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

Photography by Tom Parker

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)