After 1966, there was a stream of coins that were released by Bhutan. It will be too lengthy to list them all. These coins were all legal tender but most were none-circulating coins. What is common among all the coins is that most of the mintage had errors on them. It is as if they were all struck by zombies without an iota of attention to detail. Look at the following problems:
1974 Food for All - Chettrums 20 is wrongly spelt Chetrums
1979 Five Chettrums Bronze - wrongly spelt as Chhertum
1979 Ten Chettrums Bronze– wrongly spelt as Chhertum
1979 Twenty Five Chhetrums Copper – wrongly spelt as Chhertum
1979 Twenty Five Chhetrums Nickel – wrongly spelt as Chhertum
The following coins about which I have made mention in my earlier posts, had the following errors mentioned against each:
1928 Thala Jatam Ched– the word “Druk” on the obverse erroneously rendered
1929 Thala Jatam Ched– the year of coinage indicated is wrong – it should have been Tsa Drue– year of the Earth Snake (1929)
1950 Thala Jatam Ched– the word “Druk” erroneously rendered
1954 Bronze coin– it is neither denominated, nor carries a year of coinage
1966 50 N.P. Jatam Ched– the word “Druk” is erroneously rendered and it is wrongly labeled 50 N.P.
1966 Rupees 3– it shouldn’t have been Rupee – since the coin is Bhutanese
The following 1979 One Ngultrum coin is of two perfectly minted coin:
1979 Ngulturms One Nickel- Perfect!
The other coin on which a good job was done is the 1928 Zangtam– the coin’s markings are spot on. Additionally the engraver has done a superlative job in the engraving of the Dzongkha script:
The word "Druk" and the Year of coinage "Tsa Druk" is perfectly engraved
The last interesting notation I have to make is that of the 5 Chettrums coin struck in 1979. The design on the coin’s reverse is borrowed from the Betam coin of 1835:
