World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

Got this one free from a nice dealer in Greece when he shipped a couple other coins to me. Was a nice gesture.

 

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:thumb:I see there still folks buy!! that good!!!
:kewl:

 

I have the big brother of the series, the 100 Franc crown in BU listed on eBid if you want it. It's raw, but a pretty nice looking coin.
http://us.ebid.net/for-sale/luxembourg-silver-francs-john-the-blind-crown-44069026.htm

 

One of the coolest world coins in circulation today-- Egypt 1 Pound

 

Agree. I have also always liked the One Pound coins from the early 1990s with the pyramids on the reverse. Same design has been used to strike gold and silver, but somehow receiving of the brass pieces in change at one time in a Cairo bizare made the coin seem that much more exotic.

 

I don't have any one pound coins with pyramids on them, but I did get this 1984 5-piastre pyramid coin in the same lot as the King Tut coin:

 

Not quite my latest as I havnt scanned them yet but quite recent are these 4

1774
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
1-12 Taler Value & date Horse


1834
Hessen-Darmstadt
6 Kreuzer Value Coat of arms


1842
Baden
3 Kreuzer Value & Date Coat of arms


1848
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1-48 Taler Value & Date Coat of arms

 

Here is the last emission to date of the french circulating 10 euros in silver (this year the silver proportion decreases down to 50%) celebrating the regions of France.

They are available at face value from post offices since last monday, and for the sole region the post office is situated in. Hence the Rhone-Alpes I've got here. Hope my son can get one in Paris and my parents in Corsica though...

Unfortunately, as you can't choose them, one can see fingerprints on the one I'm showing.



Q

 

Lovely coin but what a shame they woudnt let you pick one

 

Have you thought about trying to clean it?

 

No, I wouldn't dare, because the flan is bright and most probably, anything touching it would ruin it.

The only solution is to buy several hoping one of them is OK. And spend the others as they are circulating coins (people would be amazed though to get silver coins in payment these days...)

Q

 

Any idea howmuch it weighs? Amazing anything silver circulates these days with silver prices being what they are, --or should I say what they were(?)

 

2007 Africa

 

10 grams, meaning 5 grams silver. Still a good deal for the "Monnaie de Paris"

Q

 

Got this one today in the mail to add to my horse set. It's nice for the issue.

 

I just picked this up at a local coin show today. I am satisfied with the purchase as I hardly ever see Mexican copper from the teens in red. This probably has a RB designation, but it is still pretty fresh. Probably common as h@ll, but not bad for 30 dollars in this condition. It can be fun and relaxing searching through foreign dealers boxes when American gets boring (and expensive). Matt

 

This came home not long ago. Its housed in an NGC MS64 holder. Its crisp, pretty, interesting, big and brown. What's not to like?

 

Roughly 10kg of Aussie 1c & 2c pieces

 

Here's a new one from Greece.

 

Here are few of my recent acquisitions. The first is a 5,000 Dinara gold proof from SERBIA, dated 2004, commemorating the 200th Anniversary of the 'First Serbian Insurrection'. The second is 5 Yuan from CHINA (PEOPLES REPUBLIC), dated 2011, commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party. The last is 1 Drachma from GREECE (KINGDOM), dated 1832. Issued under King: Otto/Othon Wittelsbach of Bavaria.

SERBIA (REPUBLIC)~5,000 Dinara 2004

CHINA (PEOPLES REPUBLIC)~5 Yuan 2011

GREECE (KINGDOM)~1 Drachma 1832