Posted 01/04/2010 05:12 am
french 20 francs 1877 - French gold coins normally trade for not too much above bullion value, even in high grades. 1877 has the highest mintage of this particular type (12.7 million), which were issued from 1871 to 1898. The coin contains 0.1867 ounces.
elizabeth II $25 cook islands endangered species (picture of species wild cat)1990 - with a mintage of 100,000 I don't think it'll be worth much more than the typical trade value of a 1/25th ounce gold bullion coin.
1918 18ct GEORGIVSVD.G.BRITT:OMN:REXF.D.IND:IMP: - that sounds like a British sovereign. (It might be a Perth Mint half-sovereign, but that's probably unlikely - can you confirm the diameter is 23mm across?) Great Britain itself issued no sovereigns in 1918, but the three mints in Australia (Sydney, Melbourne and Perth), the Bombay mint in India and the mint in Canada all made sovereigns in that year. The Indian and Canadian ones are worth more than bullion value, even if quite worn, but the Australian ones are probably only standard sovereign price. The sovereign is .2354 ounces. There should be a tiny little mintmark-letter in the ground-line beneath the horse and dragon, just above the date: S, M, P, I or C. It's actually 22 karat gold, or it should be; if it's got "18k" stamped on it somewhere, it might be an imitation sovereign made in the Middle East.
AUSTRIAN 100 CORONA 1915 - this is a common "bullion coin"; when the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed after WWI, the Austrians used up their gold stockpile "restriking" coins of the old empire, to the same weight and fineness as the original coins. No-one knows the total mintage of "1915" 100 corona coins the Vienna mint churned out over the next few decades, but they trade for BV plus 2%. AGW 0.9802 ounces. See this article about them.
elizabeth II $25 cook islands endangered species (picture of species wild cat)1990 - with a mintage of 100,000 I don't think it'll be worth much more than the typical trade value of a 1/25th ounce gold bullion coin.
1918 18ct GEORGIVSVD.G.BRITT:OMN:REXF.D.IND:IMP: - that sounds like a British sovereign. (It might be a Perth Mint half-sovereign, but that's probably unlikely - can you confirm the diameter is 23mm across?) Great Britain itself issued no sovereigns in 1918, but the three mints in Australia (Sydney, Melbourne and Perth), the Bombay mint in India and the mint in Canada all made sovereigns in that year. The Indian and Canadian ones are worth more than bullion value, even if quite worn, but the Australian ones are probably only standard sovereign price. The sovereign is .2354 ounces. There should be a tiny little mintmark-letter in the ground-line beneath the horse and dragon, just above the date: S, M, P, I or C. It's actually 22 karat gold, or it should be; if it's got "18k" stamped on it somewhere, it might be an imitation sovereign made in the Middle East.
AUSTRIAN 100 CORONA 1915 - this is a common "bullion coin"; when the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed after WWI, the Austrians used up their gold stockpile "restriking" coins of the old empire, to the same weight and fineness as the original coins. No-one knows the total mintage of "1915" 100 corona coins the Vienna mint churned out over the next few decades, but they trade for BV plus 2%. AGW 0.9802 ounces. See this article about them.
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