Algeria 50-DINARS (KM126)¶
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Reverse: DAMA GAZELLE
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Obverse: Denomination
- Composition
- Steel in brass
- Country
- Algeria
- Approx. Size
- 28.5mm
- Area
- Africa
- Animal Class
- Mammals
- Species
- Dama gazelle
- KM#
- 126
The Dama gazelle (Gazella dama mhorr) lives in the Sahara Desert and is critically endangered. Baby damas are able to follow the herd within two days of birth, and at one week old they can run as fast as an adult.
Algeria first issued this bi-metallic coin in 1996.
Algeria¶
- Area
- Africa
Algeria has been a Muslim city since around 950, and the Phoenecians and Romans were hanging around the area before then. Around 1492 a population of Jews and Moors who had been kicked out of Spain took up residence. In 1518 the Turks took over the show. Then, for about 300 years, the Barbary Pirates had their head office there. The French came to town in 1830 and mixed it up for 18 years before annexing the whole country. By the time World War II was on, a whole lot of things happened.
