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Here is an assortment of coins, some with limited value but considerable beauty, that are mostly foreign dating from the 18th and 19th centuries.  The silver coins in the top row were acquired by my father while he was in Europe during World War II.  They were locked in a  rusting steel box for than 50 years before I extricated them. Click on any image for a 3X enlargement.

British trade dollar (1903)

Fat-faced Louis XVI on French ecu (1792)

Queen Victoria on 4-shilling piece (1887)

French 5 francs (1873)

King George III on an outsized British tuppence (1798)

A U.S. half-cent dating from 1794

An 1883 Hawaiian dime

Australian Sovereign