World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

18th Century

1729 German States, Lubeck 4 Schilling (1/8 Taler) (silver)


1745 Spanish Colonial 1 Real, Mexico City mint (silver)


1774 Spanish Colonial Half Real, Mexico City mint (silver). It is holed and well worn, but cheap, old and cool!


Rob

Rob

 

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19th Century...

1816 Spanish Colonial 1 Real, Bolivia Potosi mint (silver). Holed, darn it.


1816 Britain Shilling (silver). Good old King George III.



Rob

 

And 20th Century. The Babloas (plus a US Carver/Washington Commemorative Half) were actually from the dealer's junk silver and cost melt plus a tiny premium. I just love these big silver coins and wished we still used them.

1947 Panama "Un Balboa" (silver). The Balboa was equivalent to the US Dollar through most of the 20th Century and was value-tied to it. 26+ grams of 90% silver!


1961 Half Balboa (silver)


1955 Vatican City 5 Lire, Pope Pius XII (aluminum)


Rob

 

great news... I got both coins today and my girlfriend got her macro lens. here's the pics with her new macro lens. we still need to get a tripod for her camera. I am happy for now, but she is still learning how to take better pics.








the Belgium coin looks whiter because of the flash. it is really just a pretty brown with hints of red luster in the hand. But you can see the detail of coin much better in these pics. I will take many more pics of it with better natural light. the 1/25th of an oz. Ukraine gold coin is very small...I put it next to a penny to show you the scale.

 

Nice coins and nice pics, Yoda!

Rob

 

Me too. Those nine fields with the elaborate details are cool.

Christian

 

This is the only world coin I have purchased. I was at a coin show and saw this from the other side of the venue. Among the thousands maybe millions of coins I could have chose from this ended up in my possession.

 

just discovered this brass 2014 Hungary coin with stylized Bee...2000 forint denomination on Ebay features Anniv. of Death of András Fáy. bought it for the "coins with insects" collection. there is a 5000 forint denomination silver proof out now too, but that 1 can wait awhile. sellers pic:

it is my first coin buy for 2015.

 

wow teddy => you scored a whole lotta winners!! (congrats)

 

I got this 1936 canadian nickel. It's turns out it's a Far date with die cracked date .

 

Funny hat time...

 

Here are my two new purchases for this week. First is a Saudi Arabian 1 riyal, its silver but I havent figured out what the date is yet. The second is a Vatican city 1963 500 lire.

 

AH 1354 or 1935 as we know it

 

thanks. i hadnt had a chance to.look at it closer yet. i already had the 1935 1/4 riyal and 1935 1/2 riyal so now i have all 3.

 

Sets do make it a bit fun on completion.

 

Just another cheapie to round off using my eBay bux. I'll post the other one when it arrives.

 

Nice one for Sure!!

 

Regensburg-Bishopric. Anton Ignaz Josef Taler 1787-D MS64 NGC

 

Here are three I picked up recently. The 25 pesos and 1000 escudos are silver.