Bimetallic Coins

Peru New Design Coin with the Bird in large Image issued in 2010

Cook Island- 1 $ issued in 2010

Sierra Leone - 500 Leons issued in 2004

Tristan Da Cunna- 25 Pence issued in 2008

Turkmenistan-1 Manat issued in 2010

Turkmenistan-2 Manat issued in 2010

World a vast place is encapsulated with many different coins which is used for regular exchange and till now many countries all over the world has issued bimetallic coins which means its composed of many different metals in the form of two rings in a nice manner. As per information till now there are 145 countries which will issue bimetallic coins and the latest country to issue bimetallic coin is Turkmenistan(1 and 2 Manat) and the forthcoming issue will be Panama(1 and 2 Balboa) and Bangladesh(10 Taka). Here i compose some of the latest issue bimetallic coins by come countries. 

200th Birth Anniversary of Charles Darwin

His full name was Charles Robert Darwin. In the year 1809,12th February he was born at  Shrewsbury, England. He was the fifth child of the six children in the family. He was well known and was popular in the English people as he was the person who studied on the "Origin of Species"  and also published a book on that. Throughout his life he got award like Royal Medal in 1853, Wallaston Medal in 1859 and followed by Copley Medal in 1864. He published his book on the "Origin of Species" in 1859. He passed away in the year 1882 , 19th April at the age of 73.


  In the year 2009 Darwin completed 200 years of his life and to commemorate this England has issued a coin which has an "APE" in one side and "CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN" on the other side which shows that  his study on the "Origin of Species". 

150th Birth Anniversary Of Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore - One World Greatest novelist and poet of Bengali Literature was born at Jorasakho Thakurbari at Kolkata  on 9th May 1861. He was a writer and wrote a lot on the human people and his writing has been translated to 30 different languages all over the world and many a films are done on his written works. He won Noble Prize on Literature in the year 1913. He passed away in the year 1941 at the age of 80 years. The national anthem of India is his composition and it was written by him. The year 2011 is 150th Birth Anniversary Of Rabindranath Tagore  and it is being celebrated by all over the world. To commemorate his Birthday India and Bangladesh has recently issued stamps and coins on him and those are in my personal collections as well. Its an Honor that Many a countries except India has also issued many Philatelic items,Posters and also Commercial products on that great person. I here attach my personal collections and hope you all will like those.