Help Identifying 10 Franc Coin | French

France 10 Francs 1970s/1980s KM940

Krause lists prices you could expect to pay in the USA for a coin. Even then they have been know to be way off in both directions. Coins generally sell for more in their own countries than they do abroad. Which I suspect is the reason most people say Krause undervalues. The only way to be sure what a coin is worth is to see what other people in your market area are paying for it. Check out completed ebay listings.

malissadawn,
I don't how diverse your collection is, but you should find auctions/sites in the countries that you have. You will see the best prices there I would think. You could make a link to them and routinely inspect. That is what I do. Also some of the bigger auction houses like Heritage may have them as well.

Maybe we should start a list of the best places to acquire prices, so everybody could join in.
I would think that members of each country has their best sites

What do ya think?

I think if krause were a little more understandable.... I wouldnt have boxes full of unidentified coins. Then again, I cant possible imagine myself doing a better job if I had to list all the coins in the world. I think most confusing is when coins look exactly the same but are actually from different places. that confuses the heck out of me. I always wonder when I sell something for $1 if I have made a big mistake. Would probably take me years to identify everything correctly and yet I keep getting more. LOL

Actually most modern European coins are pretty easy to identify - you don't even have to deal with "non-Latin" characters. In the case of this coin, you have a (somewhat stylized) map of the country, the "RF" in the middle, and the country name (Republique Française) is even spelled out. Sounds pretty French to me.

Sure, Switzerland is a little challenging since they use Latin versions of the country name. But it's fairly easy to look those up. And the pound and euro coins, well, with pounds and pence featuring Queen Elizabeth you just have to check whether there is a country/territory name. If not, it's a coin from the UK. For the euro and cent coins, the primary "mark" is the word euro. But since the number of euro countries has been growing, all newly designed pieces (since 2004 or so) have to have some kind of country identifier. That can be the ISO code (e.g. BE or FI), the common short name (e.g. Malta) or something else (e.g. "Koningin der Nederlanden").

Now of course I would not want to keep anybody from asking. Heck, when it comes to coins with Arabic(-only) or Chinese(-only) text, I'm usually lost ...

Christian