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I mostly collect foreign coins. I've been focusing a lot on British colonials and commonwealth in the last few years. Anyone know of a reference that tells where all those mintmarks are? The mintmarks for Australia are pretty well laid out in Krause, however, the locations of quite a few others are not. Places like East Africa, BWA, Hong Kong, and others had coins minted in plain (British Royal Mint?), H (Heaton in Birmingham) and KN (King's Norton) but the mintmarks are hard to find. All too often I search and search, if I can not find a mint mark, it must be the plain variety! I'd guess I miss quite a few and spend a lot of time searching.

Similarly, is there any reference telling where foreign coins were minted. Those with mintmarks are obvious, but I don't know the ones with no mark. I came across a 1944 5 Centavos from the Dominican Republic and it seems suspiciously like a US War Nickel in every possible way. Where might I find out where this coin was minted? I did see a listing of foreign coins minted in America once a few years back, but I don't remember where I saw it.
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I looked up that 5 Centavos too, and the weight/composition appear the same as US wartime nickels. The designer was T.H. Paget, who did the George VI bust seen on coins in Great Britain and the commonwealth from 1937-52. So, since Krause lists the Royal Canadian Mint as one origin for Dominican coins, I'll suspect they struck those on extra US wartime blanks. Or perhaps they were struck in the US? just my guess!
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