Millenium Coin Collection

i'm new to this and have a question. I bought some foreign coins in a houselike structure. I paid very little and assume they are of little value, but I cannot find any info on who produced these coins. I will try to attach pics. I attached as directed and hope they will appear. Does anyone know anything about this company?
OOps--it says my file is too big (for 1 picture?) and I don't know how to make it smaller.

 

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Thank you! I have forwarded the pics to your email address.
JKM

 

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Please list more info on the coins or any identification on the case.
I have been searching but have very little to go ion yet
Are their any company names on the case or coin cards?

 

I believe the name of the company is Millennium Coin Collection. Each coin is enclosed in an acrylic case with a short history of the coin. This is a listing of the coins included:
6th Century Persia Sassanian
8th Century Caliphs Islamic Coin
9th Century China Tang Dynasty
10th Century India Chola Dynasty
11th Century India Ghaznavid Dynasty
13th Century Byzantium Cup Shaped Trachy
14th Century Mongol Empire Silver Dirham
15th Century Ottoman Empire Silver Coinage
17th Century Poland Silver Grosz
18th Century Russia - Catherine the great
19th Century India Trade Rupee
I will take pictures and send them to your email address tomorrow. Thanks for the help!

 

Think outside the box.

Never mind the coins. Tell us about the COMPANY. It looks like a tremendous display. Figure the coins are all common. From the list, I'll be that not one is "worth" more than $20. That is totally irrelevant. If you focus on the coins, you miss the value in the holder.

That "house" (temple, I'd call it) and those cards are priceless.

What will happen is that these will end up in garage sales or taken to coin dealers who will bust them apart for the $20 coins. Any set complete, whole, and intact, will be worth more over time as the others succumb to attrition.

There are stories of people finding ancient coins in jars and busting the jars to get at the coins and having archaeologists wail because the jars were worth way more than the coins.

The NUMISMATIC BIBLIMANIA SOCIETY studies holders and folders as part of the collecting of "coins" that people overlook, the way we used to overlook books about coins -- until it dawned on someone that a book by a U.S. Secretary of the Treasury about early U.S. coins might actually be valuable someday...

 

Gonna say its a Franklin Mint product. Just look at the bottom right corner of the first image. Copyright FM. I haven't been able to find anything else on it though.

 

Good sleuthing! I just noticed the small copyright symbol, FM at the bottom of the card. I would not have known the symbol meant Franklin Mint. I appreciate that piece of the puzzle!

 

Very interesting. Aspects of the hobby I've never considered. I'm really glad you posted this.

 

I am not sure about that. The CFM may or may not mean that. First of all, the Franklin Mint logo is M over F so that it looks like a Flying F. Also, of course the Copyright symbol is a Circle-C, not just a C. Also also, it does have the look and feel of a Franklin Mint product, but there are other private collector mints out there.

What would help would be a complete description of all the printing we do not see. A look at the underside of the "box" (house; temple), etc., etc.

 

Copyright text and trademarks are two different things. Trademarks are the logos such as you described, but they also typically have a text/word representation.

Looks like a C in a circle to me.

I did a search on FM copyrights in the Federal database and the only remotely related buisness using the copyright of FM is the Franklin Mint. This is by no means conclusive as I still can't find any references to the millenium colleciton.

Quite the mystery. Hopefully you can give us a little more to go on JKM. If your really curious, it might be worth it to call the Franklin Mint direct and ask them about the collection. Someone there should be able to tell you if they ever sold something like it.

 

First, I want to thank you all for your help! I really appreciate your knowledge in this area. To clarify, at the bottom of each coin history, appears the circled c followed the capital letters FM. There is absolutely nothing on the back. On the bottom of the wood structure is a oval sticker that says "CRAFTED IN TAIWAN". The print under each coin is a history of the coin. There is nothing on the back of each coin, except the view of the back side of each coin. I have emailed photos to Doug to be posted. They were as clear as I could get them. Let me know what you think.
JKM

 

wow. Fancy yet there's a certain degree of tackiness to it. Strongly recommed you keeping the whole collection together though. If not for the numismatic value keep it for the antique value.

 

I just purchased the same collection. The Millennium Coin Collection that runs form 1st Century - Judea Bronze Lepton coin to the 20th Century. I asm also trying to track down the company who produced the collection and hopefully some sort of value to thecollection. any help greatly appreciated.

 

But that's two millenia, not one lol...

An interest collection. The whole is probably worth more than the sum of its parts in this case; I'd keep it together.