Strange Coins and Currency of the World

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Liberia released a one dollar Star Trek Generations coin. I bought one.

^ Picard is fairly recognizable, but as for Kirk, it's the captain Jim, but not as we know him....

Now this is really cool.

Modern paper money floats on a sea of trust. It has no intrinsic value, and people only accept it because they trust that others will take it in return. But during periods of economic upheaval, trust can evaporate. The socialist government of Venezuela destroyed the value of the bolivar: you used to be able to get a US dollar for about 4 bolivars; now it takes something like 15,000 bolivars. Precious metals, by contrast, more or less retain their value (although they fluctuate, like everything else).

Thanks to modern technology, here's a company that has designed a way to print notes with tiny but verifiable quantities of gold embedded in the note itself. They use a printable polyester film, which can be printed with any design you like, and then they deposit 1/10 gram of gold onto the film and coat it again for protection. (1/10 gram of gold is now worth about $5.00.) Dealing with gold for ordinary transactions has always been difficult because its intrinsic value is so high; but this makes small transactions much easier.





Here's a video that shows the production process:

More hobo coins from a Russian artist.

http://www.boredpanda.com/hobo-nickel-coin-carving-roman-booteen/?utm_content=inf_11_2558_2&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social_share&utm_campaign=socialedge

5 pages worth.

The gold embedded in the notes business is interesting, but it's difficult to imagine precious metals being used in any mainstream modern currency as long as the engines of our economic systems continue to be debt and inflation.

Important bulletin from the Danvers Public LIbrary:

Peabody Institute Library, Danvers
August 30 -- This summer we've had a surge of folks attempting to pay fines and printing fees with tokens from Chuck E Cheese and Bonkers. Since they are not legal tender, we cannot accept them.
Please note, we also cannot accept Canadian coins



https://www.facebook.com/danverslibrary ... 93/?type=3

I just got a silver certificate in change at the supermarket -- a 1935 edition. Haven't seen one in several years.

I just polished off this coin I'm using to learn how to flip things through my fingers.

It's Irish, and the date seems to read 1862 or 3, but it's been almost buffed blank.

Received in change today a well-worn 1944 quarter, about like the one below. I didn't notice when it was put in my hand but as soon as I dropped it in my pocket along with a handful of change I could tell by the sound I had gotten something silver -- they don't sound at all like modern (valueless) coins.

The web tells me it's worth about $3 for its bullion value (which is quite a bit more than 25 cents).

Now here's a beauty -- and it could be yours today for a mere $225,000.

(Click to see all the detail.)



https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=352594