World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

This one got here today, after spending almost 2 months traveling around the world several times....Orodes II, Parthian Kingdom 57-38 BC

 

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Just won this: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/263226580688

Been hunting one of these for so long, this is Spink 3862D, listed only for 1882 and 1883. I have 1880, 1881 and 1883 already, the 1883 is common, probably about 70-80 known, the 1880 about 40, the 1881 about 15, I've never seen an 1882 but they're listed in Spink and Marsh. I've never seen an 1886 and this is the first 1887 I've seen. The dies were at the mint up to 1887 so they likely were struck but just in such small numbers, and when paired with the survival rate of Sydney gold of the era of about 1 in 100 it's not too improbable to have survival counts of under 10.

Unfortunately 1 other bidder spotted it and chased me up in the last minute, they didn't even get close to touching my proxy bid but did make me pay an extra 3000 pounds or so.

 

Super awesome coin. Congrats on the win.

 

Just came today, 1646 Negapatnum VOC Kas 1

 

Just picked this up yesterday. Shows nice doubling on the reverse, strongest on the date (1 pretty strongly doubled), KONG, CENT. Shows some tripling on one of the central characters (sorry, not sure what to call it...maybe someone who speaks Chinese can educate me.)

Hong Kong - 1863 One Cent
*Doubled Die Reverse*
KM 4.1
Mintage of 1,000,000



Date
(doubling strongest on 1, but apparent on all four numbers)



ONE
(doubling strongest on the E)



CENT
(doubling strongest on T)



HONG



KONG
(entire word pretty strongly doubled)



Central character
(check out the bottom sides of the lower right corner and central line)

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This one showed up yesterday, VOC 1786 Ceylon - Colombo mintmark, 19mm D and 4 mm thick "Dump" Stuiver. Fairly well centered example, on many of these the date did not show up on the planchet.

 

Hey, those are cool. I like THICK, stuck, modern coins! Added to my list.

 

Oh wow, those are cool. I had no idea Japan made clay coins.

May as well post my newest porcelain notgeld coin.





This coin commemorates "The Diet of Worms", which I thought was some type of Atkins or South Beach competitor, or a sequel to this book...



A diet was larger conference, lead by the Holy Roman Emperor and Worms was the German city it was held in. Martin Luther was called here to recant his heretical writings, and told them to buzz off....after thinking about it for a day. Luther got out of there, and was labeled a heretic. For a while, he hang out near the town of Eisenach where this coin was minted. The reverse shows a Luther Rose.

 

"Diet of Worms", wow. People eat a lot of bugs around here but I don't think they eat worms.........

 

Shoot, there used to be advertisements for 'diet pills' containing tapeworm eggs...get a worm and lose weight. Yay.

 

I remember that book from my childhood very clearly.

 

Arrived today from Canada.
Yugoslavia 1955 - 50 Dinara - 20 Dinara - 10 Dinara

 

Interesting Ottoman coin (Turkey?)

 

I think the date is AH 1223 which is about 1836 on our calendar.

 

Plus you add the regnal year which is 26. It's at the top of the circle and kind of looks like a smiley face.

 

Not too uncommon, but great eye appeal in this grade.


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These arrived about a month ago after a bit of a mishap. Today I was looking on line and I see sets of 10 different coins. I wonder why my sets contain only 9 coins. I'll have to figure that out.

 

There is a 250 coin.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Complete-Is...192341?hash=item4d36a3e495:g:b8QAAOSwrklVN36F

 

Thank you @Kentucky. I see. I'm almost positive this listing was not posted when I purchased mine. I'll have to fill in those holes.

 

Metal detecting today and found a 1917 silver, Canadian 5 cent piece. It's in pretty darn good shape, all things considered and tiny!