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 Posted 08/11/2016  1:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Finn235 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Here's a fun commemorative with a value of 6.55957 francs:

http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces20256.html
Edited by Finn235
08/11/2016 1:15 pm
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Thank you for your input! I added any denomination that wasn't on the list before (as well as some other examples of denomination we already had) based on your posts.

Odd denominations on coins - updated list for page 2:

1/600: Tonkin Protectorate 1/600 piastre (?)
1/360: Prussia 1 pfennig=1/360 thaler
1/200: US Half Cent
1/192: Ceylon 1/192 rixdollar
1/180: Prussia 2 pfennig=1/180 thaler
1/120: Prussia 3 pfennig=1/120 thaler
1/100: US 1 cent
1/96: Madras Presidency 1/96 rupee
1/90: Prussia 4 pfennig=1/90 thaler
1/84: Schweinfurt 1/84 gulden
1/80: Yemen 1/80 riyal (?), Indiae Bataviae 1/5 of a 1/16 gulden
1/64: Nepal 1/64 mohar (?)
1/52: Jersey 1/52 shilling
1/50: Slovenia 0.02 lipe token coinage
1/48: Prussia 1/48 thaler
1/40: Egypt 1/40 qirsh (?), Yemen 1/40 riyal (?)
1/26: Jersey 1/26 shilling
1/24: Prussia 1/24 thaler
1/20: Dutch East Indies 1/20 gulden, Venezuela Isla de Providentia 0.05 bolivar, Albania 0.05 lek
1/18.5: Holstein-Schauneburg-Pinneberg fractional thaler
1/16: Glueckstadt 1/16 thaler
1/13: Jersey 1/13 shilling
1/12: Jersey 1/12 shilling, British India 1/12 anna
1/10: British West Africa 1/10 penny
1/9: Austria 1/9 thaler
1/8: Portuguese India 1/8 tanga
1/6: Sweden 1/6 ore
1/4 (common)
1/3: GB 1/3 farthing
1/2 (common)
2/3: Schwyz 2/3 batzen
3/4: Russian Poland 3/4 rouble=5 zloty
1 (common)
1-1/4: Panama 1-1/4 centesimos
1-1/2: GB 1-1/2 pence, France 1-1/2 euros *
2 (common)
2-1/2: Angola 2-1/2 escudos, Portugal 2-1/2 euros, Panama 2-1/2 centesimos, Colombia 2-1/2 centavos
3: India 3 paise, US 3 cents, Tajikistan 3 somoni, USSR 3 kopeks, USSR 3 roubles, Salvador 3 centavos, Slovenia 3 euros
4: Portugal 4 centavos, GB 4 pence, Germany 4 reichspfennig, Nepal 4 paisa, India 4 anna
5 (common)
6: Ireland 6 pence, Austria 6 kreuzer
6-1/4: Haiti 6-1/4 centimes
6.55957: France 6.55957 francs *
7: Freiburg 7 kreuzer, Austria 7 kreuzer
7-1/5: Hu-peh 7.2 candareens
7-1/2: Tibet 7-1/2 skar (?), Portugal 7-1/2 euros
8: Guernesey 8 doubles, India 8 anna, Mexico 8 reales
9: Cyprus 9 piastres
10 (common)
10-1/2: Bocholt 10-1/2 heller
12: Denmark 12 skilling, Austria 12 kreuzer, Spain 12 euros
12-1/2: Venezuela 12-1/2 centimos
13: Isle of Man 13 crowns *
15: Romania 15 bani, USSR 15 kopeks, Bahamas 15 cents, Lesotho 15 maloti *, Paraguay 15 centimos, Austria 15 kreuzer
16: Spain 16 maravedis
17: Austria 17 kreuzer
18: Cyprus 18 piastres
20 (common)
21: Bocholt 21 heller
24: Norway 24 skilling
25 (common)
28: Emden 28 stuber
30: British Ionian Islands 30 lepta, Greece 30 drachmai, Timor 30 centavos, Austria 30 kreuzer
32: Hamburg 32 schillinge
36: Bremen 36 grote
37: Poland 37 zloty *
37-1/2: Brazil 37-1/2 reis
40: Spain 40 centimos, Brazil 40 reis
50 (common)
60: Portuguese India 60 centavos, Timor 60 centavos, Yemen 60 khumsi, Oaxaca 60 pesos
75: Germany Aachen 75 pfennig notgeld
80: Brazil 80 reis
100 (common)
120: Naples and Sicily 120 grana
150: Thailand 150 baht *
160: Brazil 160 reis
200: Brazil 200 reis, Spain 200 ptas
250: Israel 250 prutot
300: Brazil 300 reis
400: Brazil 400 reis
500: Brazil 500 reis, Mexico 500 pesos, Spain 500 ptas
750: Indonesia 750 rupiah *
960: Brazil 960 reis
1000: Portugal 1000 reis, Brazil 1000 reis, Mexico 1000 pesos, Colombia 1000 pesos
2000: Romania 2000 lei
10,000: Germany Westphalia notgeld
20,000: Brazil 20000 reis
25,000: Romania 25000 lei
50,000: Turkey 50000 lira
100,000: Turkey 100000 lira, Poland 100000 zloty *
200,000: Hamburg notgeld, Poland 200000 zloty *
300,000: Poland 300000 zloty *
500,000: Turkey 500000 lira
750,000: Turkey 750000 lira
1,000,000: Germany Menden notgeld, Turkey 1000000 lira
1,500,000: Turkey 1500000 lira *
2,000,000: Germany Menden notgeld
2,500,000: Turkey 2500000 lira *
3,000,000: Turkey 3000000 lira *
4,000,000: Turkey 4000000 lira *
5,000,000: Germany Westphalia notgeld
7,500,000: Turkey 7500000 lira *
10,000,000: Turkey 10000000 lira *
15,000,000: Turkey 15000000 lira *
20,000,000: Turkey 20000000 lira *
30,000,000: Turkey 30000000 lira *
50,000,000: Germany Westhpalia notgeld, Turkey 50000000 lira *
50,000,000,000: Germany Heilbronn notgeld
1,000,000,000,000: Germany Westphalia notgeld

* NCLT
(?) uncertain if denomination actually spelled out on the coin.
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 Posted 08/11/2016  7:57 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add january1may to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Romania made a 5000 lei coin a few years ago. I think there's a Turkish 5000 lira too, but not sure.
Turkey also had a 250 bin lira (250000 lira) coin slightly more recently.

Italian states have all sorts of weird denominations - Sardinia alone made at least three types of 2.6 soldi and three types of 7.6 soldi between 1755 and 1815 (no, I have no idea why).
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 Posted 08/12/2016  12:44 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Joseph7420 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Some denominations not yet mentioned that I have found include:

14 gulden from the Dutch Republic.
22 livres from Martinique.
45 piasters from Cyprus.
1500 rupees from Seychelles (NCLT).
Also, Brazil has 320, 800, and 6400 réis (and more unmentioned denominations around those numbers).


Quote:
1/2 (common)

Would the 5/10 soldo from the Italian state Lombardy-Venetia count? I find it strange because it would round down to 1/2, but is not written like that.

Edited by Joseph7420
08/12/2016 12:51 am
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 Posted 08/12/2016  01:05 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Dagaz to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
This coin might or might not fit on the list.
Latvian 2013 with two denominations: 1 lats & 1,42 Euro.
http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces51573.html
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Thanks everyone for the next additions to the list!
If anyone could confirm whether the coins marked as (?) do/don't spell out their denominations, I would be grateful.


Dagaz, the site says the Latvian coin was demonetized on January 1st 2014 with the introduction of the euro. If so, it didn't circulate alongside the euro. Hence, I wouldn't include it here.

Joseph7420, I decided not to add separate lines to the list based on various ways to write the fractions after encountering the one fifth of a one sixteenth of gulden coin. It would make the list rather messy. But I used the links you supplied to find out that Brazil also had: 125, 320, 480, 600, 640, and 4000 reis coins, all of which had the denomination spelled out on them.

January1may, are we sure those Sardinian coins have actual decimal fractions on them? Could it be that that unit was divided into 12 sub-units, and these coins are in fact two and a half and seven and a half?
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January1may, are we sure those Sardinian coins have actual decimal fractions on them? Could it be that that unit was divided into 12 sub-units, and these coins are in fact two and a half and seven and a half?
It would make a good deal more sense, yes. The coins do say 2.6 and 7.6, but that could just as easily be the Sardinian terms for 2s6d and 7s6d (1 soldo = 12 denari).

Here's an actual weird denomination then: this page features a 8 1/2 soldi coin (spelled as SO.OTO.1/2 on the coin).

Also, the Bulgarian equivalent to 6.55957 francs was 1.95583 leva (and I think similar coins were made in a few other countries).
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And another 8-1/2: Gorizia 15 soldi=8-1/2 kreuzer dated 1802 (NGC).
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1/20 gulden is actually a stuiver, which has been the leading denomination in The Netherlands (and East Indies) before the gulden. We then had 2 penning to a duit, 8 duit in a stuiver, 20 stuiver in a gulden, 1,5 gulden in a daalder and 2,5 gulden in a rijksdaalder. So that coin makes sense to me.

Also, I think 3, 200, 500 and 1000 are rather 'normal' denominations for coins, imho...

Anyway, some odd valued coins for the list:

Netherlands:
2 1/2 cent
2 1/2 gulden
3 gulden

Norway:
175 Kroner (silver commemorative coin)
1500 Kroner (all the modern gold coins)
Norway also had a lot of 'silly' denominations on their double denomination coins when converting to the Krone (coins from about 1874/1875).

Indonesia:
100 Rupia
200 rupia
500 rupia
1000 rupia

South Korea:
500 won

Iran:
5000 Rial
2000 Rial
1000 Rial
500 Rial
250 Rial

Iraq:
500 Fils
250 Fils
4 Fils

Jordan:
2 1/2 piastre

Lebanon
500 Pound
250 Pound

Hungary
200 Forint

Armenia
500 Dram
200 Dram
3 Dram

Cyrpus
500 Mils

Italy
1000 Lire
500 Lire
200 Lire

Malta
3 Mils

San Marino
1000 Lire
500 Lire
200 Lire

Portugal
200 Escudos

Spain
2 1/2 Ptas

Vatican
1000 Lire
500 Lire
200 Lire

Belgium
2 1/2 Franc

Belgium also issued some commemorative coins with a 100, 200, 250, 500 and 5000 Franc value.

France:
40 Franc
3 Centimes
2 1/2 centimes

New Zealand
3 pence

Colombia
1000 Pesos
500 Pesos
200 Pesos

Peru
500 Soles

Transnistria
3 Rubles

Taiwan has some commemorative coins with face values of 200, 1000 and 2000 TWD.

You also missed on the 3 and 6 pence pieces of the UK, they're not in the list yet.

Both Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan have coins of 3 Somoni and 3 Som.

Also, don't you mean 2 1/2 escudos instead of euros with Portugal? I know they had a coin like that.

Furthermore, the United Kingdom of Sweden and Norway had some interesting coins:
3 Skilling
4 Skilling
8 Skilling
12 Skilling
24 Skilling
1/3 Speciedaler
2/3 Speciedaler

Hope this helps.
Edited by UltraRant
08/12/2016 12:30 pm
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You're right, I'll mark 200, 500, and 1000 as "common" in the next update. There are way too many. And while it's not meant to be an exhaustive list of all coins that can be found with a given denomination, I'll add some more examples to some of the values already on the list.

Another one for the list:
Turkey - 35 new lira (silver NCLTs issued after the lira redenomination).
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The Italian state Genoa had 48 and 96 lire.
Venetia, another Italian state, had 70 and 140 soldi.
There was a 1/5 rigsbankskilling from Denmark.
Cyprus had 4.5 piasters.
The German state Anhalt-Kot had a 1-1/3 reichsthaler.
The Swiss Canton Vaud had 39 batz.
Gibraltar had 2.8 ECUs (NCLT).
And to add to the deomintions of Brazilian coins, they also had 240 réis.
Edited by Joseph7420
08/13/2016 01:55 am
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Great, thanks!

Is this copper bar also considered a coin?
http://ceyloncoins.com/?page_id=862...4_34_Stuiver
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I think Armenia had issued a 1957 dram coin, wich is NCLT.

Mauritania used to produce 1/5 ouguiya coins, wich are now rare due to inflation. The coin is also known as 1 khoum and is the base coin of Mauritania since the ouguiya is subdivided in 5 khoums!

However, there's a reason why. Mauritania change from CFA Franc to ouguiya in 1973, with the exchange rate of 5 francs per ouguiya a 1/5 ouguiya coin is just an old franc. Still weird, not much coins have a face value of 1/5 in modern world!

With regards to old Italian states, the Repubblica Ligure (Genoa) adopted a system in wich every coin is double of the previous, so we had 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 48 and 96 lire coin instead of the 'classical' 1-2-5-10-20-40-80 francs of the Napoleonic system.
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Thank you, one more answer and the updated list will be posted on the new page.

If you know circulation examples of denominations that we have NCLTs only, please post them, I'd much prefer to have regular coins as examples on the list wherever possible.

Also, if you have any information regarding the 4-3/4 bar being a coin (see link two posts above), please let me know.
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