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Excellent!

well spotted! Nice clash!

Too bad that there wasn't anything more of interest in the pile. The good news is that it's not too expensive to acquire a new pile and see what happens there. I find that a very interesting sport, coin pile hunting, every now and then.

I set these aside as interesting the other day. 1949 is a key date for German coinage and I got several. Unfortunately, the '49J 10 pfennig is harshly cleaned and the 1 pfennig looks cleaned as well. It would be great if any of the others could make XF:

Though in bad shape and not rare, I also got two sales tax tokens in the bunch that I posted here:

http://goccf.com/t/295316

Great Depression and WWII-era history is fascinating to me.

German coins from 1948 and 1949 are slightly different from what followed in 1950, as the text on the obverse is different. But I won't call these coins rare.

1948 and 1949 saw a renewed startup of German minting, the first Post WWII coins being struck. But despite being one or two year types, they're not rare. For example, the 1949 J 10 pfennig has a mintage of well over 150 million, which is a lot according to European standards.

I would keep the German coins apart anyway, as you can still change them for Euros at the German bank, in case you'll visit here one day.

Still valid (non-euro):

Iceland: basically all after 1981
Norway: all current 1, 5, 10 and 20 kroner
Sweden: all new (2016) 1, 2, and 5 kroner, all current 10 kroner (also before 2016, but the current type)
Great Britain: almost all after Decimal Day (15 February 1971), with the exception of the large coins and the previous Pound Sterling coin. Only the bi-metallic one is now valid.
Poland: All current coins (1990 and onward)
Bulgaria: all current coins (1999 and onward)
Hungary: current coins (1992-today, 5 Forint and up only. 1 and 2 Forint and all Filler coins can't be used anymore).

Still exchangeable, for what I know:

German Mark (Bundesrepublik Deutschland only, 1948 - 2001)
Austrian Schilling (1945 - 2001)

No value:
Finland
Belgium
Ireland
Netherlands
France
Spain
Portugal
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Italy
Greece
Latvia

Please do note that the Dutch gulden had silver in circulation until it was withdrawn: the last silver guldens (.720) and rijksdaalders (2.5 gulden, .720) were struck in the 1960s, but remained in circulation until 2001
Please also note that this also goes for the Swedish krone: until retirement of the old style coins in 2016, all coins struck from 1873 were still legal tender, including the silver ones. Sweden issued some denominations in silver until the early 1970s.
Third, larger German coins, like 5 DMark, were silver for a while and remained technically in circulation until 2001. Same goes for some larger Austrian Schilling coins.

Finally: I'm not 100% sure if there's still a possibility to exchange Latvian Lats, as Latvia converted to the euro for not too long ago. In most countries, however, the window for exchanging was rather small. I don't have any spare Lats, so I haven't checked.

I hope this helps.

Ok, then I misunderstood that part. I thought it went out already. Nevertheless, you still have a few weeks to spend it then.