World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

Japan 10 Sen. Taisho 12 (1923). Copper-Nickel. 3.75g. 22.1mm.

 

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One could easily get hooked on Japanese coins...

 

A couple fun Canadians:

1914 5 cent, 1955 50 cent and 1953 one dollar

 

British India Rupees that showed up recently - all Calcutta mint

 

My enamelled Victorian Shilling 1887 came this morning. Im very happy the enamel is in great shape,and this specimen would definitely sell for more than my investment.

 

Is this a genuine mint issue or some kind of PMD?

 

The shilling? Is real and enamelled by an artist of the 1800/1900's

 

I understand that the coin itself is genuine. I am thinking the paint job is someone's idea of a clever add on at some later time, rather than being issued by the Royal Mint in that fashion.

 

Paint job lol ....no its a process that was done back in the 1800's similar to a love token . They were very much in vogue at the turn of the century. And they do have a audience mostly European ,prices go up in the thousands for certain series......if you ever seen a Burmese peacock coin ....those were so well done the colors and art work unbelievable.

 

I just did some reading about these enameled coins and noticed some high prices. Thanks, I learned something. I have a number of nice Jubilee head British coins, love the design. Here are a couple of 'colorized' coins, fairly new acquisitions. The Canadian 25 cent looks like it was done with a sharpie!

 

And I'm so pleased you have learned something, they still make enameled coins modern, not like the one I posted...but 1 color then a clear glass coat to protect.
If you see one and have questions pm me....I have the book, and can advise pass or buy.
On a search use the English spelling "enamelled" two L's that will get you closer to availble coins on the market.

 

You can really learn a lot from these war time issues as well. You can tell that they were preparing for something as early as 1938 as they went from a large (3.75 g 23 mm with 200 million coins minted in 1938 over 2 varieties) bronze 1 Sen (dated 1938) coin (worth about 1/2 US cent at the time) to a small aluminium coin (0.9 g 17.6 mm 440million minted) (dated 1939 but also minted in 1938). You can see this across other issues such as the 5 Sen and 10 Sen coins. Almost like they were using the copper and nickel preparing for other things...

 

Also they'd already been at war with China for several years by that point.

 

Very nice - any interesting die combinations?

 

On the India rupees, I have not gotten around to learning much about die varieties, except for some of the early Victorias. I do that with Aachen XII hellers, which is great fun. This gem came yesterday, GB shilling 1916. At first I thought it had been cleaned or polished, then I examined more carefully and self graded it a straight AU55.

 

I picked up 5 Switzerland 1974 coins today. I can't figure out if they are half of a mint set or from a proof set. I am thinking proof though. Seems that are no PL coins from this year and when I flood the coin with light you can see the cameo, which probably is not on a MS coin. Interesting...

 

Switzerland 1974 1 and 2 Rappan proof? coins.

 

Switzerland 1974 1 and 2 Franc coins. Proof. Unfortunately there is a scratch on each reverse that perhaps details them...

 

Junagadh Princely State 1 dokdo VS1964/(AD1907)

 

Some new french coins for the collection

1711 ECU


1726 ECU


1779 6 Sols


1781 French Guina 2 Sous