World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

NICE Rouble!!

 

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Yes a very nice and unusual coin!!

 

I do not know anything about these coins, but these look great, hammered yes?

 

Yip....hammered silver.

 

Thanks, I can see that your Edward had long hair. I would suspect that these would grade EF-40??

 

I do not think I posted this one before, I acquired it a few weeks ago. I really like both sides! One of my favorite Greek coins!! (excuse the hair/fuzz on the coins image!!).

 

Hammered collectors don't really look for grades from the grading companies. I would give my own grade on these as between F and VF.....kind of upper tier of middle of the road (if that really means anything )

 

I learned something new again. Great day!! Thanks. I really enjoy this site, stimulates my gray matter.

 

PCGS AU58

 

Here is a new one for me, Princely state of Orchha, 1 rupee, 1231 a.h., or 1816 a.d. not the best seller pictures.

 

heres two i got. the first is the uncommon brass version.

1902 kiangsoo 20 cash

1902~1906 Hunan 10 Cash

 

Here is my first coin, purchased last week - Edward I Penny. Spink 1386, Class 2b London Mint. circa 1280.

http://www.thedesignworks.co.uk/penny/edwI.jpg

 

Nice first coin, why got you interested in collecting?

 

In a word - History. I love anything to do with the Medieval period especially the Plantagenets. So the interest for me is less about the coin and more about where that coin has been, who owned it and the story it could tell. Living in the UK I'm lucky to have Medieval history on right my doorstep,(I live about a mile from Kendal Castle once owned by Katherine Parr's family) however, owning a piece of everyday life in the shape of a coin is about as good as it gets.

I also like the fact the coin is hammered, created by a strike between two carefully crafted dies - not made in a factory, untouched by human hand - it incompasses, history, design, artistry and then entered people's life as a vehicle of commerce.

 

Won this one in the Heritage Weekly World auction last night, and it had CoinFacts images. These are the PCGS CoinFacts images edited to my template and with the label from the Heritage pictures.

I have been holding out for about 3 years for an example of this type, and this one finally got my attention. There are several dates in the series that come in VERY high grades, but I don't think I will find one to surpass this one on eye appeal plus condition anytime soon.

 

I don't do a lot of Darkside, but love the Brittanias. Been trying to find a 2012 proof that wasn't insanely priced. Picked this one up for a reasonable price--the obverse marks are on the mint capsule, not the coin:

 

OMG my jaw just hit the ground. that toning is gorgeous. let alone the grade being so high. congrats on an amazing coin. thanks for posting it.

 

Ebay
eBay item number:
121756446201
for some unknown reason i can not get the pics.
anyhow it is a toned coin from France 1961, 5 francs, NGC MS-64, toned on both sides of the coin. my birth year (1961) is just a bonus. enjoy.

 

Picked up a few cheap ones today just because they spoke to me

 

A few recent gifts,

1898 German Empire Pfennig (A mint - Berlin)


1930 Netherlands 2 & 1/2 Gulden (Wilhelmina I)



& a worn but still nice 1902 Great Britain Half Penny (Edward VII)