The Money Changer

Robbie Buckingham

SOLUTION:

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

Answer: ABSURDISM