World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

Latest pickup was this Latvian coin has a white spot and little bit of toning (14k).

 

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You could label it "The United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland" but I think "Great Britain" is appropriate and fits nicely on all my 2x2 holders.

 

Most recent pick-up - 1802 Mexico 8 Reales in PCGS AU55 plastic. Wonderful colour and lustre.

 

jjack> I also picked up something from Latvia - a 1996 10 Latu, 16th century variety (in presentation case). The book isn't mentioned at all in my 2002 Krause catalog - does anyone know the mintage?



It didn't scan very well - there's a better set of photos on this page (along with fineness and weight):
http://www.bank.lv/en/money/collector-coin-dedicated-to-16th-century-riga

Also notable in today's purchase - a 1951 Canadian $1 (a 4 wave variety unfortunately), a 1959 Israeli 5 Lirot, and what may be a D/D 1944 US Philippines 20 centavo:

 

Beautiful toning.

 

I shouldn't neglect the other coins I purchased today: including a 1908 Canadian 5 Cents, a 1937 New Zealand Florin, a 1913 Canadian 10 Cents, an 1875 J German 20 Pfennig, an 1877 D German 50 Pfennig, a 1901 UK Florin, a 1924 UK Florin, and a 1934 Swiss 5 Franc.

As usual, I am struggling to find mintage information on the older German coins. I have no idea if either of those are worth more than their bullion value. Does anyone have a better copy of Krause handy? (I've really got to get at least the 19th century catalog).

From the same dealer, I dug about 3 pounds of foreign minors out of a junk bin. They were primarily tokens (including about a dozen Arabic phone tokens, tax tokens, etc) and bi-metallic pieces, but I was also happy to grab 3x US Philippines coins.

What can I say? I got a telemarketer to agree to an out-of-court settlement yesterday. Today was time for a restrained splurge.

 

From 2010 edition, the coin on the site is KM #34 1996 No mintage figures but F Value:$50.

Also there is web edition of Krause 1 yr membership is 79.99 but i think you can get first month free (my membership expired last year ).

http://secure.numismaster.com/ta/numis.jsp

 

Canada 1947 $1 Maple Leaf variety.
The Maple Leaf was put next to the date to indicate the coin was actually struck in 1948.
It has the 2nd lowest mintage of all Canada silver dollars.

This acquisition completes my mint state 1935-1967 Canadian silver dollar set.
Now I'll be working on the silver dollar varieties from the 50s.

 

Congrats on picking up the 47. I'm working on my final pieces, of course I'm missing the 48 and a 45, i'll get there eventually.

 

Despite its low mintage, there no shortage of 48s to be had in MS, its just the prices asked that seem to make it last on every dollar collector's acquisition list.
I saved up for a year and finally found a nice example I could (barely) afford.
IMO the 47ML is much tougher to locate in mint state - I know because it was a real challenge finding one I could afford.
The 45 is also a more difficult one to locate at a fair price.
If price is no object, one can easily obtain nice Canadian dollars.
Those of us with more modest budgets (like me!) have to search and search to find affordable examples.
IMO, much of the series of Canadian dollars (1935-1967) are still undervalued, despite some fairly stiff prices being realized now.
I feel that 10 years from now we will look back at the prices today and long for those golden days of yore!

 

I concur on everything you're saying. I actually picked up a nice 47 early in my collecting endeavors of Canadian dollars, it was a luck find if any because I haven't found anything close. I would say its a 61-62. And like you, my budget prevents me from a lot of those high end 48's, but at the same time I don't want to settle for a cleaned w/details coin. I originally started collecting Canadian dollars as an alternative to the Morgans and seated stuff of the same denomination, it's just a better choice and the coins are attractive.

 

:yes:

 

I finally got the coin I wanted!!!!!!!!!!
I`ve been after this for 5 months now, the reason for this taking so long is I`m on a budget for this I got this for 20GBP :yes:

 

That coin was part of a series dedicated to the 800th anniversary of Riga, and each coin from that series had a "maximum mintage" of 8,000. See here: http://www.bank.lv/nauda/latvijas-bankas-izdotas-jubilejas-un-pieminas-monetas Yours is number 7 in that list: "16. gadsimts", ie. "16th century" ...

Christian

 

Here is a 20C from Vatican City during World War II.

 

Been meaning to post these


1963


1964

 

1965

Got these from LostDutchMan.

 

Bought this from Siggi Palma, part of 3 coin set i can post rest if anyone is interested.

 

This one arrived yesterday. It's a 1946 Luxembourg 100 Francs. This is the less common variety missing the designers name on the reverse. Total mintage of 2,000 pieces. It is graded MS66 by PCGS and exhibits quite clear die polishing lines on the obverse and reverse.

 

Yes, Please post pictures of the complete set.
is it gold plated? lighting issue? composition? because it has a strange color.