From: JF 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Legal Tender and Best Currency for Cash?
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:17:09 +0100

In message , Terry Harper 
 writes
>On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 07:37:41 +0100, JF 
>wrote:
>
>>Some poor sods must've had the job of sorting them out. God knows what
>>they made of the Hong Kong coins that looked like gear wheels, or the
>>huge 1960s Spanish 100 peseta coins almost as big as DVDs. They dated
>>from the days when the peseta was divided into 100 centimos --- there
>>were quite few 10 centimo pieces among those coins, too -- aluminium
>>sequins.
>
>A friend of mine has a firm that does just that. See
>http://www.coinco.co.uk/ for details.

Now that _is_ an odd business: half coin-collecting; half money 
marketing. Good luck to them for finding an unfilled niche.

-- 
James Follett. Novelist. (G1LXP) http://www.jamesfollett.dswilliams.co.uk