Are Shawnee Dollars considered Darkside?

danglen

Just wondering........

TwoKopeiki

Fantasy lightside, I would say. First time I'm seeing these - pretty neat.

savoyspecial

Colin Bruce includes them in Unusual World Coins (along with Cherokee issues) giving them a KM,X#

ajaan

Farside IMO.

HTubbs

Redside?

SaorAlba

<< <i>Colin Bruce includes them in Unusual World Coins (along with Cherokee issues) giving them a KM,X# >>



Some of the early Cherokee issues from 1979 were a bit more of an unrecognised state category. The guy that had them struck tried to start his own little 155 acre "country" on some little islet in the Rio Grande River. Since then, he and some others have occasionally continued to issue coins - but now they are claiming they are the "Cherokee Nation" government - which doesn't sit well with the real Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, OK. The later "coins" are definitely more fantasy than reality and the Cherokee Nation has attempted unsuccessfully to have them stop minting them.

questor54

I would say exonumia.

Askari

Technically, anything numismatic that is not "lightside" is "darkside". Part of the reason I got CU to start this and the currency forums was to make it easier for other dark-hearted -- and other possibly interested parties -- to be able to read posts about non-US coinage before they dropped 3-5 pages back into history. But the affectionate subcategorization we give to exonumia is "farside". FWIW

coinpictures

<< <i>Farside IMO. >>

BillyKingsley

Technically the Indian Nations are their own seperate, sovigern countries, inside the US. The only difference between them and other countries is that no passport is required.

I'm part Indian on both sides of my family, directly descended from the sachem (King) of one of the tribes. Unfortunatly the nation that is 100% documented that I come from is no longer considered active, as no full blooded people are known.