Joel Anderson, Interesting World Coins

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

Click Here INTRODUCTION & PAYMENT TERMS

Click Here INDEX TO THIS CATALOG
Some of our customers said it would be easier to find what they wanted if everything was listed on one page, so we have added an on-line index.  It 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 (you may have to scroll down the linked page to find the item).

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

Click Here FRENCH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES PATTERN EURO COINS    
Attractive gold and silver Essai coins, many from nations that have previously issued few or no coins.

Click Here COINS OF THE POPE AND THE VATICAN     

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

Click Here THE GROWING EUROPEAN UNION  
Coins of the new European Union members and selected pattern Euro coins.

Click Here INTERESTING COINS FROM AROUND THE WORLD  
Harry Potter coins, commemorative coins of Mongolia and Argentina, Convertible Pesos from Cuba,  and other interesting people and things on coins.

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

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

Click Here COINS OF MICRO-NATIONS           
Coins of the The Grand Duchy of Avram, Purple Shaftieuland,  Seborga, New Island, Sealand, Atlantis, and other self-declared nations  that are very difficult to locate on a map.

Click Here COINS THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN 
Hand struck fantasy coins of North America, including Viking issues of Vinland and coins for French settlements in Alabama and Louisana. Also Camelot coins featuring King Arthur.  These are unusual modern creations of historical coins that never actually were issued.

Click Here COINS OF MIDDLE EARTH    
Coins based on the fictional works of J. R. R. Tolkien, author of THE LORD OF THE RINGS and THE HOBBIT.

Click Here ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL COINS  
Roman, Islamic, Celtic, European and others.  Includes well as coins of Saladin, Ghenghiz Khan and other historical figures.

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

Click Here 1800 YEARS OF IRAQ COINS & CURRENCY  
A selection of coins and notes from ancient times to the present.  Trace the rise and fall of Baghdad through its coins. Includes Saddam banknotes and United States Occupation banknotes.

Click Here 1000 YEARS OF AFGHANISTAN COINS  
Coins from a long troubled land.

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

Click Here 2200 YEARS OF COINS OF INDIA    

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

Click HereCOINS and CURRENCY OF JAPAN
With an emphasis on issues of the Shoguns.

Click Here 400 YEARS OF RUSSIAN COINS AND CURRENCY   
From Ivan the Terrible to the latest issues of the Republic

Click Here NATIONS OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION    
A selection of coins from nations that emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union

Click Here COINS AND CURRENCY OF FORMERLY COMMUNIST EASTERN EUROPE
Includes pre-communist, communist and post communist coins of the former Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, etc.

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

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

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

Click Here DEAD NATIONS  
Coins of  countries that no longer exist.

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


NewClick HereRARE ULTRA-LOW MINTAGE  AFRICAN COINS
Rare bi-metallic and silver coins with mintages of only 5 to 25 pieces!

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

Click Here SILVER COINS OF THE WORLD  

Click Here BI-METALLIC COINS  
Bi-metallic coins are one of the hottest areas of collecting world coins.

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

Click Here THE COIN ZOO (coins with animals)     

Click Here GOING PLACES  
Coins showing ships, airplanes, trains and automobiles

Click Here SPORT AND OLYMPIC COINS 
Including World Cup Soccer Issues.

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

Click Here 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.

Click Here 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?

Click Here WORLD PAPER MONEY    

Click Here MILLION DOLLAR BILLS
You and your friends can be Millionaires with our $1,000,000 Bills!

Click Here HOLIDAY GIFT IDEAS 
Gifts of the wisemen: Gold Frankincense and Myrrh, Million dollar bills, as well as other gift ideas - available all year around.

Click Here SILVER STRIKE BROTHEL TOKENS FROM NEVADA      

Click Here ORDERING INFORMATION

Click Here SECURE ON-LINE ORDERING PAGE


INTRODUCTION & PAYMENT TERMS

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 2004 Standard Catalog of World Coins by Krause & Mishler.

Some notes to help you use this on-line catalog

ORDERING INFORMATION

Payment may be made by personal check or a money order in US dollars drawn on a US bank,  Postal Money Order in US dollars,  AMERICAN EXPRESS, VISA, MASTERCARD,  or PAYPAL.
  You may order by using our Click Here SECURE ON-LINE CREDIT CARD ORDER PAGE

or send orders by e-mail to: orders@joelscoins.com
or by postal mail to:

Joel Anderson
 PO Box 365
Grover Beach, CA 93483-0365 USA
or by phone or fax to  1-805-489-8045

For more information about how to order, payment methods, etc.  please visit our ORDERING INFORMATION PAGE.



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