My foreign coins (non-dug), I'm posting this just to share pics of some interesting coins

GKL · Dec 22, 2017

davidlhyde63366 said:
May not have a lot of value , but pretty cool to look at and collect.

I know, I figured most, if not all, of the coins would not be of extraordinary value, but I could hope maybe one of them was :lol:

I agree, they are still neat collectors items !

Hey, even if I find out there was one of them I could sell for even just $35 or more that would be extra money for more hobby stuff :lol:

GKL · Dec 22, 2017

I was wondering what it meant on this "coin" token where it said: "CONTAINS AUTHENTIC MATERIAL" so I did a search online and found this -

"Made of copper removed in 1982 from the Statue of Liberty during its renovation"

http://tokencatalog.com/token_record_forms.php?action=DisplayTokenRecord&td_id=88162&inventory_id=37769&attribution_id=88808

GKL · Dec 22, 2017

This coin is from a country that no longer exists as the country it was at the time the coin was made, the 1963 coin from the "Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia".

It is a 2 Dinara coin made of aluminum

davidlhyde63366 · Dec 22, 2017

Foreign coins

GKL said:
I know, I figured most, if not all, of the coins would not be of extraordinary value, but I could hope maybe one of them was

I agree, they are still neat collectors items !

Hey, even if I find out there was one of them I could sell for even just $35 or more that would be extra money for more hobby stuff

Have you checked to see if any like coins are selling on E-BAY some time a coin will sell for more that it is worth to the right colecter.

davidlhyde63366 · Dec 22, 2017

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GKL said:
I was wondering what it meant on this "coin" token where it said: "CONTAINS AUTHENTIC MATERIAL" so I did a search online and found this -

"Made of copper removed in 1982 from the Statue of Liberty during its renovation"

http://tokencatalog.com/token_record_forms.php?action=DisplayTokenRecord&td_id=88162&inventory_id=37769&attribution_id=88808

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Never hear of that one , wonder if it has some colectable value ?

GKL · Dec 22, 2017

davidlhyde63366 said:
Have you checked to see if any like coins are selling on E-BAY some time a coin will sell for more that it is worth to the right colecter.

Thanks, I need to check all the coins further, but so far one coin I checked was selling for only around $6 or so.

davidlhyde63366 said:
Never hear of that one , wonder if it has some colectable value ?

I saw one on ebay, not selling for a whole lot.

I'll research ebay more later.

davidlhyde63366 · Dec 22, 2017

Foreign coins

Keep a eye out for foreign coins when you hit the flea markets and garage and Estate sales , a lot of people through them all in a jar or box and sell the whole lot cheep. Sooner or later you should find some with silver in them , most people let them sit around for years and don't check them or give them to their kids or grand kids to play with. You have to think a lot of solders brought some back from foreign countries all over Europe and Asia. :workforgold:

GroundSweeper · Dec 23, 2017

Cool coins, I have a couple of those Statue of Liberty ones but my kids got ahold of them and who knows where they are now, kinda neat tho.

GKL · Dec 24, 2017

GKL said:
Doing research I just discovered that this Lire coin has a composition of Stainless Steel, I wondered how it stayed so shiny
Unfortunately it does not have any extraordinary value.

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I just did a test and saw that the stainless steel coin was very attracted to a magnet, hey, I wonder if detectorists in Italy used a super powerful magnet and dragged it across the ground they could pull those coins out of the ground without even digging :laughing:

davidlhyde63366 · Dec 26, 2017

magnet

GKL said:
I just did a test and saw that the stainless steel coin was very attracted to a magnet, hey, I wonder if detectorists in Italy used a super powerful magnet and dragged it across the ground they could pull those coins out of the ground without even digging

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A magnet might be useful in the water , or off a pier , or maybe a bar magnet on wheels to drag across a sand beach. I have seen a few videos where some one has looked for relics by lowering a magnet over a bridge. Could be interesting to try , somewhere where their coins have more metal. I tried a magnet on a modern Philippine's Peso and it stuck to it, I also found it stuck to a modern Canadian Dime.

Truth1253 · Jan 17, 2021

GKL said:
My foreign coins (non-dug), I'm posting this just to share pics of some interesting coins.

Here are some foreign coins (non-dug), some are ones I brought back myself when I was in Naples and Genoa, Italy, and in Athens, Greece back in 1971 when I was in the Navy. The other foreign coins are ones given to me by a friend a long time ago.

As of the time I am posting this I still need to research the value of the coins.

First here are pics of coins I brought back myself in 1971

Note: the coin from Portugal I am assuming might have been mixed in with change I received in Italy or Greece, just like how sometimes in the U.S. we might occasionally get a Canadian coin in our change when we buy something.

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Below are pics of coins a friend gave to me a long time ago.

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(the Sears "coin" might not technically be a coin, but is still interesting )

Hey GKL Well those brass and silver coins?

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GKL · Jan 17, 2021

Truth1253 said:
Hey GKL Well those brass and silver coins?

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Unless I overlooked something during my previous research, none of them are brass or silver from what I read about them.

KingTotsalot · Jan 19, 2021

GKL said:
Thanks, first I used this USB microscope to take the pictures

GLK! Proud to find another USB led microscope user in the forum! KT takes many pictures with His microscope of tiny crystals of various minerals! Lots of fun! KT

GKL · Jan 21, 2021

KingTotsalot said:
GLK! Proud to find another USB led microscope user in the forum! KT takes many pictures with His microscope of tiny crystals of various minerals! Lots of fun! KT

Thanks KT, I think there is at least one other member, but maybe a few more members who also use the USB led microscope. It's amazing how good it works considering the very reasonable price !
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KingTotsalot · Jan 21, 2021

GKL said:
Thanks KT, I think there is at least one other member, but maybe a few more members who also use the USB led microscope. It's amazing how good it works considering the very reasonable price !

KT totally agrees! Having taken micromineral pictures for years, starting with film cameras and converting a few years back to these USB led scopes, it is so easy compared to film methods. Plus doing color corrections, cropping, etc. on the computer is so easy. KT still has His Royal Olde Wilde-Heerburg scope, for fast scanning of specimens to find photographable single and clusters of crystals. At an initial investment of over $3500, He knows He could not sell it and replace it with one as good for what it would bring. With widefield 15X eyepieces, it is good for magnifications from 15X to 60X.

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