Please Help On Value Of These Coins

Hi there!

While Canadian and Italian are not areas I know a great deal about, a cursory look at my Krause guides followed by a hasty judge of their condition lead to me to these conclusions:

#1: $3.50 book value in VF-20
#2: 90 cents book value in VF-20
#3: $1.50 in VF
#4: $1.50 in F; $3.50 in VF

It's not apparent to me that either of the Canadian coins would break into the XF realm, but then again, your pictures aren't very close up. The white stuff on #1 makes me worry about corrosion, although an acetone bath my work wonders. The two Italian coins show a lot of wear and bear the unfortunate burden of being from very large mintages. I've noticed that coins from large mintages (210 million in the case of #3) need to be of really choice condition to live up to the promise of the values Krause lists. The obverse detail in #3 is very nice, but I wonder what the discoloration is about.

Cheers,
SCS

N.B. The book values for #3 and #4 come from the 2004 edition of Krause, I don't have a more recent one. Regardless, I doubt they've moved much.