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2 Coins Please Help Evaluate - Real, Valuable?

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 Posted 02/16/2012  12:40 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add aucoined to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi all. Just discovered this wonderful community. My first post here. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and helping folks like myself.

I have two coins I need help with.
I inherited both from my parents and just came across them in some of their stuff. My father collected coins as a young boy and so did my grandfather, so they were likely passed down. I lost my parents young so never really got to know of these coins or ask much about them. So I know little about the lineage or value.

1) The first coin looks like a hammered coin, albeit it is pretty well shaped and the edges are of near even height. it is not very thin nor very light, but not seriously heavy either. a pleasant weight.

on one side, in the middle it says:
17
HENRI IV
1/2 FRANC
1607
and around the edge of that side it says: II-LE TRESOR DES ROIS DE FRANCE. COLLECTION BP.

on the other side it has a bust of what looks like henri, and then 1607 below it.
and around the edge it says REX+HENRICVSIIII. D. G. FRANC.ET.NAVARAE. (the a and e are joined together as a fused letter; the + after the rex looks like a stylized cross)



2) the second coin is a Colonial Indian coin. Appears to be tarnished silver. Thick even edges. Hefty. Beautifully made.

on one side it says:
ONE RUPEE INDIA 1919 and then has some arabic writing below it.
all of this is surrounded by a beautiful flower and petal and leaf motif

on the other side it has a bust in the middle and along the circular edge it says GEORGE V KING EMPEROR


Could you please help me evaluate these coins - more specifically are they rare and/or valuable or more sentimental items? And if I were to sell them what should/could each fetch, please? I'm in the United States.

Thank you!

pictures attached. sorry for the blurriness. my camera is having a hard time focusing on the details despite numerous attempts by me. the human eye still wins.

2-Coins-Please-Help-Evaluate---Real,-Valuable?

2-Coins-Please-Help-Evaluate---Real,-Valuable?

2-Coins-Please-Help-Evaluate---Real,-Valuable?

2-Coins-Please-Help-Evaluate---Real,-Valuable?
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 Posted 02/16/2012  12:54 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add amida17 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
. Looks like the first one is actually a Jeton. http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces22565.html



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Jeton
A French token-like counter used on a counting board. The German equivalent is "rechenpfennig".
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 Posted 02/16/2012  1:07 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add matthewarsenault to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I found an older post on what looks like the same Indian Rupee: http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/...PIC_ID=53065
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 Posted 02/16/2012  1:34 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add aucoined to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
thank you both! that's very helpful. looks like it's best to hang on to them for sentimental reasons. thank you!
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The first one is a modern museum/tourist replica; I have seen similar replica ancient Roman coins with much the same reverse design. It would have been part of a set of "treasures of the kings of France", presumably number 17 in the set. A genuine half-franc of 1607 has a floreated cross on the reverse, rather than text only. Example.
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