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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 45379, member: 669&quot;]Welcome aboard Gemini.Well, within reason, posting clear pictures here will usually get you information.&nbsp; Start with the Asian coins and any of the Africans that you can&#039;t read the legends on, as those would be the toughest for you to find in the Standard Catalog of World Coins on your own.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then, whip out your library card (you do have one don&#039;t you) and head for your local public library.&nbsp; They will either have, or can undoubtedly get on inter-library loan, the SCWC by Krause &amp; Mishler (generally referred to simply as &quot;Krause&quot; in numismatic circles.&nbsp; You definitely need to see the 20/21st Century volume, and very possibly the 19th Century as well.&nbsp; Krause is published in four big city telephone book sized volumes covering 1701-present.&nbsp; There are 10s of thousands of mostly life-size pictures, along with lots of other valuable information both on the coins, and on the issuer&#039;s history.&nbsp; Probably you will have to take your coins, or pictures of them, to the library as Krause generally is a non-circulating reference.</p><p><br /></p><p>To find out what country the ones with readable legends are from, if you don&#039;t recognize the name in its native language, google the legends.&nbsp; For example, both &quot;Belgique&quot; and &quot;Belgie&quot; will turn up references to Belgium; &quot;Magyar&quot; will bring up Hungary; and so on.&nbsp;&nbsp; (Presumably you&#039;ll recognize &quot;Espana&quot;, &quot;Francais&quot; and some others.) <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;In your case the bromide &quot;Buy the book before the coin&quot; probably translates to &quot;Check the book before you sell the coin).&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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