Seeking oddball currency

My girlfriend said that any time you give someone a purse as a gift,
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 wrote:

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.


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I like the $3 bill from the Cook Islands.

This dealer has some far out stuff....



http://www.joelscoins.com/oops.htm

On Apr 14, 3:07*pm, Jud wrote:
I like the $3 bill from the Cook Islands.

You would. Most people would consider a three dollar bill to be an
insult.

oly

On Apr 14, 8:42*pm, oly wrote:
On Apr 14, 3:07*pm, Jud wrote:

I like the $3 bill from the Cook Islands.

You would. *Most 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!

"Paul Ciszek" wrote:

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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Michael Benveniste wrote:

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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On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:56:29 -0700 (PDT), Jud
wrote:

On Apr 14, 8:42=A0pm, oly wrote:
On Apr 14, 3:07=A0pm, Jud wrote:

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

On 4/15/2011 7:56 PM, beekeep wrote:

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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