Does anyone know of a good site for me to determine whether foreign coins are obsolete or not?
A good test of the site to determine how up-to-date it is could be made this way- British 1 pound coins were heavily counterfeited and finally ceased being legal tender in mid-October. A new coin with several anti-counterfeiting measures replaced the old ones.
It would be nice if there was a single free site that covered this for all countries, rather than using something like Wikipedia which would be very time consuming.
Any ideas?
Trying to Determine When Foreign Coins Are Obsolete
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Trying to Determine When Foreign Coins Are Obsolete
by Recyclersteve » Wed Feb 28, 2018 11:41 pm
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Re: Trying to Determine When Foreign Coins Are Obsolete
by hobo finds » Thu Mar 01, 2018 7:30 am
http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/c ... /index.htm lists current world coins, could work backwards from there...
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Re: Trying to Determine When Foreign Coins Are Obsolete
by AGgressive Metal » Tue Mar 13, 2018 4:46 pm
Some places like Hong Kong and Singapore are similar to the US in that they honor their older series coins (just like we can still spend IKEs theoretically), but many do not. And many countries switch to a new currency entirely after a bout of inflation. The Nordic countries tend to issue a new series of coins every 20-30 years or so even though the currency itself is not changing, while Switzerland has used the same coin design since the 1800's with the only changes being composition. Rule of thumb is that if its 1990s or earlier and you don't know the country its best to double-check.
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Re: Trying to Determine When Foreign Coins Are Obsolete
by Recyclersteve » Tue Mar 13, 2018 7:19 pm
AGgressive Metal wrote:Some places like Hong Kong and Singapore are similar to the US in that they honor their older series coins (just like we can still spend IKEs theoretically), but many do not. And many countries switch to a new currency entirely after a bout of inflation. The Nordic countries tend to issue a new series of coins every 20-30 years or so even though the currency itself is not changing, while Switzerland has used the same coin design since the 1800's with the only changes being composition. Rule of thumb is that if its 1990s or earlier and you don't know the country its best to double-check.
Good stuff- thanks. Didn't know that about the Nordic locales.
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Re: Trying to Determine When Foreign Coins Are Obsolete
by AGgressive Metal » Thu Mar 15, 2018 5:25 pm
here are the current Sweden, Norway, & Denmark series
And he that hath lyberte ought to kepe hit wel
For nothyng is better than lyberte
For lyberte shold not be wel sold for alle the gold and syluer of all the world
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