World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

Picked up this lovely AU Peru 1914 1/2 Sol this weekend:​

 

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nice big russian bronze, 39 mm!

 

Some South African coins celebrating Nelson Mandela

 

I buy coins and put them in a big bag for awhile and then when I get a bunch I sort them by country and put them all away into albums. Here is what I've accumulated in the past 3-4 months or so.

 

Looks like the bunch I had a few years back when I bought 10 pounds. Took me forever to sort and catalog. Fun every minute.

 

This is everything I've bought online in that time plus two trips to coin shops to sort through their value bins. Some of them will end up being doubles and I'll resell those, but the majority will stick. This is why I can't have photos of all my coins.

 

This has been high on my want list for several year, finally got one at exactly my budget, the mid $20s.

 

Good pickup, I firmly believe these have high potential in the future

 

it's a very common coin.

 

I know, bought it for the design, not investment potential.

 

it is a great design.

 

Two of my recent purchases, Estonian mint errors. 1 mark from 1922 (although, as you can see, without date) and slightly off center 20 senti from 1992.
The third coin is German 10 pfennig, 1936-A. I got it as a freebie years ago and totally forgot that I have it. And just recently rediscovered it in my drawer.

 

A beautiful coin indeed. It is also a "secret" way to collect American silver dollars. Panamanian coins of the era were minted to American standards of fineness and planchet size long after the Peace dollar ceased in 1935.

 

This came in the mail today. Nothing super fancy. But I paid $1.25 for it and melt is currently $4.10.

 

This coin is ugly but beautiful. Ugly design but completes my 2002 10 Euro collection. I now have every mint for that year.

 

Don't know why I bought these, but I picked up several in a lot. I think the price was right and I might keep a couple and dispose of the rest.

India-Princely States Bahawalpur
Ruler Sir Sadiq Muhammad Khan V
AH1342-1343 1924-1925
Hammered Copper
1 Paisa

These are very difficult to grade because they are hammered. Even a mint state coin may appear to be a low grade. Amazing that coinage was still being made in that method in the early 1900s. Shown are a few from the lot. The actual color of the coins are closest to the first one shown. the last one I took on a black background and as usual with copper coins and black backgrounds, it came out the wrong color but does show up details well.

 

My latest purchase, and I am happy with it.

A commemorative boxed set of coins, issued jointly by the Governments of Australia and the Netherlands in 2006, to celebrate the landing of the first European on the Australian continent 400 years earlier, in 1606; Willem Janszoon aboard the Duyfken.

He actually thought it was part of New Guinea, and named it "Nieu Zeland" (don't tell the Kiwis) and it wasn't called "New Holland" until 1644, by Abel Tasman.
In 1770, the English Captain, James Cook named the continent "New Wales", and revised that in 1788 to "New South Wales".
It wasn't until 1804, that a British navigator, Matthew Flinders called the Continent "Terra Australis" and then "Australia", that it got the name it is known by, today.

(So, for 38 years Australia was known as Nieu Zeland - New Zealand.)




AUSTRALIAN 5 Dollars (Silver)


Netherlands 5 Euros (Silver)

 

No, I will not click "Like". No, I will not click "Like". No, I will not click ...

Christian

 

The Dutch coin I have too. As for the New Zealand name, at the time when Janszoon traveled around there, he had no reason to differentiate. Note that the sign of Maarten Brouwer (then mint master), the sailing ship, is placed near the spot where the Duyfken landed ...

Christian

 

Ah, come on, you know you want one!
I had the other 4 mints, I had to complete the set. I got an extra E to counter balance.