Let's see your 18th century coins

Beautiful shilling! Ugh. Why are old UK shillings never reasonably priced in the US?

 

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1780 Hollandia

 

My first reaction was, that cow sure has a long snaky tongue!

 

A couple 2 stuiver pieces, one from Holland and one from Gelderland

 

Another day, another duit. Dutch Republic, province of Overijssel, 1741. With some interesting die cracks too.. the area between the cracks is at a slightly but noticeably different angle to the rest, though it's not very obvious in the photo. The die may not have lasted much longer after striking this particular duit..

 

I often forget if I have posted a certain coin before or not....here is a nice old 1749 10 stuiver silver coin from Holland

 

Dutch Republic, province of Utrecht, 2 stuivers 1785.

 

I've been waiting for this coin, but Irma delayed it by a week, but it finally got it here.

It ain't the prettiest, but I like it!

1786 New Jersey Bridle variety

 

That is one beautiful dubbele wapenstuiver!

 

56.6 grams of Russian 5 kopek, makes a good paper weight!

 

Might as well throw up my cartwheels as well...

 

This thread motivated me to photograph this coin: Dutch Republic, province of Holland, 10 stuivers/half guilder 1748.


I also reshot my other 10 stuiver coin which I showed before in the new acquisition thread in world coins: province of Utrecht, 1758 over 1757.

 

Wow some really great coins in this thread! I don't have much to contribute, only this Brazil 1753 20 Reis. Counterstruck to raise the value to 40 Reis. circa 1809.

 

Two more Dutch coins to keep the thread going . These are silver 1 stuiver coins, the top one is from the province of Holland, the bottom one was struck for the province of Groningen. Groningen no longer had a mint of its own by this time and their coins were actually struck at the Guelders mint in the town of Harderwijk. These are small coins, about 16 millimeters in diameter and around .75 grams each.

 

Those stuivers are in beautiful condition! I have plenty of the 2 stuiver coins and none of the singles. Here are a couple of them, a Gelderland and a Zeeland.

 

This thread seems to be grinding to a halt. I have several hundred more coins from the 1700s, but I didn't want to bore you all with a pile of duits and 2 stuivers. Have a few Brits and some other odds and ends as well. (The one with the elephant is a Mysore 1 Paisa minted 1750-1799)

 

Dutch Republic, province of Gelderland (Guelders), one duit, 1760. This is the type with a rococo frame around the name and date which was in use between 1758 and 1768.


Edit: here it is compared to the previous type. The crane is just a privy mark (the privy mark on the 1760 one is the barely recognizable tree growing out of the bottom of the frame).

 

Province of Holland, one duit 1780. This is the same type Coin Nut posted on September 11th, in case you're wondering what the lion's head is supposed to look like