What should I record when identifying coins?

Record issuing authority and ruler named in the legend; denomination, metal, weight and diameter; mint mark, date or regnal year; standard catalogue number where one is recorded. Compare those details with the entries here before drawing any conclusion.

How many coins entries are published, and do they have photographs?

5,113 entries are published in this section; 5,113 of them carry at least one credited photograph of a real object, with its source and stated rights.

What period do the coins entries cover?

4,207 entries carry their own date to within about a century and a half; they range from 600 BC to 2012. Broader museum date ranges are kept exactly as recorded and are left out of this span.

Does Orbis value or grade coins?

No. Orbis documents and identifies object types with cited sources. It does not grade condition, estimate prices or sell objects.

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Coins

Struck and cast currency issued by states, rulers and other authorities.

Scope

Struck and cast money issued by states, cities, rulers and other authorities. Entries are split between ancient issues and machine-era national coinage so that each can be compared against its own standard references.

Choose Ancient Coins or Modern World Coins below to browse the entries.

What to record when identifying

Issuing authority and ruler named in the legend
Denomination, metal, weight and diameter
Mint mark, date or regnal year
Standard catalogue number where one is recorded

Published entries

5,113

Individual types and documented families

With photographs

100%

5,113 with a credited real-object photo

Dated span

600 BC – 2012

4,207 entries with their own date

Verified or well documented

Highest two confidence levels

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Catalogue entries (5,113)

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't Gehoor, scene engraved on a Leicester stoter

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

't Gehoor, scene engraved on a Leicester stoter

1586 - 1597

Silver medal. Obverse: with mouth wide open, a man sits on a bench, points into the air with the finger of his raised right hand, and holds a piece of paper in his left hand; at the same time he raises his left leg; on his head he wears a cap; in the background: a barrel above an inscription. Reverse: original desig…

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Catalogue entries (5,113)

't Gehoor, scene engraved on a Leicester stoter

't Gesigt, scene engraved on a Leicester stoter

't Gevoel, scene engraved on a Leicester stoter

"Zwaantjesduit" (swan duit) for the Dutch East Indies, 1836

"Zwaantjesduit" for the Dutch East Indies, 1836

(small) AE2 from the Roman Empire of Constans I, 337-350

1 Cent, Liberia, 1833

1 Cent, United States, 1793

1 Dollar Coin, United States, 1849

1 Dollar, United States, 1878

1 Gold Gulden, Bavaria, Germany, 1815

1 Gold Gulden, Brandenburg-Franconia, 1486 - 1495

1 Liang, Guangxu, China, 1907

1 Rhine Gold Ducat, Bavaria, Germany, 1830

1 sol and 6 deniers from the city of Geneva, 1795

1 Solidus, Byzantine Empire, 659 - 668

1 Solidus, Byzantine Empire, 668 - 680

1 Solidus, Byzantine Empire, 711 - 713

1-stuiver bonk of the Dutch East Indies, 1804

1/10 gulden of Curaçao, 1900

1/10 gulden of the Dutch East Indies, 1904

1/16 Arcot rupee for Madras in India of the English East India Company (EIC), in the name of Shah Alamgir II, (1823-1825)

1/16 rupee from Assam in India of Gaurinatha Simha, 1780-1795

1/16 scheepjesgulden, 1802

1/2 VOC copper stuiver

1/2 VOC stuiver in copper from 1822

1/2 VOC stuiver in copper from 1826

1/2 VOC stuiver of copper from 1838

1/20 gulden of the Dutch East Indies, 1855

1/20 qirsh from Egypt of the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II, regnal year 12 [=1886]

1/3 mohur or 5 rupees for Madras in India of the English East India Company (EIC), (1819)

1/32 rupee from Assam in India of Gaurinatha Simha, 1780-1795

1/4 anna for Bombay in India of the English East India Company (EIC), 1830, 1246

1/4 anna for India from the English East India Company (EIC), 1835

1/4 anna or 1/4 pe from Burma of Mindon Min, 1227 [=1865]

1/4 anna or 1/4 pe from Burma of Thibaw, 1240 [=1878]

1/4 Arcot rupee for Madras in India from the English East India Company (EIC) in the name of Shah Alamgir II, 1172 [=1759]

1/4 Arcot rupee for Madras in India of the English East India Company (EIC), in the name of Shah Alamgir II, (1807)

1/4 budju from Algeria of the Ottoman Sultan Mustafa III, 1186 [=1773]

1/4 cedid mahmudiye Turkey of Sultan Mahmud II, regnal year 31 [=1838]

1/4 dollar for Mauritius of King George IV, 1820

1/4 dollar for the British West Indies of King George IV, 1822

1/4 dollar from the United States of America, 1900

1/4 dollar or 1 mace and 4.4 candareens from the province of Kwangtung [=Canton] in China

1/4 grosso from Savoy of Duke Amedeo IX, 1465-1472

1/4 grosso from Savoy of Duke Amedeo VIII, 1391-1439

1/4 gulden for the Dutch East Indies, 1802

1/4 Gulden from the Duchy of Bavaria of Elector Maximilian Emanuel, 1713

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