World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

Nice coins, Derick. I know very little about modern chilean coinage, but those appear very nice, and surprisingly scarce for coinage I remember buying ice cream with.

What are the current values in Chile for those coins?

 

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The reform escudos and centesimos are very common and were made by the millions, It is only the 2 escudos 1971 and 5 centesimos 1960,61, 62 and 63. Acccording to Chilean coin dealer catalog the 2 Escudos and 1960 centesimos are in the order of 900 US each. The 2009 error I would say 50-100 US max for a serious error collector and the 500, which I have never seen, would be in the order 100-200 US depending on condition. The 61, 62 and 63 are 10-30 each.

 

It looks like the pic was taken in direct sunlight, which could make it look cleaned.

 

What did you find?

 

How about a 1971 50 centesimos coin?

 

I also have a 20 centesimos.

 

Got this to replace another one in my collection that was heavily cleaned.



The ones with "SD" under the soldier's chin have a mintage of 501,500.

 

That is a pretty cool coin.

 

I've always thought that these letters are "STD" (with the T and the D being kind of interwoven), but "SD" would make sense too. Interesting, by the way, that this notgeld coin design was also used as a "core feature" of a 10 pfennig note from the same city, at roughly the same time. See attached image, or here for example.

Christian

 

Another coin for my foreign collection.



Nothing really special about the coin so I dressed it up with a fancy background.

 

I have read that this notgeld design was to honor the veterans of World War I. But if the war ended November 1918; were these minted in November / December 1918, or after and the date just marks the end of the war?

 

Admittedly I don't know when those were first issued. Due to the lack of coins around the end of WW1, cities and counties were allowed to issue local money (as from late 1916/early 1917). And the city of Düren did that too, see the bottom of this page.

That coin with the soldier may well have been designed and first issued before Nov-1918, but it was in use after that date as well. Other Düren coins, dated 1919, show a pilot and a miner for example, see here at the top of the page ...

Christian

 

Though struck in the US, these can technically be called "Foreign"



I just had to buy 'em all up from the coin shop. I couldn't resist. And yes, I am aware that there are some scrubbers in there too.

 

Interesting thank you.

 

I love those Philippines issues!

 

Finally got home from vacation here is my last buy for this year, This is a Slovakian coin I am a sucker for coins with Historical sites'.


Issued to commemorate the Spiš Castle one of the largest castles' in Central Europe located in eastern slovakia.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiš_Castle

 

First in the series of Aussie "Seasons" coins. Just won it at auction for under Perth Mint price:

 

This is technically my latest foreign acquisition...but there's another I'd like to share with everyone but I don't have pictures of yet. I put a bid in on this rouble and won...this is what happens when you stay up late drinking and looking for something way different.

Seller's pics

 

Some non-silver coins are pretty too.



1946 Mexico 10 Centavos

 

The back story is that I've always wanted a silver dollar from 1884 (100 years before my birth year). I had always thought I'd get a 1884-CC PL Morgan when I had the money. Well, I later discovered the Cap and Rays coinage from Mexico and knew I had to have one. Fast forward to last week and I stumble upon this offering, but only had the scans to go by:



I went ahead and made an offer, won the auction, and it arrived today. It looks so much better in hand than I can ever make it look in pictures. It has a wonderful hue to it, almost a burnt rose tone. So now I have my first foreign coin (aside from a $10 grab bag of circulated world coins I got on Amazon).

And here it is, my 1884 Ca MM Mexico 8 Reales (KM#377.2):



What do ya'll think? I really, really like it ... I think the dark side is calling! :devil: