What kind of coin detail that you should be looking for in your coin? When you want to sell your coin, you need to find out the detail of your coin as much as possible. It is important so your buyer will know what exactly is you're selling. A brief coin detail will also helping you on selling your item since buyer can easily find what they are looking for with your sale. I will be using this Malaya coin as an example what kind of detail you need to for in your coin. You can find out about your coin detail via book or world wide web. I am using K.N Boon Book as a reference; Malaysia, Brunei & Singapore Banknotes & Coins 4th edition.
1. What is the origin of your coin?
You need to find out, where do your coin originated from. Which country, is it an obsolete coin or still for circulation? Looking at this coin for example, this is a Malaya coin. Malaya already changed to Malaysia in 1957 so this is one of the obsolete coin in this world.
2. Date of mintage
The year your coin is produced, make or minted. This coin is minted in 1941i.
3. How many coin mintage?
They are 4,000,000 coin minted in 1941. Including 1941i
4. Is that coin have a mint/privy mark?
This coin have an "i" as a mint/privy mark. Normally people will write the mark letter after the year of the coin (1941i) so people know what is it mint. "i" on this coin meant that it is printed in Calcutta, India. The normal 1941 coin are printed in Royal Mint, London.
5. Coin metallic content
This coin metal is Silver with .750 fineness ( 75% Silver and 25% other metal).
6. What is it denomination?
This is 5 cents coin. Some other coin using different numeral system then western will make it difficult to understand. You will need a book or numeral system table for your guide. India, Arabic, Javanese, Korean numeral system is some of coin that will give a bit of problem to understand.
7. What is it edge?
This coin edge is milled or reeded. You can look at this edge varieties table by Krause Publication as a tool what your coin edge is.
8. What is the coin diameter?
You can use Chart of coin size or ruler to measure your coin diameter. Normally coin diameter is stated in millimeter. This coin is 16 millimeter.
9. What is your coin weight?
You need to weight your coin yourself before you posted their data. Most people will be using coin weight as a way to check if that coin is fake or original coin (especially silver coin). This coin is weighted at 1.3600 gram.
