So I'm still playing with my pile of foreign coins, and decide to arrange them on the table by oldest to newest dates. The oldest date is 1907, and when I get to 1945, I notice a sturdy little dime sized coins in nickel that just speaks quality. I put my 5X on it, and it says "United States of America" What? In foreign coins!! Well the other side says " Five Centavos Filipinas" Go figure. Since this coin is dated at the end of WWII, (A) is a war collectible? (B) did we issue us currency in the Islands? Educate me here, someone.
Never mind. I looked it up on World Coin Gallery, and it's worth 20cents. The mint mark on my coin is San Francisco. I might mention, it would behoov my brethren to search U.S. adminstered coins from the Phillipines. Some are mighty valuable!
yup, I was gonna say Philippines. I posted a pic of one a while ago. Does it have a liberty holding a shield on it?
Nope. It has a spread winged eagle atop a shield. The Obverse is a male figure resting by an anvil with hammer in hand.
We minted coins for most of the free world during that time. There is actually a site that you can go on to see which coins the grand ole US mint made. WE still to this day mint coins for other countries. The phillipines being our territory/control at that time made us the primary mint for the islands.
Actually we don't. Since 1984 the US has struck 1 coin for another country, the Leif Ericson coin for Iceland in 2000. You can read more - HERE
I enjoyed working on my collection of US-Philippine coins. Even have a few proofs; an impaired 1903 1/2 centavo and a 1904 centavo.
