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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bluegill, post: 413590, member: 1748&quot;]I&#039;m helping my Uncle, who was given a bunch of coins by <i>his</i> uncle back in the &#039;50s and &#039;60s when he had polio. I&#039;ve been cataloging them. They are beautiful coins, and are a fantastic sampling of low-denomination coins from around the world from that time. Most show very little wear, but the values listed for them in Krause for just about all of them are below a dollar. Still, they are wonderful to look at.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a few coins I&#039;m still puzzling over in one way or another.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of my reference books lists both these coins as valued at $.50 in VF and at $20.00 in XF.&nbsp; I know that book values don&#039;t mean an awful lot, but that&#039;s a big jump. So my questions are: why the big jump in price? and, what grade do you think these two specimens are?<img src="http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee175/Bluegill82072/DSC01980.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee175/Bluegill82072/DSC01979.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee175/Bluegill82072/DSC01978.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee175/Bluegill82072/DSC01981.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>These are the best photos I have right now, but they might be good enough for you to give a reasonable guess. I&#039;m trying to grade conservatively; these have obviously been handled a fair amount, but I feel like the details are sharp enough that they might pass for XF. Unfortunately, I don&#039;t have any high-grade 2 1/2 escudos to which to compare them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks a lot</p><p><br /></p><p>Bluegill[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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