his pink coins made it back into circulation, and what people thought of them.
Though not a coin story, I ended up receiving a 5 dollar Canadian note with change in the US about 3 years ago in Michigan. I usually only ever see Canadian/Mexican coins appear in change so this was an oddity! Especially since their 5 dollar note is blue while the US’ is green and pink 😂.
In the Northern US it is common to see Canadian coins turn up often and US coins in Southern Canada as both are generally accepted universally in person to person transactions. However, with banknotes, I‘ve found Canada to be the only one to accept the other currency, probably since the US dollar is more valuable.
I won this New Zealand $1.00 note (solid radar) from an online auction:
About a year later I bought another New Zealand dollar from Allen's Coins. Allens just describes the condition & gives a link to the series (they don't show the actual note you will receive):
Imagine my surprise when I opened up the parcel & saw this $1.00 note (check the serial number):
Same C24 prefix & one number away (price of a regular note) in GEM UNC. It really made me feel like I was buying far too many notes! I think I took about a 4 to 6 month break!
You did incredibly well - the number is interesting, 6 ones, but its middle prefix for this issue (Knight was 1975 to 1977 and prefrixes A10 to E24) yet even in standard UNC its scarce and catalogued at $35.
Because of the 6 1's put a zero on it I would say and easily another $50 for 5 1's note.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
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You did incredibly well - the number is interesting, 6 ones, but its middle prefix for this issue (Knight was 1975 to 1977 and prefrixes A10 to E24) yet even in standard UNC its scarce and catalogued at $35.
Because of the 6 1's put a zero on it I would say and easily another $50 for 5 1's note.
-Thanks Moneytane. Like I said, I was pretty surprised (bordering on shock) as I have yet to buy a note with such a dazzling serial for a reasonable price ($12). I knew I had the Wilks signature (I had the Hardie one) so that's why I ordered this Knight signature but didn't expect it to be the “sister” note!
It has been way too long before to respond to the latest stories, it is partly due to being unable to be able to take proper pictures of a slightly damaged die error in Dutch coinage. Until now.
But first: @ COINMAN1: Your story convinced me I really needed an Alderney coin for my collection. It took me some patience to find an affordable one, yet somewhere early 2024 I estimate I succeded.
@ A Collector: Great story of those pink coins! Here is my rainbow coin story: In my very low budget collecting years my first Afghanistan coin found its way to my collection. Unfortunately, there were two pieces of scrap metal soldered to each side… I tried to get rid of those and in frustration ended up using pliers to grip the coin at the bottom and heated it on the gas stove until they finally fell of. Then I dropped the coin in water to cool it off. Here is the result:
@ Voided_Username01 Great, two people happy! The person who earned some pennies paying with the Canadian note and you enjoying the Canadian note! As a kid, it was a great joy to find Luxembourg coins in Belgium, as shops generally avoided accepting those. Later, during my first visit to Luxembourg with my parents, I noticed there to be more Belgian than Luxembourg coins as change.
@ Serial_Number_8: Truly amazing, to collect a 111111 note as well as it's twin brother this way!
Getting back to my new phone making great pictures of coins (I just used it for the Afghanistan coin as well). In 1994, I once received 3 brand new 1 guilder coins as change at the local bakery. Outside, in the bright sunlight, I had a look at them. Then suddenly, when looking at it at the perfect angle, I noticed an extra ‘999’ on one of them. And then noticed they all had it, coming from the same coin roll. I kept them as a great treasure.
In 1997 I found another one, with the same error. And in 1999 I found my ‘geluksdubbeltje’ (a Dutch expression translating as 'lucky dime'). It had an extra ‘999’ on it, as well as a partial extra ‘ct’. Then came the gathering at the Dutch Mint, my only visit there so far. I met a Dutch collector who specialized in only collecting 1 gulden coins (and probably notes as well). He shared his address and phone number and invited me to visit. It was in my hitch-hiking years, so that is how I ended up somewhere in or around The Hague to meet him at his home. He really wanted to have both a 1994 and a 1997 guilder coin with the error, as he had never seen an error like that before. He had no interest at all in my geluksdubbeltje. In return I received my first Willem III gulden of really nice quality, which was an awesome addition to my collection! He said he would try to make pictures showing the error for his website, but unfortunately I forgot to ask what site it was…
I wanted to share this story earlier, but as said, I didn't manage to make proper pictures. Below the best results so far, thanks to my new phone, made in China. The best picture of my geluksdubbeltje even reveiled a third yet very vague 999 as well as a very vague extra mint mark, that can barely be seen on the most reveiling picture (the left image). It appears halfway the intended 1999 and the quite clear extra ‘999’. The third ‘999’ doesn't show on the picture on the right. My explanation is that this is the result of a very well repair of the die, made after someone at the Dutch Mint noticed the error. Such an error can occur when a freshly minted coin would not properly be ejected and get slammed again by the machine, leaving a small imprint on the die. Such vague impressions on modern Dutch coins generally can only be found on AU or UNC coins. When you're lucky.
For me personally, the ‘999’ of my geluksdubbeltje is meaningful. In the ashram I mentioned in the Indian coin with the extra IND, the number 999 specifically was considered to be the number of God, just like 666 refers to the devil. Several cars driving around there had ‘999’ in the number of their licence plates.
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I've had my eye on my Mum's piggy bank collection for a while now, knowing that every pig has at least one interesting coin inside it. One pig though may have recently dropped off the list - I found this duplicate last year.
I'd be interested to hear from anyone else with a similar mini brass pig with a 1 pfennig coin wedged in the top, especially as I thought my Mum's was a one off.
Very cute piggy bank, LDC63! You inspired me to place Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands behind the steering wheel of my nearly 8 cm. long Rolce Royce Silver Shadow II.
Meanwhile considering the pink coins from A Collector's story again, today a box arrived in the mail with a bunch of German Notgeld coins, as well as a series of 6 (once) proof 1960 coins from the Maldives priced 30 euros. The 1 and 2 paisa coins looked rather dark and a bit off colour on the sales image, yet it turns out that with proper day light they look amazingly pink and purple, toned along with some other funky colours.
Besides coins I love geometry. The avatar consists of each of the 35 hexominoes used precisely once. With the 5 large yellow shapes placed like this, the solution for tiling the remaining 30 hexominoes is unique.
Some years ago, my wife had a job working with a couple of former policemen who were setting up a system for checking financial transactions - a forerunner to the current banking checks for cash deposits. They bought her a book when she first started that they recommended she read…
Yes, that is a real dollar bill laminated onto the dust cover. And yes, every copy had a similar cover.
Clearly, this is not a coin story, but we do also list banknotes on this site. 🙂
For sure that is a nice banknote with a twist, as besides being placed under an angle onto the book, apparently there are traces of cocaine on it.
I just started a strange quest with a twist (it concerns unusual rotation errors) on the forum: https://en.numista.com/forum/topic159233.html, see where that will lead to. It would be great to get some weird responses there.
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