Like the other post, I was trying to find all the countries that still has in circulation (regular or daily transactioned - not low mintage circulating commemoratives) both coins and banknotes for the same denomination.
There might be more examples, like Tajikistan, etc., but what I have here are just the cases where a coin was already minted for general use, and after that date, there were still issued banknotes, one example being Russia that issued 5 Roubles again 2024 because the metal for 5 Roubles coin was getting expensive.
I am missing Mauritania 20 Ouguiya coin, Timor Leste 100 Centscoin, Gibraltar 5£ banknote, Isle of Man 1£ banknote, 5£ coin and banknoteto complete the set.
If you find any other example that fits, please let me know!
The 1 Pound coins for both Guernsey & Jersey are no longer in circulation, as they were pulled when the British bimetal 1 Pound coin was introduced.
Aidan.
I don't think. They use probably both: round local coins and bimmetalic from UK (and paper notes too). At least this was the case in Gibraltar when I visited it (now Gibraltar switched to bimmetalic pound too).
The 1 Pound coins for both Guernsey & Jersey are no longer in circulation, as they were pulled when the British bimetal 1 Pound coin was introduced.
Aidan.
I don't think. They use probably both: round local coins and bimmetalic from UK (and paper notes too). At least this was the case in Gibraltar when I visited it (now Gibraltar switched to bimmetalic pound too).
The 1 Pound coins for both Guernsey & Jersey are no longer in circulation, as they were pulled when the British bimetal 1 Pound coin was introduced.
Aidan.
I don't think. They use probably both: round local coins and bimmetalic from UK (and paper notes too). At least this was the case in Gibraltar when I visited it (now Gibraltar switched to bimmetalic pound too).
Zimbabwe had the Bond Note & the Bond Coin for 2 Dollars in circulation until they were demonetised in early 2024 after the ZiG currency was introduced.
Zimbabwe had the Bond Note & the Bond Coin for 2 Dollars in circulation until they were demonetised in early 2024 after the ZiG currency was introduced.
Aidan.
Yeah, that's why I didn't add it in the post, now it's demonetized.
Spudy, a great post, please disregard the snipy and pedantic comments of some people here. I love seeing where the note and coin value clashes.
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Don't forget about Canada - which had the 1 Dollar note & the 1 Dollar coin.
Aidan.
Correct, but it still used in circulation usually?
The last series of $1 notes were issued in 1973, but used up to around 1983 as th 1986 - 1991 birds series started at $2. Canada had a large silver $1 coin between 1935 and 1967 which was 36mm, 23.3 grams and was 80% silver. 1935, 39, 49, 58, 64 and 67 were circulating commemoratives. Mintage numbers were modest from a few million down to 10k for dates like 1948. Except for the mid 1960s dates and all commems which saw mintages in the high 7 figures, 1965 and 66 had mintages of 9 and 10 million, a lot for ahuge silver coin at the end of the silver era.
This changed to a 32mm cupro nickel muck metal coin which weighed 15.62 grams and this coin was minted between 1968 and 1986 (1987 in year sets). The coin was circulating, but numbers minted were low most years, just a few million compared to hundreds of millions of quarters and the $1 notes. Commems were issued and circulated and 50% silver ones appeared in proof sets from 1971 onwards. Reasons for this may have been its size and weight and declining value in the inflation crazed 70s. Even half dollars, which were reduced in size and weight as they switched from silver to muck had modest mintages, next to the kabillions of quarters issued.
In 1987 they switched to the brass $1 coin, multi sided and only 26mm in size, unlike the nickel dollars, these had huge mintages of like 400 million in the first year and 40 - 150 million per subsequent year, mainly now as $1 banknotes no longer circulated. Like all Canadian coins, some dates of the $1 brass coin included commems, the first was 2 coins for the 125th anniversary of confederation (The last silver dollar was 100th anniversary in 1967), and later dollar issues have been in brass plated steel with some special coloured coins too.
SPUDY - You may also want to mention the Canadian $2 as well. The $2 was issued as a note through to 1986 and circulated until 1996 when replaced by the twonie (Coin with a polar bear and bimetallic), yet the old $2 notes circulated for a while into the late 90s/millienium.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Don't forget about Canada - which had the 1 Dollar note & the 1 Dollar coin.
Aidan.
Correct, but it still used in circulation usually?
The last series of $1 notes were issued in 1973, but used up to around 1983 as th 1986 - 1991 birds series started at $2. Canada had a large silver $1 coin between 1935 and 1967 which was 36mm, 23.3 grams and was 80% silver. 1935, 39, 49, 58, 64 and 67 were circulating commemoratives. Mintage numbers were modest from a few million down to 10k for dates like 1948. Except for the mid 1960s dates and all commems which saw mintages in the high 7 figures, 1965 and 66 had mintages of 9 and 10 million, a lot for ahuge silver coin at the end of the silver era.
This changed to a 32mm cupro nickel muck metal coin which weighed 15.62 grams and this coin was minted between 1968 and 1986 (1987 in year sets). The coin was circulating, but numbers minted were low most years, just a few million compared to hundreds of millions of quarters and the $1 notes. Commems were issued and circulated and 50% silver ones appeared in proof sets from 1971 onwards. Reasons for this may have been its size and weight and declining value in the inflation crazed 70s. Even half dollars, which were reduced in size and weight as they switched from silver to muck had modest mintages, next to the kabillions of quarters issued.
In 1987 they switched to the brass $1 coin, multi sided and only 26mm in size, unlike the nickel dollars, these had huge mintages of like 400 million in the first year and 40 - 150 million per subsequent year, mainly now as $1 banknotes no longer circulated. Like all Canadian coins, some dates of the $1 brass coin included commems, the first was 2 coins for the 125th anniversary of confederation (The last silver dollar was 100th anniversary in 1967), and later dollar issues have been in brass plated steel with some special coloured coins too.
SPUDY - You may also want to mention the Canadian $2 as well. The $2 was issued as a note through to 1986 and circulated until 1996 when replaced by the twonie (Coin with a polar bear and bimetallic), yet the old $2 notes circulated for a while into the late 90s/millienium.
That's very interesing.
I've never know why Canadians and Americans disliked the 50c coins, and especially Americans the 1$ coins, because that's the reason why mints issued so little of them, people ommited using them.
Regarding US 1$ I can understand that first issues were too big and heavy to carry in the pockets, but Susan B Anthony and Sacagawea coins are very small and convenient, and they still rarely use any.
Currently circulating circulating commemorative coin, 2 standard circulating notes and 1 circulating commemorative note:
Paper:
Polymer:
Polymer:
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Currently circulating circulating commemorative coin, 2 standard circulating notes and 1 circulating commemorative note:
Paper:
Polymer:
Polymer:
Very true, how did I even missed them!?
Cause you don't live here! 🤣
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After re-reading my own criteria I made a list of unknown countries that fits or may not fit:
- Angola → 200 Kwanza coin is commemorative, but 25 million mintage, it circulates usually?
- Cabo Verde → 200 and 500 Escudos coins were ussed, but do they circulate?
- China → Lots of 5 and 10 Yuan coins, do they circulate usually?
- Guyana → 2 types of 100 Dollars, but I'm almost sure they never circulate
- Kazakhstan → 200 Tenge banknote still circulates? Here might be a YES
- Namibia → The 10$ coin is usually saw in transactions?
- Nicaragua → Same with 5 Cordoba coin year 2000
- Papua New Guinea → The 2 Kina coin is quite common, but it is usually used?
- Russia → New issued 50 Roubles coins, I have no idea if they are really used..
- Sri Lanka → 3 types of 20 Rupees coins, I've been there for 2 weeks but didn't get any in change, despite 10Rs and 5Rs commemoratives I got very easily in change
If you know the answer for any of those, please let me know!
→ Uruguay 50$ i still need to find if it's usually spent, but adanieluy will answer soon.
Argentina 10$ and iran 1000, 2000 and 5000 I wil add soon to main list.
After re-reading my own criteria I made a list of unknown countries that fits or may not fit:
- Angola → 200 Kwanza coin is commemorative, but 25 million mintage, it circulates usually?
- Cabo Verde → 200 and 500 Escudos coins were ussed, but do they circulate?
- China → Lots of 5 and 10 Yuan coins, do they circulate usually?
- Guyana → 2 types of 100 Dollars, but I'm almost sure they never circulate
- Kazakhstan → 200 Tenge banknote still circulates? Here might be a YES
- Namibia → The 10$ coin is usually saw in transactions?
- Nicaragua → Same with 5 Cordoba coin year 2000
- Papua New Guinea → The 2 Kina coin is quite common, but it is usually used?
- Russia → New issued 50 Roubles coins, I have no idea if they are really used..
- Sri Lanka → 3 types of 20 Rupees coins, I've been there for 2 weeks but didn't get any in change, despite 10Rs and 5Rs commemoratives I got very easily in change
If you know the answer for any of those, please let me know!
→ Uruguay 50$ i still need to find if it's usually spent, but adanieluy will answer soon.
Argentina 10$ and iran 1000, 2000 and 5000 I wil add soon to main list.
After re-reading my own criteria I made a list of unknown countries that fits or may not fit:
- Angola → 200 Kwanza coin is commemorative, but 25 million mintage, it circulates usually?
- Cabo Verde → 200 and 500 Escudos coins were ussed, but do they circulate?
- China → Lots of 5 and 10 Yuan coins, do they circulate usually?
- Guyana → 2 types of 100 Dollars, but I'm almost sure they never circulate
- Kazakhstan → 200 Tenge banknote still circulates? Here might be a YES
- Namibia → The 10$ coin is usually saw in transactions?
- Nicaragua → Same with 5 Cordoba coin year 2000
- Papua New Guinea → The 2 Kina coin is quite common, but it is usually used?
- Russia → New issued 50 Roubles coins, I have no idea if they are really used..
- Sri Lanka → 3 types of 20 Rupees coins, I've been there for 2 weeks but didn't get any in change, despite 10Rs and 5Rs commemoratives I got very easily in change
If you know the answer for any of those, please let me know!
→ Uruguay 50$ i still need to find if it's usually spent, but adanieluy will answer soon.
Argentina 10$ and iran 1000, 2000 and 5000 I wil add soon to main list.
The old brass Chinese 5 yuan coins circulated by like nickel Canadian dollars mintages were low. I have one from 2003
However since 2019, China has been issuing smaller brass 5 Yuan and large bimetallic 10 Yuan coins as commems but circulating commems and still issuing 5 and 10 Yuan notes. I have seen 1 yuan notes in use, but all are dated 1999, whereas all other denominations are at least 2005 or later.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
After re-reading my own criteria I made a list of unknown countries that fits or may not fit:
- Angola → 200 Kwanza coin is commemorative, but 25 million mintage, it circulates usually?
- Cabo Verde → 200 and 500 Escudos coins were ussed, but do they circulate?
- China → Lots of 5 and 10 Yuan coins, do they circulate usually?
- Guyana → 2 types of 100 Dollars, but I'm almost sure they never circulate
- Kazakhstan → 200 Tenge banknote still circulates? Here might be a YES
- Namibia → The 10$ coin is usually saw in transactions?
- Nicaragua → Same with 5 Cordoba coin year 2000
- Papua New Guinea → The 2 Kina coin is quite common, but it is usually used?
- Russia → New issued 50 Roubles coins, I have no idea if they are really used..
- Sri Lanka → 3 types of 20 Rupees coins, I've been there for 2 weeks but didn't get any in change, despite 10Rs and 5Rs commemoratives I got very easily in change
If you know the answer for any of those, please let me know!
→ Uruguay 50$ i still need to find if it's usually spent, but adanieluy will answer soon.
Argentina 10$ and iran 1000, 2000 and 5000 I wil add soon to main list.
The 2 Kina coin has been pulled from circulation.
Aidan.
Yes this coin was a one off in 2008, 35 years of the bank basically, also issued 20 and 100 Kina notes which were the only PNG notes to be demonitised and hence why you can get a 100 Kina note of this type for like $5 when a 100Kina note is worth $40 NZD.
Being 34mm in size, also ensured it did not really catch on, especially as its buying power is limited at around 50 cents US. Had it remained, it would be the largest circulating coin in the world (Swiss 5 francs and USA half dollar are 30.5 - 31mm).
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
After re-reading my own criteria I made a list of unknown countries that fits or may not fit:
- Angola → 200 Kwanza coin is commemorative, but 25 million mintage, it circulates usually?
- Cabo Verde → 200 and 500 Escudos coins were ussed, but do they circulate?
- China → Lots of 5 and 10 Yuan coins, do they circulate usually?
- Guyana → 2 types of 100 Dollars, but I'm almost sure they never circulate
- Kazakhstan → 200 Tenge banknote still circulates? Here might be a YES
- Namibia → The 10$ coin is usually saw in transactions?
- Nicaragua → Same with 5 Cordoba coin year 2000
- Papua New Guinea → The 2 Kina coin is quite common, but it is usually used?
- Russia → New issued 50 Roubles coins, I have no idea if they are really used..
- Sri Lanka → 3 types of 20 Rupees coins, I've been there for 2 weeks but didn't get any in change, despite 10Rs and 5Rs commemoratives I got very easily in change
If you know the answer for any of those, please let me know!
→ Uruguay 50$ i still need to find if it's usually spent, but adanieluy will answer soon.
Argentina 10$ and iran 1000, 2000 and 5000 I wil add soon to main list.
The 2 Kina coin has been pulled from circulation.
Aidan.
Yes this coin was a one off in 2008, 35 years of the bank basically, also issued 20 and 100 Kina notes which were the only PNG notes to be demonitised and hence why you can get a 100 Kina note of this type for like $5 when a 100Kina note is worth $40 NZD.
Being 34mm in size, also ensured it did not really catch on, especially as its buying power is limited at around 50 cents US. Had it remained, it would be the largest circulating coin in the world (Swiss 5 francs and USA half dollar are 30.5 - 31mm).
The old brass Chinese 5 yuan coins circulated by like nickel Canadian dollars mintages were low. I have one from 2003
However since 2019, China has been issuing smaller brass 5 Yuan and large bimetallic 10 Yuan coins as commems but circulating commems and still issuing 5 and 10 Yuan notes. I have seen 1 yuan notes in use, but all are dated 1999, whereas all other denominations are at least 2005 or later.
Just 10 options: you understand binary, or you don't.
Catalog Referee Coins, Banknotes & Exonumia: Uruguay, Cuba, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Panama, Ecuador, Zamunda, Parva Domus and more.
After re-reading my own criteria I made a list of unknown countries that fits or may not fit:
- Angola → 200 Kwanza coin is commemorative, but 25 million mintage, it circulates usually?
- Cabo Verde → 200 and 500 Escudos coins were ussed, but do they circulate?
- China → Lots of 5 and 10 Yuan coins, do they circulate usually?
- Guyana → 2 types of 100 Dollars, but I'm almost sure they never circulate
- Kazakhstan → 200 Tenge banknote still circulates? Here might be a YES
- Namibia → The 10$ coin is usually saw in transactions?
- Nicaragua → Same with 5 Cordoba coin year 2000
- Papua New Guinea → The 2 Kina coin is quite common, but it is usually used?
- Russia → New issued 50 Roubles coins, I have no idea if they are really used..
- Sri Lanka → 3 types of 20 Rupees coins, I've been there for 2 weeks but didn't get any in change, despite 10Rs and 5Rs commemoratives I got very easily in change
If you know the answer for any of those, please let me know!
→ Uruguay 50$ i still need to find if it's usually spent, but adanieluy will answer soon.
Argentina 10$ and iran 1000, 2000 and 5000 I wil add soon to main list.
Paper $ 50 note is missing in picture;same design of the polymer, out of watermark, but a bit bigger.
Just 10 options: you understand binary, or you don't.
Catalog Referee Coins, Banknotes & Exonumia: Uruguay, Cuba, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Panama, Ecuador, Zamunda, Parva Domus and more.
Ukraine has 1, 2, 5 and 10 hryvnias coins & banknotes still both in circulation.
Though the smaller denominations are harder and harder to encounter.
Well, yes, but the criteria for that topic is that banknotes were used after the date the coins entered circulation, which Ukraine doesn't fit anymore for it, it means it's trying to replace the baknotes with coins.
They are, but I wouldn't really call them circulating at this point. On the rare occasion that you see any dollar coin, it's going to be a small dollar 99.9% of the time.
