World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

I would love to see some of those. All my bank notes have foreign dictators on them.

 

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I like some of those kind of notes too, provided its done tastefully. Here is a link to my still growing collection.

http://banknotebank.com/collection/COMET

 

Some of those notes are truly works of art.

 

Your nice 500 lire is the official commemorative coin for 100 years from Italian unification (1861-1961).

In 2011, 150 years, we made this 2 Euro coin...during fifty years the quality of our coins is considerably worsened





petronius

 

Ha! I strongly disagree. Yes, I have that €2 commem too, and I am not fond of it. There seems to be a trend to simply put official logos (see the upper left corner here - you will know it anyway) on such coins, instead of coming up with something new and different. Maybe it's some kind of "brand strategy", don't know, I have seen that on coins from quite a few countries.

Now if you look at the Italian collector coins (gold or silver, legal tender in IT only), things get a little different. Those designs do not always have a "contemporary" appearance, but quite a few are just beautiful. For example, this one was the "Unification 1861-2011" silver issue. And one of this year's issues, Unified Currency, I like a lot too, because it combines design elements from earlier coins, but in a new and creative way.

So there are several recent issues that I find appealing. Unfortunately many designers seem to focus on such "coins" - surcharged silver/gold pieces that have extremely low mintages, and thus will never be seen in circulation, not even in the issuing member state. But of the "real" commemorative coins - those that circulate in the entire euro area - sometimes have mediocre designs at best. And that does not apply to the Italian ones only ...

Christian

 

1915 J German 1-mark silver coin

I got this 1915 J German 1-mark silver coin at the Liberty Coin Show in West Haven CT this last Sunday.

 

That's beautiful!

 

Chicken teeth

In SA we have a saying, "so skaars soos hoender tande" in UNC

 

nice coins from chile.............

 

One of my best Peru Sol specimens yet,

 

Fleamarket found last weekend.

 

I also have 2 1939 Bu 50centovos same as this one.
I picked up while in South America I spent 2 1/2 yr training SA troop while I was in the US Army.:thumb:

 

My first token,

 

They are very cheap and cool. Everytime a see one I buy it. This is the best one yet. Were you in other places also?

 

very very nice.

 

Talk about crudely struck coins: these are a 1 and 2 reales struck for the colony of Valdivia in Chile in 1822. There was an acute shortage of coinage for local needs and to pay the local garrison, and the governor had these coins struck for that purpose. They exist as 8, 2 and 1 reales. All are scarce and very interesting.
An interesting variety carries an counterstamp APDLVA (Ano Primero de la Libertad Valdiviana).

 

Amazing man. Those are imposible to find.

 

That's an awesome coin.

Very beautiful coins you all.

 

Eduard seems to have a habit of producing very scarce coins; which is great for us!