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A new edition purchased from the Heritage WFOM sales. Scarce, not rare, but exceptional quality for the type.



Osnabruck. Sede Vacante silver Medal 1761

Mint Year: 1761
Mint Place: Amsterdam
References: Kennepohl 384, Zepernick 236.
Denomination: Sede Vacante Thaler / Medal
Mint Place: Osnabruck (Lower-Saxony, Germany)
Weight: 30.34gm
Diameter: 45mm
Material: Silver

Obverse: Nimbate and draped bust bust of Saint Peter 3/4 right, holding two large keys. Legend around, twelve shields topped by numerals (1 to 12, but not in order) and names of canons around.
Legend: CAPIT . CATHE . SNAB . S. PETRVS . PATR .

Reverse: Crowned nimbate bust of Charles "the Great" (also known as Charlemagne), holding sword and cross-topped orb. Legend and date around, thirteen shields ten of which are topped by numerals (19 to 21, but not in order) and names of canons around.
Legend: SEDE . VACANTE . 1761 . S . CAROL . M . FVN .

 

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Been shopping! This lot arrived today along with a bunch of lesser grade crowns:

 

@PaddyB

Let's see those 'lesser grade crowns', please.

 

I'm not going to photo every one - but here are a few of them. They were all in one job lot and I achieved 5 upgrades out of it. The rest, including those they have supplanted, will now have to go.

 

My latest: Dutch Republic, province of Holland, region of West Friesland, 3 gulden 1794. A big 39 millimeter thicc boi weighing in at just under 32 grams. Nice grody patina and some nice toning here and there; so many of these coins have ended up a little overcleaned. Got it at 10 percent off too .

 

Mongolia - 5 Mongo, 1925

 

Belgian Congo - 2 Francs, 1947

 

Really cool looking coin!

 

Ceylon - Stuiver, 1783

 

Edward I "Longshanks" Penny class VI d - Canterbury mint, 1282-1307

 

Not even sure why I bought this, except that it was handsome and cheap enough!
France Exposition Universelle souvenir medal 1878. See: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/exonumia26451.html

 

Here's a few images of coins I got back from my most recent ngc submission. For some reason, in both of my submissions, a couple coins have high resolution photos available that I didn't request or pay for. I assume they are for NGC use.

Ottingen, 1624, 2 Kreuzer, AU55. Pleasing example with nice toning and some luster. Though you can't see it in the photo, this coin has that slight curvature in the planchet arising from the roller milling process. It's my second roller milled coin and I have a growing fondness for coins produced this way.



Paderborn, 1748, 6 pfennig. AU 58 BN. A lovely coin with bits of red.



I'll eventually get around to photographing the other coins, but I wanted to give y'all the good photos first. Unfortunately, my photography skills are not getting better very quickly!

 

Completes the set!

VERY tough date. Krause suggests the 1929 is more available than the 1932. Quite the opposite, they are both tough coins but the 1929 is much harder to find. (That holds true for the 100 Piastres coins as well; easier to find them dated 1930 than 1929).

In any case, I am only the second collector in NGC Registry to complete the three coin set of King Fuad gold 500 Piastres coins. Mine is second finest collection, and likely to stay that way. We're tied for the 1922 at PF63, other guy is a point finer on both the King Fuad portrait-left coins. My 1929 is a PF62-Cameo however, though I don't think NGC weighs it higher than a 63 without Cameo.

My 1932 is a solid PF64. Other guy is at PF65 (pop 12/2 finer). There is also a single PF65-Cameo out there somewhere.

 

As an avid collector of world coins, especially the German States, I have a couple that have just one higher and I ALWAYS wonder who has it! Really Egyptian gold though.

 

Can't say for certain, but I'm guessing this is the coin. Sold raw by NGSA back in December of 2008 in Switzerland. Nicest coin I've seen of the date by quite a margin. If it's now in a PF65-Cameo holder, the assumption would be the coin didn't stay in Switzerland. It likely would have remained raw had it stayed there in a collection, as most Swiss collectors don't go in for third party grading.

 

My newest purchase. A 1782 8 Escudos from Peru. I got it for a good price but I pulled the trigger because of the old envelope. It doesn't get any better than this.

How about that price!!! I'll take all you have at that price.

My only concern about the label is, wouldn't have Mr Mehl known that this was a Peru piece? Although, there are obviously multiple different handwriting's on the envelope. Maybe that was added later by someone that didn't know any better.

 

I'm getting closer to completing my Fuad/Farouk 16-coin gold set. Only need two more coins(!)

This is the less common date of the two year-only issue featuring King Fuad facing left. NGC has only seen (40) of them in any grade, the lowest population of the four gold 20 Piastres coins from that period. For comparison, the 1938 Farouk G20P has been seen over (600) times at NGC. What's fun about this acquisition, while it costs more than the other more available dates, the premium is quite small. Population 12/3 finer coin (all in 65). While it isn't labeled as PL, there's no mistake that it is PL, the obverse bordering on DPL.

 

These two have arrived in the last few days.
1741 GB Sixpence - a nice upgrade to my existing specimen.
1852 Burma Rupee or Kyat - just because I like the design.

 

I really like those kyat pieces too.