Guatemala, 6 Coin Set

Chinese Cash coins are easy to find, you can not say that about Japanese Cash coins. A Cash coin is a round coin with a square hole in it. If you do the I-Ching, then you need three coins all the same. This coins is in Very Fine condition. We don't know what the market is in Japan, but we do know that they are much scarcer than their Chinese counterparts.

The Deutsch Mark was the official currency of the Federal Republic of Germany from its launch in 1948 until 1990, and from reunification with East Germany in 1990 until the introduction of the euro in 2002. It replaced the Allied Military currencies that circulated in each of the country’s Occupation Zones after World War 2. We can now offer this set of 6 circulated coins, which includes the 1, 2, 5, 10 and 50 Pfennig, as well as the 1 Deutsch Mark coin.

These 1, 2 and 5 franc aluminium coins began circulating in newly liberated France in 1945 to replace the ones introduced by the Vichy Regime. Their introduction meant a return of the Republican motto “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité” (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity) instead of “Travail, Famille, Patrie” (Work, Family, Fatherland) that was brought in under the Occupation. Originally the US planned to introduce its own occupation currency, but the move was blocked by General Charles de Gaulle who saw it as nothing more than “counterfeit money”.