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POLL: Should this be considered a coin?

worldcoinguyworldcoinguy Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭✭
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Goofy poll of the night:
Who thinks that this should qualify as a coin?
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Image from the following auction:
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OK....so maybe this is a poor excuse for a poll, but cut me some slack on my first poll.
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  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,737 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Legal tender - yes. Coin - eh, not round enough image

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  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,455 ✭✭✭✭✭
    NCLT which are coins.

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  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,737 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>NCLT which are coins. >>



    Ok, you talked me into it image

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  • worldcoinguyworldcoinguy Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭✭
    OK.....you caught me on a term I dont know. NCLT?
  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,737 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Non-circulating legal tender?

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  • DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭
    I think it's "Non Circulating Legal Tender".
    Becky
  • ajaanajaan Posts: 17,455 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It is Non-Circulating Legal Tender.

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  • spinaker2000spinaker2000 Posts: 4,329 ✭
    echo echo echo...........................image
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  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,737 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭
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    Becky
  • satootokosatootoko Posts: 2,720 ✭
    Technically, I couldn't care less, but I still took the third choice. image
    Roy


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  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,261 ✭✭✭✭✭
    But are they NCLT? Somalia's government effectively ceased to exist years ago; I don't think there's anybody left who can grant "legal tender" status to them. Which is, of course, probably why whichever "mint" that made these things chose Somalia as their flag-of-convenience in the first place.

    Even if someone in the "Somali government" did officially authorise these coins, wouldn't they be denominated in "shillings", not "dollars"?

    Are they actually listed in the normal Krause catalogue? These "coins" sound like classic "Unusual World Coins" candidate material to me. Their "coin" status should be revoked. image
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  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Doesn't strike me as a coin. image More like something CosmicDebris would collect.

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  • koincollectkoincollect Posts: 446 ✭✭✭
    I like them and voted yes!
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,080 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Legal tender in Somalia is a bullet and a simitar.



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  • newbiecollectornewbiecollector Posts: 2,992
    I think it is a Bob Marely plot and.......... I LOVE IT......

    send me a dozenimage
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  • SYRACUSIANSYRACUSIAN Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭✭
    Loving it is one thing. Rationalizing that it is in fact an NCLT is another.


    But how exactly would this mini guitar pass as a coin to normal people? It is beyond me. A pin would be more likely.
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  • newbiecollectornewbiecollector Posts: 2,992
    Was meant to be funny Dimitri.

    I have a lot of NCLT........but nothing that looks like that....mine are ship coins mostly
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  • FilamCoinsFilamCoins Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭

    Certainly a coin. NCLT, but still a coin. Novel idea. Personally I'm not interested in collecting them, but bought one for my uncle who is a musician. Just hope some of the profits go to the suffering people of that poor country (although I'm probably naive in my wishful thinking).



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