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OneMoreRoll Valued Member United States 228 Posts	Posted 05/18/2008 6:14 pm So I just got these 21 coins that are pretty old for 25 buck. Did I over pay or was it a good deal? Thanks guys. Moved to World Coin forum and tidied the picture code. Edited by Sap 05/21/2008 03:59 am Report this Post to the Staff

Dillon Valued Member United States 240 Posts	Posted 05/18/2008 6:41 pm id say it was a deal, acouple of them that I can see are from the 1800's! can you show a pic of the reverse sides? Edited by Dillon 05/18/2008 6:42 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Hollywood Pillar of the Community United States 1228 Posts	Posted 05/18/2008 7:28 pm $1.19 per coin id say that it was a good deal! Report this Post to the Staff
ratio411 Pillar of the Community United States 1208 Posts	Posted 05/18/2008 7:35 pm Looks like you got some German trading stock there! 2nd coin down, on the outside left... "ein kreuzer" Or the coin below the coin below the kreuzer... Looks like an empire pfennig. Report this Post to the Staff
OneMoreRoll Valued Member United States 228 Posts	Posted 05/18/2008 9:31 pm Here is the over scan of the pics: [URL="http://imageshack.us][/URL] [URL="http://g.imageshack.us/g.php?h=258&i=oldcoins2ws9.jpg][/URL] Report this Post to the Staff
BobK Valued Member United States 177 Posts	Posted 05/18/2008 11:51 pm I'd say you did very well indeed! Are they all 19th century? Report this Post to the Staff
KurtS Pillar of the Community United States 5318 Posts	Posted 05/19/2008 02:46 am ~~I think the Kreuzer is Austro-Hungarian~~, and I see a Swiss 1885 20 Rappen in a nicer grade--worth a buck easily. Btw, if you like the coins, they're worth something besides book value. Coin collecting gets sorta boring when it's only about numbers. Update: I was wrong on the Kreuzer; it's a German coin. It does resemble some for the German colony of German East Africa--look for DOA somewhere on the coin. I don't have an older guide to get more specific. Edited by KurtS 05/21/2008 12:59 am Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16827 Posts	Posted 05/21/2008 04:27 am I think you were right first time, KurtS. The eagle on the coat of arms is double-headed and the crown is imperial, so it's definitely Austrian. While none are silver, there are still a few interesting ones there. The "silvery" one at lower-centre, with the double-headed eagle on one side and "20" with Russian-style language around it, is a 20 para from the old Kingdom of Serbia; 1883 is the slightly scarcer of the two dates this coin was issued, CV $4 in VF. The Italian 10 centesimi looks to be in better condition than you normally find in scratchtrays, but unfortunately it has the commoner B/I (Birmingham) mintmark. The ones with a single-headed eagle on one side and "Deutsches Reich" on the other are from the German Empire. Germany had lots of different mintmarks on their earlier coins (A through to J). Look for the mintmarks at the base of the obverse, on either side of the eagle's tail. If you have any questions about particular coins, we'll be happy to help. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
Kreuzer Valued Member Spain 58 Posts	Posted 05/21/2008 1:22 pm They are old, but, without looking key dates, I´m afraid they aren´t a great deal. - Austrian coins: 20 and 2 heller, really common coins. "Ein kreuzer" would be more interesting, but the coin is cracked, and poor grade. - Italy. 10 Centesimi. It´s not a bad coin, but Humberto´s bust is "polished" - Brazil. 100 Reis. The coin is common and heavily circulated. - France. 5 Centimes, "Ceres" type, is not rare. 10 Centimes "Second Empire" is better and I´d investigate its value (the mintmark is D). 5 Centimes "Second Empire", poor grade. - German coins. 2, 5 and 10 pfennig. Really common coins in their grade but I can´t see the mintmarks. - Spanish coins. 5 Centimos "First Republic", very, very common coin in this grade. 10 Centimos "Alfonso XII", nothing special, I think. - British coins. Well, I don´t collect British so, I don´t give my opinion. - Hungary. 10 Filler, another common coin. - Switzerland, 20 Rappen, and Argentinian coin. Completely unknown for me. - Serbia, 20 para, nice coin but heavily circulated. Report this Post to the Staff
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