Does anyone here no off the top of your head what other country
uses pure Nickel Metal in some of their coins besides Canada?
Thanks! :)
(I have the 2005 catalog from 1901-2005, and am scouring it, but obviously it will take some time, so I thought/hoped someone here knows already.......smile)
~Mike Tayon (SoapinTrucker-USA)
~Fresno California
Just typing these as I find them, from a list of coins I have ...
Belgium 1 Franc 1930 KM#89
Belgium 50 Franc 1989 KM#168
Canada 5 Cent + 10 Cent + 25 Cent you know about
China Republic 10 Cent 1931 Y#349
France 25 Centime 1903 KM#855
France 1/2 Franc 1965+ KM#931.1
France 1 Franc 1960+ KM#925.1
France 2 Franc 1979+ KM#931.1
France 5 Franc 1970+ KM#926a.1
France 10 Franc 1986 KM#959
Greece 10 Drachmai 1959 KM#84
India 25 Naye Paise 1960 KM#47
Ireland 3 Pingin 1940 KM#12
Lebanon 50 Piastres 1971 KM#28
Netherlands 10 Cent 1948+ KM#177
Netherlands 10 Cent 1950+ KM#182
Netherlands 25 Cent 1948+ KM#178
Netherlands 25 Cent 1950+ KM#183
Netherlands 1 Gulden 1967+ KM#184a
Netherlands 1 Gulden 1987 KM#205
Netherlands 2.1/2 Guilder 1989 KM#206
Neth. Antilles 25 Cent 1970 KM#11
Pakistan 1/4 Rupee 1948 KM#5
Russia 1 Kopek 1997+ Y#600
Russia 5 Kopek 2001+ Y#601
South Africa 5 Cent 1977+ KM#84
South Africa 10 Cent 1965 KM#68.1
South Africa 10 Cent 1970 KM#85
Syria 50 Piastres 1968 KM#97
Western Africa 100 Franc 1997 KM#4
Those are just the dates I physically have - so it is not a list of actual start or end dates.
All those are made of just Nickel. There's more than even I thought !
Those are just countries starting with letter A
Typing Nickel in the Search box brings up 5810 coins, and I display 20 coins per page, so that is 291 pages total ! Mostly the search finds Cupro-Nickel, then also Aluminium-Nickel-Bronze, Copper-Nickel-Zinc, Nickel-bonded Steel etc. Even so, there are quite a few with just Nickel - those 14 coins were found on 14 pages, so perhaps there's about 300 altogether.
Bahamas=3 Belgium=26 Bhutan=1 Brazil=3 Cabinda=2 Cameroon=4 Canada=67 Central Africa=3
Central African Republic=3 China - Republic=3 [first 50 pages with A=14 above is total 129]
Comoro Islands=4 Congo - Republic=2 Costa Rica=3 Czechoslovakia=1 Danish West Indies=1
Ecuador=9 El Salvador=2 Equatorial African states=1 Equatorial Guinea=2 Ethopia=3 Finland=1
France=27 French Polynesia=5 Gabon=1 German empire=1 Germany - Third Reich=2
Germany - Weimar Republic=1 Greece=5 Hong Kong=3 Hungary=8 [pages 51 to 108 total 82]
Iceland=1 India - British=3 India - Republic=12 Indochine=1 Iraq=20 Ireland=4 Israel=13 Italy=9
Japan=4 Latvia=3 Lebanon=4 Luxembourg=6 Macau=1 Madagascar=2 Malawi=1 Malta=2
Mexico=1 Monaco=4 Montenegro=4 Morocco=2 Mozambique=1 [pages 109 to 166 total 98]
Netherlands=15 Netherlands Antilles=6 New Caledonia=6 New Hebrides=3 Pakistan=5 Philippines=2
Poland=5 Réunion=2 Romania=2 Russia=2 Saudi Arabia=1 [pages 167 to 210 total 49]
Singapore=5 Slovakia=1 South Africa=32 South Korea=7 Spain=1 Spain - Civil war=2 Sri Lanka=1
Switzerland=3 Syria=15 Tanzania=1 Tchad=1 Thailand=22 Trinidad & Tobago=1 Tunisia=1
Turkey=6 United States=2 Vanuatu=1 Vatican City=9 Venezuela=8
Western Africa=1 Yugoslavia=1 (Tokens excluded) [pages 211 to 291 total 121]
Well, took me five hours or so but I reckon the final total is 479
Thanks James
Number of countries, rather than coins, is 5 + 10 + 20 + 21 + 11 + 21 = 88
In the list above some countries appear more than once - Germany three times, India twice, Spain twice
Well by golly, I have checked quite a few of the countries you mention, thanks for the help by the way, and only found Hungary to have pure nickel coins, from 1971-1982, the 5 and 10 Forint, but there are only a handful on ebay!!!!! LOL :)
~Mike Tayon (SoapinTrucker-USA)
~Fresno California
Wow!!! ZacUK you the man, great work!