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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mac266, post: 2375856, member: 26371&quot;]Everyone,</p><p><br /></p><p>My dad downsized his entire life and left his estate to his children prior to parting the earth.&nbsp; Being the coin nut of the family, he gave me a bunch of coins.&nbsp; Most were early 20th century U.S. coins, which is my forte, but there was nothing spectacular in the bunch.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>However, there were a bunch of foreign coins I find interesting, but I don&#039;t know anything about them.&nbsp; There was a small stack of what I&#039;m calling, &quot;WW I coins,&quot; from some of the European countries of the era.&nbsp; There were also a few from Napoleon III in the mid-1800s in France.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m playing with my new digital microscope for the first time, and I noticed it takes the pictures in mirror image.&nbsp; Thus, all the writing appears backwards.&nbsp; Does anyone know how to flip this around?</p><p><br /></p><p>1831, 5 Francs, France:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i67.tinypic.com/21ay440.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i68.tinypic.com/ddnx5e.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>1901 2 Marks, Germany (Wilhelm II):</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i68.tinypic.com/f0b78h.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i63.tinypic.com/10pqdz7.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>1855 Dix centimes, France (Napoleon III):</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i63.tinypic.com/15hlysp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i68.tinypic.com/331dkp2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>^^^&nbsp; I have two 1855s and two 1854s, but this is in the best condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>1866 20 (?) Centesimi, Italy:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i64.tinypic.com/33con40.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i63.tinypic.com/5jy93m.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I also got some British coins from George V, George VI, and Edward VII, and, as I said, some WW I coins from France, Germany, and Belgium.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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