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I bought a couple of thousand mixed coins today from my local antique dealer who had just cleared a deceased.persons home.
Quite a lot of scrap sterling silver and older coppers & stacks of banknotes, but I did find one or two gems..
Germany 1951"J" 2 Marks fairly scarce, 1900 Victoria Sixpence,Edward VII Florin,
1849 Godless Florin,A Gothic Florin,A stupendous 1935 George V Half Crown, A Victoria Double Florin and a Victoria 1891 Crown

 

I am really liking that 1900 6 pence. cool coin.

 

just discovered this coin from another cool world coin website. just now bought this coin off Ebay. this is a Lebanon 1936 5 piasters bee coin. for the "coins with insects" collection. I had no idea of its existence until now and I saw 1 other stylized bee coin as well. doing my happy coin dance now... lol


great link to a great world coins themed/topical section of their website. it is very informative. if you collect a certain theme/topic they might have it. link: http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?topic=9983.0

 

horse coins link: http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?topic=2255.45 page 4

 

Some of mine are posted there already. I've been a member there for a while.

 

1916 S Philippines One Centavo


1920 S Philippines One Centavo

 

A couple new additions to the 20 Centavos collection. Both key dates.

 

Nice Sonlarson. I just picked up the 1908 20 centavos last week so I think I have all of that denomination. Next up for me is the silver 50 centavos.

 

I'd never seen one before, so I bought it. Zanzibar, the last entry in Krause, 1 pysa, AH1299 or 1881.

 

Nice big set congrats!

 

Simplistically beautiful.

 

The rarest of the ZAR 2.5 Shillings MS62 ,

 

Thanks, I am playing around with the idea of doing a "by mint" type set of the Revolutionary period. Haven't decided how to organize it yet. One coin from each of the 10 States or try for one coin from each mint within the states. That would add 11 more possibilities. Might go with the short set first and then add to it. Some might be challenging to locate, but that's what makes it fun.

 

Too many mints for me. That's why I start my collection at 1906. I have some coins from before but I'm not really targeting them. For the more modern ones I still need many of the higher silver content coins just because of the cost.

 

Derick this is one Very Nice 1883 2.1/2 shillings + a Gemmy Toner!!

 

I had posted an 1875 Spain 5 Centimos, Carlos VII (the pretender) several weeks back, below is the 5’s bigger brother.

Some background:

The King of Spain, Ferdinand VII, removed the Salic law requiring his successor be the nearest male relative, which then allowed his daughter to succeed him (Isabella II) after his death in 1833.
His nearest male relative, his brother Carlos V, proclaimed himself King Charles V, the first claimant king of Spanish Carlism.
Carlos V’s grandson, Carlos VII (Charles VII) was the Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain. He led the Third Carlist war which began when Amadeo I of Savoy was crowned the King of Spain.
Some information on the Third Carlist War should you be interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Carlist_War

Back to the coins......

Carlos VII had some coins issued during this time now referred to as pretender coinage.
The 5 Centimos and the 10 Centimos coins are both one-year types of 1875, made of copper, the 5 Centimos had a mintage of 50,000 and the 10 Centimos had a mintage of 100,000.
There is also a silver 50 Centimos coin, minted 1876, 5 Pesetas minted in 1874 & 1875 in silver or bronze and a proof 1885 silver 5 Pesetas.
If you're intersted in seeing the others, you can see them on numismaster.com under Unusual Sources, Spain.

1875 Spain 10 Centimos, Carlos VII (the pretender)

 

OK here is the last one. Just came in the mail today. Fitting that the 1974, which is the last of the series(and was one of the hardest to find) be the last coin to collect. This is the last photo you have to look at from this boring series.




One more photo

 

That is SOME set. When I traveled to Mexico, long, long ago, the bronze 20 centavos had already been out of circulation. Never found one anywhere in Mexico City and I kept all of my change. Everything found was the (then) brand new coin with President Francisco Madero.