Hi all I have come into the posession of a selection of old foreign coins (see first picture). I have been having a look through them. I don't know much about coins, but I know that some older coins are made of silver. I picked some of these out in the second photo. I also came across a coin apparently coming from South Africa and marked "I POND". Is it worth anything? Also, can anybody suggest what I should do with the rest of them? thanks Geoff
There were a lot of brass ponds made. They are the same size and thickness as the gold pieces, but the density of the metal is going to tell on a scale. What does yours weigh?
Slightly less than a 1p piece.... It's not gold. Gold doesn't discolour like that. What were they made for? Were they currency or replicas?
Well, from the second picture I can see a Mercury Dime, a Canadian dime (can't tell if it's silver, it is if it's 1968 or before) a New Zealand Sixpence, as well as some Portuguese coins that look silver. I think I also see something from the Dominican Republic on the upper left... In the photo of "all" the coins, I also see US Washington quarters (silver 1964 and before) and other coins that could very well be silver. If you're familiar with what silver coins look like, I'd pull those out and take a separate photo of those...or you could just sort them by country of origin and look them up at the World Coin Gallery (Internet) or Standard Catalog of World Coins (book, may be at your local library - I checked them out from mine...)
Still searching through piles of coins... I think I've found some that are worth something. These silver ones I found on the internet for not bad prices. I'm getting nowhere with the copper one, though. Can't type that into google! Can anybody tell me what it is?
Do you mean this coin, a Russian 1 kopek? Unfortunately with that hole in it, it's not worth much. http://ma-shops.com/wallinmynt/item.php5?id=1314&lang=en
Hi Collector1966 Cheers, that'll be it! I don't understand why people put holes in coins...specially not copper ones. I have another question...are those silver coins worth much to a coin collector or is their bullion value more? Geoff
First coin is a Russian kopeck struck under the reign of Tsar Paul I. He was pretty much a whack job that ended-up murdered by his own advisors. The second is a 1917 Egypt 10 Piastres struck when Egypt was a British protecerate. And the last one is South African from the late 19th century.
