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Thank you. I have 2 of those. I think the second one is a nice circcam

 

That last one looks to be an Egyptian 10 Qirsh from 1972 (KM#430)

 

Whoops...you beat me to it

 

I believe the 3rd one is Egypt 10 Piastre 1972, KM# 430.

 

Two that arrived today (using sellers photos)

First the Romania 1946 25000 Lei - Nice large silver coin (half dollar size) got this for just a little over silver.

Next we have a 1970 Proof UK Florin - Not a real expensive coin, but lower mintage and I got this real cheap I think (plus it's my birth year so nice example to add to that collection). Has a bit more cameo than the pictures show.

 

So many different coins in this bag, love going thru it. 2 of the only silver so far.

 

Noticed the different rims on the rupees. One is reeded, the other is called a security edge. Never saw it before.

 

Just another couple of upgrades arrived in the post today:

 

1966 Ivory Coast 10 francs, proof
Can’t find any mintage info for this coin.

 

Numista has the mintage at 2000

 

Is that the gold version? I see now there is a silver version with no mintage.

 

Silver

 

From Mark Teller. Clean fields overall, a few minor abrasions and somewhat muted luster, about right for the grade I think. Struck at the Strasbourg Mint. A few years after this coin was struck, Napoleon III made the disastrous decision to enter the Franco-Prussian War, which united the German States against him and ultimately led to the loss of Strasbourg to the Germans for the next 45 years. It became part of France once more at the end of WW-I.

 

In fact, that war began one year later, in 1870. And why? The dispute was about the Spanish royal succession, but the underlying conflict had already become obvious during the Prussian-Austrian war a few years before ...

As for Strasbourg, the place was a free city until the French occupation in 1681. In 1870 it was occupied by the Prussians/Germans, and Alsace Lorraine became, for another 40 years, a German territory with no parliamentary representation. There had been plans to operate the Strasbourg mint with the German mintmark K, but that never happened. In 1918/19 the city and region became French again and have (expect for the WW2 years) been French since then. But today Strasbourg is the seat of many European institutions.

Christian

 

Might be hard to believe, but I won this for barely under $20, and that's with the exchange rate.

Needed a young Victoria head crown so I finally glad to get it off the list.