The March of Money: Part VII

After 1966, there was a stream of coins that were released by Bhutan. It will be too lengthy to list them all. These coins were all legal tender but most were none-circulating coins. What is common among all the coins is that most of the mintage had errors on them. It is as if they were all struck by zombies without an iota of attention to detail. Look at the following problems:

1974 Food for All  - Chetrums 20 is wrongly spelt Chetrums

1979 Five Chetrums Copper - wrongly spelt as Chhertum

1979 Ten Chetrums Copper – wrongly spelt as Chhertum

1979 Twenty Five Chetrums Bronze – wrongly spelt as Chhertum

1979 Twenty Five Chetrums Nickel – wrongly spelt as Chhertum

The following coins about which I have made mention in my earlier posts, had the following errors mentioned against each:

1928 Thala Jatrum Ched – the word “Druk” on the obverse erroneously rendered

1929 Thala Jatrum Ched – the year of coinage indicated is wrong – it should have been Tsa Drue – year of the Earth Snake (1929)

1950 Thala Jatrum Ched – the word “Druk” erroneously rendered

1951/1954 Copper coin – it is neither denominated, nor carries a year of coinage

1966 50 N.P. Jatrum Ched – the word “Druk” is erroneously rendered and it is wrongly labeled 50 N.P.

1966 Rupees 3 – it shouldn’t have been Rupee – since the coin is Bhutanese

The following 1979 One Ngultrum coin is one of the two perfectly minted coins:

1979 Ngulturm One Nickel - Perfect!

The other coin on which a good job was done is the 1928 Zangtrum – the coin’s markings are spot on. Additionally the engraver has done a superlative job in the engraving of the Dzongkha script:

The word "Druk" and the Year of coinage "Tsa Druk" is perfectly engraved

The last interesting notation I have to make is that of the 5 Chetrums coin struck in 1979. The design on the coin’s reverse is borrowed from the Maartrum coin of 1835: