The Money Changer
Robbie Buckingham
Each picture shows the obverse (or reverse if you move your mouse over the image) of an African coin with the words removed. The images were taken from the 2002 Standard Catalog of World Coins by Krause and Mishler. Each coin has one word indicated by circles. The coins and missing words are
1. Equatorial Guinea | KM 15 | 100 pesetas | 1970 | ROMA (rear) |
2. Benin | KM 22 | 6000 francs | 1995 | BENIN (front) |
3. Saharawi Arab D.R.   | KM 19     | 100 pesetas | 1993 | ANIMALES (rear) |
4. Uganda | KM 72 | 2000 shillings   | 2000 | UGANDA (front) |
5. Equatorial Guinea | KM 76 | 7000 francos | 1992 | REPUBLICA (front) |
6. Congo D.R. | KM 51 | 10 francs | 2000 | DEMOCRATIQUE (front) |
7. Botswana | KM 22 | 2 pula | 1989 | IPELEGENG (front) |
8. Swaziland | KM 42 | 20 cents | 1986 | CENTS (rear) |
9. Lesotho | KM 27 | 50 maloti | 1980 | MOSHOESHOE (front) |
Taking the first letter of the words from the obverses and the last letter of the coins from the words from the reverses gives
ABSURDISM