First Victorian Coin Entry In KidRomeo Collection

Yup...My first Victorian coin(GB) walked into my collection today and I'm soooo happy . Here comes the pics

Its a km# 762 1887 British 1 Florin. It got some rim damage near 12 o'clock. The coin was probably part of some jewelery yet it shows remarkable XF details.
And no, I didn't bought it at melt (another ripoff ) but at F-12 value:crying:.

 

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nice

 

I love that design. Nice coin.

 

looks like you are falling for old ladies kid. nice coin

 

Nice coin! You really didn't have any Victorian Indian pieces before?

 

Nice one!

 

I do have lots of Victorian coins from India as well as other countries but its my first Great Britain Victorian coin. The reason I'm so excited is because British coins are my favorite and I really wanted to start the 19th century type set from this year.

 

That was one ugly queen

 

Heck, she's in her 70's. Give the ol' girl a break!

 

Speaking of ugly queens......I haven't seen any queen as ugly as this:

Russia. Anna,1730-1740. Ruble, 1736.Moscow, Kadashevsky mint.

 

at the moment I think she might be 170 but with that profile I doubt it mattered much when she was 20. They wouldn't let this broad move into the West Side of Manhattan for fear of her negative impact on the local population

Ruben

 

Speaking of ugly, I am the owner of this double struck coin with a counter stamp on her mouth to make her be quiet or something

 

Great looking coin shame aout the damage though

Ruben that old girl could have bought Manhatten with her small change and those living there would have fallen over themselfs to simply be invited to tea LOL And try actualy looking for some portraits of her before you pass comments on how she looked

 

Not likely about Manhattan. Even at that time the Wealth on upper Manhattan, 5th Avenue and the upper East Side would have been larger than most large European Economies. Do you really think she could have brought the Island which had properties such as from Carnegie, Rockefeller, Frick, Morgan and the rest of the Gilded Age tycoons

And don't underestimate the irreverance Americans have for Royalty

 

Nice coin Romeo

 

Nice one, bud. Is that not the same design as the double florin of the era? I'm pretty sure that the only difference was the size but not positive.
Oh and Ruben, at this point the British Empire spanned about a quarter of the world so I daresay that a place the size of Manhattan would quite easily have been considered affordable

 

But she didn't own it. the British Monarchy haven't been able to buy Manhattan since they burned it. Carnegie alone was more solvent that the Monarchy.

Ruben

 

Actualy yes Ruben you are mixing the economy of the British Goverment with the personal wealth of the Monarch, have you ever seen the personal jewels collection for example? or the private art collection.
When she died she left some two million pounds in cash, (that was all they recorded LOL) never mind her estates or all the rest of it. Our own queen is the 12th richest royal in the world (according to forbes)

 

Lets put it this way. JP Morgan stopped the worlds largest stock market from crashing by single handedly buying all the shares on the market in an afternoon that were sliding. And then he wrote a nasty letter to Teddy Roosevelt blaming him for the crash. I don't think Morgan would have been that impressed with 2million dollars cash. I'm sure he had that every day in his safe on Broad and Wall where the building had a 3.5 million dollar Chandelier, which I believe is still there.

and that was just JP Morgan. See his Library on 31st and Madison. I believe it was his home originally.

In fact, I'm willing to bet there were more than a few British Industrialist more wealthy that the Royal family.

Ruben

 

I'm thinking about this and it is not even close. Today for example the 100 richest men in the world have assests individually nearly 10 times the British Crown, and they are spread out all over the country and the world.

In the 1890's they were all in Manhattan. There was no Bill Gates in Redmond. They were all here.

Ruben