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Rare Coin Found Inside Kinder Egg

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 Posted 02/12/2015  8:08 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
An Italian States 5 lire coin from 1848 should be a large silver coin, 25 grams - the same size as a North American silver dollar - and way too big to fit into a Kinder egg (here in Australia, they're marketed as "Kinder Surprise"). I've seen several replicas of the Lombardy-Venetia 5 lire coin on the forum before; the genuine ones look like this. The replicas often have garbled legends with nonsense jumbled-up letters. I now suspect that the "coin" posted in this old thread from someone else in Canada is also a Kinder Surprise / magic kit replica.

So I'm afraid that whoever paid $200 for the OP's "coin" paid about $198 too much.
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 Posted 02/12/2015  9:15 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Vancouver IslandCoinKid to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
yes my grandma used to buy me them all the time. she doesn't anymore... anyways neat find!
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 Posted 02/16/2015  10:56 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add B-stacker to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Kinder eggs are made in Italy so I would suspect there is a small chance the coin was real and used to test the toy, then maybe mistakenly left in the toy...? Would have been a dumb employee playing with it or maybe leaving it in their on purpose. They wouldn't put dirty coins into a kinder toy, so if the coin was real it was just a huge fluke
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