had a handful of pennies in my car and noticed one of htem has a weird design -- looked closely and it says "republica portugesa" and on the reverse "estado da india" and "10 centavos" dated 1961...
india? googling a bit i find that it's from a group of colonies in india that portugal kept until 1961.
coin is worth about $10. nice.
I'll give ya $10.01 for it. :D Nice find [thumbsup]
Funny you should mention coins. In my local newspaper this week was a coin collector showing 3 of the coins he has and what they are worth now. One of the coins he has was shown with a pic. I saw the coin and noticed that is the same as the 2 coins I have that were handed down to me when my Grandmother passed away.
They are worth $185000 each. :o
So I started to have a panic attack because I thought they would be worth a couple of hundred dollars at the most & I can't make the beast with two backsen remember where I have put them. My brother got a Fob Watch which I wanted and I was starting to think I got the better deal! :D
I took another look at the article and the one there is a 1902 minted proof (I don't know what this means, the proof bit) that was made for some bloody Governor of Victoria. I think mine are a 1896 and a 1906 ???
So, probably still only worth a couple of hundred. :'(
it's a tracking device
A proof is a first run, like a test run. My dad is a coin collector and buys proof sets every year.