New Eritrean Coins

If you are iterested in Eritrean coins, perhaps you would also be interested in the book Ethiopia: Travels of a Youth available here. It includes many topics on Ethiopia and Eritrea.

...Until January, 1998, Eritrea, newly independent on May, 1993, used Ethiopian coins as it sorted out its priorities and did more important things first. It also had some non- circulating Pobjoy mint animal coins designed to pull in money but no real useable coins of its own.

Their new coins include 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, and 100 cent coins all made of nickel clad steel....