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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 754651, member: 4703&quot;]#1 - French 1 franc with Marianne, the French symbol for liberty and believed by many to be Weinberg&#039;s inspiration for the US Walking Liberty.&nbsp; Extremely common.</p><p><br /></p><p>#2 - Republic of the Phillipines 25 centavos, one of the earliest coins minted after independence from the US.</p><p><br /></p><p>#3 - Silver Japanese ¥100 dated Showa 36 (1961), worth its weight in silver and not much more.&nbsp; This was the last Japanese silver non-commemorative coin, although ¥100 and ¥1000 1964 Olympic commems did generally circulate.</p><p><br /></p><p>The standard reference for world coins is the Standard Catalog of World Coins, often referred to as &quot;Krause&quot;, originally edited by Krause and Mishler.&nbsp; This is a five-volume set, one for each century beginning with the 17th, ranging in size from that of a medium city&#039;s phone book for the 21st Century to that of a New York City five-boroughs phone book for the 20th Century.&nbsp; It contains &quot;life size&quot; pictures, annual mintages, metallic content, descriptions of legends and designs, (very) brief histories of the issuing countries - both existing and superseded regimes - estimated values in various grades, and much more.&nbsp; Serious collectors also use many country-specific, and even issue-specific references.&nbsp; Most public libraries have, or can get, at least the 20th/21st Century Krause volumes, which are published annually.&nbsp; Editions for earlier years are updated less frequently.</p><p><br /></p><p>My own Krause set is temporarily unavailable, so I can&#039;t give you more specific details about any of your coins, except to note that none of them are particularly rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>Welcome to the world of numismatics.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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