1937d 2 Reichmarks ddo?

[ken]

Strong doubling on life dates,mintmark and name.I don't really know anything about foreign coins so I thought I'd ask about this one I just bought and recieved on Saturday.I think you can see it in the scans.Any thoughts anyone

[Bob P]

Ken,
The only thing I could magnify and still be able to see it enough to make a determination was the 1934 date. This does appear to be genuine hub doubling but with this one I would have to caveat that an in hand inspection is needed to verify that.

[ken]

Hi Bob,Hope you had a wonderful holiday season.Took a few more scans of it and narrowed the field.See if this helps.The doubling on the # area is the same direction and it can be seen on the lettering closest to the rim or in the pic n & e.

[Dick]

Ken, the 1934 is Hub doubling, to me. The rest, I can't see it well enough to say.
Dick

[KurtS]

I see something in the date too...
Am I also seeing notching in "hindenburg"?

[Dick]

Kurt, you are right! I went to 6X, to get a bigger view, and, yes there is separation. There is rthe same CCW movement in both dates. I just nioticed the "4"s. Nice going, Ken!

Kurt, would you know where some of the "Names" would be indicated for some words:? For instance: Helvetia, Sverges? I was going to ask about some others, but they have been identified, so not to ponder. I have a few Far Eastern countries, such as China, Japan, etc, that have a mountain, (MT. Fugi)?, An island, ( Taiwan?), Korea, India, etc, with all that "hen-scratching". I suure have forgotten a lot of Asian writing. I used to be able to read the dates, as well as some of the countries, or provinces, as indicated, and several different countries, that use that type of writing. I never did get onto the Arabic writing. Any ideas, (other than tho get a world coin book?
Dick

[KurtS]

Hi Dick,
Yeah...a few European coins are baffling too. A lot of people get stumped by "Confoederatio Helvetica", or simply Helvetia (Switzerland). Norge is Norway, Sverige (Sweden) is often confused for Switzerland too. And nobody knows what Suomi means, but they're helpful to include Finland as well.

[Dick]

Hi again, Kurt! Yes I now know what a couple more are! The Suomi is an african nation, I believe. I am going to try and post a few of the unknowns, and see if I want to keep them, or not. It probably will be on CCF, world coins identification. Any of the odd-ball stuff will be posted here, in a separate thread.
Dick

[Robert]

Dick,
Like Kurt implied, Suomi = Finland.

Here are some sites that may help identify some modern foreign coins:

http://dandrew.myweb.uga.edu/coinid1.html

http://www.worldcoingallery.com/Inst-ID/index.html


You're right. Japanese coins often have Mt Fuji on them and a stylized chrysanthemum bloom which is almost circular in appearance. Some Taiwan coins have and island on them. Korean coins have characters which include "O"-shaped symbols.


Local libraries often have Krause catalogs. If not, they can borrow one from another library on your behalf. Krause also usually has a table of numerals from many different languages and cultures, such as Japanese, Chinese, Jewish/Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, etc. It's handy.

[ken]

Thanks guys.I finally found one.You can also see the knotching in the D mm.

[KurtS]

[eagames]

Robert,

[Dick]

Kurt, I sure didn't expect to see "Finland" come out of that word! LOL! Of courseThe Fins, Norwegians and Danes, "Unt der Svedes', would not appreciate the change of cllimate! They are, no doubt, pretty well acclimated! So much for my "Geography lesson". now I'll have to go thru 283 world coins, to dig out the Sveriges, Suomi, and a few asians. Good news: "Gustaf VI Adolf Sveriges Konung", 1 Kr., has been re-located, in a small dish of goo-gone! Speaking of Asians, The island that I have several of is probably "Formosa"! I kept trying to say Okinawa, but I knew that was not that island depicted. The island does not have a nice big bay, (Buckner Bay) that lends itself to anchoring small ships, seaplenes. Another place Bo-Ko-ko, and its small inner harbor and ship-yard,Called Mako-ko, where the Chinese were launching a ship. It had a small problem: No hull, worthy of the name, and it sank at the ending of the launching platform! While rthere, we watched the juts overhead, and the argueing, and fighting over Amoy, and Qemoy islands. the chinese consider them theirs, and They consider they belong to Tiawan. Just like Spratly Isalnd. I believe it was Privately owned, but had been abandoned, due to so many nations wanting it for "whatever". We used to make Photo runs, the length of the "main street, and then get out of the area! Same situation when flying patrols of Hainan. When the radio operator got a certain massage, he told the pilots, "Balls to the wall"!. They knew to change course and heading for manila, and get down to 15' altitude! my brother, and I both have had ocassion to suggest this move! Those MIG-21's are fast, and good, but they just can't make a gunnery run on a nearly non-moving target! Sorry about straying off thread!
Dick

[Dick]

Getting back to the world coins,. The batch I have, slightly less than 500 coins, amounts to $76.00, plus tax. It is in a dish, such as the size one uses for cereal. That camn get pretty expensive, and the dates are all very modern. The oldest ont in this batch, is Mexican Cinco Centavos, 1945, the large one about the size of a quarter. I tought about keeping the whole batch, and going after another, to pull some new copuntries, as well as to locate some errors, and varieties. I am not ppressed for time to return them, so no problem there.
Dick