I'm glad someone has a sense of humor around here! Thanks for reviving this old thread. Here are some nickels a friend picked up for me on a trip...
1945-P Netherlands Indies 1 cent, 1/2 cent and 2 1/2 cent. P for Philadelphia mint. The 1 cent will be to go, as I have a better one on hand...
1873 Newfoundland one cent[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
1942 Iceland 1 eyrir[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Love those big old Peru silver coins! Here is a 1793 Aachen IIII heller.[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
1909 Belgium 1 frank. This one came the other day, I read some about Leopold II. Seems he was not known for being a real nice guy, claimed the...
Dutch coins from the 1700s can be had pretty cheaply. Maybe that's why I have so many of them! Copper and silver both.
1968 Austria 1 schilling, 299 years later[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
1840 East India Company 1/4 rupee[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
1769 Austria 20 kreuzer[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
'Cause it looks like Georgia red clay! Ha!
Thank you, M'Lord! Glad you like it. I just thought of this one, very odd sort of a "cameo" appearance, with the background being red mud rather...
My pleasure. Sometimes when I get a coin which is really tough to identify I ask google "(country name) coin images numista", then scroll through...
1940 Iceland 25 aurar[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
1941 GB 3 pence[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I have one of those also, never noticed the S. Means San Francisco mint, does it?
2nd one is Swedish, the 3 crowns a dead giveaway. First one might be Iran or Iraq? Search on Numista is the best way for me to determine coins...
1876 Norway 2 kornor[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] 1941 Germany 50 reichspfennig
1944 Norway 25 ore. I think Norway was occupied by the Germans at the time so this coin is made of zink.[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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