Saw an old friend and former coworker recently. I had helped him find a place to sell off some coins he had inherited. The shop that bought the collection wasn't interested in the non-silver modern world coins, so he offered to give the remainder to me. I'm still looking through it, but there looks to be some fun low-end stuff left. I think this little Philippines 1945 10 centavos is actually silver, so I guess they missed one. My friend laughed it off and said I could keep it.
The sneaky good coins there are the British Honduras, of which I see five or six maybe. Most people look right past them but everything from there has some value.
Yes, any US coins? You can send China back their change. I ordered something from Walmart and it took over a month to get. From China!
Here's the two Philippines coins both sides. No American coins, but a few tokens. Nice catch, thanks! I was looking up some of them a little before I noticed your post, and it seems like almost everything from there is worth a dollar or more. I like the 1965 50 cents, the 1961 5 cents and 1970 1 cent for lower mintages.
Some more photos: Japan: 1 sen Taisho 9 (1920) and Showa 13 (1938), 5 sen Taisho 9 (1920) and 11 (1922) Mexico: 20 centavos 1944 and 1945, 5 centavos 1943, 1 centavo 1906 (narrow date?), 1928
Some older stuff: (L to R from top) Italy, 5 centesimi, ??? (damaged). ~25 mm. Maybe Umberto I from the neckline Italy, 50 centesimi, 1941 (pretty nice condition) USSR, 20 kopecks, 1936 France, 25 centimes, 1922 Belgium, 2 centimes, Leopold II (?) Austria, 1 kreuzer, 1881 Germany, 5 pfennig, 1949F "Bank of German States" China 10 cash minted, Kiang-Nan? China cash, Dao Guang
The early Soviet piece is cool. I don’t know what was going on with 5-centesimi pieces in early 20th century Italy (why that denomination in particular?), but I noticed in my bulk bag hunting days that LOTS of them were beat up. Not just worn out, but often mangled, too. Of course if the one you mentioned was Umberto I, it was even older, so I guess it also got heavily worn before it got damaged. Maybe that denomination was just the workhorse in everyday transactions? Dunno.
Thanks, I like early USSR coins. Maybe not the best place to live at the time, but lots of interesting history and coinage. Some of my ancestors were Volga Germans who settled in Russia in the 1700s. They must have intermarried with the locals, because apparently I have a little Russian and Ashkenazi heritage as well. Fortunately for them, they got out in the mid-1800s and emigrated to the US, and thus didn't have to live through the tragedy that was 20th Century Russia... Not sure what happened to the 5 centesimi. Looks like it was deliberately defaced. It's quite oval shaped and the reverse is pretty much unrecognizable. Anyway, here are a few of the more interesting (to me) modern coins from the set: Germany 2 marks, 1971, 1992; 1 mark 1966, 1992 France 10 francs 1991x2, 1992; 1/2 franc 1977 Luxembourg 5 francs 1986
