Unusual World Coins

[markn]

Anyone collect (or have) any unusual world coins?  I don't mean the queer shapes that mints are making for collectors, I mean the real stuff that circulated.  I've been getting into them more and more without realising I was doing so.  Here's a few for giggles.

A couple of Netherlands East Indies "bonk" 2 stuivers.


A couple of Japanese "bu" coins from the mid 1800's.


Some cut British Virgin Islands money.

[Triggersmob]

No, I don't have any of those unusual shapes, but please show us more.

Steve

[Sapyx]

This British India 4 annas is a standard 8-point scallop design, same as several other countries use, but I don;t think many of the others use this shape on this angle.
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This ancient Celtic coin from the Coriosolites tribe in north-western France and Channel Islands lends a whole new meaning to "rough and ready coinage".
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For something a little more modern, one of the few circulating triangular coins, the Cook Islands $2.
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The Indians can always be counted on for square an rectangular coins; they invented the concept back in ancient times. Here's one from the Sultanate of Malwa.
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According to local myth, the Indian state of Assam had eight borders. So almost all of the coins from there are octagonal...
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