What are these coins?
cheesewhizman
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Hello, I was told to come here to see what I have. I bought a bag of coins in a California antique shop for $50 and found some cool coins in it. I need help with figuring out what they are though. Thanks for helping!
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Sorry about the terrible image quality
Hopefully this is easier to see
You should pluck the silver out of there... the Canada $1(worth @ $10 by itself), Canada 5 cent, the larger Brit coin lower left, the large unreadable lower left. Also pull out the 1859 Canada cent and take a good pic of the dated side. You have 5 Chinese , lower right that you need to check out for which dynasty. The pics aren't good enough to see what's left.
You have @ little bit of everything there from Canadian to European to Oriental.
If you have an individual coin you want information on, supply a clear photo of
both sides with your question. Start a separate thread for each coin.
The 1956 Canadian $1 is 80% silver, 0.6 oz and worth about $29 US.
I see French, English, Canadian, Chinese, German States and others. I recommend that you group them by country then take photos. Then we'll be better able to help.
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Some interesting coins there. Nothing of major value by itself, but $10-20 here and there all adds up.
The problem, of course, is to get them to the right collector/buyer. eBay is probably your best bet, and that’s a lot of work and fees.
It's always difficult to help in these multi-coin threads, especially when obverse and reverse pics are all jumbled up. Here's one example:
Clockwise from the top:
Portugal 5 reis, looks like 1878. https://en.numista.com/7124
Guernsey 8 doubles 1864. https://en.numista.com/5044
Can't quite make the next one out, I think it's another Portuguese coin.
British East India Company 1/12 anna, can;t read the date. https://en.numista.com/16616
Mexico 10 centavos. Can;t see the date.
Great Britain shilling 1915. Sterling silver (.925 fine). https://en.numista.com/4717
Brazil 200 reis 1898. https://en.numista.com/4332
That took me 15 minutes to look up.
A lot of this, you can look up yourself: just type the lettering you can read into Google, and you will almost certainly quickly find out what the coin is. Then, look it up in Numista, or the NGC database.
The only ones that might be thrown off by a standard internet search are "the things that aren;t actually coins". FOr example, the brassy one that says "To Hanover" is not a coin, but a "Cumberland Jack", a piece of play money sold with packs of cards in England in the 1840s and 1850s. It bears a political message that was relevant in Britain at the time: "we like Queen Victoria, and the Germans are losers for writing anti-female succession laws and refusing to allow her to become their Queen too".
This will only leave you with the ones that don;t have Latin letters. The Greek and Russian ones, you'd be surprised how accurate that typing "letters that are close enough" will work. For example, typing "10 AENTA" into Google will find Greek 10 lepta coins, even though "AENTA" is actually Greek lettering for "LEPTA". East Asian coins, which you won't be able to "type into Google" easily because they're written in CHinese characters, will prove more problematic. For example:
These are Chinese, except for the one at the very bottom (with the waves on the back) which is Japanese. Most of the round ones with the square hole are from the 1700s or early 1800s, and very cheap and common despite their age.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
Apparently I have been awarded the DPOTD twice.
Thanks for the help!
And to go with the $20 Canada dollar, the US 2 and half-dime are about $20 for the pair. As said above, you should google them, or find a site that specializes in foreign coins and may have some tables/price lists.
I guess it wasn't so good deal. I'm watching nothing expensive...
Peace.
Silver is nearing $50/troy oz, so the Canadian silver has .6 oz per dollar, so the dollar and the quarter are 3/4 oz at $50 is $37.50. I think that you came out ahead, just with the silver there. It was a nice try but you're not bankrupt.