Unidentified Coins - for your consideration

tlowery04

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Metal Detecting

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1878 British Farthing
The small British 'New Half Pence' is a post decimal coin circa 1970s, now out of circ.
The British 5 New Pence is now out of circulation, they have replaced with a smaller version, yours looks 1980s-90s
 

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Chinese is a 'Chien Lung' mid/late 18th C.
For me it's easy to Id that one, as I've dug several with the 'EZ' looking character at top,
great job on 'orienting' :laughing7: the coin correctly :thumbsup:
Twin Eagle is an Austrian 1 Heller.
With only one side showing, your 'lion with sword' is a Netherlands 1 Cent,
here's what the other side should look like.
Happy to help, but with a few clicks of the mouse these should have been easy and fun for you to ID, it's all part of the disease :tongue3:
$(KGrHqV,!jkFChzYTSonBQz5HU8k-!~~60_57.JPG
 

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Thanks for the help! I guess I just enjoy trying stump the what is it group. You all truly impress me with what you come up with. What site did you use to find the chinese coins? I have two more to find out about that were just given to me.

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Thanks for the help! I guess I just enjoy trying stump the what is it group. You all truly impress me with what you come up with. What site did you use to find the chinese coins? I have two more to find out about that were just given to me.

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The first one seems to be the same one that was identified earlier, the second one is a jewelry reproduction.

coins of china, the Ch'ing Dynasty
 

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Values:

1878 UK 1 farthing- $2
1878 Netherlands 1 cent- $0.15
1897 Austria 1 heller- $0.35
1870 Spain 5 centimos- $0.75

1736-1795 Ching Dynasty 1 cash- $2
 

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Calgary

Thanks for the help! I guess I just enjoy trying stump the what is it group. You all truly impress me with what you come up with. What site did you use to find the chinese coins? I have two more to find out about that were just given to me.

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The Calgary site in Sag98s reply is a good one, let us know what others you have, my first 1600s coin was a chinese.
these seem to get no respect, lackluster imagery, stamped manufacture, and low values...
there are some rare and valuables out there, so all should be attributed.
Some beauties were produced when Britain built the worlds largest minting facility in China sometime in the 1890s. I imagine its purpose was to produce hard currency to pay for opium shipments.
some beautiful silvers were struck there.
One I want:
chinese_silver_dragon_dollar_coin.jpg

One I dug. when recovered, all I could see was 'Twenty Cents' along the bottom, and thought it was the scarce US issue, was not disappointed to find it was the Chinese Silver as I've never heard of another being recovered.
CHINESE 20 CENT.1.jpgCHINESE 20 CENT.jpg
It's uncirculated condition points to it being a keepsake from when anything Chinese was considered exotic, the coins popular as collectible pieces.
I think this is why so many Chinese coins are found in the eastern US.
HH :thumbsup:
 

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