Newsbot Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 A triangular "pyramid" coin, created to mark an exhibition of Tutankhamun's treasures, is to be legal Manx tender. Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/...man/7130235.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mission Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Ooo, I want me one of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grianane Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 for it to be legal tender doesn't it have to be available at face value through the treasury, if so a definite for spending in pubs at Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonan3 Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Pyramids, especially with the 'eye of providence' in them, feature very prominently in Masonic rituals. In Freemasonry the glowing pyramid and eye represents the so-called Great Architect of the Universe or the Supreme Being, both epithets for God. Ooooh! Yes! A conspiracy theory! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTF Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 atleast it won't roll away when you drop it. it will be a long time before coin mechanisms on bandits can accept it too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 We should perhaps take a bit more of a lead with this sort of stuff - e.g. different shaped coins help blind people - and can become a bit of an export for numism...numismit...er coin collectors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
%age Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 A 3 sided pyramid has a rather tenuous link to the 3 legs surely. Except of course a pyramid has four sides, or is it eight???? I suppose some distant relative of a Mr Carter living here swung it though. I am still unsure as to why the Isle of Man issued Harry Potter coins, or was it stamps? Maybe Harry's great great auntie spent a holiday here or something. The best coin was the one with a computer on it. I remember about 10-12 years ago when the Isle of Man discovered these computery things "Hey wowww!!! It's like a typewriter except it's more like a television". So they issued a coin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
%age Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Tutankhamun and The Golden Age of The Pharaohs shows a new display of 3,000-year-old artefacts excavated from King Tut's tomb. More than 130 items are on display, in the first exhibition of its kind to be held in the UK for 35 years. I think I'm onto something here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDave Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Ooo, I want me one of those. Yours for a mere £12.72. Clicky clicky! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
%age Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 It is most appropriate that these coins will be issued by the Isle of Man Government since Howard Carter’s great nephew is a well known resident of the island. Furthermore, by drawing a line from each point of the Isle of Man’s Triskelion symbol, the most iconic symbol of Egypt is revealed – the Pyramid! Agggghhhhhhhh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyboarder Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 What a stupid irrelevant idea for a coin. (and it's a triangle, not a pyramid) And the exhibition isn't even coming to the island. What is the point of this seemingly randomly inspired project? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonan3 Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 What is the point of this seemingly randomly inspired project? Is profit too complicated a concept for you to grasp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ourtess Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 I await the release of an enormous selection of coins in the shape of a Terracotta Army. After all, there's a Chinese man living above the local takeaway. He even works evenings downstairs. The Queens beaten you to it. The Royal Mint does terracotta army coins, £225 for 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyboarder Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 I await the release of an enormous selection of coins in the shape of a Terracotta Army. After all, there's a Chinese man living above the local takeaway. He even works evenings downstairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ourtess Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 If you bought a pint of beer using the new pointed coin it would cost about £150 in old fashoned circular. Ideal for wine bars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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