1977 Tanzania 10 Senti Kumi!

Here's a nice looking coin. I imagine it had a hard time being accepted in vending machines with that shape. Someone needs to watch her curves. Seriously though this coin is pretty interesting. Scalloped is what the edge shape is called which is pretty cool. There's a nice prancing zebra on the reverse with "Senti Kumi" above it and "10" below it. I'm not sure what the difference is between between Senti Tano and Senti Kumi but they are all still spendable and not two totally different currencies. Then again I'm not sure I could spend this considering the exchange value is about 1/8 of a U.S. cent. Compare this 1/8 to the $0.35 collector value and you see that this coin is pretty valuable.

1976 Tanzania 5 Senti Tano!

I got this and a few other Tanzanian coins from my uncle when he went to Tanzania. If I recall correctly he went to climb Kilimanjaro, or at least some of it. He said that he was literally being handed back fist fulls of change in shops because they are trying to phase out the coins and use bills more. They managed to get this and some others out of circulation and I got a few more foreign coins so I'd say this is a win-win. It would be even more of a win if it was worth more than $0.05, but it's better than nothing.