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Valued Member
United States
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I recently purchased a US coin collection. While going through the collection I found a bag marked "foreign coins". Upon opening it I discovered a fair amount of coins from Austraila, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and even Cyprus. Most of the Coins are George VI and early Elizabeth IIs.
They range from half penny, three pence, six pence, half crown and florins. Some appear to be silver. How do I judget the value of the coins? Also, are there any dates I should be looking for? Interesting the Cyprus coins have the queen wearing a crown, while the others don't. Does anyone know the reason for this?
Any help would be appreciated.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Edited by Jeff
04/21/2008 8:27 pm
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Forum Dad
 United States
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Ummm.... How about trying right here for starters?
Get some photos and post them in the appropriate forum, you'll get answers. We have members from all over the World.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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G'day, crowned -v- uncrowned:
always a mystery to me.
KGV was crowned on Oz coins, but not on Pommies (Limeys, to you).
Then KG6 was uncrowned.
QE2 was uncrowned in the pre-decimal era, but crowned in the three different effigies used since 1966.
If there's any significance in this, rather than idle speculation, I'd love to hear it.
Peter in Oz
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Which Queen is on the Cyprus coin? What dates and mint marks are the others? And since no one beat me to it I'll throw in the obligatory  |
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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... and regarding silver content:
Australian coins were sterling silver (92.5%) upto 1945;
and 50% from 1946 to to end of the pre-decimal era.
I don't know the dates for the changes in other Commonwealth countries.
Peter
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Australia
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Which Queen is on the Cyprus coin?
Elizabeth II, I presume. Cyprus was a British colony. quote:
Interesting the Cyprus coins have the queen wearing a crown, while the others don't. Does anyone know the reason for this?
I believe the governments in each of the countries had a say in what the designs of the coins should be, so each country decided whether to use crowned or uncrowned portraits. For the colonial dependencies, the British Colonial Service would have decided for them. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Valued Member
 United States
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Sorry about not having pictures, I will do my best to post them, but it may take a week due to my schedule. From what I understand you can use a scanner to do this, otherwise I am lost.
Some of the coins are beautiful. I am still sorting through the them. I will try and list what I have found later in the week.
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18 piastre...I would love to have that for my denomination collection. I would like the 9 as well. I only have the 4½.
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