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Dumanyu

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Zanzibar
November 16, 2007, 03:44:36 PM
AH1299 (1882) Pysa
KM# 1
Copper
Mintage: 4,640,000
Kind of ugly, but it fills a gap until something better comes along.


 


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Re: Zanzibar
November 16, 2007, 09:16:30 PM
Mine isn't in much better condition.  :-/


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Re: Zanzibar
November 16, 2007, 10:32:33 PM
Mine is a bit better, but not imaged of course :o

These are interesting coins, from a place that has the dubious distinction of having lost the shortest declared war in history, a total of 38 minutes, to the British in 1898 or so.  Accd to the old Guinness Book of World Records.