Your favorite coins by century.

Steve love the Bear...
C89 Wow very nice...

 

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I forgot to post this one:

James II hapenny, 1688

(Sorry, no new photos)

 

Then there's this:

Connecticut 1785

 

I see your using the Chrismat back ground, very nice....

 

Now for your history lesson, during the late 1700s the Tower mint stopped producing hapennies. So, the law that bad money drives out good came into effect. Volia! In 1789 Matthew Bolton remarked, "In the course of my journeys, I observe that I receive upon an average two-thirds counterfeit halfpence for change at toll-gates, etc., and I believe the evil is daily increasing, as the spurious money is carried into circulation by the lowest class of manufacturers, who pay with it the principal part of the wages of the poor people they employ" (Quote copied from Wikipedia). Of course some of these were Condor tokens (Named after a guy going by the same name.), which had more or less weight depending on the issuer. Then there were the flat out counterfeits, like this one.

 

new century day! yeaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

here's my favorite 18th century coin, and one of my favorite coins period.
russian 5 kopeks, yekaterinburg mint
1795
43.5mm
52.3g






neat edge also!

 

yup, chrsmat71 => that is definitely one of my favourite coins of yours (it's a super-cool, masculine lookin' winner!!)

... it looks as though it would be a total babe in-hand, eh? (I never get tired of seein' that beauty)

 

The edge of mine is not nearly as neat. Who can explain the process of how the edge was imprinted? Was it a collar or a separate process?

 

Fantastic coin, Doug (thanks for posting, brother)

Wow, a few of you have that sweet coin, eh? (yup, I agree => it's definitely goin' on my want list)

 

Just exactly what is not on your "want list"?

 

that's a good question!

for me...there are starting to be more coin on my "want list" than my "don't want' list.

 

=> perhaps they rolled the entire flan-cylinder along an etched surface to get that cool side-effect, and then they cut off individual flan-disks that were struck after the edge was already present?

... nay ... my final answer is => they had a collar with an etched surface (that is why the coins are so round)

 

This 19th Century coin comes to us from the San Francisco mint. The silver dollar dies were strictly cared-for at the SF mint. Freshly polished dies were loaded into the minting machines frequently which resulted in a plethora of prooflike examples that survive today. Here is one of them:


P.S. In 1880, the President of the United States was Benjamin Hayes.

P.P.S. This may be the first slabbed coin to be posted in this thread. Sorry about that.

 

Yup, good thinkin' Collect89 ...

=> BRING-ON THE 19th-CENTURY A.D.

1864 New Brunswick Twenty-Cent Piece
(150,000 minted)




1880H Dominion of Canada Twenty-Five-Cent Piece (Narrow 0)
(400,000 minted)




1893 Dominion of Canada Twenty-Five-Cent Piece
(100,000 minted)

 

Wow 19th century already..

C89 very nice PL..
Steve, love the 20 and 25 cents..

I'm sticking with ancient like coins, this century..

Japan...1868-69..
gold bar..
.223 au.
.777ag
12 x 23mm x 2.99 g.

 

19th cenury..

Japan..1837-54..AD..
Silver bar
16 x 23mm x 8.59g.

 

I still have a few U.S. coins.

 

jw, what kind of ancient coins are these..

 

ok, here are a couple of 19th century coins...
this coin was minted in japan up to 1859, but it could be from before the 19th century..



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i kind of like this coin...