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Pictures weren't showing when I originally replied, but yes, the style and font are rather modern looking.

Wow - the Falklands note has a very 1960s-1970s look to it.

Neat!

Do you have a copy of "The Currencies of China"? It's a pretty in depth 1920s contemporary banker's view of currencies and coinage circulating / used.

Civil War halfcrown siege coinage, if I remember correctly.

Very interesting. I find the denomination to be a bit confusing since "copper dollar" to my understanding is a reference to the 10-cash / 1-cent coins.

The Persian coins are nickel.

The wording of it probably isn't exactly the best: US$1 = 5.2 LMU Francs, 3.8 Scandanavian Crowns, 4.16 (Finnish or German?) Marks, 2.5 Dutch Guilder or 1.1 Japanese Yen makes sense. But it seems unclear in other ways: The sterling reference seems to be $1 = 4s2d (thus valuing the £1 at $4.80), but appears to imply that $1 = £4.2 And the Rouble value of 9.65 is just

Was the Dutch 2.5G ever encountered in circulation there? I recall that it was about the same size as the 5F, and also pure nickel?

It's weird to think that soon all FRFs are toast, with Feb, as you mention being the last redemption date for the last notes. I recall when the coins went out several years ago, the bimetallic 10 francs all of a sudden were available in bulk for nothing (I guess they sold some back to coin dealers after the redemption date passed instead of scrapping them all)

Does the Canadian Banker's Association actually has that in their rules? The laws regarding "legal tender" concern only the tendering of "legal tender" towards payment of a debt - it doesn't force acceptance of cash. For example, newspaper subscriptions are commonly payable only by credit card or check.

I can't say for other notes, but pre-1970s Hong Kong $100 and $500 are commonly found folded into little squares.

Stamp collecting was a 70s fad, along with Franklin mint stuff, and fish (piranhas anyone?). Once it passed, some prices never recovered.

Wow, never seen that type before either.

Clamshells are a type of lamination due to improper mixing of the alloy. A seldom seen, but also seldom collected type of error that is best appreciated raw.

If you're referring to the one in Tiff's post (#1), several dollars in that grade.

Sometimes I wonder if it's over optimism on the part of some. One store I recently visited had several employees, of which a 20-ish year old, the youngest by far, was the one doing the grading and pricing of world coins. There were Irish coins where the left side of the harp was merging/wearing into the field, yet graded as VF. And also some pieces in older holders where "XF" and the price were crossed out, and in their place, "UNC" and a much higher price.

vn!!

Nice nickel!

Nice to see some less commonly seen pieces

Glacier (a 2010!!) and American Samoa.

ccg's Copper Entries ccg, copper, Group 1 XXXX-1500, c. 275 AD Aurelian Antoninianus, Roman Empire ccg c. 275 AD Antoninianus ccg, copper, Group 1 XXXX-1500, c. 350 AD Constantius II 1/2 cent, Roman Empire ccg c. 350 AD 1/2 cent ccg, copper, Group 3 1701-1800, 1773 Halfpenny, UK ccg 1773 Halfpenny ccg, copper, Group 3 1701-1800, 1797 2 Pence, UK ccg 1797 2 Pence ccg, copper, Group 5 1901-Pres, 1924 2 Pfennig, Germany ccg 1924 2 Pfennig ccg, bronze, Group 5 1901-Pres, 1926 1 Cent, French Indo-China ccg 1926 1 Cent ccg, bronze, Group 5 1901-Pres, 1944 1 Mil, Palestine ccg 1944 1 Mil