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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Brocster, post: 50714, member: 2744&quot;]Hi Spider!</p><p><br /></p><p>I came across the <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;category=544&amp;item=3971976413" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;category=544&amp;item=3971976413" rel="nofollow">following</a> completed eBay auction (after seeing a link to it on another forum) and figured I would scroll down a bit to see just how many countries were actually represented.&nbsp; (As it turns out, <b>QUITE</b> a few!!&nbsp; There are over 600 images on that page!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, as I was looking at a few of the postmarks in the pictures, I saw that they appeared to be all from the early- to mid-1980s (I&#039;m not sure, since I didn&#039;t have the time to look through every one of them).&nbsp; That&#039;s when it hit me that this would be the perfect chance for you to fill in some of the missing information from your <a href="http://www.cointalk.org/showthread.php?t=5943" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.org/showthread.php?t=5943" rel="nofollow">world coins HELP thread</a> (from a month ago), since many of the coins you were asking about were minted in the &#039;70s and &#039;80s.&nbsp; I can&#039;t say for sure, but I&#039;m guessing that -- especially with the Eastern European countries -- the composition, size and weight of the coins listed in this eBay auction would be representative of (if not identical to) the coins you listed in your thread.&nbsp; And since the USSR, Czechoslovakia and West Germany no longer exist, there&#039;s no national bank website you can go to to find such coin-related details (or at least none that I&#039;m aware of).&nbsp; The pictures admittedly aren&#039;t terrific, but you should be able to make everything out just fine.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, get your pen or pencil and copy away:</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>Romania</b> </p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.noblespirit.com/B/B1052/454.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>USSR</b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.noblespirit.com/B/B1052/471.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>Czechoslovakia</b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.noblespirit.com/B/B1052/150.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>West Germany</b> </p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.noblespirit.com/B/B1052/216.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>Austria</b> </p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.noblespirit.com/B/B1052/44.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>Bulgaria</b> </p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.noblespirit.com/B/B1052/100.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>Hungary</b> </p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.noblespirit.com/B/B1052/255.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, just a word of warning.&nbsp; The pictures above are hosted on the eBay seller&#039;s website, so they might be taken offline at any time (since the auction is already over).&nbsp; So get the information before it&#039;s gone....</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Have a great rest of your weekend!</p><p><br /></p><p>- Andrew[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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