Coins: U.S. & Foreign

Scope and content:

An assortment of 63 coins, 1875-1971, are from:

  1. U.S. (9), 1875-1964;
  2. Great Britain (5), 1971;
  3. Canada (3), 1926-1944;
  4. Switzerland (1), 1913;
  5. Tunisia (1), 1941;
  6. Japan (1), 1966;
  7. Peru (2), 1946-1959;
  8. Brazil (41), 1938-1960.

The U.S. coins include 50ยข commemoratives for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893, the Lexington-Concord Sesquicentennial in 1925, and the Pilgrim Tercentenary in 1920. The British coins are from the first issue of decimal coinage in 1971.

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