"forget the O in the thread title" boy this bag of coins I got today just keeps giving, from a little bit of research this seems like it can be a good find. I stress I am not a world coin collector so any opinions are appreciated .
Why do you say that? Yours is damaged. https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/norway-25-ore-km-381-1921-1923-cuid-32292-duid-94562
my default "date, country, value, ngc" google search failed me. Edit - found it. KM382. Still not a valuable coin.
according to the ngc website even in vf-20 its worth 5 bucks and im not sure if thats the one with or without the hole. I apparently need to get a world coin book now because who ever this bag of world coins this belonged to at one time knew what they were doing, maybe thats why everything is baggied in sets and years. I myself know nothing about world coins so im relying on internet research
it does a little, I dont suspect it being a fake but IDK its possible. who knows it was a random pick up and when im done searching the bag I will go back through them.
I just checked my Norges Mynter (Norway's Coins), 2010 issue. The 1921 25 Ore WITH the hole is considerably more valuable than the un-holed one in high grades, but is less valuable in lower grades! The 1922 and 1923 issues follow the same pattern. Weird. Steve
Looking at the close-ups I'm definitely calling it man-made, until someone with even more experience says otherwise. Steve
ok cool, like I said im not a world coin collector. Thanks for the replies on this coin. I just found this on sleezebay and wanted to share, looks similar to mine but is not mine. http://www.ebay.com/itm/NORWAY-HAAK...hash=item280287638a:m:mro8KE4cYuGesRuhqz-FcbA
I certainly wouldn't toss it, Eric. Who knows. Perhaps it is the holed variety. Furryfrog02 is correct, it's not in high grade. But it's almost a century old, and there's a great story behind Haakon VII, the Danish prince who became Norway's first king (other than being under a Danish or Swedish king) for roughly five centuries. Haakon refused to accept the Norwegian Parliament's bid unless he was affirmed by a national referendum, in which he received an overwhelming positive vote. He was an extremely popular monarch, as was his son, Olav V, whom I had the pleasure of meeting in 1969. Haakon and young Olav and family spent the WW II years in London, as well as some time in the USA, after narrowly escaping the occupying German military. Steve
The hole looks correct, sloped in one the side it was punched in from and flared out on the side it was punched out from.
