Question regarding World Trade dollars

Scootersdad

While doing some research on U.S. Trade dollar, I discovered other nations also minted them specifically for trade. Was wondering if I missed any not listed.
Mexico 8 Reale (the preferred coin of Chineese)
Great Britain Trade
Japan Trade
Chineese trade
French Piastre de Commerce
?????

1960NYGiants

Austria 1781 Maria Theresa dated thalers - for Persian Empire trade

Andres

Netherlands:

Silver riders for trade with the east indies
silver Lion talers for trade with the Baltic sea area
gold ducats for world trade

MrEureka

Denmark (The famous "Greenland Dollar")

harasha

What the heck is Denmark's Greenland Dollar?

STLNATS

<< <i>Austria 1781 Maria Theresa dated thalers - for Persian Empire trade >>


1780? Still minted today.

Also, Italy produced a tallero for Eritrea in 1918 which probably falls into this category as well.

Greenland "dollar" - one of the most interesting of this type of coin. Here's a link from Heritage: linky

MrBreeze

Just when I thought the Japanese trade dollar would be one of the most difficult "trade" dollars to acquire, along comes the Greenland dollar. Unfortunately, that looks pretty much unattainable. On the bright side, the Japanese trade dollar now seems cheap.

OriginalDan

Instead of looking at which countries minted dollars (silver) for trade, you could look at which coinage was used for trade, intended or not. Since much of the trade was carried out between the west and Asia (in early years, primarily the southern port of Canton, using the "Canton System"), you might look at which coins are known with asian chopmarks to signify their use in trade. This link lists out known examples with chopmarks as well as their assumed rarity (specifically examples known with Chopmarks) which will also give you an idea for which coins were used most often in trade vs. not often at all.

Note that this rarity scale is about 60 years old at this point but is for the most part pretty accurate even today.