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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collect89, post: 1238169, member: 15445&quot;]<b>Have fun cataloging &amp; using the coins</b></p><p><br /></p><p>They look like the type of coins that you could find in a dealer&#039;s 25-cent per coin box.&nbsp; Paying 70 cents each is no big deal &amp; they should be fun to catalog &amp; use as you like.&nbsp; There are some interesting (but common) coins in the mix.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins with Queen Elizabeth on the obverse are from Great Britain or one of the colonies.&nbsp; Also the coin with King George VI is from Great Britain or one of the colonies.&nbsp; If these coins state the name of a colony then you know where the coin is from.&nbsp; If they don&#039;t state a colony name, then they are the coins of England.&nbsp; The older Great Britain coins are based upon base 12.&nbsp; There were 12 pennies to the shilling.&nbsp; They used base 12 because 12 is divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12.&nbsp; In comparison, the base 10 system is only divisible by 1, 2, 5, and 10.&nbsp; Newer coins from Great Britain are based upon base 10 and normally designate &quot;new pence&quot; on the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Reading from top left to bottom right, the coins you have are from the following countries:</p><p>UK Great Britain</p><p>UK Great Britain</p><p>Unknown (looks like Ireland but it&#039;s not so I would need to look it up)</p><p>UK Great Britain</p><p>UK Great Britain</p><p>Japan (10 Yen)</p><p>UK Great Britain</p><p>Iceland</p><p>Mexico</p><p>Unknown (fuzzy photo)</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, you can read the date &amp; denomination of each coin right on the coin itself.&nbsp; The exception might be the Japan coin where the date is in Japanese characters and is listed as the year of an emperor.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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