Received in Change

Started by Prosit, November 21, 2010, 05:51:46 PM

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andyg

Quote from: scottishmoney on November 24, 2010, 01:20:42 AM
Seriously I did get a 1945 GVI five cents just yesterday - it is one of the chromium plated coins - actually kind of cool.

Yes I spent some of these - I wondered if they were still legal tender ;D
always willing to trade modern UK coins for modern coins from elsewhere....

Ukrainii Pyat

They are still legal tender, but the RCM and Canadian banks are actively withdrawing older cents and five cents coins from circulation and melting them.
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thelawnet

Quote from: dalehall on November 24, 2010, 07:21:52 PM
Top one $300, Middle is  $175, and the bottom one $5,000 (full step MS-66 +/- 1).


Do I win one of them?   

Sorry  :(

All are MS Full Steps.

The middle as you note is the worst, the MS 65, the top is the $x,000 67, and the bottom the 66.

Prosit

That is, I guess, to be expected....doubt I would have gotten it correct if I had looked at them in person.
Two of them sure don't look full step in the image and I thought the top one had too many scratches on the jawbone.

Dale

Quote from: thelawnet on November 25, 2010, 12:00:45 AM
Sorry  :(

All are MS Full Steps.

The middle as you note is the worst, the MS 65, the top is the $x,000 67, and the bottom the 66.


Figleaf

Quote from: translateltd on November 23, 2010, 09:08:40 PM
Look again - the first type of the current design 5-yen was introduced a few years earlier than the second.  Metal, shape, weight and general design are the same (apart from the cursive characters) so they still pass unnoticed.

In that case we can add the British sovereign too!

I think you got my birth date wrong. Before I was born, Japan issued Y71, not Y72 and the sovereign had the head of a male.

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.

translateltd

Quote from: Figleaf on November 25, 2010, 09:36:02 PM
I think you got my birth date wrong. Before I was born, Japan issued Y71, not Y72 and the sovereign had the head of a male.

Peter

I believe I have your birthdate correct.  Y72 was first issued in that year, although it was also the last year of Y71.

As for the sovereign, you are moving the goalposts - we were talking about legal tender coinage dating from year 1 of PKE or before, so sovereigns from 1837 (112 BPK) onwards would count, though admittedly only in theory, as they haven't actually circulated for decades.


Md. Shariful Islam

Quote from: Figleaf on November 22, 2010, 10:13:23 AM
It has come to the point where only in the US and Switzerland you can still find coins in circulation older than me. This one still looks good. Probably a nice trading item as well. So what will you do with it?

Peter

No no sir, in my country I often find 1973 fifty paisa in circulation. Older than me (not than you). :P.

Islam

tonyclayton

Quote from: thelawnet on November 24, 2010, 05:48:31 PM
I find it amusing, so.....



One is supposedly worth $175, one $300, and one $5,000.

Which is which?

To be honest I find the differences far too subtle to warrant a difference of $4825, so personally I would buy the cheapest and get some other fine coins to go with it.

In fact, on reflection, I would be happy with an EF version  ;D

Bimat

Oldest Republic India coin I have got in change is rupee of 1950. That's when I wasn't born, neither did my Mom. ;D

Aditya
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. -J. K. Rowling.

Md. Shariful Islam

Quote from: Bimat on September 09, 2011, 04:05:48 PM
Oldest Republic India coin I have got in change is rupee of 1950. That's when I wasn't born, neither did my Mom. ;D

Aditya

Did anyone receive silver coin accidentally?

Islam

Bimat

Quote from: Tanka on September 09, 2011, 04:40:35 PM
Did anyone receive silver coin accidentally?
My Mom has received a Hyderabadi silver Anna (I believe it was 2 Anna, don't remember it correctly) for 25 paise in change.. :o :o

Aditya
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. -J. K. Rowling.

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Last week i recieved half a rupee coin (G VI) in foreign coin lots which was given to me for free. When i purchased some Indias regular coins and notes

Samir
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Alan Glasser

Every now and then I hit the bank and buy a couple hundred dollars worth of half dollar rolls. Occasionally, I get lucky and several 40% silver pieces will be found...though it is getting harder and harder to find them. I have a standing order in several banks for a $500 or $1000 bill that I want to give to my new grandson, framed of course...and I would cut the hands off of my son if he spent it. It's been about 5 years...no luck yet. They haven't been printed since 1934...I think...so I think chances are pretty slim that I'll ever get one unless I buy one...won't do that.

Alan   MA

Figleaf

Good deal, Samir. The BI half rupees are in general more difficult than the rupees.

Peter
An unidentified coin is a piece of metal. An identified coin is a piece of history.