MAKE MONEY

Chess Set By Tom Parker

Sometimes it costs more to buy it than to make it from the money itself.

$4.99 Cardboard and plastic chess set from toy store

$3.52

Exchange value of coins used as chessmen plus $2 for wood and paint

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Photography by Tom Parker

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CHANGE YOU CAN CHECKMATE:

A: 1960s Japan 5 yen ( 8)

B: 1943 Malaya 1 cent ( 2)

C: 1991 Myanmar 25 pyas ( 2)

D: 1984 Tanzania 10 senti ( 2)

E: 1917 Great Britain 1 penny ( 1)

F: 1967 Great Britain 1 penny ( 1)

G: 1965 Fiji 1 penny ( 8)

H: 1994 Aruba 50 cents ( 2)

I: 1988 India 20 paise ( 2)

J: 1970 Rwanda 2 francs ( 2)

K: 1939 Great Britain half crown ( 1)

L: 1889 Great Britian Victorian double florin ( 1)

Make: 181

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