View attachment 17408 2 Belgian Francs, dated 1944 View attachment 17409 Italian 5 Centissimos, dated 1938 View attachment 17410 German Reichspfennig, dated 1940 Three coins that I got at the local flea market in Monteagle, Tennessee! I have a few more from the USSR and other countries but they are either earlier or later than these. Also, these are paper pressings of the coins since my computer camera is not so good... and it's the only camera I have. So I figured I'd just scan these and show y'all something I find interesting! Cheers, Me.
Wow! That's a lot of stuff there. You're starting to overshadow me... just a little ;D haha Very nice collection indeed. Where was this tin? Have you had it for a while or was this something you just found one day? Inherited perchance?
It was in a box of crap that had been past down to me from my grandmother. Their was some pretty neat stuff in there including this. Unfortunately I do not know the story behind a lot of the stuff. But if you enjoy old junk which I do it's all good. KTK
All of that is pretty neat! I do have a few 1944/1943 pennies my grandpa gave me when I was a kid... I think they're somewhere in one of the closets back home. But still nice collection you have there Ken, from (China?), Ceylon, France, Italy, Germany... very interesting indeed. Speaking of Lira, I remember the Turks use thier own. I had over 600 of them when my buddies and I visited Turkey a few years back... I don't think any of it survived the trip :eh:
the Turks stil hav eliras I confirm. They will have a text will resembles "Turkish community" on their coins and likely with Attaturc on the other side.
That's exactly what they looked like when I was over there. I believe it was "Commonwealth of Turkey" or something along those lines, but "Turkish Community" sounds about right. Now if I can only find my old Peruvian Peso from the 1980s...
Peso or "sol" ? [TABLE="width: 100%"] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]1 Nuevo Sol (Obverse) Peruvian nuevo sol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/TD] [TD]1 Nuevo Sol (Reverse) [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]
Skip, the shape is familiar but I remember it was a Peso not a Sol. The coin itself was octagonal I think
Does no one of the Americans have any Dutch coins that are fabricated into a braclet or hanger ? It was common for US Soldiers in the R&R Cities such as Maastricht en Valkenburg to buy these from locals...
Cas, I have never actually seen one of those, but now that you bring them up I found this on Google images: View attachment 18183 It's a little small, but would they resemble something like this?
I sometimes find these bracelets at flea markets with Indochina coins, but I had not heard of the Dutch ones before. Apparently it was an old habit that the Americans brought back form Europe in 1918. The bracelets I see are even older which shows other nations had the same habits.
I know the stories of locals who made braclets and hangers out of "Wilhelmina kwartjes" (25 guildercents (or nowadays worth 11,34 eurocents) and made crosses or stars of david out of plexiglass from the shotdown planes or photomedailions so the GI's could sent some souvenires home, I think this things should be marked as a form of "trenchart"
