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thingee Pillar of the Community United States 2177 Posts	Posted 09/29/2007 3:43 pm I've recently gotten some of these coins and I think they are very interesting and attractive. Most are from between 1900 and 1950. I may like to add to these. I think the ones I have are pretty cheap but I'm really enjoying them. But out of curiousity and if I happen to see something cheap with higher value or collectable I also may be interested and grab it. So my question is which coins of the coind (German, Swiss, francs, groschen } types and dates to look out for if I happen to run across? Report this Post to the Staff

thingee Pillar of the Community United States 2177 Posts	Posted 09/29/2007 4:17 pm Here are a few of the coins I've recently aquired. Image: IMG_6492germFRANgro.jpg 88.13 KB Report this Post to the Staff
echizento Moderator United States 23731 Posts	Posted 09/29/2007 5:17 pm These are all common coins, If you were to come across a French 1943 1 Franc KM#885a.1 that would be a rare find. Report this Post to the Staff
Kreuzer Valued Member Spain 58 Posts	Posted 09/30/2007 04:11 am The coins from Central Europe in 1900-1945 are very interesting because you can see the evolution from old types to modern coins through dictatorships (Italy, Germany)They are not expensive and it is possible to find beautiful ones (Italian coins, for example) Report this Post to the Staff
augsburger Pillar of the Community Germany 1064 Posts	Posted 09/30/2007 06:42 am I don't have access to my german books or magazines until xmas, but I would say that swiss coins are boring, as most of the designs have remained almost the same for 150 years, yet they added one star in the 1980s, so count the stars and look out for the reversing of the the reverse, it is now american in style, upsidedown. Austrian coins are very cheap, I am not sure why, you cna get very old coins for €1 or €2, but collectable, and they don't have mintmarks which bring up the prices of the german coins. Bascially the german and austrian coins you have are worth €1 or less there. Some german coins are worth a lot, a 2 mark coin from the early 1950s, a 50 pfennig with reichspfennig from about 1926-27 is like €1000 or something. The regional coins are worth quite a bit as they were produced in very small numbers in many cases. Report this Post to the Staff
swamperbob Pillar of the Community United States 5362 Posts	Posted 09/30/2007 08:05 am If you like the coins and find them interesting - go for it. We all have different tastes so don't worry that the coins are CHEAP. Buy what you really like. When I was a kid (about 10 in 1957) - I loved early US silver dollars and had a chance to but a nearly VF 1799 US dollar for $12.50. But my Uncle (the big coin collector in the family who was also my God-Father) said they were common cheap coins and they would never be worth anything. So my folks made me buy 6 1957 proof sets because it was a "BETTER INVESTMENT". Check the prices and you will see that conventional wisdom was wrong. The early US dollars were low mintage but unpopular. The moral is look for the unpopular and underpriced coins. Rarity is never bad, but sometimes it is not appreciated. Swiss coins may have boring designs, but there are numerous and still inexpensive doubled dies - especially in the 5 Rappen series. I have over 30 different varieties so far. These are hub doubled dies with rather small but clear rotations. As far as I know, there are no catalogs for these varieties, but at 15 to 20 cents each for EF coins - how can you pass them up? Most of the doubled dies occur BEFORE 1955 with the majority in the 1930s. The early Austrian coins (in the copper series) are very inexpensive because they were made in huge numbers and didn't circulate much. The silver types are far more worn and harder to get in high grades but they were still made in very large numbers comparitively. Supply and demand still controls the price of coins. Report this Post to the Staff
chrisild Pillar of the Community Germany 1238 Posts	Posted 09/30/2007 6:28 pm quote: look out for the reversing of the the reverse, it is now american in style, upsidedown The American style is what Switzerland used until about 25 years ago. Since that time all their coins have been, errm, normal. Christian Report this Post to the Staff
thingee Pillar of the Community United States 2177 Posts	Posted 09/30/2007 8:54 pm I really like the classy female depictions on the early fFrench coins. Two of them are posted above. Hopefully I can find more where I got these. If anyone would like to trade any they have for any BU U.S. State Quarters or other foreign coins in my (small) collection please send me an email! Report this Post to the Staff
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