World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

I got a 1950 German penny in change (here in America), and it's nearly uncirculated with some mint luster remaining! I thought that was odd, as the coin is substantially smaller than an American penny. But I'm not complaining...

 

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If you think that 1 Pfennig is small, you should see today's 1 Cent coin - yet a bit smaller. Then again, those coins have hardly any value anyway. But to find them in change in the US, that is neat!

Christian

 

The first two were originally for resale, but they've kind of grown on me and I may keep them. The 3rd was out of the recent Heritage auction and for my collection.


1822/1 British West Indies 1/2$ in PCGS MS64. Tiny mintage of only 89,000, a one year type, and very rarely encountered in this nice condition.



1653 Netherland Utrecht Daalder (Dav-4838) in PCGS MS63. The ragged planchet adds charm.



c. 1560 Switzerland Zurich Taler (Dav-8783) in NGC MS63.

 

1923-Ethiopia Haile Selassie I,10 Matonas KM#29 Almost unc.


that lion rules. :kewl:

 

these coins are so amazing. wow. I plan on doing the whole denomination set in high grade-XF-UNC.

 

Picked this one up from the great folks at Northeast Numismatics. Lustrous and frosty. Two sets of images to highlight luster, surface conditions, and contrast between fields and legend. Residing in a PCGS MS63 holder.

 

I call coins like this on a Free Bee.
As I have 2 shop owners that pull out odd coins in there Bank rolls or change they have taken in. but Jan-March I was hunting cent rolls got this 1934 1 pfennig.

 

:thumb:Engraving this 1 must of been hard the head dress is great plus all the other elements of coin design. Great art works are some times Money.

 

The first coin from the link I posted before. Due to high demand of copper during second world war and high inflation, Santiago mint wanted to change the 20 centavos from bronze to cheaper aluminium. The coin below is the documented uniface trail piece with design of pn 55 and pn 56. With the war ending this did not happen and the coins were struck in bronze until 1953. Not a good looking coin, but a true rare collectable.

 

Beautiful reales! Will find mine one day.

 

I got the bracelet above for $19.61 shipped. Wow. For reference the Big Victoria in the middle is a 1901 50 cents from British Honduras!!! There are some really great coins on this thing. The best by far however is the smallest one, a 5 centavos from Puerto Rico!!! Wow! I figured the Victoria in the middle was a British shilling and I judged the other coin sizes accordingly. I'm guessing melt value on this is a lot more than what I paid. On top of the silver value I've been looking for Puerto Rico for my OFEC collection for years.

 

1901 Deutsches Reich 5 Pfennig



~18.05mm; 2.5gm

What are the two A's center bottom of obverse (the Eagle)...mint marks?

Might have silver in it? Filthy!

 

1814-1914 Norge Centennial 2 Kroner



~31.03mm; 15.1gm

One of the most beautifully simple obverse I've seen...Elegant! Who is she?

Silver, probably.

 

1857 Bank Of Upper Canada 1 Penny Token



~33.26mm; 15.2gm

Looks copper; I have an 1850 in worse condition.

Note, please, the quadrant immediately right of the crown on the reverse (no St. George). Both have it, and I wonder what it is?

I paid well for it, but have no regrets.

 

May I ask how much for the bank token?

 

$40 us.

 

I'm bidding on one now . Also a lot of (18) 5 cent silvers.

 

Yup. In the Deutsches Reich (1871-1949), Berlin/A was the mint with the biggest production share. Guess they used the MM twice here because of the symmetry ...

Christian

 

your coin is from Norway 1914, (2 Kroner) denomination.
Krause catalog number:KM#377
weight 15.0000g. metal- .800 silver size-31mm ruler-Haakon VII subjecy:constitution centennial Obv: Crowned Shield Rev: Standing figure facing right. (We do not know who that person is.) mintage- 225,000

values:Very Good-$15.00 Fine-$25.00 Very Fine-$45.00 Extra Fine-$95.00 BU-$225.00

I am no expert on this coin looks like in between VF-XF grades. cool coin anyhow. others that collect Norway in here might be able to tell you their better opinion on this coins grade.