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 Posted 01/18/2008  9:28 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add mahgobbi to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Here are a few more coins from my daughter's collection. Any here that are worth anything or which are silver (I'm assuming the Florin is silver, but I don't know about any of the others).

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 Posted 01/19/2008  03:11 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Yep, that Australian florin is also sterling silver, but the rest are scratchtray class. If you're curious about the country of origin of any particular coins, we can let you know.
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 Posted 01/19/2008  05:21 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bart to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
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!
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 Posted 01/19/2008  1:24 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add mahgobbi to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
bart - My daughter has coins from probably over 100 countries. She's fascinated by them, but at this point she isn't studying them or trying to identify them at all. She's just having fun with it and as a family we're collecting US coins and filling in the US coin books.

I just went through her coins yesterday to check for the older years, which might have had value (not surprisingly, they don't). Now I'm going to try to pull out all of the silver and make sure she segregates and takes better care of those coins.

Some day she might get more interested in the history of these coins, but for now she is most interested in studying anatomy and diseases. No, she's not your normal 11-year old! LOL
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 Posted 01/19/2008  3:35 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add bart to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I started collecting the same way: I found a box full of coins at my granddad's home when I was 9. It contained about 150 coins from several different countries; it also contained much silver. I got interested, took it at home and looked from time to time at the coins. I even played with them. This small hoard became the nucleus of my world type collection, which at the moment contains about 9000 different types.

And about your daughter: at her age I was fascinated about history of the world. Many years later I graduated at the University of Leuven (Belgium) as a dentist (speaking of anatomy and diseases...). She might become a historian later. LOL
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