This #MintageMonday I’m laid up with a stomach bug, but lucky for you I took pictures ahead of time! I wanted to share one of my favorite sets of real-world currency: my WWII French emergency coins in my copy of Le Havre!
It took me a while to find coins suitable for this game, because early 20th Century isn’t exactly a widely-covered time period in fake coinage. EBay to the rescue!
These coins are lighter than most you’ll find, because they’re minted in aluminum due to shortages of other metals during WWII. (They’re not *all* WWII-era, as they kept minting these well into the ’50’s, but they started there.) Aside from that, they’re absolutely fantastic! The 5-franc cons are huge, and both coins have a really beautiful design.
Just be sure to get the coins from the Republic of France and not their Vichy counterparts. We don’t need any Nazi-adjacent coins in our board games!
