I am afraid not:
[quote]Composition: Ring: Cupro-Nickel
Core: Aluminium-Bronze
Diameter: 28mm
Weight: 10g
Date of Issue: 1 February 1996
Obverse: The Presidential Office
Reverse: Orchid
The coin will remain in circulation until 30 June 2004. All branches of the Bank of Taiwan redeem the NT$50 coin after 30 June 2004.[/quote]
cbc.gov.tw/EngHome/eissue/Coins.asp
@Kahna, seems you can still exchange them at the Bank of Taiwan.
Cheers, thanks Rascal. Iâll have to jingle and jangle my way past them on the way to work today, then!
I checked that site, took a look at the different coins and notes etc. Didnât see the 10NT$ coins I was talking about earlier.
I have a bizarre looking 50NT$ piece of paper (really donât know if itâs a note, or legal tender, gift voucher) that was a prize in a bag of Doritos during a recent promotion. It has a kind of plastic laminate on it, and a window too. Anyone else got one? Wasnât on the site either.
I have a special note from the 50 years Taiwan anniversary which looks as the one you describe - itâs a collectorâs item (given out in 1997 I think). Not sure if it can be used as legal currency.
And I am not sure why they would put it into a bag of Doritos now - perhaps itâs just a voucher (my colleague has some vouchers or whatever of other notes that look very similar to the real thing).
While on the subject of rare coinsâŚanyone know of a place that sells rare coins and such as their main business.
A lot of people avoid that bill because it is the only one with a picture of the dictator Chiang Kai-shek on it.
There are a couple of old coin and stamp shops near the main post office. Hard to locate, they are on a little motorcycle lane just west of the post officeâs Po-ai Road entrance. If you stood at that entrance and looked right youâd see the old city gate. If you made a triangle with the last point to your left, thatâs about where they are.
I have two âyi jao,â one is year 44 (1955) and one is year 65 (1976). They have different designs.
I also found in pocket change two commemorative NT$10 coins. One for the 90th year of the ROC with the good doctor on it and the other for âkuangfuâ (retrocession) in 1995. Did someone spend the special commemorative sets?
I used to work in a pizza joint where old people would sometimes come in and spend silver certificates, indian-head pennies and the like. Some appeared not to know what they had and others had a sly, âBetter keep that out of the till, sonâ smirk.
My mother-in-law had a can filled with them. Little aluminum coins that felt like they were made of plastic.
I am afraid not:
[quote]Composition: Ring: Cupro-Nickel
Core: Aluminium-Bronze
Diameter: 28mm
Weight: 10g
Date of Issue: 1 February 1996
Obverse: The Presidential Office
Reverse: Orchid
The coin will remain in circulation until 30 June 2004. All branches of the Bank of Taiwan redeem the NT$50 coin after 30 June 2004.[/quote]
cbc.gov.tw/EngHome/eissue/Coins.asp
@Kahna, seems you can still exchange them at the Bank of Taiwan.[/quote]
Thatâs the third NT$50 coin in the last decade. Canât they make up their minds??
[quote=âKahnaâ]So if you happen to be a complete moron like myself who doesnât keep up with whatâs what, new and happening, and you dump all your change into jars to take to the bank at a later stage, you could suddenly find yourself with what used to be 2500NT$, and is now a pile of scrap metal?! Or must they just be taken to the Bank of Taiwan?
Those Chinese coins that look like the 10NT$, do they have a circle in the centre with changing pictures / characters / whatever, similar to the 50NT? Been handed a couple of these, but not by taxi drivers. Into the jars they goâŚ[/quote]
Yes, the old 50nt coins must be taken to the Bank of Taiwan.
There are some limited edition 10NT coins out there that have the changing characters on the back. Havenât personally received any thoughâŚ
It seems to me, some store lao bans will actually hand off bad or out dated currency on foreigners who may not know any better. I have gotten some old half-NT dollars before passed as 1NT and a few tried to pass old 100NT bills after the expiration date. The number of counterfeit coins I received may be an indication of this theory. I now know how to better identify the bad ones.
Or used in vending machines that will still take them (ie buying single pass MRT tickets)
Does anyone know a website where rare Taiwan coins and money can be sold? Also US?
Thanks.
I found this junkyard with a basin filled with coins and medallions of all sorts.
I found these US coins.
Do you think they are genuine?
Is there a place in Kaohsiung they can be taken for a fair estimate?
Even if they are replicas, Iâm curious why they would end up in a place in rural Taiwan.
If it is a genuine coin it has been abused in these metal bins for a while under other coins slowly wearing away.
Would they have any value?
They look like replicas. I know where in Taipei but not Kaohsiung. Iâd bet my life thereâs a street with a few shops somewhere
that 999 Fine Silver may be an actual silver coin that is 99.9%, in which case it would be much more valuable than itâs face value.
if indeed one ounce, itâs worth about $17-18 or maybe more if a collectors item.
go to coinflation.com to see what some old silver coins are worth
âThe Central Mint of Chinaâ?
How can you tell? Have you ever seen a real Mercury dime?
tempogain is an expert on everything!
It looks like rust on them breaking through a plating? And they look suspiciously unworn. They would be tarnished to hell if they were silver right? Iâd take them for someone to look at though.
Has anyone ever seen an 10 NT coin with a dragon on it? Or the one with mini images of many previous coin designs?
