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My great-grandfather gave me some old coins from around the civil war era. I've always wondered if they're anything special. I have the following pennies: 1861, wear typical of coins I'd see in circulation but everything visible 1858, barely visible, eagle instead of indian on the front 1859, extremely worn 1882, 7 punched in the front, much thinner than the earlier ones 1858, pitting on the back, well worn Three too worn to determine year, one with a cross stamped on it. I didn't see a mint mark on any of these. Do you know where I would look? There is a 2 cent coin from 1864, extremely worn with a 64 stamped into the middle of the seal. He also included some non-American coins that I don't recognize. How valuable is defunct currency like communist era Eastern european, pre-Euro western european, or old Hong Kong money? Any time I had a relative go overseas I've always asked them to bring me some pocket change back so I have a bunch of old international coins and bills sitting around.
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