World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

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I see you were busy last night and now you can't help yourself.

Amanda

 

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The Devil is in the Details :devil:

 

Found @ yard sale last weekend $3.00.Has a cud @ 12 o'clock of rim,damaged more maybe by old coin roller.PMD:kewl:

 

It went through the battle of Brittian

 

Just Arrived hope you like my photo

 

dwhiz you camera is good but tweak the picture a little bit, what software are you using for editing pictures?


I known buying PM while prices are dropping isn't best thing to do but here is my latest addition. This is my first Ethiopian coin .

 

I have a Canon SX20IS and I just use Photoscape to crop it and I do nothing else to it.
PS I just point and shoot. I do have a copy stand but I don't use it too often

 

I like it but I'm not buying it.

 

Happy to hear you like it, what's nice about collecting coins is buy what you like and enjoy it.

 

I can also appreciate what others buy? Ever see Edwaurds coins? I'm not buying those either.

Ruben

 

2012 Fiji Turtle 1 Oz Silver $2

 

Philppine 1976 1500 peso coin

 

Nice!! I like it. I saw pics of it in catelogues but that is SO much nicer than it apeared! How much did it set you back?

 

30 Great British Pounds, around 48 Susan B Anthony's.

Might seem a lot, but the cheapest on UK eBay right now is £40 or $66.


I think it's great, one of the best looking 1oz coins I own.

 

The 1811/0 is Calbeto-864 and cataloged as rare. PCGS certified only one of these and two at NGC. This overdate comes-up from time to time in the auctions, but this is the first original looking AU example I've seen in a number of years.

Hope you like 'em crusty:

 

I like it. Wikipedia informs us that Napoleon put Ferdinand VII in prison in France from 1808 - 1813 yet his image & name remain on the 1811 Spanish coins. I don't understand this entirely :rollling: Thanks for posting the neat Spanish Mexico 8 reales.

 

In mainland Spain the image during those years was changed to José Napoleon, but the colonies never accepted a french ruler and were striking using Fernando VII bust and legend. Official dies bearing Fernando VII effigy were not brought in from Spain and a number of colonial mints had to improvise and create their own dies. Some of those designs were pretty cool. One that stands out for me is the "Inca Bust" of Fernando VII that was used in Lima, Peru:



Here's another neat one from Santiago, Chile:



And Mexico used the "Armored Bust" design, as seen in my previous post.

 

This thread has some good CoinTalkin' in it.

 

There's a good write up on Ferdinand's reign on Wiki:

When his father's abdication was extorted by a popular riot at Aranjuez in March 1808, he ascended the throne[1] but turned again to Napoleon, in the hope that the emperor would support him. He was in his turn forced to make an abdication on 6 May 1808[2] but his father had relinquished his rights to the Spanish throne on 5 May 1808 (the previous day) in favour of Emperor Napoleon,[3] so Ferdinand effectively had given the throne to Napoleon. Napoleon kept Ferdinand under guard in France for six years at the Chateau of Valençay.

While the upper echelons of the Spanish government accepted his abdication and Napoleon's choice of new monarch, his brother Joseph Bonaparte, the Spanish people did not. Uprisings broke out throughout the country, marking the beginning of the Peninsular War. Provincial juntas were established, since the central government had acknowledged Joseph. After the Battle of Bailén proved that the Spanish could resist the French, the Council of Castile reversed itself and declared null and void the abdications of Bayonne on 11 August 1808.[4] Several days later, on 24 August, Ferdinand VII was proclaimed king of Spain again,[5] and negotiations between the Council and the provincial juntas for the establishment of a Supreme Central Junta were completed. Subsequently, on 14 January, the British government acknowledged Ferdinand VII as king of Spain.[6]

Five years later after experiencing serious reverses on many fronts, Emperor Napoleon agreed to acknowledge Ferdinand VII as king of Spain on 11 December 1813 and signed the Treaty of Valençay, so that the king could return to Spain. This, however, did not happen until Napoleon was nearly defeated by the allied powers several months later. The Spanish people, blaming the liberal, enlightened policies of the Francophiles (afrancesados) for causing the Napoleonic occupation and the Peninsular War by allying Spain too closely to France, at first welcomed Fernando. Ferdinand soon found that in the intervening years a new world had been born of foreign invasion and domestic revolution. In his name Spain fought for its independence and in his name as well juntas had governed Spanish America. Spain was no longer the absolute monarchy he had relinquished six years earlier. Instead he was now asked to rule under the liberal Constitution of 1812. Before being allowed to enter Spanish soil, Ferdinand had to guarantee the liberals that he would govern on the basis of the Constitution, but, only gave lukewarm indications he would do so.


Triumphal welcome of Ferdinand at Valencia, 1814
On 24 March the French handed him over to the Spanish Army in Girona, and thus began his celebratory procession towards Madrid.[7] During this process and in the following months, he was encouraged by conservatives and the Church hierarchy to reject the Constitution. On 4 May he ordered its abolition and on 10 May had the liberal leaders responsible for the Constitution arrested. Ferdinand justified his actions by claiming that the Constitution had been made by a Cortes illegally assembled in his absence, without his consent and without the traditional form. (It had met as a unicameral body, instead of in three chambers representing the three estates: the clergy, the nobility and the cities.) Ferdinand initially promised to convene a traditional Cortes, but never did so, thereby reasserting the Bourbon doctrine that sovereign authority resided in his person only.

Meanwhile, the wars of independence had broken out in America, and although many of the republican rebels were divided and royalist sentiment was strong in many areas, the Manila galleons and tax revenues from the Spanish Empire had been interrupted. Spain was all but bankrupt.

Ferdinand's restored autocracy was guided by a small camarilla of his favorites, although his government seemed unstable. Whimsical and ferocious by turns, he changed his ministers every few months. "The King", wrote Friedrich von Gentz to the Hospodar John Caradja on 1 December 1814, "himself enters the houses of his first ministers, arrests them, and hands them over to their cruel enemies"; and again, on 14 January 1815, "The king has so debased himself that he has become no more than the leading police agent and gaoler of his country."

 

Hello

A history reference to an artifact greatly adds to its understanding and enjoyment. You did an excellent job in promoting this coin.

Amanda