Foreign Coins Produced at US Mint

According to PCGS, in the past the United States has struck coins for Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Belgian Congo, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, French Indo-China, Greenland, Guatemala, Hawaii, Honduras, Israel, Liberia, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands East Indies, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, El Salvador, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Surinam, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand and Venezuela. The U.S. Mint last produced coins for a foreign country in 1984. Since that Time, our Mint has struck coins exclusively for the United States. This, in turn, paved the way for many foreign Mints to chase down these lucrative foreign coin contracts. The BRM (British Royal Mint) probably has the most foreign coin contracts of any of them. I purchased a very reasonably priced 1942 Australian 6 Pence produced in Denver by the US Mint in 1942 this weekend. I find it amusing that it has a picture of King George VI on one side and then the motto, "Advance Australia" right over the "D" on the reverse along with a kangaroo and an emu - neither of which are native to metro Denver. I wonder what the mint workers thought of that, right there in the middle of WW2, helping "Advance Australia" along with the rest of our allies, while going to work and stamping the monarchy we fought for independence from on the front of a coin. Does anyone collect foreign coins produced by US Mint? Show us what you've got! (Sellers pics):

 

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Nice looking coin, it was produced in Denver, San Fransisco and The Royal Mint in 1942.
I only have 2 coins related to this thread

 

https://libertycoinservice.com/wp-c...s-checklist-foreign-coins-by-us-mint-type.pdf
This is a list of all of the coins that the U.S. mint made for different countries.
Listed by type and mint. Would be nice if Whitman or Dansco would issue
albums to collect these coins.

 

I've got a few Cubans, but my favorites are the Philippine MacArthur comemmoratives.

 

In 1907 the New Orleans mint struck 20 centavo coins for Mexico. They are distinguishable from the the Mexico City strikes by having a curved 7 in the date.

 

@MK Ultra
I got these in a set a couple weeks ago.

 

Very nice!! I met a dealer at the Atlantic City show that had a roll of each, I guess I should say a tube of 20 of each. He wanted roughly $110 for each peso and $50 for each half claiming that they were mostly 64 to 66, but all were raw. I declined with the understanding that he was taking them to Baltimore for drop off grading, and I'd consider the others. Still waiting to hear back, I guess he dropped all off for grading.

 

I only have this one, a 2F coin termed "Philadelphia" minted for Free France during WWII while much of France was under German control using aluminum French State Vichy coins.

 

Very similar to the French 2F , this Belgian 2 franc was made in the US, but it was made from the zinc plated steel blanks originally made for 1943 US cents. My Krause catalogue doesn't say which mint, but I've always assumed Philadelphia since there is no mint mark.

 

When I was a student in Paris in 1971, I collected a few of those aluminum Vichy coins, which were still in circulation, although revalued in 1960 (100 Old Francs = 1 New Franc).

 

Very interesting to hear. I'd assumed they all were put in a trash bin at the end of the war, or melted down to make cans for Orangina

 

Not to hijack the original post, but here is a Vichy 2F, one of those I collected from circulation in 1971. It was only worth 2 centimes New Franc, but circulated along with post war francs and post 1960 centimes. I assume they were still legal until the euro, but I don't know that. Inflation made them pretty worthless.

 

To get back to the original theme, here is my 1941-S 20 centimes from French Indochina (included Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos). Minted in San Francisco.

 

1942-S silver 1/10 Guilder from the Netherlands Indies, made in San Francisco.

 

And some US coins were mostly intended to be used in the Philippines, like the 1898-S, 1899-S and 1900-S dimes. Sort of a foreign US coin I guess.

 

I was thinking recently about all the extra coins the U.S. made for various places during World War 2. How were they able to do so much extra work?

 

Here's one from Ecuador that says "Phila USA" on it.