Coin set – Timor-Leste

East Timor – from buffalo horn crown to cockfighting.

The East Timor payment system is quite unique.

Alongside the banknotes of the official US-Dollar currency

the Banco Central de Timor-Leste has also been issuing its

own Centavo coins since 2003.

Motives are focused both on nature,

and on the culture of the island state:

from the traditional kaybauk headdress, in the form of buffalo horns,

and the nautilus, also called “living fossil”,

to the popular gambling sport of cockfighting.

The obverse depicts a nautilus, a rice plant,

fighting cock, traditional beiro boat

and coffee plant.

The reverse shows the denominations,

kaybauk and traditional tais pattern with stylized crocodiles.

– Centavos coin set of the US Dollar currency

– Animals and plants of Southeast Asia

– Cultural features of East Timor