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 Posted 01/02/2012  6:11 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Cajunlady0 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I have way too many foreign pieces to post on here for identification. Is there another way of doing it? Don't want to flood the group with all my paper from all over the world.

I am realy having a hard time looking them up to identify country, year and value.

Any suggestions? Or should I just post them in groups here for everyone to see? OR send pic privately to someone to identify?

Thanks!
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 Posted 01/02/2012  6:15 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bmanofnbc to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Do you have a Krause world coin catalog?
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 Posted 01/02/2012  6:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Cajunlady0 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
No, sorry I do not. I can make out the ones that have the country name, but those Asian ones from the 40s and 50s are killers!
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 Posted 01/02/2012  7:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sel_69l to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Put a group of pieces in a scanner. It is possible to show 20 or more coins in this way. You have to expect that a lot of detail on each coin cannot be shown.
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 Posted 01/02/2012  8:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Cajunlady's posted this here in the Banknotes section, so I assume she's talking about banknotes, not coins.

And unless they're scanned at really low resolution, banknote pics are too big to be uploaded to a CCF post; you'd need to use the CCF gallery or an off-site photo host.

Unfortunately, the best way to learn to identify foreign banknotes is "experience", and the best way to gain experience is to post lots of pics and ask lots of questions. But there are a few shortcuts that might be of assistance.

Learn to recognize distinctive features of each country's notes. The chrysanthemum of Imperial Japan, for example, appears on most pre-war and wartime Japanese notes (see this recent thread for two examples), while similar-looking flowers can appear on notes of Japanese-occupied China. Other national symbols are usually present on notes, such as a coat of arms or a famous person or landmark.

Sort the notes into notes that appear to be all from one country, then post just one example for ID. Then use the ID given to search the entries for that country on a banknote website like the banknotes.com gallery to try to find matches for the other similar notes you have. You then only have to post ones you're still having trouble with.

It also helps to learn to recognize the numerals used in different non-Western countries. Far eastern countries (Japan, China, Korea) often use Chinese numerals. Southeast Asian countries (Thailand, Cambodia, Laos) use local variants of the Khmer numerals. Middle Eastern and North African countries use Arabic numerals. There's a handy table of the different forms of numerals in the index section of each volume of the world banknote and coin catalogues.

Finally, if there's Western-style text or text that's close enough in appearance to Western to be able to type it in, try typing it in, either in a post here on the forum or directly into Google. You'd probably discover that you're not the first person to ask, for example, where a banknote that says "TPANEZA THE HAAAAOE" is from. (That would be from Greece, a close-as-you-can-get to typing "Trapeza tes Ellados", or "Bank of Greece").
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 Posted 01/02/2012  9:12 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Cajunlady0 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for the help, SAP. I have been working on them all day and am only down to about 5 banknotes that I can't identify. (I won't be home tomorrow - taking my dad in for a procedure at the hospital and not sure how long that will take.)

But next chance I get, I will scan them and ask for help after I try again with your links.

FYI: today I identified the following hard ones (at least to me they were hard)

1916 Austria-Hungary - 1
1953 China - ?
1944 Greece - 200 and 2000
1921 Austria - 50
1947-1953 Japan - 10 yen
1938 Soviet Union - 5
1942 Japanese Invasion Money - 10

The rest all had the country name on it that I could decipher. But I still have those last 5 to do. Will try my best when I get back home.

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 Posted 01/03/2012  06:18 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add biggfredd to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The liberry is yer fren. Most have the standard catalog, some have earlier issues that can be checked out.
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Another site that might help..
http://www.katespapermoney.com/category.asp?ID=1
Not as comprehensive as http://worldbanknotegallery.com/index.php
but I managed to idenify most of my banknotes
between the two sites.

Steve
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 Posted 01/03/2012  08:08 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add almingbg to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Don't forget Ron Wise's banknote gallery: http://aes.iupui.edu/rwise/
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 Posted 01/03/2012  10:29 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Cajunlady0 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I am at my wit's end with the rest of these. I give up! I just posted a new thread with the 6 I have left to identify. Maybe I will receive some help.

I will bookmark all the references mentioned in this thread. But, you guys have to remember that I am very new at learning how to identify something that does not have at least some English in it. I don't even do English very well :) , much less another language......so this is really giving me a hard time!

I could always buy a punching bag to take my frustrations out on, I guess.
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