Money? Pay In Motorcycle Coins - Only In Somalia

Money is a strange thing. Back in the beginning of time, when you needed something you didn't make or grow yourself, you traded it with something you did. Bartering it was called. Then came money, in the beginning it was natural denominations, like salt. If you had salt, you could "buy" anything. Salt did loose it value when it rained, so it slowly got replaced by coins and paper.

Nowadays, coins are commonplace; you'll find coins in almost every man's trouser pockets (except maybe the POTUS) and every woman's purse (except again maybe in Lady Gaga's). Coins, as we all know are small, usually circular, pieces of metal. Sometimes the coins aren't totally round, they may have edges.

But one country has said to itself "why must coins be round". And the answer is; NO REASON. A coin can be any shape. The country is war-torn Somalia, and in 2007, following the success of the guitar shaped coins, they made a series of motorcycle shaped coins.

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