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Help identifying some coins

I have been going through an box of random darkside coins trying to identify them. I was hoping someone could help me out with these. Sorry for the lousy scans.

Thanks in advance
Steve

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  • newsmannewsman Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭
    The one on the left is a 10 para coin from Egypt, AH1277, year 9

    Edited to fix regnal year after closer examination of the coin. image
  • farthingfarthing Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭
    Sure Newsman, I spend all this time paging through my Krause to find the answer for the first coin and you've already beat me too it! image

    The third is a Japanese 10 Yen, though I cannot tell the date from the scan.

    Except for the last one, the others are cash coins. I could not even attempt to determine the country of origin of these (China, Korea, Japan) much less attribute them.
    R.I.P. Wayne, Brad
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  • farthingfarthing Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭
    The last is from The Republic of China. The denomination is 10 Dollars, dated year 72 (1983). If features Chiang Kai-shek on the obverse. The value is less than $1.
    R.I.P. Wayne, Brad
    Collecting:
    Conder tokens
    19th & 20th Century coins from Great Britain and the Realm
  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    The second and fifth coins are from China, circa 1890 to 1908, minted in Guangzhou. The sixth coin is also Chinese, from the Qianlong reign, 1736-96. The middle coin is from China too probably 18th century. If you turn it over, we can see which reign period it comes from.
  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    Oh, there are two scansimage

    The middle coin is from the Jiaqing reign, 1796-1821.
  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    And you can enlarge the pictures! Cool. The Japanese 10 yen is 1952 (showa 27). More to come....
  • sumnomsumnom Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭
    And another thing.....

    The two oldest Chinese coins were minted by the Board of Revenue in Beijing.
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