Got a Coin, Need Help Identifying!
bmahaffey
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I got this coin and I have no clue what it is. Obverse shows a bust, and the reverse shows a wreath and a shield. The only text I can make out appears to be a date and it says "189?" on the obverse.
Any ideas?
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Post it on the World coin forum.
That poor coin did all it's work in commerce, and then some!
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That's from the Dominican Republic.
Yep, Dominican Republic. The date looks like it is to the right of the bust... that means it's the 1897 type and that date seems visible but faint. (The 1891 type has the date under the wreath on smaller denominations or under the chin on larger ones.) Can't tell size from your images, but you are down to ten centavos, twenty centavos, half peso or peso. The denomination would be to the left of the bust. All of these denominations would have been coined at the Philadelphia Mint on behalf of the Dominican Republic.
These coins were struck in Paris,France!
Nope, the mint mark A is the Paris mintmark (where the dies were prepared), but they were coined in Philadelphia.
The above excerpt is from Foreign Coins Struck At United States Mints, Charles Altz et al, Whitman Publishing, 1965.
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That's some interesting info I wasn't aware of! Krause needs to update their information!
PS I have that book and guess I need to read it again!
It's definitely a handy little book that beats paging through Krause if you need to look something up fast. Part of the fun collecting foreign coins minted in the US is reconciling Krause to the US mint reports. Krause has calendar year mintages while the mint reports are mostly based on a fiscal year ending in June, and that book does a great job dealing with that through the early 60s when it was compiled.
Thanks for all of the help @mvs7
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