World Coins - unusual coins from around the globe

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India’s Rahul Samant holds the world record for a collection of coins from 230 countries. Here are some of the more off beat world coins that he may not have in his collection.

• Turkey has issued some of the highest denomination coins ever made for circulation by a national government – 1 million, 750,000 and 500,000 lira.
  
  
• Coins from Kandahar, Afghanistan, were at one stage made from old cooking pots.
  
  
• The Isle of Man issued commemorative Harry Potter coins to celebrate the phenomenon of the boy wizard. Because the Isle of Man is a British Crown Dependency Queen Elizabeth appears on the front of the on-crown coins.
  
  
• In the early years of his reign Saddam Hussein issued coins which were square, and others with scalloped edges.
  
  
• The 1000 lire coin minted in Italy in 1997 depicted the growing unification of Europe as a bit too unified on the map on one side of the coin. The Netherlands was shown as part of Belgium and Denmark as part of Germany.
  
  
• Japanese shogun produced rectangular coins for circulation in the 1850s.
  
  
• The Congo Democratic Republic made a 10 franc coin in 2004.
  
  
• The government of the Northern Marianas (a grove of islands in the Pacific Ocean about three-quarters of the way between Hawaii and the Philippines) issued a U.S. five dollar proof coin which has a pearl embedded in it.

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