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The 40s are close enough that they sneak through the sticky fingers sifting through "unsorted" lots. Nobody's gonna grab a corroded zinc or pitted aluminum coin when there's silver to find.
That's also where I get the majority of mine. I even manage to find the occasional silver coin. I finally sat down and counted countries last night. I have one, or more, from 25 different countries. But, 4 of them aren't on the list that GraceOutcast gave to me from wikipedia. I will have to do some more research. I am one of those that takes everything I read on wikipedia with a big grain of salt! |
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At one stage, a company has attempted to produce clay coins at the near end of the war: Those clays coins are pretty cool. If my (poor) memory is correct, they made 1, 5, and 10 Sen clay coins in 1945. I'm at work, so I can't check my trusty Krause! Thanks for the reminder. I think that will be my next purchase! |
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I am working at acquiring a type set of Vichy France, and a type set of the Third Reich. Those are the coin types I most associate with WWII. They are also what I am most likely to find for 'junk' prices that my budget can afford. I believe that one of the Scandinavian countries (Norway?) in exile had a coin minted, which is on my list. As for other participating countries, I probably have several, but I don't actively seek them out.
I do not limit myself to WWII, however. I enjoy the historical aspect of coins, and WWII is only one part of that. Think of the history of France from late 1700s to present, or Germany from mid-1800s to present. This provides a lot of coins to collect, all with fascinating history. This is also true for numerous 'colonies' of France, Great Britain, and the Netherlands that attained their independence shortly after WWII.
In 1993, the US Mint made a WWII 50th Anniversary commemorative set you may be interested in.
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Schmidty, while going thru some boxes yesterday I found a 1941 5 pfennig coin, it's very black but the swastika is visible. Is that what you collect? Aside from the War Nickels, dimes, cents and quarters, that's the only other piece I have. |
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I collect German and U.S.-Philippine Issues and Dutch from WWII and Before.
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while going thru some boxes yesterday I found a 1941 5 pfennig coin, it's very black but the swastika is visible. Is that what you collect? Yep, that's one of many countries I am collecting. German coins are one of my favorite. Did you find it in a box of random world coins? I haven't had a lot of luck with that. At least not with German coins. Even though they aren't worth much, I think people see that swastika and pull them out. It's a very powerful (and notorious) image. |
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I've been casually collecting type coins from my birth year, 1945, although I was born 2 days after the War ended on August 14. I'm not confining myself to just parts of the world affected by the war, however. So far I have about 40 coins in hand, all nicely cirulated except for a "made-up" USA uncirc set.
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My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseriesMy numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htmRegularly updated at least once a month. |
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I do not limit myself to WWII, however. I enjoy the historical aspect of coins, and WWII is only one part of that. Think of the history of France from late 1700s to present, or Germany from mid-1800s to present. This provides a lot of coins to collect, all with fascinating history. I absolutely agree, wheatiefan. I think a large percentage of coin collectors must, to some extent, also be history-buffs. Collecting coins from a period in history is a great way to hold that history in your hand. While I am searching for WWII coins I always have my eyes peeled for coins from former communist countries. I like to get them from the years just before and just after the fall of communism in Europe. More often than not, there is a major design change when they switch from communism to democracy. You mentioned possibly Norway having "exile" coins. I believe the Netherlands also minted coins in exile for their colonies. |
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pls, You get a birthday collection and a WWII collection at the same time! My dad was born in '45 also. I suppose I can make a birth-year collection for him at the same time as my WWII! gxseries, Very nice web-site!  I am going to use it to help me with my collection. Especially the Japanese page. It is going to help me immensely!  You mention on your Soviet page that is illegal to export coins older than '57 out of Russia. Do you know the reason behind this? It would explain why I have yet to run across a WWII era USSR coin! |
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schmidty, the reason why Russia does a ban of exporting anything older than 1957 is an attempt to control exportation it's cultural artifacts. This also applies to coins unfortunately. This does not mean that all coins struck before 1957 are rare although there are some key dates that are certainly difficult to obtain as many Russians are just sucking them worldwide and these will never be exported out again. For a rough idea of how rare some coins are, in particular the WWII era coins, here is a site: http://www.arcamax.ru/price_reg21-58.htmPrices are in rubles and t means thousands. A rough idea is to divide the figures by 20. Here is my site: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/rus_n...921_1957.htmBest of luck! |
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qxseries, Thanks for the links! I was checking out the Russian price list web-site you link to. I just want to be sure I am understanding the page correctly. The 1K, 2K, etc. across the top are: 1 Kopeck, 2 Kopeck, etc. Correct? Also, you wrote about it: Quote:
Prices are in rubles and t means thousands. A rough idea is to divide the figures by 20. So, as an example: The 1944, 10 Kopeck coin is worth 1500 ruble. Correct? I just googled Ruble to US Dollar and they are giving an exchange rate of 1R=$.0295 So that makes it approximately $44US Thanks for the help, and please correct me if I am wrong. And again, great web-site. I can see it being a big help for me! |
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That's right schmidty, although the price list is a bit outdated as well as the recent ruble devaluation. I personally would recommend dividing by 20 to account for the specified reason. Hence 1500 ruble listed on the site MIGHT be about 75 dollars. For instance, a decent VF+ 1922 ruble is somewhere around 200usd at the minimum I have seen. But again, don't take this online version of catalog and let it dictate how much you must spend.  Of course if you find a coin that's way under that value, as some have been lucky finding those key dates in a dealer's junk box, you win. |
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Thanks, gxseries. You read my mind. I thought the "divide by 20" should be more like 30. But with the list being outdated, 20 makes sense. I think I will work a little harder on finding USSR coins before "hard to find" changes to "scarce"! I haven't checked out your Japanese page too much yet. Do you get into the Japanese occupation money from WWII? Do you have, or know of, a list of any kind? I guess I haven't looked too closely in my 1900-present Krause. (I'm at work right now) Do you know if there is a "fairly" complete list in there? I don't necessarily need to get one of all of them, but I would like to make sure I have a fairly representative collection. You have been a lot of help. I'll try not to bug you too much!  Too late!?  |
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schmidty, while most Japanese occupied banknotes and coins can be relatively easy, some can be considerably difficult such as the Japanese occupied Malaya banknotes. Even more challenging is a complete set of the Japanese occupied Indonesia tin, aluminum coinage and Japanese occupied Manchuko. Here is one example and this is the more common example out of all of them: http://cgi.ebay.com/1943-JAPAN-OCCU...AU_W0QQitemZ a href= https://www.coincommunity.com/go/link.asp?target=https://www.ebay.com/itm/-/370110936358 target= _blank rel= nofollow 370110936358 /a QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item a href= https://www.coincommunity.com/go/link.asp?target=https://www.ebay.com/itm/-/370110936358 target= _blank rel= nofollow 370110936358 /a &_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72:1205%7C66:2%7C65:12%7C39:1%7C240:1318%7C301:0%7C293:2%7C294:50 That coin is actually struck in 1944, not 1943 |
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