http://doransccf.forumotion.com/world-coins-f12/-t1.htm Category for topics relating to World Coins. Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:10:05 GMT 10 http://www.dorancoins.com/kankakeefirstnat5obv_xsmall.JPG http://doransccf.forumotion.com/world-coins-f12/-t1.htm http://doransccf.forumotion.com/world-coins-f12/nice-surprise-in-a-bulk-bag-of-world-coins-t4.htm StrikeOutXXX Geez Michael - new categories are popping up left and right - might be neat to put your BST for each section as its own category. Anyhow - here is a cool find in a bag of just misc coins. It is sitting in some acetone to try to clean up the crud on it, but I like any coin that makes me have to research something new. Never heard of this place, but it's in Krause as it's own country "Kiau Chau" as German Occupation coinage for one year only - 1909. Here is the 1909 5-cent piece ... World Coins Mon, 25 Jun 2007 02:47:20 GMT http://doransccf.forumotion.com/world-coins-f12/nice-surprise-in-a-bulk-bag-of-world-coins-t4.htm#9 http://doransccf.forumotion.com/world-coins-f12/nice-surprise-in-a-bulk-bag-of-world-coins-t4.htm http://doransccf.forumotion.com/world-coins-f12/1858-canadian-twenty-cent-coin-mintage-and-melt-numbers-t7.htm bohica268 In this CU post I got the numbers wrong: http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=6&threadid=372621&highlight_key=y&keyword1=1858 If I re-read the reports correctly and didn't mess up the math the melt numbers are closer to this: $150,000 in Twenty Cent pieces were minted in 1858. This dollar amount is listed in the 1891 British Royal Mint Annual Report and is repeated in the 1906 Report as well. This equates to 750,000 coins; the figure listed in the Krause ... World Coins Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:10:05 GMT http://doransccf.forumotion.com/world-coins-f12/1858-canadian-twenty-cent-coin-mintage-and-melt-numbers-t7.htm#13 http://doransccf.forumotion.com/world-coins-f12/1858-canadian-twenty-cent-coin-mintage-and-melt-numbers-t7.htm