Coin quiz!

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While sorting through our change jar, I found coins in 12 different currencies. How many of the countries can you identify? (Click for full size.)

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[dachte]

Neat! I have most of those (my father travels a lot and when I was young he often brought back coins from the different countries he visited).

[roseandsigil]

Wow, I'm embarrassed to admit how few I know. The one on the right bottom is probably from Scotland (I guess they mint their own coins?) and the one above it is possibly Italy. Also, there is a Franc and a Czech, uh, kronamacallit. Oh, and I guess that's a quarter. State quarters are cheating!

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The Bank of Scotland does indeed print its own banknotes, but this pound coin is just generically British; they have traditionally alternated designs to honor each of the member countries of the UK, so this is from a Scotland year.

Italy is correct, that's 10 eurocents.

The franc is a franc, but where is it from? France doesn't have francs anymore. :-)

The Czech Republic is right.

And it's actually a wacky nickel, not a quarter. Are they doing something weird with nickels now? I'm going to have a lot to learn when I get back to Pittsburgh! :-)

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That one, as dubaiwalla guessed, is Hong Kong. They have some cute coins in Hong Kong!

[dubaiwalla]

The UAE one is pretty obvious. The 'Two Dollars' one is probably from Hong Kong. But that's about as much as I can be reasonably sure of.

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There are probably a limited number of countries that would put an oil refinery on their coins, huh. :-)

And yep, that's Hong Kong.

[dubaiwalla]

Looks more like a drilling rig than a refinery to me, but point taken.

I zoomed in on the picture, and can make out the name of Turkey. Another one is probably Thailand, although I suppose Cambodia is not out of the question.

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I thought it was a drilling rig too, but the internets told me it was a refinery. Could the internets be wrong? :-o

Turkey & Thailand are right.

[chu_hi]

The UAE, Hong Kong, "wacky nickel" and GBP have been identified. I see 5 and 10 yen, and... 5 Sri Lankan Rupees? Or is that Thai baht? Feel like I should know the others, but I'm having a hard time.

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5 yen is correct, 10 yen isn't. :-)

And the top one is indeed 5 Thai baht. I ought to have some Sri Lankan rupees around somewhere, but apparently not in my change jar... hmm...

[chu_hi]

Oh, you're right! Looking again, that doesn't look like a 10 yen at all!

I try to put all my coins into the Emirates Airline Foundation, but they add up... the coin situation is always a bit out of control.