World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

Dang, you lost out on 50 cents.

 

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One of the collections I started a few years ago was Uncirculated Euros. I have an Euro Dansco which came pre-labeled with the original 12 nations and 3 extra blank pages. I have been adding extra pages as each new country was added. The Dansco will not hold any more pages so I plan on buying a Blank Dansco cover to add more. Until now I had every country except the holy grail Monaco. One would think that with a mintage of 40,000 for the "Official" Monaco Euro set, it would not be that hard to find at a reasonable cost. Other than Vatican and San Marino, I usually paid about $15-$20 for the sets. When the demand soared for the Monaco se,t the price was around $600-$800. Krause currently list it at $325. I don't want to say how much I paid but it was less than that. Goggle the set if you want to see a wide range of prices. Be sure you are searching for an Official set, there are many un-official set which only have 5 of the 8 coins. Why so high? Consider that the 1,2, and 5 Euro cents each had a mintage of 40,000 and were only available in the Official Set. Krause list the 1 Euro cent at $75 and the 2 and 5 Euro Cents at $85 each. That's $245 for 8 Euro Cents!

Anyway, until a new country is added to the Euro coinage I can now say this collection is complete!

2002 Monaco Official Euro Set Mintage 40,000

 

I have The Hawaiian Dime | Umi Keneta and the 1/4 dollar | Hapaha listed here : http://giladzuckerman.webs.com/mercuguinness.html#HAWAII , the Hapaha was bought in Hawaii , the Umi Keneta was bought in Israel.

 

I only ever saw the 1 Euro of Monaco , it is listed here : http://giladzuckerman.webs.com/mercuguinness.html#MONACO

 

Couple more proofs! The 1937 is now my oldest proof coin!

 

How do you know they are proofs? They don't look special to me.

 

The seller said so. I've bought a few proofs off him lately so I trust him. His photos aren't the best and the coins are almost always better in hand.

 

For my own collection, I would not mind getting a non-official set. I collect them primarily by design, so if the 1 cent, 2 cent and 5 cent coins for example have the same national side design, I just "need" one. That was important when Andorra issued its first euro coins - six of the eight denominations were available fairly easily, but the 1 ct and 2 ct pieces are very hard to get. So what, my set starts at 5 ct ...

Great, congrats! Don't think there will be any new countries in the foreseeable future - the last ones to start issuing coins were Latvia (EU, joined euro area in Jan'2014), Andorra (non-EU, mid-2014), Lithuania (EU, joined euro area in Jan'2015). So we have 23 countries (19 EU member states, plus 4 non-EU) that issue euro coins. Enough to keep me busy.

And then there are the commemorative €2 coins. Sore subject ... each euro country can issue two per year, and a third one in case of common issues. And once again Monaco is tough. Each of the four non-EU countries has a monetary agreement with the EU that also covers the issue volume and how many coins (in % of the annual volume) have to be issued at face. But that means a percentage of the total figure, not of each issue. So last year Monaco issued a commem, mintage 10,000 only and proof only, that costs about €800 these days. And no, I do not need that for my collection.

Christian

 

Picked this guy up tonight! Just a bit over $20. Very nice coin with just a few rim dings.

 

Is it a token? Doesn't look like the usual penny/half penny.

 

Here one my old coin shop partner found this one for me.

 

It's a farthing.
http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces6879.html

https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide...hing-km-677-1821-i823-cuid-122748-duid-313433

 

Another one that just arrived for my German States (1872-1918) collection in a superb grade.

 

To answer the quiz about the date. This is an 1809. There was one original struck + a number of patterns in silver, bronze, & copper by Bolton & Co.??? in England. While I don't know about the one original, this is the only year where the mint mark (R = Rio, B = Bahia, M = Minas Gerais) does not appear in the middle of the ribbon as the 1809's were not made at any of the Brazilian mints.

This series is the Brazilian equivalent to the Morgan dollar & was issued from 1809, well really from 1810 until 1834. They go crazy over all the die varieties of them down here.

 

My Libertad 30th anniversary set finally arrived--had to wait until it came into the country. Mintage of only 1500, with 800 distributed outside of Mexico. I have set number 407 of 1500. Here are a few "quick and dirty" photographs:

 

my ex-girlfriend Jenny came to visit the cats and to my surprise brought her camera and macro lens to take some coins pics.... this came today in the mail... I like the skull...






the sun was almost going down when she took these pics...
I spent a small fortune for this grade and toning (never regretting it for a second).... I could look at this coin all day...


this type of toning warms my heart.

 

Super nice. When you take your photos be sure the Winged Liberty is standing up. I can picture a nice photo op. Something like this

The mini statue with a black background standing between the coins.

 

That is a coin to be proud of.

 

That is what I usually do, but the batteries in my Nikon were not charged. I had to use my cell phone.

 

Netherlands East Indies. Dutch Colony. Utrecht Gulden 1786-VOC AU50 NGC. I thought it looks sharp for the grade, plus I like the history of the VOC, and I got it for quite a bit less than the estimated auction sale price.