Coin tiers: subunits and units divided by metal colour

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Cook Islands: 10c, 20c, 50c, 2015.




Cook Islands: $1, $2, $5, 2015.

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Lithuania: coins of the 1920s.

Here the cent coins are in yellow.

The litas / litu / litai coins are in white.

The subunits and units each have a separate colour tier.

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Botswana: 1, 2, 5 pula, 2013 / 2016.




Botswana: 5, 10, 20, 50 thebe, 2013.

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Angola: 1999 set.

The centimos were in copper-plated steel.

The kwanzas were in nickel-plated steel.

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Eswatini, 2021.

Cents, and lilangeni / emalangeni.

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Fiji, 2012 set.  Cents versus dollars.

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Haiti: centimes versus gourdes.

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Hong Kong, 1997.  Cents versus dollars.

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Iceland.  Aurar versus krona / kronur.

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Jordan, 1996.

A curious and false division.

The word QIRSH means the same as PIASTRE / PIASTRES.

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Morocco, 2002 set.

5, 10, 20 santimat: aluminium-bronze.

Half and 1 dinar: copper-nickel.


Interesting that the 50 santimat coin was called a half dinar.

It was then put in the same metal colour as the 1 dinar coin.

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Mexico, 21st century set.

Centavos: stainless steel.  Pesos: bimetallic.

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Namibia.  Cents: nickel-plated steel.  Dollars: brass.

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Samoa, 2011 set.

Sene: nickel-plated steel.  Tala: aluminium-bronze.

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Solomon Islands, 2012 set.

Cents: nickel-plated steel.  Dollars: aluminium-bronze.