WilliamBoyd
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Found silver not the usual way but had it all along
I started collecting foreign (non-US) coins when I was 16 in 1964.
Countries all over the world were removing silver from their coins then,
and silver coins became my main interest.
I stopped collecting coins around 1967 and started again about five years ago.
I had not looked at some of the coins since the late 1960's.
In February 2010 I started photographing some of my coins with a new
digital camera.
I had noted that I had a copper-nickel Egyptian 2 Piastre coin dated AH 1293,
but upon looking at it closer, saw that I had misread my coin catalog and that
the coin was actually silver.
It had a lot of crud on it so I cleaned it off with baking soda.
Egypt 2 Piastres AH 1293 (Coronation year 1876), reign year 24 (1900)
Ottoman Emperor Abdul Hamid II
I started collecting foreign (non-US) coins when I was 16 in 1964.
Countries all over the world were removing silver from their coins then,
and silver coins became my main interest.
I stopped collecting coins around 1967 and started again about five years ago.
I had not looked at some of the coins since the late 1960's.
In February 2010 I started photographing some of my coins with a new
digital camera.
I had noted that I had a copper-nickel Egyptian 2 Piastre coin dated AH 1293,
but upon looking at it closer, saw that I had misread my coin catalog and that
the coin was actually silver.
It had a lot of crud on it so I cleaned it off with baking soda.
Egypt 2 Piastres AH 1293 (Coronation year 1876), reign year 24 (1900)
Ottoman Emperor Abdul Hamid II
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