World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

Gemmy Willie Boyd 2 is graded? MS 4 sure!
key design for some !!!

 

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Got a couple of coins at the World Money Fair last weekend. Such as a Dutch circulation coin set with the portraits of the new king (Willem Alexander), the brand new €2 coin from the "German States" series (Lower Saxony this time) ... and that dead goose from Switzerland.

Unfortunately the Perth Mint people were not very cooperative. Nobody wanted to help me roll that 1 ton gold beast out of the convention center, so I ultimately did not buy it.

Christian

 

I have known that feeling too!!!

 

Nice new coins everyone!

Ive never liked those type of coins but the Japan 1 Shu is really nice.

 

The British Caribbean Territories (Eastern Group), formed a currency board in 1950 to provide Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, British Guiana, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, St. Kitts, Nevis, Antigua, Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Grenada with a common currency.

In 1955, a proof set of 7 coins (1/2, 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, and 50 cent) was made. The mintage was 2,000 pieces. Fortunately, the coins were supplied in the depicted brittle Cellophane holders. This has kept the coins free from handling marks & spots. The condition of each coin in this set is Gem Proof. I plan to leave the set packaged (as is) so that the coins are preserved for future generations.

Does anyone at CT have this 1955 British Caribbean Territories coin set?

 

i dont have all of it, just the 50 cents.

 

does anyone know the reason for the odd denominations on the cyprus coins? 4 1/2 piastres, 9 piastres, 18 piastres?

 

Back then (until the early/mid 1950s) Cyprus used the British pound sterling (1 pound = 20 shillings), with one difference: In the UK, 1 shilling was 12 pence - in Cyprus, 1 shilling was 9 piastres.

So an 18 piastres coin would be the same as a 2 shillings, 9 piastres was a shilling (in the 1930s they actually had "shilling" coins instead), and 4½ piastres was a half shilling ...

Christian

 

9 Piastre = 1 Shilling, so, 4 1/2 = 1/2 Shilling and 18= 2 Shillings.
They even had a 45 Shilling.
Piastres and Shillings were circulating at the same time while Cyprus was a British Colony.
Had to keep the Btits happy.

That's my theory anyway.

PS. Sorry Christian, you were posting while I was typing and answering the phone.

 

thanks for the info, it makes sense. i was already looking at an 18 piastres today that i make an offer on. I paid around $7.00 for the 9 piastres.

 

had a few bucks in my paypal account so picked up a few world coins....






poland, an italian 20 centisemi, and a austrian 10 heller.

 

1926 B - Switzerland 20 Francs, mintage of 50,000.
This year has the lowest mintage of KM#35.1 other than a rare variety of the 1897

 

Wow JJ00, I love rare coins.......but when you add "gold" in the title I start drooling Beautiful!

This is an update to my post of the sellers photo a couple pages ago. This one is my favorite:

 

Thanks TravIntiques, That 2 Lire is one of my favourite designs too!

 

I just got this one today. 1931 Latvia 5 lati. It's the kind of coin you don't see too often.

 

I found a 1967 Canadian penny in circulation in Oklahoma yesterday, the second centennial penny I have found in the last year. What are the odds of that?

 

Yep, I got "Milda" too. She is also depicted on the new Latvian €1 and €2 coins which I bought in the BU set - but this is the original so to say.

Christian