MORE mystery coins WITH HOLES!!!

aballein · Veteran Member

same thing diff coins LOL... the second coin may be upside down, i dont know

Robert · Senior Member

#1 = Denmark, 1 ore. 5 million made, 25 cents in VF and $2 in XF.

#2 = Japanese 5 yen. You have it arranged correctly in both images. The date is on the bottom of the first picture. The plus sign and the characters immediately next to the plus sign make the date. The box thing is a 4, the plus sign is a 10 and the symbol to the right of the plus sign is a 9. That means "4 x 10 plus 9" or year 49. Year 49 is the 49th year of the reign of emperor Hirohito (yes, the guy from WWII) which was 1974.

#3 = One centime from French Indo-China , which was broken up into modern Viet Nam, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia and maybe one or two others. It's aluminum and no mintage #s are given. VF=50 cents, XF = 1.00. Krause says edge varieties exisit... plain, grooved and partially grooved.

#4 = French Indo-China 1/2 centime. 23 million made, VF=50 cents, CF = 2.00. All of these were apparently struck in Paris and shipped overseas. Some of these dated 1939-1940 were made of zinc and are valued at several hundred dollars!

The real tragedy about this part of SE Asia is that Ho Chi Minh sought our support, originally. He admired the US and wanted to use our Constitution as a model for Viet Nam. But the powers that be sided with the French (and the British?) and we ended up with him as an enemy. Thankfully we seem to have a much better relationship w/ Viet Nam than we did in the not too distant past.

Do you have any more you'd like to post? Very Happy

eagames · Expert Member

Lots of holes there!

On most Japanese coin with holes they're denominations with 5 in the denomination.

The coin that says 1 cent is a neat piece of history (I think?) made in France for use in Vietnam (French Indochina) as the French were eager to move back into what they wanted to keep as their colony after the US and Brits pushed Japan out so they probably made the coins in France and sent them to Vietnam. I think the coin is a 1 Centime but they marked it Cent.

eagames · Expert Member

Robert,

You read my mind!

I was going to add that Ho Chi Minn was on the US side in WW2. His followers helped the US build airfields and waved US flags. They liked French culture in incorporated it into theirs but wanted independence after being a French colony then were taken by Japan but thought the US would let them be independent after the war and they wanted that.

After the war the French bargained with the US to use surplus DC3s to bring the French back and over night Ho Chi Minn was waving any flag other than US that would help them get France out, the French left and US went in and our troubles began.

aballein · Veteran Member

i have a whole bucket full of foreign money sitting here i just dont have the time necessary to photograph,edit, and post them all..i will try my best though..thanks for all the information you have provided to me though.