picked up an, imho, eclectic mix of coins today . Start with the smaller coins
#1 my second coin from Danzig. Eventually will look to have the full set. But this coin came at a very low price, along with reasonable to low prices for the rest of them.
#2 I have a couple coins from Sarawak, but it’s so obscure, I will never say no to more of them
#3 a nice old Victorian coin from Mauritius with a solid strike.
#4 British Ionian Islands. This is the first of its kind in my collection; si I guess it’s a new issuer for me
#1 XX cash from Mysore under the Wodiyar with a nice deep strike and clear details mostly on flan. It’s funny to think that had it not been for the European influences, in an alternate world, I could have been born a Mysuru subject of the Maharaja
#2 Kashmiri Rupee under Ranbir Singh, though I would have mistook it for a Punjab rupee because of the leaf and Gurmukhi script
#3 Weimar commemorative 2 mark; normally these coins are usually outside what I’m willing to pay, but not this particular specimen!
#1 Prussian Thaler; I like all of them though truth be told, I have quite a few now and they are all beginning to look alike if i Have to rely on memory recall lol
#2 Russian Empire Rouble. Slightly faded, but enough details for me to want it in my collection
#3 Latvian interwar period 5 Lati coin. Very classic design and something I’ve had on my bucket list for a while
#4 Austro-Hungarian Comm 5 Corun coin for the 60th birthday (?) of the emperor I guess. The photo doesn’t capture the hints of original lustre
overall a pretty good haul given I had very low expectations of the coin show today
overall a pretty good haul given I had very low expectations of the coin show today
Lovely coins! You're lucky to have such “shows”. In Israel I can only dream of such and a couple of existing coin dealers are asking outrageous prices.
Newer sets are pretty uncommon outside of Japan, because only few hundred sets are officially produced for the international market. So sellers usually set outrageous prices . Fortunately, I found it for a reasonable price, about the same as in Japan.
2) 1993 Macedonia mint set
3) 1978 Vatican 1000 lira
4) Various uncirculated world coins I got in September and October
Greece: 5 lepta 1954
Hungary: 10, 20 fillér 1964
Hong Kong: 50 cent 1980, 1 dollar 2017
Macau: 1, 5 pataca 2010
Taiwan: 1, 5 dollar 1974
Myanmar: 5 pya 1966
Oman: 2020 series (5, 10, 25, 50 baisa)
Cuba: 1 cent 1981 and 2015
Paraguay: 10 cent 1953. I already had this coin, but in a bad condition.
Peru: 1985-1988 entire series
British West Africa:1/10 penny 1946
5) In September and October I also got few FAO coins. They aren't my priority buy sometimes I buy them, specially if I'm able to get them for a good price.
overall a pretty good haul given I had very low expectations of the coin show today
Lovely coins! You're lucky to have such “shows”. In Israel I can only dream of such and a couple of existing coin dealers are asking outrageous prices.
Thanks, fortunate that southern Ontario and the greater Toronto area has several dealers and coin shows around throughout the year. It might not be the same if you’re living out in St Johns New Brunswick or Victoria British Columbia
I went to a big coin show in Manchester, New Hampshire and brought back some nice things.
first batch of photos, some Swedish commemorative 2Kr coins,
KM#762
I was eyeing this one at the coin show I went to in Missisauga yesterday. I think it was a similar grade as yours and it was priced imo very well. But I ran out of cash by then.
I went to a big coin show in Manchester, New Hampshire and brought back some nice things.
first batch of photos, some Swedish commemorative 2Kr coins,
KM#762
I was eyeing this one at the coin show I went to in Missisauga yesterday. I think it was a similar grade as yours and it was priced imo very well. But I ran out of cash by then.
That is always how a coin show ends for me too! 😁
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
Beautiful coins Mr Midnight, the Swedish 2 Kroners are magnificient. I have reached to them yet, but do collect the Danish ones (At least 8 from 1888 to 1937).
The Egyptian/Turkish coins are my favourite. Yes the Cupro nickel 1 Qirsh (Kurus in Turkiye) coins are deceiving, what gives them away is the plain edge. They circulated alongside the 1 qirsh silver coins, which were very tiny. I also find the 5 millemes coin is very close in size to those 1 qirsh ones. They are all quite common here, as in WW1 our training camp for soldiers was at Mahdi (Near the Pyramids) and the soldiers bought home many of these coins as souvenirs.
Ma9nWaRr10 - Love the mint sets, especially Japan and those modern world coins - its actually really hard to get modern circulation coins like that now.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Northern Ireland Ulster £10 note. Now I have all the banks that currently issue banknotes across the U.K.
Bank of England
Bank of Scotland
Royal Bank of Scotland
Clydesdale Bank
Bank of Ireland
Danske Bank
Ulster Bank
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A lot of nice coins coming out, makes me regret a little having a narrow focus for my collection. But If I didn't narrow it down, I would be spending far too much time and money on it. I haven't had much luck the last couple of weeks. Most of the auctions I've been watching have gone for well over what they're valued at. There were a couple of auctions that I forgot about too, and they closed before I could bid on them.
I did manage to pick up one new coin for my collection from a small lot of South African coins. I'm trying to sell the rest of them to try to recoup some of the cost of the lot. I got a nice Kruger shilling
A rather modest couple of additions for my part while I'm waiting for two packages from the UK:
The seller says the reverse shows Nike —the goddess not the 👟 ah ah ah— which is likely. It's quite worn but I got it for only a few dollars and the task of identifying it will be fun. A small coin but thick and with a nice patina on both sides.
K 2185 is likely an identifier for a combat unit or something of the sort. If anyone knows anything about this, plz let me know! The distracting white stuff was easy to remove. A bit of acetone will remove safely the gunk on the reverse.
Moneytayne — Yes, the Jamaican cent was aluminium by 1976. One strange thing is to have both 20 and 25 cent coins in the same year.
my favorite new addition is this group of three Swiss 1 rappen.
These cost more each than the silver 2Krs.,
and three times more than these shillings.
These are me stacking silver, I admit, I have multiples of all the S dates. The S minted Fiji and Oz coins, especially unc ones, are easy to find in the US, in fact they predominate your average shop's inventory of Oz coins, silver that is. I believe but can't prove that lots of it never left the States, or what did, in theater, got paid out to US GIs pockets for spending, shortly before they were sent home, and then promptly turned in to US banks, where they lay in sacks for decades.
The 1927 fills a hole in my Oz shilling date set, so that's not a stacker.
I always get any coin from the year 1848 I can afford. Here is a silver 6 Kreuzer from Austria from that watershed year; and from a different dealer, a matching Hungarian one. Of course 1848 went on in to 1849.
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
Managed to bag 2 coin covers . 2 Dollars 2012 Pitcairn Islands Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee. Nice to get some of the Pitcairn dollar denominated coins.
A nice 2 annas. It looks like over 30 million rupees were struck in 1875, but only 8.2 million such 2 annas. We had a dicussion with Moneytane about the mintages of rupees compared to lower denominations in the September thread, I believe, or the August one.
Now this is an amazing catch at £2.42 = C$4.53 (for three countermarked coins, the two others of little value). It's the FD countermark from Trinidad in the 1861–1874 period. There are many styles of letters, with this one being one of the best attested. It's a plus because it confirms that it's not just any random FD but the one from Trinidad meant to raise any halfpenny-size coin (= 1 cent) to the value of a half stampee (= 1¼ cents).
A lot of nice coins coming out, makes me regret a little having a narrow focus for my collection. But If I didn't narrow it down, I would be spending far too much time and money on it. I haven't had much luck the last couple of weeks. Most of the auctions I've been watching have gone for well over what they're valued at. There were a couple of auctions that I forgot about too, and they closed before I could bid on them.
I did manage to pick up one new coin for my collection from a small lot of South African coins. I'm trying to sell the rest of them to try to recoup some of the cost of the lot. I got a nice Kruger shilling
You may have been the guy beating me on Trade Me. I have been buying a few Krugers lately as well. Scored a 1896 Halfcrown (Which was dumb as I had one) and a 1896 2 shillings I didn't have it. Also got a 2nd 1897 shilling (Another brain fart - turned out my RSA listings page was woefully out of date.
These I bought off a person who mainly sells scrap silver and jewellery and I like buying off them as I suspect a lot of this stuff will be melted or rescued from melting. Especially now whilst silver prices remain high.
1892 and 1894 Kruger shillings, the 1892 is badly cleaned, but these are quite cheap and scarce, most Kruger coins are 1896 - 1898.
1871 Maundy 2d, very cheap at $21 and either high grade or polished/dipped.
1916 Canadian dime, worn and cleaned, but a good buy at scrap price or near it.
Two cupronickel Rhodesian coins, both 3d and then decimal 2½c. The design is Kruger Grey's from 1932, these muck metal examples are in good shape and a cheap buy at $1 the pair.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
You may have been the guy beating me on Trade Me. I have been buying a few Krugers lately as well.
Nah, not me. This one was from a little lot that had a South African 2c coin, 1946 penny, and 1940 half crown. It hadn't sold for a couple of weeks so I stuck in an offer and it was accepted. The offer was a couple of dollars less than the melt value of the half crown. I'm trying to sell the other 3 coins, so hopefully I'll end up with this coin for free. If you're interested, I listed the half crown for about $5-$6 below melt 😉
Now to my birthday coin. I picked up a nice 1895 French Indo-china 20 cent coin. Low mintage of only 100,000, and I managed to get it for NZ$16 (that's the equivalent of US$9.25, or 7£!!!)
UNC Mexico 100 Pesos issued recently for the 100th anniversary of the Bank of Mexico.
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the first one is a blister version of the circulation set which commemorates 75yrs of Indian independence. i was first under the impression it would be a one year set, but they issued billions of these dates between 2022-2024 I believe
Then a silver 400 rupee coin commemorating one of Sikhism‘s Gurus. There are several issues dedicated to Sikhism and they are all quite nice depicting the main Gurudwara associated with the particular event
the first one is a blister version of the circulation set which commemorates 75yrs of Indian independence. i was first under the impression it would be a one year set, but they issued billions of these dates between 2022-2024 I believe
Then a silver 400 rupee coin commemorating one of Sikhism‘s Gurus. There are several issues dedicated to Sikhism and they are all quite nice depicting the main Gurudwara associated with the particular event
Fantastic pieces. Love the Indian independence coins. Got near enough a whole folder full of all denominations thanks to a collector here I swapped with.
the first one is a blister version of the circulation set which commemorates 75yrs of Indian independence. i was first under the impression it would be a one year set, but they issued billions of these dates between 2022-2024 I believe
Then a silver 400 rupee coin commemorating one of Sikhism‘s Gurus. There are several issues dedicated to Sikhism and they are all quite nice depicting the main Gurudwara associated with the particular event
Fantastic pieces. Love the Indian independence coins. Got near enough a whole folder full of all denominations thanks to a collector here I swapped with.
Thanks, Indian issues can be a hit or miss. For a while a lot of them were miss lol.
if you need any Indian coins to fill your gaps, you can check out my swap list. I’m invariably in the UK every year in the summer, so I can always send them to you when I’m on that side of the pond
