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New Member
United States
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I work at a gas station and after seeing some weird coins in my drawer I have started to collect them. I am young and new at this so any info is great. I found this coin the other day and can usually find the coin in a google search but I had no luck. Any info on this coin is great. I know that it is not old but it is interesting. Also, where I can find a value would be nice to, even it is face value. Thank you in advance!   |
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Australia
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Australia
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 mooshub Brit 20 new pence face value 32 cents US |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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, mooshub! Rule of thumb: GB/UK doesn't put their country on coins. |
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Australia
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They don't put their country on the postage stamps as well
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Australia
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Because they don't believe there are people who don't know Elisabeth II.
Well, neater do I.
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Germany
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Maybe they had patterns that said "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", then looked at the sizes of the circulation coins, and ... ;)
Christian
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Valued Member
United States
318 Posts |
Nice coin! Wish I had it in my foreign coin collection. Down here in New Orleans, all I ever see are Canadian pennies and once every 10 years I get a Canadian dime.(both of which I keep)
I don't even see Mexican money. Don't know what they have against us, but there are none to be found down here.
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New Member
 United States
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Yeah I think it is really neat and beautiful. A guy at work paid me with it thinking it was a penny and when I was giving the next person their change I noticed it and set to the side to look at later.
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Valued Member
United States
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If you want to find values for foreign coins like this I would recommend picking up a cheap foreign coin book maybe from Amazon or ebay, even an outdated one would give you an idea of value relative to other coins of that denomination and age from that country |
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United States
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,kazuma78! |
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United States
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why thank you fredd! This forum is awesome, so much knowledge to gain here
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United States
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Kaz, Let me attempt to save you some $s by recommending that you not purchase a book to price the ever changing values of foreign coins. Instead, you may want to initially consider visiting the following web sites which have proven to me to be indispensable insofar as pricing and identifying regular, variety, and generally difficult-to-identify foreign coins: 1) This first site is excellent for general retail values of regular and variety foreign coins. A related picture of the coin is provided about 70% of the time along with an up-to-date price that always appears correctly: http://www.ngccoin.com/poplookup/Wo...e-Guide.aspx2) I use this next site whenever I encounter a coin that is impossible to identify. This place is the next best solution for coin identification compared to preparing a digital scan of a coin for uploading to the CC for identification. The pricing, however, is not that accurate and needs to be updated more frequently unfortunately. But once you identify the coin here you can then head back to the above web site at NGC for accurate and current retail prices: http://www.coinquest.com/cgi-bin/cq...-search-formI hope you find these places helpful in your endeavors. mdpmedia |
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United Kingdom
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I've never visited those sites before - they are quite good for identification purposes and getting "ballpark2 figures for values. The few I looked up on the ncgcoin site looked to undervalue them - but as long as you know that (prices do tend to go up) it's a very useful online tool. I did notice at the top of the other site the words... "CoinQuest works best for coins dated between 1700 and 1940. Almost all coins after 1940 are worth face value unless they are made of gold or silver. " I'm not sure I agree whith that. Certainly most coins after this date would have to be uncirculated to be worth a premium - but I think many would actually be worth a small premium - particually in the 1940-1960 range - and that's not really accounting for varieties. I suspect that trying to realise that premium would be difficult. Online places like ebay would take the "profit" in fees etc., but in theory I think saying that Almost all coins after 1940 are worth face value is quite harsh. |
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