World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

Getting very hard to find collector coins in gold for under $300 that are nice. Picked this little gem up in a Scottsman auction at the Missouri Numismatic Society show in St. Charles. Less than 1/20 of an ounce of gold, but then that's massive compared to some of these 40th and 50th of ounce coins they're selling now days.

NGC. Any guesses on the grade??

 

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As a matter of fact I want an example of a sovereign from India, England, and Australia respectively so that book may be excellent for my purposes. I have never come across a book that contains rankings I will certainly look into finding a copy of it; thank you for the reference.
Regards,
Fred

 

If you don't mind I'd like to guess ms 61

 

Wee bit nicer. MS64

 

Another fairly recent acquistion. Whole bunch of these were for sale on eBay a few months back. Now only one, and priced at twice what the earlier ones sold for. Nothing in archives of recent sales either. I may be wrong, but my instincts tell me this will be one hot modern coin in a few years time.

 

I picked-up the 1911-c along with the 1917-c and 1919-c at a coin show about 12 years ago for a hundred bucks each. Raw, but easily at least MS62. Seemed like the natural next step after I had completed the gold $5 and $10 set. Had the key 1914 gold $5 in AU58. All of the coins were slabbed, the nicest being the 1912 gold $10 which was MS62. I ended-up selling all of those coins off except the 1912 MS62 $10. Kind of wish I would have held on to them. But the rest of the Sovereigns were so badly over-bid (my opinion) whenever one came up for auction, that I finally gave-up ever completing the Sovereign part of the collection, and shortly after that decided to dump them all.

 

Sovereigns Literature

The last edition is the one you want, the so-called Jubilee Edition, published in 2002 before Marsh's untimely death in 2006. A word of warning: While many of Marsh's rarity rankings are useful, some are also off the mark. Most notable is the 1927-M (Melbourne) sovereign which he lists as "R2" -- merely "very rare," although his scale goes up to R6, four to eight examples known, and R7, "highest rarity possible," whatever that means -- but in fact, the 1927-M is unknown in any collection. So the Monetarium-Quartermaster Collection catalog might also be a good complement. Good luck!

PS Anyone else know of good references/rarity rankings for the various British Empire sovereign issues?

Best Regards, :hail:

George

 

Just bought a 1901 One Krone from Norway. Coin dealer said it was fine. I had one of the LCS guys, who specializes in foreign coins, tell ne that it is VF to possibly XF.

Nice to find out that I picked out a goodie!

P.S. ebay recently listed one that is much worse than mine. Someone won that one for almost $100! This tells me mine could be worth much more.

 

Nice 1916 GEORGE V GOLD SOVEREIGN. Last date minted in UK.



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1916-GEORGE-V-GOLD-SOVEREIGN-WALNUT-FINISH-BOX-/190627908360?pt=UK_Coins_BritishMilled_RL&hash=item2c624f0b08#ht_1535wt_1488

 

Are you checking sellers from Europe i see them quite frequently listed by German sellers' however none of them graded. However it is good you got it graded CBR coins are notorious for their poor quality some of other Eastern Europe nations like Lithuania put out better issues'.

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/rust-discovered-bank-russia-issued-999-gold-coins

 

You are correct that the prices are all over the place, more so for the sovereigns but for the Canada fives and tens as well. Some people go crazy over that gold!

You have to study the series and know when to hold em and when to fold em. It pays to do your homework, and I have done a lot of it!

Best Regards, :hail:

George

 

:yes:This very nice 1946 British Shilling arrived in the mail today. It was the last of the British silver coins for general circulation.

 

Ain't he cute!

 

Shure is!

 

I love those coins. I was buying them at shows in the
90's at melt or close to it. Btw, if you like die
cracks, Peru Soles are loaded with them.

 

I have 1924 Peru Sol with a 3/8 inch wide die break
that goes all the way from 2:00 to 8:00. The dealer
didn't price it and when I handed it to him he was
too busy yanking with another dealer about his Bellsouth
stock. He just glanced at the date, saw it was .500
and said "Oh I don't know, gimme four bucks."

 

medallic coin of Singapore
Year of the Monkey
2000 minted

P.S. X#MB81 in unusual world coins catalog