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Thundercoin Pillar of the Community United States 675 Posts	Posted 08/07/2007 9:57 pm I have never been much of a collector of foreign coins, but over the years I had accumulated a few, but hadn't seen them in a long time. The other day I was digging around looking for in an old drawer, and there they were totally forgotten about in a little box. There are easily over 100 coins, some in 2x2's, some not. There are a bunch of early 1900s Britain half penny's, several AU/BU Loonies, a 1917 Canada 5 cent piece, (I'd call it a Half Dime, as it's small and silver). There was also a pretty cool 1943 Australia Shilling with a ram on the reverse side. I am pretty sure someone on this forum has that as an avatar, as I immediately recognized it. All in all without actually counting, there are coins from over 25 different countries, maybe more! I will be doing some inventory and then I may have a few questions. It was a pretty exciting rediscovery. I don't really know whether I will keep the coins or sell them since I am more of a US collector, (likely I'll do a little selling/trading, and keep some that I like more.) Anyway, it was cool to find coins that I had forgotten about! Thundercoin Report this Post to the Staff

Vaslin Pillar of the Community United States 914 Posts	Posted 08/07/2007 10:10 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Spider5689 Pillar of the Community United States 2269 Posts	Posted 08/07/2007 11:02 pm Congratulations on your find. Some of my best finds were hiding in a drawer. Report this Post to the Staff
Peter THOMAS Pillar of the Community Australia 2830 Posts	Posted 08/08/2007 04:44 am G'day, there were two varieties of Australian shilling in 1943: no mintmark - Melbourne - 1.58 million "S" mintmark - San Francisco - 16 million both are 92.5% silver hope that this helps, Peter in Oz Report this Post to the Staff
arthrene Pillar of the Community United States 1713 Posts	Posted 08/09/2007 8:52 pm Australian coins minted in San Francisco? Report this Post to the Staff
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