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BMacKinnon
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posted 07-15-2011 01:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for BMacKinnon   Click Here to Email BMacKinnon     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I just bought two Space Shuttle Discovery $5 Marshall Island coins from 1988 still in their plastic protector and with their folders - I am going to keep one for my collection. Anyone interested in the other one?

MarylandSpace
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posted 07-15-2011 09:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MarylandSpace   Click Here to Email MarylandSpace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I had collected several of these Marshall Islands "coins" but I had heard along the way that they are not acceptable as "money" in the Marshall Islands.

Has anyone else heard this rumor?

Hart Sastrowardoyo
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posted 07-15-2011 10:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Hart Sastrowardoyo   Click Here to Email Hart Sastrowardoyo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Not the Marshall Island "Discovery" coin in particular, but for many of the commemorative coins issued by small nations - the guitar-shaped coins of Somalia, for example.

But: the US dollar is the official currency, says the CIA World Handbook. That means a "Marshall Island dollar" would be spurious. It's like a British Euro.

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