How Far Back Can We Go? Second Edition! Ended At 1492 Waiting On 1491

This is a rather sad example of sg93's lovely coin, but there is a story linked to it!

This battered 1950 penny is one of the first coins I remember collecting. In the couple of years before February 1971, I was saving as many different low-value British coins as I could afford from my pocket money. One day I was with my parents on a shopping trip to Marks & Spencer - I hated that store, as my Mother would spend ages looking at skirts and dresses! When my Father paid at the till, the bill came to 19 shillings and 11 pence, and he let me take the penny change. The cashier put this penny in my hand obverse-up, and I already knew enough about coins to realise that it could only be 1949, 1950 or 1951. When I turned it over, my emotions were mixed: I was delighted to get a key-date coin for free, but also very annoyed that anyone would intentionally damage such a scarce coin!
It has since been replaced in my album with a much better specimen, but I still keep it for sentimental reasons.

Here's a 1950 Hong Kong 10 cent piece. It was one of the first foreign coins I ever got, and I still have it! The rims are fine, but the image was scanned through the mylar it is in, so it looks odd.

@GR58 with a bit of luck you could get a 1950 for less than what it's worth at the relevant grade, from my experience watching 1950's and 1951's on ebay.

anyway, seeing a key date in bad shape is painful enough, wouldn't like to imagine seeing a 1951 end up like that, although it'd make a great filler for a 'miser' like me who only goes for bargains :D

the 40's coming up soon. I've got a number of coins I'd like to share, that's if I can find them in the pile of 2x2's. been starting to collect coins from as many countries as were involved in WWII for 1945, can't decide what to post already.

Harry, your half crown is in a fair grade too (VF+) despite 20 odd years of circulation. I only have some Georges VI silver half crowns matching that grade. But those were withdrawn and hoarded after few years.

SAUDI ARABIA 1950 (AH1370) 1 RIYAL; 0.917 silver; 30mm; mintage= 'millions' :


It's kinda crusty but the only one I've ever found from my favorite pickin' source- the melt tub!
Yeah it's all squiggles and wriggles and if one of these ever showed up with a major die crack it would look like part of the inscription. Some collectors turn their noses up at coins they can't read, but it's a simple thing to learn to translate the dates and values on AH coins. Most of the major graphic symbols are country-specific, and as for all that squiggly writing, good luck. Most of it is just slogans and politics, worthy of being ignored unless you have a deep fascination with strange languages and cultures.

mysilveryears ... I do have a couple coins similar to yours .. well as far as lines and for me not knowing how to figure out the year.

One is from Egypt ... 10 something, I think it is from
1910 to 1913 ... I have looked at it several times and
can not figure out the year.

1949 Pakistan One Anna



Steve

1949 10 cents from Hong Kong