A few neat world coin items at the local dealer

While I'm familiar with Wayte-Raymond coin albums from the lightside, I never realized that another company, Mehgrig, had a similar album format that apparently preceded Wayte-Raymond. More to the point, I have never seen this world coin "album" before. I'm not sure when it was made, but presumably in the 1930s or early 1940s (Since Germany is not designated as East or West, my assumption is that it predates the end of WWII).
It's fairly large, as coin folders go, measuring 9.25 inches by 12.5 inches, and with the coins in it, weighs in at a hefty 2.5 pounds.
The dealer wouldn't sell just the folder... or let me cherrypick any coins out of it. it was an all-or-nothing proposition. I decided to bite, even though the price was likely more than the coins within are worth (most of the coins are of nominal value), but it's a neat historical item.
(Apologies for the concave sides on the pics; I forgot that I left an add-on-lens on the camera.)





Then I also liberated a 2-coin Philippine set from the melt bin:





It's fairly large, as coin folders go, measuring 9.25 inches by 12.5 inches, and with the coins in it, weighs in at a hefty 2.5 pounds.
The dealer wouldn't sell just the folder... or let me cherrypick any coins out of it. it was an all-or-nothing proposition. I decided to bite, even though the price was likely more than the coins within are worth (most of the coins are of nominal value), but it's a neat historical item.
(Apologies for the concave sides on the pics; I forgot that I left an add-on-lens on the camera.)
Then I also liberated a 2-coin Philippine set from the melt bin:




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Don
Of course, if you ever want to sell it . . .
DPOTD-3
'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery'
CU #3245 B.N.A. #428
Don
BTW, mine is not for sale. I bought it for a YPN (Young Pre-Numismatist).
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Jim
<< <i>The font suggests 1950s, but the fact that it includes Estonia (which ceased to exist in 1940 after being invaded by the USSR) suggests it may be earlier. >>
Many other countries in the album had ceased to exist by the time the album was made - Danzig, Chinese Turkestan, Slovakia and Zanzibar, for example. It appears to be a list of 20th century coin-issuing countries, whether the country was in existence at the time of album issue or not - which is pretty much what it says on the cover.
It has Israel (1948) and Pakistan (1948) but not most French Union territories such as Reunion (1948) and French Oceania (1949), Taiwan (1949, though the coin filed in the album under "China" is actually Taiwanese), Saarland (1954) nor Ghana (1958). So "sometime during 1948" seems a reasonable suggestion for album production, or at least for the album producer acquiring their list of coin-issuing countries. It is of course possible for the album to be produced and sold for several years with an "outdated" list of countries.
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P.S. MacArthur set not included; that was sold a while back.
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Thanks for finding the 1947 MacArthur coins. Sometimes I am just not sure what to say to someone that would contemplate melting them
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