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Help to I D this coin

PostPosted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 4:39 pm
by fasteddy
My first photo link so if I screw it up please bear with me.
Strange coin I found in the pennie rolls the other night....Any Ideas?
I can only view half of the photo How do I fix that? Sometimes when others have pics i can only view half of their photo also...?

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Re: Help to I D this coin

PostPosted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:09 pm
by jasmatk
Looks pretty worn but this would be my guesshttp://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=260700741143+ as for your picture I think you just need to crop it to make it smaller

Re: Help to I D this coin

PostPosted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 7:51 pm
by aloneibreak
dominican republic

one centavo

KM 17

bronze

http://tinyurl.com/4fuj2ce ( link to worldcoingallery.com )

good luck making out the date !

Re: Help to I D this coin

PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 9:05 am
by fasteddy
aloneibreak good call that is what it is....you are correct on trying to make out the date...using any magnification and you lose everything but at arms length it looks to be 1947 but not sure....BIG THANKS TO jasmatk and aloneibreak for the links and to everyone else for looking and giving it a go.

Cheers

Re: Help to I D this coin

PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2011 11:18 pm
by uthminsta
I have found a lot of Dominican Republic coins are EXTREMELY worn...

Re: Help to I D this coin

PostPosted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:21 pm
by AGgressive Metal
uthminsta wrote:I have found a lot of Dominican Republic coins are EXTREMELY worn...


Same thing with Haitian coins. I think because in poor countries people uses cash for everything, so the coins have high velocity. That's my personal theory.

Re: Help to I D this coin

PostPosted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:24 pm
by TheJonasCollegeFund
I wonder if the mintage numbers are much lower...so it is to be expected that they are used more and have more wear.