More Foreign Coins: France and Germany

Here is another batch of coins I added to my collection as a result of the foreign stamp exchange. The coins I am sharing today are from France and Germany. I find this first one really interesting as it has a hole in the center of it. I know this was done so that people could wear their coins on strings around their necks for safety.

1918 French Coin

1918 French Coin

These three French coins (including the one featured above) are from around the time of WWI. I have to wonder if they were ever in a soldier's pocket.

French Coins

French Coins

Now these German coins are a bit older. They are from 1950. You can see the different denominations for that year here.

German coins from 1950

German Coins from 1950

Foreign Coins-British Coinage

Recently I discovered a friend of mine collected foreign stamps, while I prefer to collect coins. Once upon a time I had bought lots of foreign stamps, but had been trying to sell them for years at yard sales with no luck. As it turned out the friend had collected foreign coins that he no longer wanted. So we traded! Both of us ended up very happy with what we got.

Here are some of the unique coins now in my collection.

196h Century British Coins

19th Century British Coins

British coins are easy to identify.  The fun part was seeing the different monarchs on the heads sides of the coins. Also, I also wonder about the coins from 1939-1945 that survived World War II. I wonder whose hands they were in at that time.

18th Century British Coins

18th Century British Coins

When we traded coins I never expected to get coins from the 18th Century. These coins have certainly seen a lot of history having been around before the sinking of the Titanic and World War I.

I hope you enjoy these. Later I will post more coins from other countries.