Whether you have years of experience and thousands of coins or have just entered the hobby of coin collecting, it is likely that you have or will soon come across a few mysterious old coins in your collection. Mystery coins are typically old coins that you cannot identify easily; they can be difficult to identify and sort if you do not know where they are from, what they are called, or how old they are. This guide will provide you with information and tips to help you start identifying your old coins.
There are many ways to approach this process. First of all, if you can verify that the coin originated from a mint in the United States, you can purchase or borrow a copy of the “Red Book
There is also the possibility that your coins may not originate from the United States. In such cases, if you do not find the words “United States” on the coin, you will most likely find the name of a different country on the coin. Typically, you will be able to figure out the country the coin originates from by examining the markings on the coin. However, it is likely that the name of the country the coin originated from will be written in the foreign language of that country.
Even if you cannot determine where the foreign coin originates from by reading the words on the currency, you may also be able to type the writing into a search engine online to see if other people have come across similar coins. Thousands of websites exist online to help people identify any kind of coin ever produced.
If you cannot find or read the name of a country on the old coin, a site you can consult is Don’s World Coin Gallery. On that site, you can find pictures of more than 25,000 coins from more than 400 current and past countries. You can also find a vast amount of information on the site about world coins overall.
It is also possible that you will not be able to identify some of your old coins through any of the aforementioned methods. In such cases, you may have some sort of pattern, round, or token, which will not necessarily be a coin but will resemble one. What you can try at this point is to type any inscriptions or writing you find into your search engine.
A final and important point to keep in mind when trying to identify old coins is that if you come across an old coin without either a name of a country or a denomination (which tells you the monetary value of the coin), it is likely that the coin was not officially issued by a national mint from an official government. These are known as unofficial coins, and it can be challenging to find accurate information on unofficial coins, as they tend not to be collected by most coin collectors. Because they are not collected, they are typically not worth a lot of money.
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Originally posted 2010-08-04 09:28:50. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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I FOUND 2 COINS ON THE FRONT IT SAYS IN TRADE IN THE MIDDLE IT HAS A $1.00 SIGN ON THE BACK IT HAS A LETTER S 365 THE OTHER COIN IS THE SAME BUT A $2.00 SIGN THE COINS ARE METAL ABOUT THE SIZE OF A DIME NO DATE NO YEAR
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