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berniehoff11berniehoff11 Posts: 4 ✭
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I'm back again and have 3 more coins I can't figure out. Any help would be appreciated.

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    MasonGMasonG Posts: 6,268 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1. Greece
    2. Looks like a replica ancient, it's stamped "COPY"
    3. Japan
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    MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 23,949 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @berniehoff11 said:
    I'm back again and have 3 more coins I can't figure out. Any help would be appreciated.

    You might find this app useful:

    https://coinoscope.com

    Andy Lustig

    Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.

    Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
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    SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭✭✭
    1. Greece, 1 drachma 1976. No longer legal tender (Greece is now on the euro).
    2. As noted above, it's a replica ancient coin. Specifically, a Reader's Digest replica which was attached to a promo about a book on ancient history. The original coin is a silver tetradrachm from the city of Gela, on what is now Sicily. Teh original coin also doesn't have the giant crater on the man-faced-bull's neck; the crater was put there to hold the blob of glue that attached the replica to the card.
    3. Japan 1 yen, Year 59 of the Showa Emperor (Hirohito), which converts to AD 1984. Still legal tender, face value just slightly under 1 US cent.

    None are particularly of value or interest to a collector; they're typical "three for a dollar" scratchtray items.

    Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
    Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"

    Apparently I have been awarded one DPOTD. B)
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