Palladium coin

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Palladium coins are a form of coinage made out of the rare silver-white transition metal palladium. Palladium is internationally recognised as a form of currency under ISO 4217. Tonga commenced issuing palladium coins in 1967, which included the Tonga Palladium Hau. Since then a number of countries have issued palladium coins, including Canada, the Soviet Union, France, Russia, China, Australia and Slovakia. Most of these have been special commemorative coins.

[edit] See also

• Precious metal
• Gold coin
• Silver coin
• Platinum coin

[edit] References

• Rene Frank: "Catalogue of Palladium Coins 2007", moneytrend, Vienna (Austria) 2006, ISBN 3-9501620-7-0

[edit] External links

• Various countries' palladium coinage
• Commercial website, with some information on Tongan palladium coinage
• List of all palladium coins ever minted