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<p>[QUOTE="jlblonde, post: 1418184, member: 32000"]All the coins I posted here were foreign bin finds at a cost of $.08 to $.50 a piece. At first I tried to ID each one as I searched the bins looking for coins I didn't have. This took too long and I eventually began just purchasing all of them on my visits to coin shops and the like. Plus the various spellings in French were driving me mad. </p><p><br /></p><p>Then a few years later I sat down to catalogue these and discovered that they weren't really all the same. I kept flipping from one end of the Krause book to the other. Back and forth, back and forth. Too maddening. Eventually I copied the various African pages, stapled them together and began to organize these. This methode helped a lot. Now I have the digital Krause copies which makes it even easier, but still I get stumped once in a while.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jlblonde, post: 1418184, member: 32000"]All the coins I posted here were foreign bin finds at a cost of $.08 to $.50 a piece. At first I tried to ID each one as I searched the bins looking for coins I didn't have. This took too long and I eventually began just purchasing all of them on my visits to coin shops and the like. Plus the various spellings in French were driving me mad. Then a few years later I sat down to catalogue these and discovered that they weren't really all the same. I kept flipping from one end of the Krause book to the other. Back and forth, back and forth. Too maddening. Eventually I copied the various African pages, stapled them together and began to organize these. This methode helped a lot. Now I have the digital Krause copies which makes it even easier, but still I get stumped once in a while.[/QUOTE]
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