Some guy sold many pounds of mixed foreign at my local coin shop, so they had about 3 bags worth of mostly not-yet-picked-over foreign to look through. I bought $4 worth (and some other stuff too). Any you would have grabbed at 10 cents? Any you would have turned your nose up at even for 10 cents? My attempts at ID (L to R, top to bottom) Row 1: Canada 1 cent 1902 Mexico 20 centavos 1944 UK Penny 1928 Spain 8 mavaredis Isabel II 1845??? Sweden 5 öre 1949 Ireland penny 1931 UK penny 1862 Ireland half crown 1954 Row 2: Mexico 20 centavos 1954 Vatican 100 lira 1955 Ireland 1/2 penny 1822? (George IV) Egypt 10 qirsh 1984/1404AH Tonga 2 seniti 1975 Peru 1 sol de oro 1960 Mexico 50 pesos 1983 Coyolxauhqui comem Mexico 5 centavos 1915 Row 3: UK penny 1880 Canada cent 1919 France 10 centimes 1856 K (Bordeaux) Spain 8 maravedis Fernando VII (Jubia) 1817-21 Chile 20 centavos 1924 Japan 10 cents milled type x3 Showa 28, 29, 28 Row 4: France 100 francs 1954 Uruguay 2 centesimos x4 1909, 1909, 1909, 1901 Hungary 10 filler 1915 Canada 1 cent 1888 (good amount of detail left) Japan 1 sen Taisho 9 Row 5: France 5 centimes 1854 W (Lille) Belgium 2 centimes Leopold I or II (1833-65 or 1869-1909) Japan 5 yen Showa 24 (older type only minted 1948-9) Japan 1 sen Taisho 7 Germany 10 pfennig 1907 Philippines 10 centavos 1963 Germany 5 reichspfennig 1925 D (Munich) Tonga 10 seniti 1967
I would definitely pick up all the 19th century and turn of the century...very nice group all around...it will keep you busy. Really like the Sweden and the German...imo...Spark
For $4, this is a great set. Fun coins to mess around with and learn about. I'd definitely gravitate toward the 19th century ones, but just about all of them are interesting.
Looks like there are a couple of silver coins in there. The 20 centavos Chilean coin looks like it might be silver, maybe the Philippine 10 centavos too. Looks like you made a good pickup, I'd have done the same.
The Chile 20 centavos are a bit odd. Looks like the silver and copper-nickel overlapped for a couple years around 1919-20. But by 1924 they were definitely no longer silver. Still happy with it, though. The Philippines 10 centavos series was nickel-brass 1958-66. The ones which say "United States of America" from 1945 and earlier were silver. I don't think I've ever found silver in the junk bin at that shop. They are pretty accurate about culling those out first. But some nice older non-silver once in a while. Once the bin has been picked over for a day or two there's nothing really of interest left usually, alas.
