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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;petro89, post: 1608016, member: 17048&quot;]This is the best coin forum there is bar none so you came to the right place!&nbsp; I have been collecting for nearly 26 years now, and you&#039;ll see over time that a lot of the foreign coins you come across will be repeats.&nbsp; For a few reasons.&nbsp; First, many of them are long-term issues.&nbsp; Your Japanese coin was minted for over 50 years... there are other foreign coins that had the same design for double that...and for different values too! Second, a lot of other countries have large populations despite their smaller size compared to the U.S.&nbsp; Japan is a perfect example.&nbsp; They have over 125 million people in an area <b>smaller than California </b>(the U.S. is around 310 million in total I believe).&nbsp; With that many people, they needed to mint a LOT of coins.&nbsp; Thirdly, yes, there are over 190 countries on our wonderful planet, but probably 90% of the coins you come across will be from maybe 50 of those.&nbsp; Put all this together, and if you grab 100 foreign coins at random, you&#039;ll probably have a couple duplicates.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just think..at first glance, I&#039;d say they minted a good 25 billion of those 10 yen at least.&nbsp; That is over 80 apiece for every man, woman and child in the U.S.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just putting into perspective how common some of these foreign coins are.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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