World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

That 1817 reales would be good enough for me. 10 specimens, wow. Had the opportunaty to buy a 1817 once ngc graded. Cash transaction only (card reader did not work) and could not take so much out of the teller at once. A year ago, the seller wanted 2,000,000 pesos. A bargain in my opinion. My wife did not think so. You will not believe the growth in Norhern Chile now. The influx of wealth from copper is crazy. When I came here in 2002 the population of Antofagasta was about 250,000. Now it is over 500,000. Cranes and apartment blocks everywhere.

 

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1/5th SOL

Some 0.2 soles I got in Iquique. Have never seen the 1897 in the VN variety.

 

WOW! Really nice. Dumb question, but do they have coin stores in Chile?

 

No, only private sellers. You do find some coins in antique shops, but not coin shops per say. Tell you, the amount of people I met doing this is staggering. All a different country and a different story. I drove by car from the the most southern part of South America through to Ecuador and back through Bolivia and Argentina. Bought coins all the way at mostly street markets. Even bought a coin on the equator.

 

This was a coinstar find today. Until I got this coin I never heard of Eritrea. Eritrea was an Italian Colony during the early to mid 1900's. The Republic decimal coinage all have local(African) animals on the obverse and soldiers with flag on the reverse.
Krause list all with a date of 1997. The 1991 date on the reverse commemorates the year the Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front extended it's control over the entire territory of Eritrea. This is one of the very few coins I have seen with a military theme on a circulating coin. Wonder how it ended up in Texas?

 

I just may have to get me one of these Krause books.

 

[h=3]The 2013 Standard Catalog of World Coins is pretty good.[/h]

 

Thanks. One way or another I'm gonna need a good book on world coins.

 

I wish they made airtites for these, the old style is too fat.

 

I know. That's the first thing I thought of when it arrived.

 

Another coin from Chile. This one a peso dated 1817 of the volcano type, but without assayers initials, and with the 'Y' positioned directly above the column. It is estimated that only 10 specimens exists of this rare variety.

 

Pity you were not able to persuade your wife. 2,000,000 pesos works out to about $ 4000 (?). That is about 5 times more than I paid for mine, but in line with what I see them go for nowadays. Maybe the seller still has it?
I remember Antofagasta well. When we arrived there, I don't believe the town had more than 100000 inhabitants......

 

That Peso is insane. Pure awsomeness.

 

Jubilee Head Sovereign & Hercules

1978 Hercules

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1889 Vikki

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Here is a smaller coin of the same design as your Sol. It is dated 1916. These silver coins can be very pretty when they are lightly circulated & nicely toned.

The second photo depicts an 1863 2 centavos. I've had this one for a couple years. I believe it was made in Waterbury Connecticut.

 

That is a really nice coin.

 

No, he sold it. I will stick with Bolivia Potosi. Still very nice coins. The Potosi silver in nice condition has very nice eye appeal. The weight makes me feel that I have REAL money.

 

"These silver coins can be very pretty when they are lightly circulated & nicely toned"

Very nice condition. Yes, because most are cleaned or just simply bad with black residue, I do appreciate a toned specimen.

 

Wonderful coin. I guess that it is the 1st crown of Independent Chile, the one without the Assayer's initials. Actually I know of another specimen in an advanced collector's cabinet which I think was acquired this year. It used to be that these types were less contested.

A few years ago I obtained one of the below 2 Flags 8E's which is a rarer date of the type but recently then I've seen another specimen on the Internet, priced close to bullion value..

 

That is a nice 8 Escudos, Gallienus. And you are correct, at one time these were priced at Bullion Value for the lower grades, IRRESPECTIVE of the scarcity of the individual dates. The standard catalogues continue to be grossly inaccurate when pricing Latin American issues.

One good example of the inaccuracy of the standard catalogues is this Santiago 8 reales for Carlos IV, dated 1795. Those knowledgeable with the series know that about 5 of this date are known to exist. A truly scarce coin. Yet the SCWC prices it at the same level as the other dates for the issue.