For #NationalAardvarkWeek and @art_history_animalia here is a #numismatic #Aardvark featured on the 1968 - 1983 1 Ngwee coin from #Zambia. I don't have one handy, but here is an image from the Numista website https://en.numista.com/catalogue/index.php?r=Aardvark%20&ct=coin
@CoinOfNote I have one of those Zambia #aardvark coins in my collection :D
Sadly it's the only circulating coin that's ever had an aardvark on it, right? That and the one commemorative one from the Gambia also shown on the Numista site. Zambia is the real MVP because they put the aardvark on one of their banknotes too, once again apparently the only nation ever to do so: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note204063.html
@art_history_animalia Exonumia (coin like things) might be a better bet for you - Looking on Token Catalog, I found one rount tuit (yes, for the pun) for Aardvark video of Oregon: https://tokencatalog.com/display_records.php?SearchStringEveryWord=aardvark&SubmitFilter=SearchAll&action=DisplayRecords&ta_country=U.S.A.&td_state=&td_city=&SearchString=&SearchStringAnyWord=&HomePageSearch=&view=All+Listings - I also found this 1oz silver found (waaaaaay over spot price): https://www.ebay.com/itm/304761222368 - In fact a search on eBay finds a few: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=aardvark+coin&_sacat=0&LH_PrefLoc=2&_sop=15 - aside from the previously mentioned coins, and some unrelated fighter jets, here's an elongated penny: https://www.ebay.com/itm/204265788985?hash=item2f8f309639:g:CPcAAOSwsYxjcBI6&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoBdEivDPh7CWSLHQBZJTwpAKGYT6qwl0M9eBnUM3naWSIrL6nlb5V32W4jtXL4IpVtaRxouEZTmHNDUFiPQNkREbWK9cW8GXE5kJ5ji%2BaCGM254FhQWnt3XW69B%2BjP2mUap%2B8TPzgchLVWqf733T4oMBoNQ%2Bz8cK0Y4cgPjp83DnZ1s1Ins2jabok4lBnZ2mBYQzIZljkFA1cJ9lxDG%2BemY%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR6qCnvjXYQ
@CoinOfNote nice! Yes I’ll collect tokens too if there is a cool animal on it. :) With regards to #aardvarks there’s way more to choose from on the postage stamp side of things, with a good number of #African countries having put them on their designs. My favorite is this 2011 sheet from #Mozambique as it’s a team-up with fellow myrmecophagous mammals & all-around awesome animals, #pangolins:
(Image via http://mozambique.post-stamps.com/issue-of-mozambique-postage-stamps-2011-08-30/)
@art_history_animalia Very nice! Aww looks like Pangolins aren't the most popular coin subject either. There are three on Numista. A gold and a silver issue from the Congo, and a silver coin from Malawi - all non-circulating.
@art_history_animalia No banknotes either, but there is a nice octagonal fantasy 20 Yuan from Wuhan with a pangolin