King Frederick IX Crowned Monogram & Beech Branch 25 Øre Denmark Authentic Coin Money for Jewelry and Craft Making (Hole in Coin) Bark Book

King Frederick IX Crowned Monogram & Beech Branch 25 Øre Denmark Authentic Coin Money for Jewelry and Craft Making (Barley) (Hole in Coin) Obverse: Crowned Frederik IX monogram on the left, beech branch on the right. [Wikipedia: In antiquity, the bark of beech tree were used by Indo-European people for writing-related purposes, especially in religious context. Beech wood tablets were a common writing material in Germanic societies before the development of paper. The Old English bōc has the primary sense of "beech" but also a secondary sense of "book", and it is from bōc that the modern word derives. In modern German, the word for "book" is Buch, with Buche meaning "beech tree". In modern Dutch, the word for "book" is boek, with beuk meaning "beech tree". In Swedish, these words are the same, bok meaning both "beech tree" and "book". There is a similar relationship in some Slavic languages. In Russian and Bulgarian, the word for beech is бук (buk), while that for "letter" (as in a