WHat are these coins? Are there any worth over more then $2? I found them in the garage, there are multiples of each.
You have got some coins from Czarist Russia,Japan,Poland,Germany,& Austria.Some of them are silver,such as the Russian 10 Kopecks & the Japanese coin. Aidan.
But which ones are those? Also what about the East Africa coin, I know your an expert on British Commonwealth COins.
very nice finds, you can look them up in a krause world coin catalog. Like the first two in the picture, 10 kopeks from 1913, 14 respectively. 50% silver .0289oz Y#20a.2 value about $2 each
You definately did good as there are some nice silver in it. The Russian coins are perhaps priced around there thanks to mad buyers popping out from Russia. The Japanese 50 sen is worth at least 2 dollars or so in silver. (Taisho 12, 1923) Mintage is some stunning 185 million, which is the most common of that series. On the other hand if it happened to be Showa 13, it would have easily valued for 200+USD even in a similar condition like yours. It's the keydate for that series.
hanman88, unfortunately I don't have a Showa 13 50 sen coin. That is a rather difficult coin to obtain as the mintage happened to be the lowest. Not going to complain as I got it for free with one of the purchases I made. This is a coin from Showa 12, 1937 (yes just one year off) Remember that characters are to be read from right to left. Notice that your last two characters are different at the bottom line. The only reason why it's so expensive is simply because of the scarce mintage which is 3 million which does sound an awful lot but compared the the next lowest mintage, it's at least 10 million and the average was around 30 million. It's unknown how much of such coins were melted in WWII and hence making the Showa 13 coin much more pricey although I don't agree with the price. Remember, Japan's war didn't start in 1939 like other parts of the world but instead in 1937 due to the Sino-Japanese war. 50 sen appeared back later after WWII in 1946 as an ugly brass coin although the design does look pretty nice That is a 2 year type (or perhaps one), minted only in 1946,7 (1947 is VERY VERY VERY scarce) and the last ever minted 50 sen of Japan happens to be this: Another 2 year type minted in 1947 and 1948. It obviously became evident that sens were getting quite worthless and the 10, 5 and 1 sen were already quite dead by the end of WWII. Hope you enjoyed reading
