Foreign currency

[Jdubbs]

What do I have here lol?

[mustbebob]

It is just a nice little collection of US and foreign coins. I see Canadian, British, Australian, Chinese, Mexican, French, and Peruvian among others. There is also a couple of US coins like the buffalo nickel and memorial cent. Most seem to have some age to them, so be sure to look at all of them closely. They also can have varieties and errors on them.

[makecents]

I've found this very handy when identifying foreign coins. LINK (http://worldcoingallery.com/Inst-ID/page1.html)

[Jdubbs]

I am just learning United States currency I have no idea at all about the foreign lol. There is definitely a lot of cool looking pieces though, how would you suggest that I find the errors n variences, by looking up each individual coin?

[Jdubbs]

I also found two 1943 steel pennies one is a Denver mint

[jfines69]

To me it looks like some paper weights Pretty cool collection of foreign coins!!!

[mustbebob]

how would you suggest that I find the errors n variences, by looking up each individual coin?

A lot of the same things you look for in US coins can be found on foreign coins. There is an incredible amount of info on the Web for identifying the coins, but not so much that I have found as far as errors and varieties on them. Then again, I do not know if there is as much of a following for varieties in those other countries.

[GrumpyEd]

Looks like you got a nice silver peace dollar in the bunch.

Try looking up that old Chinese coin, it might be pretty old (assuming it's not a modern lucky new years thing)


LINK

[Jdubbs]

Looks like you got a nice silver peace dollar in the bunch.

Try looking up that old Chinese coin, it might be pretty old (assuming it's not a modern lucky new years thing)


LINK

The one with the 10 with the wreath around it?

[GrumpyEd]

The Chinese one with a square hole and 4 characters.
Those have a meaning, you can look it up, read the meaning and if it's real you can tell which dynasty it was from.
Go by size and matching the 4 characters.

Look at the image link, I think it matches or is similar the one on the 7th row down but that link has no good info.

[GrumpyEd]

The one with the 10 with the wreath around it?

The one with the 10 and wreath is a Japan 10 yen.
They come with or without reeded edge, the reeded edge ones (51-58), people there save them like wheat cents (I think 58 is the rarest date) the non reeded ones are 59 and up. You need to decipher the dates, they are not in our numbers.

[Jdubbs]

Collection is getting more diverse

Haven't had time to go through all but there's alot of currency

[Jdubbs]

The one with the 10 and wreath is a Japan 10 yen.
They come with or without reeded edge, the reeded edge ones (51-58), people there save them like wheat cents (I think 58 is the rarest date) the non reeded ones are 59 and up. You need to decipher the dates, they are not in our numbers.

Awesome thank you for the information I will do that

[GrumpyEd]

You can do them pretty easily, the Phennigs and swastica coins are German, the big aluminum one with an 8 and 24th April 1932 and a naked guy swinging a sword is a German campaign token from the Prussian state election in 1932.

Check it out here, it's the same one you have:

http://www.coinpeople.com/topic/10433-nsdap-german-election-tokens/

[Jdubbs]

You can do them pretty easily, the Phennigs and swastica coins are German, the big aluminum one with an 8 and 24th April 1932 and a naked guy swinging a sword is a German campaign token from the Prussian state election in 1932.

Check it out here, it's the same one you have:

http://www.coinpeople.com/topic/1043...ection-tokens/

Awesome link thank you grumpy Ed