"Unusual World Coins"

[moonmoth]

I was flipping through a book today called "Unusual World Coins" when I came across two from the Kayless Empire. They are Klingon coins.  Unusual indeed, and I notice that the title didn't actually specify which world!  Extraterrestrial coins would be an unusual collecting focus.

[loveandpolitics]

Hehe. I'm assuming they came over here around the same time the Klingons wrote Hamlet? Heh. Today I saw a website selling Roman Empire banknotes. Pretty cool actually, I might consider buying a few

[Sap]

There are all kinds of science fiction/fantasy coins out there you can buy; if a book, movie or TV show has a sufficiently large fan base, you can be sure someone's made "coins" for that universe. I was recently given a couple of "Middle Earth" (Tolkein) coins, with inscriptions written in Tolkein's dwarf-runes. They look positively mediaeval, and could easily fool a novice collector (with no knowledge of the Tolkein universe) into thinking they had a genuine real-world coin.

[Stkp]

Genuine coins from the period chronicled by Tolkien would indeed be "ancient" -- haling from the Third Age of Middle Earth (the Greeks and Romans lived in the Fourth Age, as do we).  I have encountered these coins on eBay, but always passed them by as modern fakes, as they appeared to have been machine made, whereas the genuine coins of the era would, I assume, have been struck.   

Given their fabled skill as metal workers, I would imagine that the quality of coinage struck by the dwarves would have been quite impressive. 

[moonmoth]

Given their fabled skill as metal workers, I would imagine that the quality of coinage struck by the dwarves would have been quite impressive. 

I wouldn't mind a couple of mithril coins in my collection.

[Stkp]

I would be very happy simply having a couple of gold coins in mine.