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7 Coins From The 1600s? Need Help Identifying

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they are about the size of a Half Dime, and they are paper thin, and very corroded, but some of them have features that I'm hoping someone will recognize. I got these coins for free essentially, so maybe the value on them too?

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Coin 2

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Coin 3

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Coin 4

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Coin 5

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Coin 6

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And lastly coin 7

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Not a lot of detail, but these look like 1 solidus coins from Poland. Date would be between 1659 and 1667. Obv has bust of John Casimir right with incription IOAN CAS REX. Rev has crowned eagle with shield and SOLID REG POLO plus the date. Diameter should be about 15 mm and Krause attribution is KM#110.

A couple of your coins have a different rev inscription SOLI MA... and are therefore something different.
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I'm pretty sure at least some of them would be from Poland-Lithuania. I'm not sure about some of them though.
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That's SOLI MAG DVC LIT for the Lithuanian-issued solidi.
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These copper coins are known as "boratynki" (singular "boratynka"), after the Polish-Lithuanian finance minister Titus Livius Burattini, who introduced this issue of "solidus" coins in full copper instead of previous debased silver.
(The English Wikipedia article for Titus Livius Burattini doesn't mention this at all, incidentally; his list of other - mentioned - accomplishments, though, reads like a quite peculiar biography.)

These coins are very common, and thus very cheap, since there were an awful lot of them made (said to be over a billion).
The type for Poland shows the Polish national eagle, the type for Lithuania shows the Lithuanian national horseman (both designs, with minimal variation, are used on the respective countries' currency to this day).

This type wasn't struck especially carefully, and is often found in very bad condition (worn and/or corroded), so they are less common (but still not very valuable, due to sheer amounts) with visible dates, or visible mintmarks, or especially both.
Doesn't apply to any of your examples, obviously (though I think I can see the TLB mintmark on one of them - TLB, for the record, stands for Titus Livius Burattini).
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Here are a lot of boratynki:
http://en.numista.com/forum/topic46039.html
Even a lot of reproductions exist
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