World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

You have some background on this one?

 

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what do you mean by "background"?
if you asking about what's this coin?!
then it is China Republic Yuan (dollar), 1914, silver, mintage is unknown

the coin is part of the set assembled by one of Japan's biggest coin dealers, about 20 coins, some bullion, some modern staff, some old like the coins above

 

An 1894 German colonial New Guinea silver 1/2 Mark. One year issue with 16K minted and happy to pick it up today.

MikeP

 

I don't do much in foreign but I like Canadian nickels.

My last purchase just happened to walk in the door at work and I bought.

1925 Canadian nickel that grades about fine. Tough date that I needed.

 

wow - look what the wind blew in...

 

El Salvador

KM# 115.1 (Both) 25 grams .900 silver .7234 oz ASW

Un Peso

1908 C.A.M. ~ 1,600,000 minted

1911 C.A.M. ~ 500,000 minted

 

Curacao ~ Kingdom of Netherlands

KM# 46

2 1/2 Gulden

25 grams

.720 silver .5787 oz ASW

1944D ~ 200,000 minted, but 60,000 coins were melted down after minting

 

I got a bunch of those at a local online estate auction as well. I figured they were fake but decided that since nobody else bid I got 30 or so of them for $1 apiece. All stuck to the magnet. Fakes, like I thought. One fake was even a DDO :rollling:

 

well, I wouldn't touch this either if it was not part of the set ... I'm avoiding old chinese coins and pandas ... other modern ones are OK - haven't seen any fakes so far

 

Make sure it's authentic.

 

i have seen a few good fakes of this coin over the past 10 years, if it's from china it is fake!!

 

I live in Germany and bought it here. Coin photography is not something I pretend to do well. The photo of the 1/2 mark was with an I-phone. I have compared the coin visually with all those available through a link that Goldmark provided me (thanks). All details check out visually but I have not checked the weight yet.

thanks,

MikeP

 

Mike I wish it to work out well for you.

 

New foreign acquisitions.

My newest foreign acquisitions are:
norway 1909 10 ore
south africa 1927 shilling
british east africa 1941 shilling

got these 3 last week. i have been buying tons of randon foreign silver coins the3 last few months. about 70 total. i t hink at this point i am going to focus on getting a 3 pence, 6 pence, shilling, florin, half crown each from australia, new zealand, south africa and britain. i am still a little new at it, but am learning a lot

 

I see your Sweden and take an Austria-Hungry



Sincerely

Frederick the Great

 

New additions to Chile 1927 variety album

 

What do you do with your fakes? I usually put them in a flip labeled "FAKE" but I'd like to get a punch die to stamp them "COPY".

 

It's not only China that makes problems a lot of fakes originate in Eastern Europe. Also a new schema is to export Chinese fakes of German coins (read Taler) to third countries (also America) and then offering them via ebay in Germany/worldwide.

 

KM 129 Chile peso



Added KM 129 to my rare Chile coins this weekend. It can be underpriced due to what I believe higher recorded mintages in catalog. Bought this for 350 US and is a rare gem in this condition. :hail:

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