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Valued Member
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Moderator
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There is info in the Red Book on these. Your coin has condition issues but I am not good at grading so I won't. John1  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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I certainly have no experience grading these particular issues, but I would lean toward VF in both cases from a general wear standpoint.  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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EF details, environmental damage.
VF details, environmental damage.
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Bedrock of the Community
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These are really interesting historic coins. They are dated 1944 and 1945. From Wikipedia: Quote:
The Japanese occupation of the Philippines occurred between 1942 and 1945, when the Empire of Japan occupied the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II.
The invasion of the Philippines started on 8 December 1941, ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. As at Pearl Harbor, American aircraft were severely damaged in the initial Japanese attack. Lacking air cover, the American Asiatic Fleet in the Philippines withdrew to Java on 12 December 1941. General Douglas MacArthur was ordered out, leaving his men at Corregidor on the night of 11 March 1942 for Australia, 4,000 km away. The 76,000 starving and sick American and Filipino defenders on Bataan surrendered on 9 April 1942, and were forced to endure the infamous Bataan Death March on which 7,000-10,000 died or were murdered. The 13,000 survivors on Corregidor surrendered on 6 May.
Japan occupied the Philippines for over three years, until the surrender of Japan. A highly effective guerilla campaign by Philippine resistance forces controlled sixty percent of the islands, mostly jungle and mountain areas. MacArthur supplied them by submarine, and sent reinforcements and officers. Filipinos remained loyal to the United States, partly because of the American guarantee of independence, and also because the Japanese had pressed large numbers of Filipinos into work details and even put young Filipino women into brothels.[1]
General MacArthur kept his promise to return to the Philippines on 20 October 1944. The landings on the island of Leyte were accompanied by a force of 700 vessels and 174,000 men. Through December 1944, the islands of Leyte and Mindoro were cleared of Japanese soldiers. During the campaign, the Imperial Japanese Army conducted a suicidal defense of the islands. Cities such as Manila (the second most destroyed Allied city in WWII) were reduced to rubble. Between 500,000 and 1,000,000 Filipinos died during the occupation. Red Book says that these coins were minted in Manila after 1920, but during WWII, coins of 1944 and 1945 were minted in P, D, S in the USA. The five centavos of 1945 is copper-nickel and 73 million were minted in San Francisco. You can see the S mintmark in the reverse at 7 o'clock. Worth about $0.25 according to the RedBook. The ten centavos of 1944 is made of silver and 31.6 million were minted in Denver. You can see the D mintmark in the reverse at 7 o'clock. Worth about $2 according to the RedBook. Aside from the numismatic significance, these coins have tremendous historical significance. Up to 1 million Filipinos and 10s of thousands of US soldiers died in the Japanese occupation. These coins mark the fulfillment of the promise made by MacArthur to return, and honors the memory of those who fought and died by marking that they did not die in vain.
I would love to own these coins and hope that you will cherish them, regardless of their monetary value. IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Bedrock of the Community
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EF-40 details, environmental damage.
EF-40 details, environmental damage
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Valued Member
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Thank you so much for the information and to Numismatic Student I would never sell these coins. These coins belonged to my father who served our Country and was in WWII in the Filipinas at that time. I have many pictures of him there, again Thank you very much! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
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Bedrock of the Community
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Happy holidays! Although not rare, these are great tokens to use to remember your father's sacrifice and service.
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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