Top - 100 Yen, cu-ni, 1967-2012 - value: face (~87 cents) Bottom - 50 yen, cu-ni, 1959-2012 - value: face (~43.5 cents)
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Probably 18th Century Indian Princely State, possibly Hyderabad.
And besides being copper-nickel, they weren't necessarily minted in 1957, as that's the authorization date and the actual mintage date is inside...
Mind if I ask - Who cares?
Can't tell you what they are, but they don't appear to be either Chinese or Japanese coins. I know very little about Annamese (Vietnam) or Korean...
Just head for your nearest public library and ask to see the Krause World Catalog of Coins in the reference section.
A manufacturing jeweler removed solder from a gold coin for me, and it is not noticeable at less than 5x magnification, but under a loupe it is...
Maybe I'm being simplistic, but in my view anything that generally resembles a genuine coin is a counterfeit, unless the design includes "copy",...
Like many Belgian coins, the legend on yours is in both Dutch (Belgie) and French (Belgique), the two official languages of the country. In other...
Okay, educate me on how to tell whether a coin on which the design isn't centered on the planchet is the result of being struck "off center" or by...
Off center strikes are considered error coins, but I don't think there's much value to them.
Krause lists the .800 silver dime as KM#67 and the .500 silver dime as KM#67a, and gives a single combined mintage figure. Both are listed as...
Would charging more than double what anyone else does for basic supplies be enough to put a dealer on your "Do not patronize" list? The back...
The Japanese Numismatic Dealers Assn. catalog shows two varieties, with slightly different endings on the left side of the reverse bottom ribbon....
They are all current-design Japanese coins. 1 Yen, 1983, 5 Yen 1990, 10 Yen 1989 (1st year of current Emperor Akihito's reign), 50 Yen 1982. All...
That sums it up pretty well!
The only option is to find another collector who wants what you have and has what you want. Banks and foreign exchange offices simply don't...
The telephone book-size Krause catalogs (1 per century starting with the 17th) can often be found at reasonable prices for old editions on the...
KM#73, 11.31g, .500 silver, ASW .1818, 20 Drachmai, depicting the prow of an ancient ship on one side, and Neptune* on the other. Krause shows...
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