Tag: Camel
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1991 Djibouti 100 Francs
A pair of African camels. Djibouti (Location of Djibouti, just on top of the Horn of Africa, and across the Bab al-Mandab Straight from Yemen. Source: Wikipedia). Djibouti is very diverse, thanks to its strategic geographic location, which has been (and still is) a crossroad of trade and commerce. The country’s culture is highly influenced…
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2018 Mauritania 20 Ouguiya
One of the last non-decimal coins. Mauritania and Madagascar are the only two countries in the world to still use a non-decimal currency. That is, a currency, where the number of sub-units in a main unit is not a power of 10. This is really a technicality as in both cases, the sub-units are no…