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Offline Humpybong

Kurdistan Bi-metallic
July 09, 2008, 10:55:52 PM
Just received this one in the mail today..........






Hope you like it as much as I do

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Offline EgCollector

Re: Kurdistan Bi-metallic
July 10, 2008, 02:03:08 AM
Nice coin Barry, do you need help in translation  ;)

Thanks for sharing

Amr :) :) :)

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Re: Kurdistan Bi-metallic
July 10, 2008, 04:21:20 AM
Wow, that is one awesome bimetallic/unusual shaped coin.  It'd fit in numerous sorts of collections. Good find!

Do add this coin to my collection?
 
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Offline Humpybong

Re: Kurdistan Bi-metallic
July 10, 2008, 11:01:45 AM


Thanks Amr....yes would beinterested in a translation.

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Re: Kurdistan Bi-metallic
July 10, 2008, 11:16:53 AM
That's a real beauty.

Thanks for sharing, Humpy.


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Offline RenaL

Re: Kurdistan Bi-metallic
July 12, 2008, 08:33:49 AM
Nice design, but you know it isn't a real coin don't you?


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Re: Kurdistan Bi-metallic
July 12, 2008, 04:43:18 PM
Nice design, but you know it isn't a real coin don't you?

By which you mean, the "country" that issued them isn't "real", in the sense of being internationally recognised or even formally proclaimed.

This coin is listed in the Krause "Unusual World Coins" book (as KMX# 13), rather than the mainstream Krauses, so in that sense they are recognised by Krause as being unofficial coins.

I understand that these coins (and the "banknotes" in the name of Kurdistan) were made by a Kurdish lobby group in the United States. I doubt that anybody actually in Kurdistan knows they exist.

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Offline EgCollector

Re: Kurdistan Bi-metallic
July 12, 2008, 10:42:52 PM
Barry,

The left pic; 2500 Dinars (1427 AH-2006)
The right pic; country of Kurdistan


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Re: Kurdistan Bi-metallic
July 26, 2008, 07:38:38 AM
What an interesting "in between" area.

A coin, yet not a coin.

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Re: Kurdistan Bi-metallic
August 11, 2008, 06:42:43 AM
Very very nice coin Humpybong. I think it will be excelent piece in your collection. :)
 
 

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