Numista book "the world coins village"

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Books on most interesting world coins, coin history and anecdotes are rare.
Would you participate in such a Numista book ?  each of us would write a paragraph.
For example:

The amazing story of the “Germany wrong map” 1000 lire Italy 1997
In 1997, Italy issued 80 millions of new 1000 lire coins. The map found on this coin was stylized, However, Denmark was shown as part of Germany, The Netherlands was included in Belgium, Luxembourg did not exist and the eastern part of Germany, the former Democratic Germany, was nowhere to be found. It made so much noise in Europe that Italy quickly introduced of a corrected version of the map issuing 100 millions new coins.



This error coin is commonly named as “wrong map of Germany” and a legend raised that Italy withdrawn these coins due to this map error so the price of this coin increased.
Just look at the mintages, 100 million of one (united Germany) and 80 other ... however, the coin with a divided Germany is paradoxically even more common, because, while the other coin went into circulation and stayed there (and is therefore also been retired at the end of 2001), that "wrong" was immediately hoarded (in due to the fake-story-telling that these coins had been withdrawn from circulation and therefore rare) by collectors, with the result that the 80 million coins are still almost all in the collectables market.

Les livres sur la grande histoire et les petites anecdotes des pièces ne sont pas légion.
Voudriez vous participer à la rédaction d’un livre commun Numista où chacun écrirait un paragraphe ? Et Xavier l’éditerait à l’encre de chine … (en anglais c’est loupé ça se traduit « India Ink »)
Par exemple :

L’étrange histoire de la « fausse carte de l’Allemagne »  1000 lires Italie 1997
En 1997 , l'Italie a émis 80 millions de nouvelles pièces 1000 lires. La carte figurée sur cette pièce était stlysée. Toutefois, le Danemark se retrouve intégrée à l'Allemagne , les Pays-Bas ont été inclus dans la Belgique , le Luxembourg n'existait pas et la partie orientale de l'Allemagne , l'ex-Allemagne démocratique , était introuvable . Cela a fait tant de bruit en Europe que l'Italie a rapidement présenté une version corrigée de la carte en émettant 100 millions de nouvelles pièces .
Cette pièce est souvent désigné comme " fausse carte de l'Allemagne " et la légende s’est développée que l'Italie avait retiré ces pièces de la circulation en raison de cette erreur de carte de sorte que le prix de cette pièce a augmenté.
Il suffit de regarder les monnayages , 100 millions de l’une ( Allemagne unie ) et 80 de l’autres ... Cependant , la pièce avec une Allemagne divisée est paradoxalement bien plus répendue , parce que, tandis que l'autre pièce a été mise en circulation et en est resté là ( elle a donc également pris sa retraite à la fin de 2001 ) , la pièce « fautée » a été immédiatement thésaurisée (en raison de cette légende voulant que ces pièces aient été retirées de la circulation et donc rares ) par les collectionneurs , avec pour résultat que les 80 millions de pièces sont encore presque toutes sur le marché des objets de collection.
Referee of south atlantic islands
Tilakji 5 Rupees Coin

In 2007 Mumbai Mint released a Five rupee Copper-Nickel coin to celebrate 150th birth anniversary of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, A prominent freedom fighter of India’s struggle for independence from the British.
However, fairly soon after the minting/circulation started it was figured out that the Hindi word for "Tilak" has a "Ji" suffix which is commonly used to show respect to Individuals (Just like "Sir" Prefix is used in English). Also the English word in the coin had Tilak's name mentioned as "Tilak". Moreover people debated that in earlier coins of Republic of India even Mahatma Gandhi's name was mentioned as "Gandhi" so why add the “Ji” in Tilak’s coin.
The Mint decided to withdraw this coin from Circulation and released the coin in both Tilak Copper-Nickel and steel with the corrected word "Tilak" later in 2007.



Now the (so called) Tilakji “error” coin is one of the hardest coins to get in Indian 5 rupees series and obviously highly sought after coins. Many believe that these coins are hoarded by dealers in large quantities to create (artificial) scarcity and may come out slowly to the market in future. However exactly how many of these coins are still there is still a mystery and the coin shows up sometimes in ebay.in and normally sells for USD 100 and above.  
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Great idea. I think we should try to get in the Numisdoc. Put in by country.
It is, what it is, or is it.
My idea is not to make a sophisticated book (8
An athenian owl of the sixth century BC, Mughals coins, some cash (Chinese coins) and other curiosities are wellcome.
And there is a forum "Most Popular Coin Contest" here  8)
I know some french curiosities and I'm sure there are some also for each countries :8D
Referee of south atlantic islands
Bump, great topic. Maybe I'll find something to add.
Hi!
I am also going to write an interesting story but before I do that I just have one question for sujit_kumar about Tilakji coin.
Is it issued in 2006 or in 2007? Because on coin page says "2006" and on the coin is written "2007".
Thank You!
Regards
Kuna
Check my doubles ;)
Quote: KunaHi!
I am also going to write an interesting story but before I do that I just have one question for sujit_kumar about Tilakji coin.
Is it issued in 2006 or in 2007? Because on coin page says "2006" and on the coin is written "2007".
Thank You!
Regards
Kuna
2007. I will ask Indian mod to fix it in Numista. Thanks I did not notice.
“A man without a hobby is only half alive.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Tipu Sultan and Mauludi (AM) Date Format



     Tipu Sultan was a powerful and brave king of Mysore Kingdom between 1782 AD till his death in 1799 AD. He was an ambitious leader who wanted to change many things including the traditional islamic date format. He introduced the Mauludi (sortform AM) date format which is based on "lunisolar" calendar and was written right to left.  Maybe he thought if letters are written right-to-left in persian/arabic why not numbers.



Above is one of Tipu's coin in Mauludi date format. The date on these coins are sometimes confusing if you are no familiar with it already.

However the AM date format was discarded soon after tipu's death in an epic battle with the english.
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