I have, besides USA and Germany coins, some ancient brazillian coins, and would like to know who has any to show here.
I have four specimens of 1927 1000 RÉIS like this, and one I want to give to Kasia for gift. Just don't know how.
I have this satisfyingly large copper 40 reis from 1825. The "40" was over struck on an earlier coin as part of a revaluation of the currency:
Thank you for the thought, but I don't collect the coins from there. My only real foreign coin collections are for Icelandic Kingdom coins and some Hamburg ones. The Hamburg ones come out of the fact that I have a collection of old postcards from Kiel, and from Hamburg. Iceland because I fell in love with some coins shown on here (coin photography of some) and I realized that doing an entire 'collection' of one portion of this country's coinage was doable. In addition, I have started looking at ancients, so my life is really full for now. I also am in the processing of down-sizing so that (hopefully much later) when the time comes, my kids can just come in, grab what they know they want to, then clear anything else out to suit them. My goals have changed in collecting so most of my foreign coins will probably just be given away.
See this earlier topic, with many nice coins posted by @Siberian Man and others ... https://www.cointalk.com/threads/brazil-united-states-of.227952/
Great person you are Kasia. I hope one day I will thought like you, and I really want to think in live with less. But we live in a world so capitalist (in brazil we gain less and spend much to buy the same thing that you buy for less in other countries) and consumism is a disease very hard to cure. Maybe being a collector makes me forget a little this consumism and makes me focus on the beauty of the art. Coin to me are the art of produce pieces worth more than gold, just for the art. (I hope you understand my english)
Here's my collection. I have a mostly complete set for all but the silver coins from 1871 to 1942. http://s300.photobucket.com/user/hiddendragon02/library/Brazil
Congratulations Hiddendragon, your set is beautifull. I saw some brazillian silver coins (and gold coins) to sell, but all extremelly expensive.
I was trying to take a picture till now, but what I got was this. What I see is the design under the date. (inverted exactly under the date).
The only piece I tried to buy in the past 6 months was Brazilian and despite a bid in line with the highest prices paid I was outbid! Also it was made from the mines of Minas Gerais which I went thru (some of) as well as visiting the numismatic museum in that same state. Nonetheless Ive a bunch of high grade copper 40 & 80 reis from the 1700's bought last year, which I need to photograph & weigh & will try to post. Brazilian stuff seems very challenging right now. I wonder if people are buying the old coins as their current currency (the reais) has recently dropped in value vs the dollar?
