World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

Those older Czech pieces are really nice, especially proof issues. Most have small mintages with thousands later being melted at the mint. I'm surprised they don't sell for more than they do.

 

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Ghaznavid Gold Dinar of Sebuktekin (the founder of the Ghaznavid Dynasty) from 997:

 

Tang Dynasty Bronze 1 Wen/Cash Kaiyuan Tongbao from 621:

 

Mexico 1/2 Real with inverted assayer and mint mark.

 

Umayyad Silver Dirham of Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz (minted in Basra in 719):

 

Seleucid Silver Obol of Seleucus I Nicator (struck at the Ai-Khanoum mint around 286 BCE):

 

Abbasid Silver Dirham of Harun al-Rashid (minted at the Madinat al-Salam mint in either 806 or 807):

 

Roman Silver Antoninianus of Phillip I (minted in Rome in 248 to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Rome's founding):

 

I picked this up from auction yesterday - Japan 1 Yen Year 28 (1895). Not desperately scarce, but a handsome design.
Auction house had described it simply a "A Chinese Coin"!

 

A new medal for the collection:



Maria Theresa silver "Royal Visit to Mining Towns" Medal 1751-Dated MS61 NGC, Montenuovo-1828. 22mm. By Donner. Issued to commemorate the royal visit to the Hungarian mines. FRANC IMP AUG M THERES HUNG REX Facing, crowned busts of Maria Theresa and Franz I // FORTUNAE REDUCI Hermes and Fortuna; ADV AUG INFOD H / MDCCII in exergue.

 

Russian Gold 5 Roubles of Alexander III from 1889 (minted in Sankt-Peterburg):

 

Ancient Chinese State of Chu Gold Ying Yuan (minted sometime between 400 BCE and 220 BCE):

 

Sounds good.

 

Is that basically a natural gold nugget with carved details and becoming a coin?.

 

I just pulled the trigger on this one. I like coins on coins plus the "history of the dollar" I found to be interesting on a coin from Spain. When I saw the reverse had a Wildman I was hooked.



Commemorative issue: History of the Dollar

Obverse: In the center, inside a pinwheel pattern, is reproduced the portrait of the king Felipe VI looking left, wearing the distinctive of Captain General; circling the central motif, clockwise and inside another pinwheel pattern, appears the obverse and reverse of a coin of eight reales; a fleur de lis; obverse and reverse of a Dollar of 1794, the first issued in the United States; another fleur de lis and front and back of a Joachimsthaler.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
HISTORIA DEL DÓLAR
FELIPE VI
REY DE ESPAÑA
HISTORY OF THE DOLLAR

Reverse: On the reverse, in the center of the coin appear the Columns of Hercules, girded with a band with the motto PLVS VLTRA and, below, the mark of Ceca. Surrounding the central motifs, in a clockwise direction, appear the obverse and reverse images of a Reichsthaler, a Leeuwendaalder, a Speciedaler and, in the lower part of the coin, a Maria-Theresien-Taler; surrounding these motifs, a gillile of pine nuts interrupted in its upper and lower part.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
ESPAÑA 2017
300 EURO
PLUS ULTRA
M

Edge: Plain with numbers (the numbers indicate the serial number of the coin, with a maximum mintage of 1000 units)
Script: Latin
Lettering: 0452/1000

Mint: M Royal Mint of Spain (Real Casa de la Moneda), Madrid, Spain (1591-date)

Comments: The Royal Mint (FNMT) has wanted to dedicate its first mintage of a one-kilogram silver coin to the history of the American dollar, whose origins go back to Central European thaler and Spanish colonial America, with the real of eight.
The coin reproduces different numismatic pieces that are fundamental to understand this history of the dollar, its origins and ancestors

Composition: Silver (.999)
Weight: 1007 g
Diameter: 100 mm

 

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces240458.html

 

Nabataean Bronze Shekel of Rabbel II and his wife Hagru (minted sometime between 102 and 106):

 

Since Baldwin's once again sold me something they didn't have, my newest acquisition is this one:

 

Aceh Sultanate Gold Kupang of Alauddin Ri'ayat Syah al-Kahar (minted sometime between 1537 and 1571):