If a Barber baby was born in Hong Kong in 1899...

Weaselbrott

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He would have been a she, and called Victoria, would be 80% silver, and would look like this:

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Needless to say, one of my coolest dime CRH finds to date, and oldest wild coin finds. Just one box of MWR dimes yesterday and I found her, and a rosie. It is amazing how well kept this coin is, and is the furthest silver I have found too.
 

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mark1982

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that a really neat find. That is my other favorite thing about dime boxes. You get a better chance of finding the older foreign coins as a lot of them are the same size . HH
 

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Cool find! I got a Hong Kong dollar on a box of halves, but it wasn't silver. Congrats!
 

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very cool find, love foreign silvers, and for 113 years old, she's still in nice shape!
 

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cool looking Coin !
 

FormerTeller

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that a really neat find. That is my other favorite thing about dime boxes. You get a better chance of finding the older foreign coins as a lot of them are the same size . HH

You are quite correct. I just found a 1/2 Fr. coin in a roll of dimes. I'd found several before, but decided to look this one up, at it's dated 1969 to see if it's silver. Alas, Switzerland stopped minting silver 1/2 Francs in 1967, but I did find out that the coin is worth 53 cents! I always assumed it was worth less than a dime.

Gotta love the foreign stuff!
 

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Sweet coin.. I would love to find one of those.. I have had so many foreign clad coins lately.. Nothing like finding some sweet foreign silver though..
 

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Now that's cool!
Any numismatic value there? I don't know squat about foreign coin but if its 1899 and in good condition it's probably worth a bit.

I wish the Crh forum had its own banner. I would def vote this.
 

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That's a sweet find. My farthest it the Philippines, but those were minted in America
 

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Any numismatic value there? I don't know squat about foreign coin but if its 1899 and in good condition it's probably worth a bit.

It is just worth melt, I checked it with my catalog.
 

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