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#4 Indian 1/4 Rupee-don't know how these are condition graded. VF? Perhaps in the ballpark of ten rand. Realize these are all waaay outside my areas of even mild comfort and are wild guesses- but if demand and rarity are similar to the 1943 1/4 rupee here
http://www.jakesmp.net/FCD_Foreign_...oins_23.html
that's be in the ballpark of ten rand.
I think it is 50% silver. I didn't see a mintmark, which means it was minted in Calcutta;
http://www.jfcampbell.us/india/george6/george6.htm

Thank you Don, this helps me big time!!

I realize that my coins are of no value; I am totally new to this (coin collecting) and have no knowledge at all. With the coins I have, I am sure I can learn allot of the history which I think is very important. If you feel that I am wasting your valuable time, please do not hesitate to tell me. I will do my own research although it will take me longer.

I don't know what kind of comment is "holy smokes"!!

Please let me know how I can remove my postings from this forum.

Thanks
Philisty

Hi Philisty,
I enjoy looking at your pics. It teaches me a bit about some coins I know very little about. The history of those Indian 1/4 rupees was interesting to me- they went from predominantly silver to 50% silver, to nickel within a few years due to hoarding of silver coins in India during WW2. Whoever put your coins together either traveled, or was exposed to folks from all over...
You have done an excellent job with the pics!
give folks some time-Carl Tromp and Ageka likely nknow many of them by sight...
Don

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Originally posted by SFDukie

Hi Philisty,
I enjoy looking at your pics. It teaches me a bit about some coins I know very little about. The history of those Indian 1/4 rupees was interesting to me- they went from predominantly silver to 50% silver, to nickel within a few years due to hoarding of silver coins in India during WW2. Whoever put your coins together either traveled, or was exposed to folks from all over...
You have done an excellent job with the pics!
give folks some time-Carl Tromp and Ageka likely nknow many of them by sight...
Don

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I had a quick look and saw many French, Dutch , English and a German coin
However 10 days ago I had a rearender with minor whiplash and damaged ribs so I will not be of much help for four weeks because sitting
at the computer is too painfull
So Philisty forgive me for not being able to help right now
Ageka

Hello Philisty,

i just went over your picks, I know all of them, when I have time tonight after dinner, (and my beloved wife let's me up,) I will make you a list with the coins after pic's 1 to 5, don did my job there already ;-)

I will list them then in country, year, and KM number, if you want more info abouth a coin then, just send me the number that it has, and I get you more information abouth it o.k.?

Greetings, Carl

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Tkanks Carl that will be of great help, yes Don did a great job with the others, I checked the links and wow great information.

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Hello again philisty, a little later than I hoped, but fell asleep after dinner, so now, the next morning, it's your time ;-)

i start with listing after pick 6, and see the numbers as your picks are listed, I will make a small comment with each coin so far as needed, first bunch is from 6 to 30.

6./ Verry dark picture, Great Britain, 6 pence can't read the date, but as far as I can see one of the KM (Krause&ZMishler catalog) 875

7./ 6 Pence, Great Britain, KM 862, 1948, copper/nickel (co/ni)

8./ 50 centimes or 1/2 franc, France, KM 854, 1917, Silver, minted 48.629.000

9./ 1 franc, France, KM 925.1, 1960, nickel, minted 406.375.000

10./ 10 centimos, Spain, KM 790, 1959, Aluminium (Alu), minted 900.000.000

11./ 2 francs, France, KM 886a.1, 1946, Alu, minted 34.930.000

12./ 2 francs, France, KM 886a.1, 1947, Alu, minted 78.984.000

13./ 5 francs, France, KM 888b.1, 1949, Alu, minted 203.252.000, this is one with a closed 9 in the date, some years are known with an open and/or a closed 9 in it.

14 + 15./ 1 peseta, Spain, KM 775, this serie has something nice, your two picks show the dates 1953 and 1947, but......, there is a second date on the coin!!
Next to the word "UNA" you see on each side a star, in the first star is 19, in the second star a number bethween 48 and 67, that is the actual date that the coin is struck!!, but, on your pick's I cand read it, so something you can do yourself, use a magnifiying glass for it! the coins are made from alu/bronze.

16./ 3 pence, Southern Rhodesia, KM 16.b, 1947, co/ni, minted 8.000.000

17./ 3 pence, Southern Rhodesia, KM 20, 1951, co/ni, minted 5.600.000

18./ 3 pence, Southern Rhodesia, KM 16, 1940, silver, minted 1.200.000

19./ 3 pence, Rhodesia & Nyasaland, KM 3, 1964, co/ni, minted 3.600.000

20./ 6 pence, Rhodesia & Nyasaland, KM 4, 1962, co/ni, minted 2.800.000

21 to 24, all the same coins as I can see, differend gradings, pick 22 looks the best to me, 6 pence/5 cents from Rhodesia, KM 1, 1964, minted 13.500.000 (those are from the British Protectorate)

25./ 1/2 cent, Rhodesia, KM 9, 1970, bronze, minted 10.000.000 (this is a republic type)

26./ 2 1/2 escudos, Mozambique, KM 78, 1953, co/ni, minted 4.000.000.
Mozambique is a former Portugese colonie, untill the independence at 25 june 1975.

27./ 20 centavos, Portugal, KM 584, 1964, bronze, minted 7.010.000

28./ 10 Reis, Portugal, KM 532, 1892, mintmark A, Bronze, minted 5.769? This is a verry nice and interresting piece, catalog faleu is not high, but for collectors it's a nice "like to have it" !!

29./ 20 centavos, Mozambique, KM 71, 1941, bronze, minted 2.000.000

30./ 10 centavos, Mozambique, KM 83, 1960, bronze, minted 3.750.000

So far for the first untill 30, now I will check the rest of them, when I'm finished with that I will list them here.

Greetings, and have a nice day

Carl

And here for the last few numbers from your list, the following information............

56./ 1 penny, Great Britain, KM 927, 1971, bronze, minted 1.521.666.000

57./ the same coin or picture as above?!

58./ 10 new pence, Great Britain, KM 912, 1968, co/ni, minted 336.143.000

59./ 50 new pence, Great Britain, KM 913, 1969, co/ni, minted 188.400.000

60./ 10 cents, Netherlands, KM 182, 1969, nickel, minted 29.100.000, privy mark fish, this serie went from 1950 untill 1980, the period that queen Juliana ruled, from 1980, untill date, her doughter Queen Beatrix does the honeurs of ruling the Netherlands, and Dutch Antillies.

61./ 25 cents, Netherlands, KM 183, 1963, nickel, minted 18.000.000

62./ 5 cents, Netherlands, KM 181, bronze, minted 22.000.000, this is the small date type, with a sharp end of the tail from the 9 in the date.

63./ 1 cent, Netherlands, KM 180, bronze, minted 54.000.000

and as your last pick shows, number 64, 1 gulden, Netherlands, KM 184a, 1971, nickel, minted 50.000.000

Anny more picks to identify?, I'm always happy when I can help out somebody, for now, I go to my well deserved Obstler, with a nice glass of beer.

Have a nice weekend, Greetings,

Carl

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wow, this is amazing, how do you know all this?

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Oooh, that's the easy part, I collect already more then 20 years, worldcoins, by type and year, there fore I have the well known Krause catalogs from 1601-date, for european coins several books and catalogs that I swapped with fellow collectors here in europe, I've got the Coincraft's standard Catalogue for british coins sinds 1066, several german catalogs, auction books, those have a lot of pictures, books with Latin Legends for Coins, etc etc.......

When you want to know the history of coins, AND the coin related items, like mints, mintplaces, way of storage, trading and swapping, shipping, conserving and so on, you need to start with a library, how else can you otherwise start?

At the moment I almost finished the lovely job of overlisting my 1900 till date coins from the 29th in the 32 edition of the krause, so, every page in the book is turned over and schecked, if there are coins marked on that I have to list in my new book, every page in the new book is checked, so if things are changed, that I check if how and if I got one of them........
But becouse I use my catalogs a lot, it's not so difficult to know where a coin comes from.
It's just a little knowledge.

Greetings, Carl