Some coins for Christmas, unexpected but happy with.

[mws_1984]

Was at my Mother in Laws and she helps a lady that my wife also knows. Well she gave us each something she found laying around. Was a Kodak film tin. I'm thinking ok what could be in here. I open it, had 11 foreign coins in it. Nothing too old but here's what I can make out. Will have to research further on some to see what the values are. From edges looks like some could be silver.

Will have to take photos of them all as some I can't tell what they are. So will need help so I can ID them.

Some are quite detailed. One looks like the decoder pin that Ralphy gets in A Christmas Story. Well not that big but with writing on the edges. Kind of interesting.

Is it normal for some Foreign coins to have English on them? Will make note of it near each one that I can ID myself.

1983 Hong Kong 5 dollar coin, has Queen Elizabeth II on one side and denomination on the edge as well. In English and Chinese.
1978 Hong Kong 1 dollar coins, Queen Elizabeth II on it and also in English and Chinese.
1975 Jamaican cent, "Let Us Produce More" on one side
1981 French 5 Centimes
1983 Spanish 10 Pesetas
1956 Italian 100 Lira
1974 Mexican 20 cent piece?
1975 Italian 10 Lira. has stalks of wheat on one side and R mint mark, if they use those.
1981 German 10 Pfennig

 

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[tand324]

Is it normal for some Foreign coins to have English on them? Will make note of it near each one that I can ID myself.

1983 Hong Kong 5 dollar coin, has Queen Elizabeth II on one side and denomination on the edge as well. In English and Chinese.
1978 Hong Kong 1 dollar coins, Queen Elizabeth II on it and also in English and Chinese.
1975 Jamaican cent, "Let Us Produce More" on one side
1981 French 5 Centimes
1983 Spanish 10 Pesetas
1956 Italian 100 Lira
1974 Mexican 20 cent piece?
1975 Italian 10 Lira. has stalks of wheat on one side and R mint mark, if they use those.
1981 German 10 Pfennig


For the english question, Hong Kong and Jamaica were all british colonies at the time of those coin being made. For the french, spanish, italian, mexican and german coins, we (english language) have adopted the use of those words like lira, franc and pfennig. So if you see those on a coin, you think they are english however, they actually are in a different language with similar alphabets.

 

[ArkieBassMan]

Some neat foreign coins in there, but unless I missed something, unfortunately none are silver.

 

[mws_1984]

Some neat foreign coins in there, but unless I missed something, unfortunately none are silver.

Yeah the ones that I was able to ID, I looked up on World Coin Gallery, nothing silver. Oh well, still some neat coins to add to my collection. Good because I haven't been CRH lately either, kind of spent up my allowance for it on Xmas stuff. Oops. Nah I meant to.