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A Few Old Coins? | France, Saxe-Meiningen And A Button

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 Posted 07/21/2009  11:18 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Rollhunter1994 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Does anybody know what these are? I got them in a small bin filled with foreign coins for 10¢ apiece (Along with a 1911D Barber dime, a 193? Holed Canadian dime, and a few other small silver coins. Yay bargain bins!).

A-Few-Old-Coins?-|-France,-Saxe-Meiningen-And-A-Button

A-Few-Old-Coins?-|-France,-Saxe-Meiningen-And-A-Button





The date looks like 1818 on the next one, but it's hard to tell.

A-Few-Old-Coins?-|-France,-Saxe-Meiningen-And-A-Button

A-Few-Old-Coins?-|-France,-Saxe-Meiningen-And-A-Button






A-Few-Old-Coins?-|-France,-Saxe-Meiningen-And-A-Button

A-Few-Old-Coins?-|-France,-Saxe-Meiningen-And-A-Button






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ANY information is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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 Posted 07/21/2009  11:39 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Thomcollects to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The first coin is a French Sol of Louis XVI KM#578 1777-1791.
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#2 depicts the coat of arms of Saxony; with "MEIN..." in the legend, I'd guess it's from the German state of Saxe-Meiningen. I'll confirm later when I'm home with my books.

I'm not sure #3 is a coin; it looks more like an old-style button with the loop broken off.
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Sorry, I got distracted and forgot about this one.

#2 is definitely Saxe-Meiningen, and definitely 1818; they issued several denominations with this same basic design. I believe I can see a trace of a "2" just bove the date; that would make this coin a 1/2 kreuzer (KM 101).

#3 is definitely a button, and apparently British; around the left side of the picture I can read, in incuse stamping, LONDON. I can't read the text on the other side, but it probably would have looked something more like this when it was more intact.
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