Jazinta

Thanks for your help and fast response.

I do have some desire to keep the coins and maybe even keep my grandfather's collection going, but I wouldn't know where to start. Everything is a bit overwhelming at the moment. He seems to have accumulated a very general collection with little specialisation over many years.

 

Thanks for the link. I will try to identify the silver coins and put them to one side.

 

I had also considered keeping the coins from one particular country, say Australia as there is quite a few of them, and selling the rest. I could use that money to buy to replace the sold coins with more Australian coins. Do you think it is better to have 100 different coins from one country or 100 different coins from all over?

 

Regards

That depends on your interests. If you like Australian coins do only those butt also of the others some are very nice.

Ok, thank you. I could not find at all information in the internet. And it isn't silver, probaly copper nickel.

It's a token of the city of Püttlingen, Saar, in Germany. My dad gave it to me and maybe he got it when he visited West Germany in the 1980s. Does anyone have an idea of what is it? It's in a prooflike condition but worn out in parts.

West African States 1000 Francs, 1961, from Cote d'Ivoire.

Your 20 korunas note with the girl is very nice.

I really like your second coin, but I don't have a lot of Russian to trade, only a 1897 ruble.

Wow, a complete Latvia set!

 

That's quite a nice collection Dave. Given the times notes of $6, $20, etc.must have represented a considerable sum of money.

Only early, later they became very worthless that the soldiers put them in their socks or to make fire for heating. There's a saying that "it's not worth a continental", because continentals became worthless.

Again, nothing that is worth putting, but if you want to know, a 1978 cent and 2003 cent. But i did get a new 2014 olympic dollar, direct from the roll.

Yes, that's true. But there aren't really any other famous inventors that I can think except Ben Franklin.

I have that Mexico coin, but a graded PCGS.

 

Edison doesn't deserve a note. At least Nikola Tesla has, he is currently on the Serbian 100 dinar note. Tesla did more electric development than that fiend Edison did.

Well Edison did invent the phonograph and was the most profilic inventor of all.

 

Very nice note above, is it yours?

 

I like the idea of Wash, Lincoln, MLK, and Edison but I personally don't fully appreciate Earhart's legacy. I'm sure we could find other good women figures.

Edison too isn't a perfect figure, with his electric chair and other stuff, but still what he did was very important.

You know, maybe we should do together a series of how the US money should look, or even a contest of Coinpeople people.

Yes, the note is my design. Sadly I don't have photoshop so everything is made in paint. The only other women that I can think that is well-known is S.B. Anthony, H.B. Stowe and Harriet Tubman.

If I designed the notes I would keep Lincoln and Washington (5 and 1) and add MLK, Edison ($50) and Amelia Earhart ($100), to be a series titled "pioneers", all which were important and groundbreaking people.

 

Nice design. I doubt that we'll ever see a portrait change on US currency. Maybe something on the reverse of the note.

Or even a design change. Sadly the US has been so resistant to changing the money. Even the 1905 Technicolor $20 is as colorful as the money of today, and it's almost 110. The $10 bill of 1930 was pretty identical to the note of 1995! The new $100 is more in the right direction.

It's a $20 with Dr. King

These are cool! I wil see if I can find the note that I designed before.

Nice notes. I really enjoy the French colorful notes like the 5 Francs.

Me too, that's why I like collecting.

A 2003 P nickel

5 Francs Pasteur, 1966

5 Francs assignat, 1793

That's 2 more in my French collection.

Love those Regina commemoratives!

I have that one, but its in a proof set.

The only old Russian coins that I got were from Azerbaijan.

I went ahead and bought an old edition of the Krause currency book off a secondhand book website (not Amazon). Got it for about $3-4... not looking to get exact prices but really just to get an idea of what is what. My experience with price guides is that it does not always correlate to how much you could buy or sell an item for anyways.

That is true. Sometimes things can be overpriced or even just an error. Dealers will try to pay you less for notes than the value in the book. To respond again to your original question, it is difficult to find over 100 years old notes very cheap (except in bad condition), but you can find good condition notes of the 1920s, 1930s for cheap. German, Hungarian inflation, the Mexican revolution and Russians.

Yes sorry, my mistake. You can just spend your cents, but more nickels are more valuable (even recent).