World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

And this one. The Burger King guy!

 

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4 Italian and 1 Vatican in the same set? Does look like the staples the Italians used on mint sets, though I'm not sure they were mint products.

 

It might have been a propaganda issue by the Fascists showing the unity between the Italian government and the Holy See. The again, the dates are all during WWII. I don't think Italy had many tourists during that time, if at all, unless they were Germans or Austrians.
Or it might just be a souvenir for the American troops after the war. The coins are circulated and the stitching is hand sown. So it could be a set compiled by an entrepreneurial souvenir dealer.

 

My first silver half crown, I got it very cheap maybe because of the wear on the left side but the reverse is very good with little wear.
Sorry I get a better photo having problems uploading

 

1941 Bu Netherlands 10c.
if had a philly mint mark $500.00 in MS-65
MS-60 $100.00-$200.00

 

Aussie 20cents - AK47 bullet hole

Here is that coin I was talking about.... I held and put a live, unfired 7.62 x 39 mm, Kalashnikov (AK-47) bullet next to it to show size et cetera..... now I have an old Belgian 5 franc and a couple Italian 200 Lire as well as a Japanese 10 sen coin, all of which I put a hole through with a smaller caliber .223 round fired from a short barreled Ruger Mini-14... much less force exerted on the coin it seems, but the .223 bullet, which travels much faster than the 7.62x39mm round used by the AK 47, around 3100 feet per second out of the muzzzle for the .223, which is very fast, even for such weapons and rounds..... so anyhow the .223 seems to just punch a clean hole right through, where the larger AK47 bullet seems to kinda torque the coin with the powerful impact and larger mass of bullet passing through.... both still seem to leave a fairly clean hole, especially if you hit the coin in the middle. Alot of people confuse caliber and mm... when it comes to caliber, one 'caliber' is 1/100 of an inch, so the .223 caliber round is barely over .22cal ( or 22/100 of an inch), the 7.62x39mm round of the AK47 is 30 caliber, so a decent ammount larger(slightly under 10% Larger) Note: I did them all with FMJ, Full Metal Jacketed, rounds. The coin in the pics was hit on the reverse at 10 meters, open sights, couldn't bear to fire upon the queen.... Platypus though, no problemo just kidding, I love animals. Especially strange Australian ones that I do not fully understand.
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as for NEWEST aquisitions, I got several from Nicaragua, several bronzes and a few copper nickel coins from between 1938 and 1950. Here is a 1943 25c, I love the sunrise over the mountains on Nicaraguan coinage. I also like the pyramid that is on some of the other denominations.... great coins to collect. This one is the largest in size of my new Nicaraguan coins, I paid all of .20 US cents for it..... not too shabby
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(really hope I havent already posted any of these pics.....)


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***NOTE: sorry, I mean Australian 20 cent piece, I have quite a few of these.... I guess I didnt take any pics of the HK$10Dollar coin I shot.... also no offense to folks from any of these countries, also I only shot obsolete coinage of which I had many examples and had high mintages.
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Here is pretty interesting Tri Metal coin (features three different gold alloys, Gold/Copper, Gold/Copper/Silver and Gold/Paladium). I love Au metallurgy i have wanted this for a while just hand a chance get it today.

 

Never seen that before, pretty cool.

 

Guatemala, Malaya...

Yes, very interesting coin!
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I also picked these up fairly recently, I think the Guatamalan 1/4 Real of 1888 is beautiful, and I especially like the coins of Malaya, and the Straits Settlements... I have a few other nice ones.

 

Those are nice Rex, you get them from your local shop?

 

Looks like Frank Kings work

 

This image reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode "The Trade Ins"

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[TD="class: description, colspan: 6"]In the future, an older couple (Joseph Schildkraut, Alma Platt) can only afford to make one of them young again. [/TD]
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Thanks for your comments. Actually, though, the coin is a 1949, but nonetheless in the highest grade that is still relatively affordable. The 1949 dollars were struck with special care and issued in plastic and cardboard tubes to protect them, and likely some residents of Newfoundland, Canada's then-10th province, continued their excellent preservation as a commemoration of this historic event. Apparently the measure to join Canada was quite close. It is, regardless, a marvelous example. The highest priced grade in Canadian Coin News is MS65 ($100). The last trade of an MS67 at Heritage that I could find was 12 years ago.

 

Wow, that is an absolutely spectacular coin! I can see why you wanted to get your hands on it! It looks to be a commemorative of something or other but I don't quite get the obverse design (and don't know Polish-rocket?). Any idea what it commemorates?

 

The year 2001. And that was also when, strictly speaking, the current millennium began ...

Christian

 

Ah well, OK then! Sort of a Time Tunnel into Ye New Millennium design, I suppose, a la Stargate Universe. Thanks!

 

Got this from my mom



Taiwan 20 Yuan

 

Havent bought a cheap world coin in awhile, always liked this type & have the 100 reis already, so I figured I would get the 200 reis. Scratch isnt as bad in hand. Seller pics

 

I keep thinking Brazil will be the next Russia or China, -countries which have seen enormous growth in their economies and collectors appetite for collector coins. So far, I have been wrong. But I am still adding a coin or two from Brazil whenever I see one nearly given away that is in great shape from the same era as yours. I think I paid less than $50 for this one:

 

Some coins I got today the crown cost $3 and the two pound $4. Pretty cheap