Transnistria's Plastic Coins!

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  • Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
  • The full story of the world's first composite coins (which were issued in by an unrecognized breakaway republic).
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  • @Griff10poldi
    @Griff10poldi 3 года назад +14

    This could be a future development alternative for some countries with high valued coins such as Japan (500 yen) and Switzerland (5 Francs)

    • @FredoRockwell
      @FredoRockwell  3 года назад +3

      I agree. Someone just needs to take the plunge.

  • @andyleckey8153
    @andyleckey8153 3 года назад +6

    I have this set also. They are almost unbreakable. Great video.

    • @FredoRockwell
      @FredoRockwell  3 года назад

      Almost? Did you manage to break one? Glad you liked the video! 😀

  • @davidanderson9664
    @davidanderson9664 Месяц назад

    Great. Fascinating.. Thanks - none of the "reaction shots" of stock strangers on your earlier work. Very informative. Thx. D.A., NYC

  • @ura9390
    @ura9390 4 дня назад

    i'm going there tomorrow and only learned of these super oddities today - thanks for the full review!

  • @saw7191
    @saw7191 3 года назад +4

    Fantastic vid as always

  • @user-nr3sd4dg3y
    @user-nr3sd4dg3y 3 года назад +2

    I think that Egypt is planning to make plamet coins

    • @FredoRockwell
      @FredoRockwell  3 года назад

      Whoa - really?! Where did you hear that?! 😯

    • @FredoRockwell
      @FredoRockwell  2 года назад

      It's the material used to make the plastic coins in Pridniestria.

  • @notafilisteanumismaticiplzen
    @notafilisteanumismaticiplzen 2 месяца назад +2

    Super

  • @leopardknowledge.1430
    @leopardknowledge.1430 2 года назад +1

    I always wanted to know more about how money is made so this is great

    • @FredoRockwell
      @FredoRockwell  2 года назад

      I really would like to make a video about how banknotes are made someday. But we will see...

  • @fizzdash8789
    @fizzdash8789 2 года назад +1

    They have these on ebay but I worry about if and how these could be counterfeited

    • @FredoRockwell
      @FredoRockwell  2 года назад +3

      Yes, you can definitely find them on ebay. But they would be very expensive to counterfeit. You couldn't just print them with a color copier the way you could with banknotes. Go for it!

  • @j.s.7335
    @j.s.7335 3 года назад +3

    I wonder how easy it is to put those coins in rolls, like metal coins. I wish you had mentioned in the video whether they still have metal coins of less than a ruble, and what the lowest denomination banknote is now that they have these new coins.

    • @FredoRockwell
      @FredoRockwell  3 года назад +4

      I can answer your questions. These coins continue to be legal tender but were not manufactured in enough quantities to be in regular circulation once collectors started grabbing them. Otherwise banknotes have always been for 1 rouble or more, and coins for less than 1 rouble. Most coins in circulation look very much like the old Soviet coins, like the 10 kopek coin I show in the video. Instead of the Soviet arms it is the PMR arms, but otherwise identical, and made of fairly cheap materials like aluminium. With regards to rolls, I doubt they would work, but when I moved to the UK I discovered here that coins are kept in small bags not rolls. So pound coins, for example, are put in bags 20 at a time, 50 coins the same, etc. Because UK coins are not all round (especially the 50p coin) I am not sure a roll would really work.

  • @diolaneiuma215
    @diolaneiuma215 4 месяца назад

    I would just call these tokens

  • @leopardknowledge.1430
    @leopardknowledge.1430 2 года назад

    I think this is going to be a really interesting video

  • @hadriel1228
    @hadriel1228 3 года назад +2

    Very cool video

  • @williamine
    @williamine 3 года назад +1

    will there be another one of these?

    • @FredoRockwell
      @FredoRockwell  3 года назад +1

      Working on the next one now. Hopefully by Friday!

  • @mikalre2189
    @mikalre2189 2 года назад +1

    👍great video

  • @TheGlobetrottersCollection
    @TheGlobetrottersCollection 3 года назад +2

    #Subbed to your channel 👍🏻

  • @user-mi4yc7pr3x
    @user-mi4yc7pr3x 3 года назад +1

    are these coins really circulating there? or its more of a fantasy?

    • @FredoRockwell
      @FredoRockwell  3 года назад

      From what I've been told by multiple sources they are legal tender and were in regular use. Most have been snapped up by collectors now, so I understand that it is rare to receive one in your change today.

    • @user-mi4yc7pr3x
      @user-mi4yc7pr3x 3 года назад

      @@FredoRockwell OK sounds great. I'll collect them then. Thank you

    • @FredoRockwell
      @FredoRockwell  3 года назад

      @@user-mi4yc7pr3x they certainly are not a fantasy issue. They're worth collecting just for the curiosity factor I think. Let me know what you think of them.

    • @user-mi4yc7pr3x
      @user-mi4yc7pr3x 3 года назад

      @@FredoRockwell well as a romanian we hate everything about soviets and especially soviets taking a chunk of Moldova and claiming its a country

    • @FredoRockwell
      @FredoRockwell  3 года назад

      @@user-mi4yc7pr3x I can understand that sentiment!

  • @awesomeboy4353
    @awesomeboy4353 3 года назад +3

    Get 10 thousand subs your video is fantastic

    • @FredoRockwell
      @FredoRockwell  3 года назад +1

      Thank you! 10k would be fab. Let's see if I can do it...

  • @daurgo2001
    @daurgo2001 3 года назад +1

    “In Russian”,
    Are you sure it’s Russian? I feel like you should be saying “In Cyrillic”.

    • @FredoRockwell
      @FredoRockwell  3 года назад +1

      Cyrillic is the name of the alphabet. Russian is the main language of Transnistrie. There are other which groups, but ethic Russians run the show, which is why they're so keen to tout their local connections to famous Russians. Thanks for watching! (:

    • @FredoRockwell
      @FredoRockwell  3 года назад +1

      I realise now I should have explained the fact that the people in Transnistrie are Russian - sorry for the oversight!

    • @daurgo2001
      @daurgo2001 3 года назад +1

      Yep, I’m aware it’s the alphabet, but I wasn’t sure if the language in the banknotes was Russian or not, since many people use ‘Cyrillic’ and ‘Russian’ interchangeably, even though all Russian is Cyrillic, but not all Cyrillic is Russian =)
      Great videos!

    • @FredoRockwell
      @FredoRockwell  3 года назад

      Thank you!

  • @sababugs1125
    @sababugs1125 3 года назад +3

    Fist