world coins

I believe "American Collectors in general" are blind to the fact that World Coins are on the upward move and are going to continue multiplying in value over the next several decades!

Their loss my gain, every shop I stop in Mwahaha!

 

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I can't argue with that
I've picked up some bargains myself from dealers who didn't want to handle foreign coins-- even silver. Just throw all the silver into a big bag and sell it as a function of weight and fineness. I picked up a couple of valuable Latvian pre-USSR silver coins, a BU Austrian schilling from 1925, an EF 1916-M Australian florin, an AU 1939 Australian shilling, a VF Victoria 5 cents from Canada, and a 1922 USSR 50 kopeks in this way, all for basically "melt" value.

 

Technically that is a 'Cinderella' coin, not a 'World' coin...
I have some 'Lundy' stamp panels.

 

the coin also has political undertones as coles-harmon was the owner of lundy, which is in the bristol channel, at the time and he wanted greater autonomy because of this so he issued two coins the puffin as pictured and the half puffin, the denomination was derived from the fact the lundy island is home to a massive colony of the birds. however the UK government declared the coins illegal and demanded that they be withdrawn from circulation, coles-harmon responded by naming the coins as tokens and therefore they weren't legal tender so the charge was eventually dropped. leaving us to collect these enigmatic coins/tokens to this day. the coin is definitely not a "cinderella" coin as it was certainly meant for circulation on the island. and in effect no collection of british ilses coins is complete without the lundy issues.

 

The man was a nut.
The island was British territory, pretty much unpopulated, and he DECLARED HIMSELF KING!
He was on thin ice and flirted with spending the rest of his life in prison for putting himself above the British crown.
It would be akin to one of us buying a tiny, unpopulated Florida Key and declaring to the world that you withdrawl from the Union!
Seems to me that Randy Weaver was going down a similar road in Ruby Ridge...


The coins/stamps were a looney's fantasy.
That said, they are a great story and I am not getting rid of my Lundy stamps anytime soon!

 

this guy got away with it because of a loophole in australian law...........

 

Hutt River, now a "principality", has a population of about 20. I am sure they desperately need coins and notes.

Christian

 

sold to the tourist trade and collectors christian,

 

Thanks. Although I have to admit, half of them were given to me.

Actually, any of the "Heisei 20's" are EXTREMELY DIFFICULT to find in circulation here in Japan. In fact, the Showa 60 and 61 50-yen coins, as well as any 50-yen from Heisei 12 onward, are very uncommon in circulation. There are tons of 50-yen coins from the early Heisei years, and from Showa 63, as well as anything in the small size before Showa 60, but the recent coins are REAL TOUGH to find in circulation!

Some of them command substantial premiums. Others are not so valuable in the circulated grades.

I'm pretty sure I can get a decent 1960 for less than $50 here in Japan. What kind of grade are we talking about?

Frankly, I wouldn't pay a premium for those coins, since I find them in change every day, and I'm pretty sure they can be bought for less than the 2000-yen price they are listed at in the 2011 Japanese Coin Catalogue.

If you'd like, I can look around and see what is available from Japanese coin dealers in those dates

I would be interested in trading or selling at a later date. But most of the early coins were given to me by a recently departed friend, and I wouldn't feel right parting with those coins at the present time

If you'd like, I can check around to see what Japanese dealers are offering these coins for.

 

Anything for a HRP buck, hehe. Well, we had a similar pseudo-country around here, about 90 years ago: the Free State of Bottleneck. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Bottleneck Unfortunately they had no opportunity to issue coins though ...

Christian

 

i have seen some bank notes recently from the baltic islands, do you know anything about them?

 

I just received my last submission from NGC. It consists of three coins from the USA and 11 non-USA coins. I find bargains, beauty, and history in world coins on a regular basis.

This 500 Lire from Italy remains one of my favorite designs. This one came back from NGC graded MS66. This 500 Lire has its date on the edge of the coin. It is about the same size as the Franklin half & was minted about the same number of years as the Franklin half. IMO it is more beautiful than the Franklin design. I have quite a few different dates & will probably end up with a complete set of toned beauties someday.

Very best regards,
collect89

 

This one was also in my last batch from NGC. I have never seen an old Haiti 2 Centime coin in this state of preservation before. Also, the history of Haiti is quite interesting.

 

So the half puffin coin from Lundy mentioned, would that be a 1 puffin after it had been attacked by a seal?

 

Why? I spend thousands of dollars on my collection each year and I don't care squat about their current or future value. My only concern when I buy a coin is whether or not I can afford to buy it right now, (current cash flow)

And many of the items I buy are not only demonitized base metal, many of them were never legal tender at all.

 

Fine, I have a bunch of base metal game parlor tokens I would love to sell that were never legal tender and will never go up in value. Are you interested?

 

beautiful coin thank you very much for posting it here

 

I'm glad not many people in my area care to collect world coins. It allows me to find deals like the 1959 Australian Shilling I picked up at a show on Saturday... Paid $0.40 for it, current value just in silver is $2.55, and a beautiful coin to boot!

 

You can find tons of silver in junk boxes. You can also find high denomination coins for next to nothing like the Japan 100 Y which are wort $1.20 for six for a dollar. Figure out what the scarce Uncs are too and most junk boxes will contain some treasure.