not sure what i have

anyone know what they are and worth?

 

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Hold on, let me go get my microscope

 

From the "gigantic" pics, not sure what you've got either ! :devil:

Q

 

The one on the right is Portuguese, but obviously you need a bigger pic.

 

Two asian (japanese or chinese?) and the portuguese 20 centavos

 

ok i click on them twice and they are huge, how do i make them bigger for you?

 

Well, you could start by cropping out the all of the blank area. If you don't have photo editing capabilities, upload to PhotoBucket or similar and use there free editing package.

 

I know! It's General Tom Thumb's pocket change! Very rare and valuable!
What have I won?

 

you have VERY tiny coins

 

I've blown them up for others (I didn't have a problem seeing them). I've added some text for the ones I could identify, but I can't read the year on the middle Japanese 1 Yen (It's probably 1960s or 1970s). The first one looks Japanese to me also, but it's not in my 1901-2000 book. Hope this helps others identify these.

Unfortunately, the two that I can find in my catalog are not worth much. My guess is that the first one is Japanese 1890s, but just a shot in the dark. Someone more expert will have to chime in. Good luck!

 

Can you tell me how you got the background to be black? Thanks!

 

I edited the coins in Adobe Photoshop CS4. There is a tool to select circular shaped items, and crop out the area around them.

 

thanks, I have an editor where I can crop circles, but I don't know how to do more than one on a pic. I don't have photoshop though. Maybe I will have to up load to an online editor to do this if I want.

 

Try selecting with the circular tool, copying only that circular piece, and then pasting the circular coin image over top of a black background (in another file you've created as the background color). That might do the trick.

 

I'll do that. Right now I'm doing that with just a white background, but sometimes a different color is better.

 

I find that black brings out the differences in copper vs. silver vs. gold much better than white backgrounds. I guess just my personal opinion though. Best of luck.

 

Isn't that Chiang Kai Shek in the first one? If so, it's from Taiwan, and after 1950.

 

1 yuan (Taiwan), 1 yena (Japan) & XX centavos (Portugal).

 

The aluminum Japanese ¥1 is dated Heisei 3 which equates to 1991. I'm suspicious about authenticity on the Taiwan(?) yuan, as I don't recall ever seeing an undated genuine Republic of China coin.

The posted 25¢ valuation for the yen is ridiculously high. Face value is slightly over US 1¢, and 1991 mintage of 2.3-Billion was the third largest since adoption of the design in 1955. Through 2009 (last year for which final numbers are available) there were only 7 years with mintages less than 100-million.

 

The $0.25 estimated value was based on the fact that you would find that type of coin in a gigantic bin of world worthless coins at a coin show. I've never seen a dealer sell their junk World Coins for less than 4 for a dollar.

As for the Taiwan coin, I had no clue what it was. I was just guessing and could only make out the Chinese symbol for "Yen" / "Yuan". Thanks for clarifying to the others here. As I implied in my post, I have no clue about asian coins. I was merely improving the picture so someone with more knowledge could be able to identify the coins since apparently no one could see the pictures at full size except me and the original poster.