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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 212803, member: 669&quot;]I&#039;m not sure whether the first picture is the entire lot, or perhaps there&#039;s another pic which isn&#039;t just an enlarged part of #1.</p><p><br /></p><p>Photographing coins at an angle like that greatly reduces the ease of attribution, but I can see coins of at least US, Great Britain (the majority), Gemany, Denmark and possibly another Scandanavian country), Canada, probably Italy, Israel, and Japan.</p><p><br /></p><p>The two Japanese coins I see are both 1 sen.</p><p><br /></p><p>The one with the dragon obverse and the English legend &quot;1 sen&quot; is Y#17.1, copper, dated Meiji 10 (1877), numismatically worthless in that corroded condition.&nbsp; Krause values it at $1 in F, which is actually on the high side. </p><p><br /></p><p>The image of the other one with what appears to be a &quot;1&quot; on it needs to be rotated 90 degrees left, so that character becomes a horizontal line, which is a Kanji character 1.&nbsp; The character beneath it (to the left in the photo) is &quot;sen&quot;.&nbsp; The date is on the other side, but it is either <ol> <li>Y#17.1 (1873-77 with square dragon scales)</li> <li>Y#17.2 (1880-92 with V shaped dragon scales, also copper)</li> <li>Y#20 (1898-1902 with sun and rays, bronze), or</li> <li>Y#35 (1913-15,with smaller sun and rays, also bronze).</li> </ol><p>In the condition shown none are worth more than a buck or two.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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