Thiese coins are indeed not worth much, but they are an incredible start to a world coin collection. You've got coins from all over the world: I see Italy, the UK, Japan,Spain, Belgium, Australia, Mexico, Switzerland, France, Norway, Poland, Colombia, Germany, Hong-Kong, Sweden and Austria.
That's a lot to start with (certainly together with all the coins in your other posts). Every coin is a tribute to a bit of history of the country it is issued by, f.i. the first depicts Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of Italy (his predecessor V.Emmanuel I was king of Sardinia, not of Italy). So, you know this country has been a kingdom for a while.
You can find on the coins monarch's effigies, monograms, state shields, gods and goddesses (I think of Brittannia on the UK pennies, or of Ceres on your Belgian coin)... In the case of my country, Belgium, you'll find coins with Dutch , French or bilingual legends, as my country is bilingual. (In fact it is trilingual, but there are only about 60,000 people who are German-speaking, German being our 3rd official national language, but there are only a few commemorative coins with German legends)
That's one of the most challenging things at collecting: looking for the stories behind the coins...
Happy collecting!
That's a lot to start with (certainly together with all the coins in your other posts). Every coin is a tribute to a bit of history of the country it is issued by, f.i. the first depicts Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of Italy (his predecessor V.Emmanuel I was king of Sardinia, not of Italy). So, you know this country has been a kingdom for a while.
You can find on the coins monarch's effigies, monograms, state shields, gods and goddesses (I think of Brittannia on the UK pennies, or of Ceres on your Belgian coin)... In the case of my country, Belgium, you'll find coins with Dutch , French or bilingual legends, as my country is bilingual. (In fact it is trilingual, but there are only about 60,000 people who are German-speaking, German being our 3rd official national language, but there are only a few commemorative coins with German legends)
That's one of the most challenging things at collecting: looking for the stories behind the coins...
Happy collecting!





























