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Strangely shaped coin of King George IV of Georgia, 1210 AD

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Strangely shaped coin of King George IV of Georgia, 1210 AD

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They made them look like this on purpose. Silver was too expensive for daily trade, so they minted weird shaped money with cheap metal to be used as credit tokens. [source]

https://laralfabian.com/2015/07/24/odd-bronzes-of-the-golden-age/

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