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I have seen Whitmans for English pre-decimal coins. I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't any for decimal coinage since many of them came out in the 60s.

Looks like a modern copy often sold at souvenir shops, etc.

Large silver is Iranian / Persian.

Tunisia.

Welcome!

If you wish to shop online for ancients and don't want to worry about fakes, I'd highly suggest vcoins.com, a site composed solely of vetted dealers.

Welcome! Varieties are definitely a neat off-the-beaten-track way of collecting!

Definitely a neat series. GX - do you often see full strike pieces, or are Pei Yang pieces usually weakly struck?

Wow - I've never seen that type before from Hupeh.

And time for another. This one's actually okay, to QC seems to have gone down a bit - the one I've got here (pictured) has some contact marks on the face.

I'd suggest you talk to someone at an East Asian auction house, e.g. Mavin of Singapore (mavininternational.com) or Champion of Hong Kong (www.cghka.com/english/)

I'm thinking about charging for cents, like Switzerland does for their 0.01

Commodity market = the metals market. London Metal Exchange (LME), Comex, and some others. Intrinsic value of a coin = value of the coin as scrap metal. So value of a coin as scrap (as sites such as coinflation try to show/calculate) would not be affected by mintage. The collector value of a coin, will likely be increased somewhat by a lower mintage if it is significantly lower to be significant. The current ATB quarters, (even also some of the last state/terr quarters) for example, have much lower mintages than previously, and as such may command a higher value in UNC down the road. However... Reducing a mintage (especially if the reduced mintage was known ahead of time) would usually increase hoarding in expectation of it being a rarity later. The 1931-S cent is a good example - people took notice at the time, and so it is frequently encountered in higher grades.

This was almost echoed exactly in an Ottawa Citizen newspaper article today:

Thanks TG! The intrinsic value of coins is based on the commodity market, so reducing coin mintage would probably at best reduce the intrinsic value of coins by a fraction of a percent. Were you perhaps thinking of something else, e.g. purchasing power? IIRC, there was a penny shortage in the 1970s and some places ran promos involving them. I think some McDonald's, for example, offered 50c + a small fries for a roll of pennies.

Here, the steel $1 and $2 came out earlier this year, with vending machine groups given a year's notice and some test pieces, but still we ended up having machines that weren't ready. As for #7 - are you referring to weight, or mintage?

That yes, but also Netherlands 50G P#96 for the colors (yellow in center, white left side and some orange on the right)

That yellow "100" really reminds me of Dutch and Dutch territory notes of the 80s/90s.

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Love them!

No. It is possible that it was acid etched, reducing the weight, then darkened to help hide the effects of the post-mint damage.

Lovely!

Welcome! Can you also provide a picture of the other side, and the edge as well?

Love the dove!