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Would you consider these US coins since they were minted there? This coin was minted in San Francisco. I got it as a bonus coin in a lot. From what I read it is very common and not worth much. What would you grade it if you know about these coins?   *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. *** Moved to the US Modern Coin section. |
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United States
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Sorry I know nothing about those but if I had some, I'd keep them and possibly start a new series to collect.
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Russian Federation
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A lot of coins for various odd places in the Pacific were made at US mints during the 1940s; I have a Dutch East Indies coin from that period minted in Philadelphia (don't recall the year though). The Philippines issues, specifically, are sometimes considered " US coins" - not as much due to any mint location, of course, as, you know, actually saying "United States of America" on them; I'm pretty sure that even if they had been minted outside the US, they would've been considered US coins anyway (I seem to recall reading somewhere that some of these early Philippine coins were, in fact, minted outside the US, but I might be confusing them with some other series). |
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United States
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After the Spanish - American war the Philippines became a Territory or common wealth of the United States. This is just from memory, so maybe a expert can correct me if I have some of it wrong. I am thinking it was not until 1947 that the U.S. gave control to the Philippine government. You can see in the back of the Red Book the coins the U.S. made for the Philippines. They also issued currency. Examples   On some of the currency there is President Washington and some has President McKinely   |
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There has been other countries that the U.S. has minted coins for. Hawaii and Panama. There is interesting history on these too. (Hawaii coins are in the Red Book also) I try to pick up nice examples of these coins, to add to my collection.  |
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Yeah these coins have interesting history. A lot of the earlier ones were stuck at the Manilla branch mint of the US MInt. Production was moved back to the US Mint stateside after the country was invaded by japan.
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With regard to the above, technically the Hawaiian issues were minted for the independent Hawaiian Kingdom, the Panama issues were minted for the independent Republic of Panama, but the Philippine issues were minted/printed for the Commonwealth of the Philippines, a US territory akin to what Puerto Rico is now.
It is from the Spanish-American war that the US gained control of Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Cuba (however, the US was forced to grant independence to Cuba, which it did in 1902), and as far as I know, Cuba did not issue coinage after 1898 in any form until after it's independence in 1902.
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The Philippines probably would have become our 51st state after Hawaii if there wasn't a fair bit of disagreement over whether the islands were liberated from Spain, or won. We engaged revolutionaries in a bloody war from 1899-1902, with intermittent guerilla attacks until 1913. The Filipinos grudgingly accepted US rule, and the bulk of 1902-1946 coinage were minted at Denver or San Francisco, with the Manila mint basically providing supplemental coinage. Commonwealth status was granted in 1935, and the utter failure of the Navy to repel the Japanese invasion in 1941-42 basically set the stage for independence following WWII.
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I have a Phillipine note like yours with Victory stamped on the reverse. I think its a 5 peso and also several silver coins and some Panama coins. 1931 1/4 balboa, a key date and 1947 1/2 Balboa. Plus a stack of WWII and Korean War Notes.
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