World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

If it had prooflike fieds as many of the 100 Corona coins do, it would have been graded MS60 or MS61. Agree the reverse is gem, but then the grading services typically give far more weight to the obverse, especially if it has a portrait as most do, when assigning a grade. I'll take the 64 grade, no problem with that, and while I abhor + grading and hope NGC never adopts it for world coins, I would say this coin falls in the lower echelons of the MS64 grade.

 

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Nice looking coin, mine is similar and also raw. Not quite nice enough to send in for grading in my own case.

 

1957 Mexico 5 Peso
KM# 470
mintage 200,000
.720 Silver coin

 

This photo looks much better than the coin does in-hand

Got this 1932 Poland 10 Zyotych last Sunday. It is not UNC (and it is cleaned) but the price of $12 was pretty cool for such a large piece of silver. It is about 34 mm diameter.

 

I picked up a half pahlavi from Iran last night:


Anyone familiar enough with these to help me grade it? Also, Krause doesn't have mintage figures for AH1354... was this a particularly rare or common year?

http://mycoins.co/iran-1974-12-pahlavi-gold-coin

 

1942 Ireland Half Crown

Composition: 0.75 Silver
Mintage: 286,000
ASW: 0.34 oz

Here is the current centerpiece of my Irish collection, a 1942 Half Crown in a PCGS MS65 holder. Some discoloration starting to creep in but overall an amazing coin with incredible luster. Small mintage of 286,000 but who knows how many have been melted down. This was the last year for silver half crowns except for 1943, where a normal quantity of coins were minted, but never released into circulation. The 1943 half crowns were eventually melted down, but somehow a small number entered circulation, believed to be around 1000 pieces. Of those 1000 that escaped, an estimated 500 still exist.

 

That is a really neat coin. :thumb:
Check out this one: http://www.cointalk.com/t198674/

 

Jackrabbit,
I almost forgot to say welcome to CoinTalk. I didn't know you were here since November.
:welcome:
Nice coin photos BTW.

 

Those are some nice coins. I like the mild toning going on.

Thanks!

 

I finally got my 2010 mint set from the Czech Republic Mint today! This year is a mint-set issue only, with a total mintage of 10,000 sets. It has other coins in it, but this is the one I bought it for!

 

Look at my avatar very closely.

 

this is my favourite thread on the whole site, some beautiful coins on display..........keep them coming folks.

 

A master of horse.

 

Nice additions everyone!

 

I just zoomed in 400% So that's Lincoln in there?

 

Lol!

 

20 kopecks.

 

The South African republic has some nice cheap silver coins. Got this 50 cents 39 mm 28 g 0.5 for 10 US.