World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

yea the payment cleared/went threw and has been mailed from France.. the waiting to get it is gonna kill me.

 

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Here are a few of my more notable recent pickups. The older one is a 1790 Poland 3 grosze. I like this because I am Polish on my mother's side and there aren't many Polish coins from before the 20th century that fall in my price range.

 

Probably cleaned, but so what...,,

 

Wow, nice surfaces ... hard to tell if it's cleaned (168 years old => either way, super fricken cool, no?)

... congrats, my coin-friend!!

 

Beautiful coin indeed.

 

1850, 1892 Switzerland 5 Francs, 1832B French 5 Francs
Love the 1850 type, reminds me of Crazy Horse and the outstretched arm.

 

Yes very nice coin. Cleaned or not, it's a little gem. I just wanna hold it! Never seen a Vatican coin of that size

 

KM 187.2 Colombia 1892 50 centavos (tip of cap to the right of A in REPUBLICA)

 

A nice high grade specimen of KM 9.1 Cuba 1916 Centavo,

 

1942 New Zealand half penny I just got.
There the seller photo's for now.

 

Here are a few that I picked up this month and really like. I just received Bolivian proclamation medal today from Sedwick. Really cool in hand. From the HSA Col.

 

I forgot this one. It came in this week. Really nice Art Deco feel.

 

My wife is gonna shoot me if I buy or grade any more coins this month haha. "It's an investment honey" (in my sanity!)

 

Nice pieces, especially the coin from Uruguay. Had no idea what the "segunda epoca" on the medal from Argentina referred to, so I briefly looked it up. Seems the institute was founded in 1872, then maybe dormant for a while, and founded again in 1934. So this would commemorate 20 years of this second epoch or stage.

The story behind the CoA of Buenos Aires is interesting too. As for the "ribbon" below the oak (?) twig, I wonder whether was intentionally left blank, or whether a member's/sponsor's name was supposed to be engraved there ...

Christian

 

It does looks like it was meant as a space to be engraved. I've got a similar medal submitted to PCGS for grading that has a similar device and is also left blank. Looking forward to having some time off work to do some research on them. JJ

 

Wow, nice!!

 

Nice pick ups. You seem to be investing a bit more into your collection these days.