INTERESTING STUFF

AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOG OF INTERESTING OR HISTORIC WORLD COINS AND CURRENCY

This Interesting Stuff Catalog includes hundreds of interesting, historic and unusual items. Included are world coins, currency, tokens and medals, from ancient times to the present. It emphasizes "the story behind the coin or note".

As we stock most items in quantity, the pictures are of a typical representational piece taken from stock.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION & PAYMENT TERMS

ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO THIS CATALOG
The Index includes the coins, notes and other items in this Interesting Stuff catalog and is sorted by country or area. It provides a brief description of the item, and a link to the page that lists the item 

RECENT ISSUES
New coin issuing nations and new issues from around the world.

THE EURO  
Coins and coin sets of the Euro member nations, incuding the 2 Euro commemorative coins.

INTERESTING COINS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Wedding coins, Scouting Coins, Zodiac Coins and other interesting modern world coins.

UNUSUAL COINS
Odd shapes, unusual materials, major design errors and other unusual coins.

COINS OF ISLAND NATIONS
Coins from small island nations from around the world.

COINS OF MICRO-NATIONS
Coins of the Micro-nations, cinderellas, coins of tradition, unauthorized issues, unofficial issues, unrecognized states and places that do not even exist.
Includes Sealand, Atlantis, Maui, Tribal coins of Africa and other places that are very difficult to locate on a map.

AMERICAN INDIAN NATION COINS  
Coins struck by or for American Indian tribes and coins depicting American Indians

COINS OF WESTEROS

ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL COINS

HISTORIC OLD COINS
Some interesting and historic coins from the past 200 or so years.

IRAQ COINS & CURRENCY
A selection of coins and notes from this long troubled region. a Includes Saddam banknotes

AFGHANISTAN COINS & CURREN
Coins and banknotes from a long troubled land.

COINS & CURRENCY FROM THE MIDDLE EAST
Historic and modern coins and notes from Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia and other places frequently in the news.

2200 YEARS OF COINS OF INDIA
Features coins and currency of Indian subcontinent, including India, Pakistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, etc.

2400 YEARS OF CHINESE COINS and CURRENCY
Includes ancient coins to modern issues.

COINS and CURRENCY OF JAPAN

KOREAN COINS and CURRENCY
Including Kingdom of Korea, North Korea and South Korea.

BRITISH COINS
Coins of the British Isles, including Guernsey,  Jersey and Isle of Man

CANADIAN COINS
Modern Canadian coins issued for circulation

COINS & CURRENCY OF MEXICO

CENTRAL and SOUTH AMERICAN COINS and CURRENCY

 COINS OF THE POPES
Coins of the Vatican and other nations portraying the current and  recent Popes

400 YEARS OF RUSSIAN COINS AND CURRENCY
From the Czars to the latest issues of the Republic

NATIONS OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
A selection of coins from nations that emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Nagarno-Karabakh, Tajikistan, Transdniestra, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

COINS AND CURRENCY OF FORMERLY COMMUNIST EASTERN EUROPE
Includes pre-communist, communist and post communist coins of the former Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia etc.

GERMAN COINS AND CURRENCY
Includes issues Inflation issues, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, East Germany and the Federal Republic

WORLD WAR I REMEMBERED - COINS AND BANKNOTES OF THE GREAT WAR
Coins and currency of the nations involved in World War I era and its aftermath

WORLD WAR II ERA COINS & PAPER MONEY
Historical coins and notes from this historical period.

VIETNAMESE & SOUTH EAST ASIAN COINS & CURRENCY
Coins of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

DEAD NATIONS
Coins of countries that no longer exist.

MONEY FROM AFRICA
Though many African nations have trouble with their economy, they produce some of the most attractive coins in he world.

WORLD COIN SETS
An interesting and educational way to learn about the world.

SILVER COINS OF THE WORLD

AFFORDABLE GOLD COINS

LOW MINTAGE & ULTRA LOW MINTAGE COINS
Coins with mintages of 2500 or less.

BI-METALLIC COINS

MULTI-COLOR COINS
Pretty and colorful coins from various countries.

THE COIN ZOO (coins with animals)

GOING PLACES
Coins showing ships, airplanes, trains and automobiles

SPORT AND OLYMPIC COINS
Including World Cup Soccer Issues.

BARGAIN AND BULK LOTS
Bulk and wholesale lots to help start or build up your world coin or world currency collection

TOKENS, MEDALS AND OTHER NEAT STUFF
Our own medals and tokens, Arnold California State Quarters, Military Medals, Wooden Nickels, Bread tokens, Missouri Ozark Chits and other neat stuff.

ODD & CURIOUS MONEY
This stuff does not look like our concept of money,
but is it any crazier than buying stuff with just a piece of paper printed up by the government?

WORLD PAPER MONEY PART 1: COUNTRIES A TO H

WORLD PAPER MONEY PART 2: COUNTRIES I TO Z

POLITICAL MONEY
Fantasy notes both for and against various political candidates including Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Bill Clinton  and others

STOCK & BOND CERTIFICATES

HOLIDAY GIFT IDEAS
Great gift ideas - available all year around.

ORDERING INFORMATION

SECURE ON-LINE ORDERING PAGE

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INTRODUCTION 

This is an expanded on-line version of our popular Illustrated Catalog of World Coins and Currency. Taking advantage of the capabilities of the World Wide Web, we are able to offer a much larger selection than will fit in our regular printed catalog, including new items as they become available as well as limited stock items that would not otherwise be worthwhile to list.

In our illustrated catalog we emphasize the romance, history and social significance of the coins. Included are a wide variety of moderately priced items, including ancient to modern world coins, paper money, primitive money, tokens, medals and related items, most of which are pictured. We hope you enjoy perusing our offerings. Please e-mail us at orders@joelscoins.com if you have any questions or comments, or would like the latest "paper" version of this catalog.

Some abbreviations used:

AG=About Good, G = Good, VG = Very Good, F = Fine, VF = Very Fine, XF = Extremely Fine,
U = Unc. = Uncirculated, BU = Brilliant Uncirculated, CU = Crisp Uncirculated, PF = Proof
Catalog value are based on the Standard Catalog of World Coins by Krause & Mishler.

Some notes to help you use this on-line catalog

• From the Table of Contents you may click on the section of the catalog you wish to view. I avoid the use of frames as it crowds the screen too much.
• Within a section you may click on outlined images for an enlargement so to better see the detail.
• Images are taken from actual items in stock and are typical of the item you would get. It is unlikely you would get the exact coin or note pictured.
• To Order you may cut and paste the description line into an e-mail, or you can just type out the the item number and/or description. Orders are filled by humans, rather than computers, so we the exact format is not important. (One of these days we will get on-line ordering, but we can only handle one thing at a time.)
• There is a lot of material here, you may want to order a few things now, bookmark this page, then come back and read more of the catalog later.
• The coins and banknotes can be viewed alphabetically by country in the Alphabetical Index by Country
• Unless otherwise indicated, most items are designed to be shown actual size when you print the catalog. Depending on the monitor you are using however, items may look bigger or smaller. In order to give you a idea of the actual size on your monitor I have included the following scale to judge by.