Monkeys and apes

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Gibraltar 5 pence, 1988.




Gibraltar 1 penny, 2004.




Gibraltar 5 pence, 2005.




Gibraltar 5 pence, 2010.

The macaque monkey appears on the coins of Gibraltar.

The animal is a local emblem there.

It is sometimes referred to as a Barbary ape, though it is not an ape.

Tradition has it that British rule over the Rock of Gibraltar will end if the macaques ever disappear.

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Gibraltar issued a 25 pence coin honouring the animal in 1971.




Macaque monkey, Gibraltar.

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The Franklin Mint created a collector-only set for Guyana in the 1970s.

The coins depicted the national wildlife but never circulated.

The 10 cent coin portrayed a sakiwinki monkey.

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Zaire (now the Congo Democratic Republic) issued a collector coin of 2 Zaires in 1975 that depicted a gorilla.

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This Malaysian 25 sen coin of 2003.

Part of the Endangered Species series, it depicts an orang-utan.

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This is supposedly a Nigeria 1 kobo coin of 2003, but I doubt that it was official.

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Another dubious piece, this time allegedly from Liberia.

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Here you have a chimpanzee from the Cook Islands (1 cent), a mandrill from Somalia (50 shillings), and a vervet monkey from Somaliland (10 shillings).

Chimpanzees are not indigenous to the Cook Islands. It's possible that they live there in a zoo, but I don't even know if there are any zoos there.

Once again, I suspect these are all unofficial issues.

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A UK circulating commemorative two pound coin of 2009.

It celebrates Charles Darwin and his Theory of Evolution.

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Peoples Republic of China, 5 yuan 1995. Golden monkey.

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St. Thomas and Prince, 500 dobras, 1997.  A mona monkey.

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Sierra Leone, one dollar, 2009.  Diana monkey.

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Indonesia, 5000 rupiah, 1974.  Orang utan (facing to the right).

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I don't know if this one will qualify, but it is Hanuman, the monkey god from India 

Vijayanagar

Obverse:- Flying Hanuman.
Reverse:- Stylized elephant/prancing horse right, crescent above

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Gambia, 20 dalasis, 1987.  Temminck's colobus monkey.