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questions on foreign money im about to recieve. notes on mycollection.
i have some mexican and chinese and japanese money that im getting from
a friends trip and anothers foreign exchange student. and i was wondering about it because these will be likely newer coins maybe early 1900s as they will just be pocket change. will they have numerical dates that an american can read or will they be pardon the expresion all greek to me. its been bugging me because i can visualize the mexican coins saying something like 1950 but in spanish words same thing with the chinese and japanese i can see it being in their lettering. in any case i come here seeking the answer because you all seem to know things like this and im the new guy in town. also being new to this i roll hunt quite a lot to get what i want due to my disability i can not attend shows cant find them or even afford them really. and was wondering does anyone else do this or have you evolved beyond it. if you still do this or have in the past whats your best pulls mine so far has been 2 1907 indian pennies and a 1890 indian penny what got you guys started doing this for me it was a bit of a joke and an extreme amount of luck. it was my birthday in 2009 my young niece asked me what i wanted well that day i had been reminded of my youth and my love for just counting any kind of penny or other coin. it did not matter what was in them at the time wheats canadians simply i loved the counting and did it for hours i was like 7 then im 34 now. so anyway thinking cheaply since she was young i said get me rolls and in the 3 dollars worth she got was my first ever indian 1907. i began that day to do this seriously and in just under a year i have amassed 300 wheats i personally found. since then my collections soared to big time collecting. with the help of a few friends i have mercury dimes buffalo nickels large cents canadian and american kennedys franklinss usan anthony sets. a blank penny planchet silver coins tax tokens from the 20s or 30s that are round plastic things nearly completed lincoln set minus the keys of course a canadian penny set minus the keys. its been a very good year for me i have things that i love that i could never afford if i had to find them or could even find them i have been blessed with great friends of which i count you guys. |
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questions on foreign money im about to recieve. notes on mycollection.
james durham wrote:
i have some mexican and chinese and japanese money that im getting from a friends trip and anothers foreign exchange student. and i was wondering about it because these will be likely newer coins maybe early 1900s as they will just be pocket change. will they have numerical dates that an american can read or will they be pardon the expresion all greek to me. its been bugging me because i can visualize the mexican coins saying something like 1950 but in spanish words same thing with the chinese and japanese i can see it being in their lettering. in any case i come here seeking the answer because you all seem to know things like this and im the new guy in town. also being new to this i roll hunt quite a lot to get what i want due to my disability i can not attend shows cant find them or even afford them really. and was wondering does anyone else do this or have you evolved beyond it. if you still do this or have in the past whats your best pulls mine so far has been 2 1907 indian pennies and a 1890 indian penny what got you guys started doing this for me it was a bit of a joke and an extreme amount of luck. it was my birthday in 2009 my young niece asked me what i wanted well that day i had been reminded of my youth and my love for just counting any kind of penny or other coin. it did not matter what was in them at the time wheats canadians simply i loved the counting and did it for hours i was like 7 then im 34 now. so anyway thinking cheaply since she was young i said get me rolls and in the 3 dollars worth she got was my first ever indian 1907. i began that day to do this seriously and in just under a year i have amassed 300 wheats i personally found. since then my collections soared to big time collecting. with the help of a few friends i have mercury dimes buffalo nickels large cents canadian and american kennedys franklinss usan anthony sets. a blank penny planchet silver coins tax tokens from the 20s or 30s that are round plastic things nearly completed lincoln set minus the keys of course a canadian penny set minus the keys. its been a very good year for me i have things that i love that i could never afford if i had to find them or could even find them i have been blessed with great friends of which i count you guys. You should be able to read the dates on the Mexican coins just fine. They use western numerals and the same calendar. Their denominations are occasionally in Spanish, but take advantage of that as a learning opportunity! The Japanese coins will present two problems: 1) They use Japanese characters instead of the numerals we are used to. There are decoder charts in most any book that covers world coins. 2) They date their coins according to the regnal year of the emperor. Thus Yr. 1 of emperor Hirohito = C.E. 1926, and Yr. 1 of the current emperor Akihito = C.E. 1989. Any Japanese coins you are likely to encounter will have only two digits in the date because of this. Any more questions, feel free to ask. Even though we occasionally drift off topic around here, coins are still the main reason most of hang out in rcc. James the Chronologist |
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questions on foreign money im about to recieve. notes on mycollection.
james durham wrote:
i have some mexican and chinese and japanese money that im getting from a friends trip and anothers foreign exchange student. and i was wondering about it because these will be likely newer coins maybe early 1900s as they will just be pocket change. will they have numerical dates that an american can read or will they be pardon the expresion all greek to me. its been bugging me because i can visualize the mexican coins saying something like 1950 but in spanish words same thing with the chinese and japanese i can see it being in their lettering. in any case i come here seeking the answer because you all seem to know things like this and im the new guy in town. also being new to this i roll hunt quite a lot to get what i want due to my disability i can not attend shows cant find them or even afford them really. and was wondering does anyone else do this or have you evolved beyond it. if you still do this or have in the past whats your best pulls mine so far has been 2 1907 indian pennies and a 1890 indian penny what got you guys started doing this for me it was a bit of a joke and an extreme amount of luck. it was my birthday in 2009 my young niece asked me what i wanted well that day i had been reminded of my youth and my love for just counting any kind of penny or other coin. it did not matter what was in them at the time wheats canadians simply i loved the counting and did it for hours i was like 7 then im 34 now. so anyway thinking cheaply since she was young i said get me rolls and in the 3 dollars worth she got was my first ever indian 1907. i began that day to do this seriously and in just under a year i have amassed 300 wheats i personally found. since then my collections soared to big time collecting. with the help of a few friends i have mercury dimes buffalo nickels large cents canadian and american kennedys franklinss usan anthony sets. a blank penny planchet silver coins tax tokens from the 20s or 30s that are round plastic things nearly completed lincoln set minus the keys of course a canadian penny set minus the keys. its been a very good year for me i have things that i love that i could never afford if i had to find them or could even find them i have been blessed with great friends of which i count you guys. I see that you also asked about Chinese coins. If they are PRC, they will likely have western dates in western numerals. If not, the more recent ones still may have western dates in western numerals. If they are Republic of China coins, they will have dates from the founding of the republic (Yr. 1 = C.E. 1912) in Chinese characters. Again, any good world coin catalog should have a decoder chart. James |
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questions on foreign money im about to recieve. notes on mycollection.
thanks for the fast response. i don't mind going off topic. sometimes
there's not much happening in my personal collection. so i seek out other folks with similar interests. and see what they find or what they lack. i help when i can because folks have been good to me in return im good to them. i roll hunt which is a good portion of my life. i can spend as much as 8 hours a day twice a week looking for things. its paid off handsomely in one respect because i find unique things i found a penny just this week its fairly new but its dented with a string or screw type mark like it was struck with a screw or string over it or something. i just don't know what for sure. once i found a penny that showed little if any signs of corrosion but the eye area was gone like it had been eaten through just there. once i found a newer Lincoln cent that had a cross cut outta it was a post 82 so it was sandwiched it looks neat with it being like a cross section. im not finding 2010 cents yet. don't expect to for some time kind of not in a hurry for me its the thrill of the hunt that has me doing this. |
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