World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

Xerxes - Artaxerxes I Achaemenid Silver Siglos. 420-375 BCE with counterstrike

 

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Macau Copper-Nickel 5 Patacas (minted at the Royal Mint in Llantrisant, Wales, United Kingdom in 1992):

 

Srivijaya Kingdom Gold ¼ Massa (minted sometime between 680 and 1250):

 

Srivijaya Kingdom Gold Massa (minted sometime between 680 and 1250):

 

Republic of Georgia Copper-Zinc-Nickel 3 Lari (minted in Warsaw, Poland in 2006):

 

Russia 1689-1725 SILVER Wire Kopek, Peter The Great

 

Mecca
Abbasid Empire: Harun al-Rashid AH170-193, Silver dirham, Madinat al-Salam (Bagdad) mint, year 801 CE

 

Beautiful, what a nice design. And how cool is it to be able to say you own a coin minted under the great Xerxes!!!

 

Two pickups for the world crown collection.

Netherlands, Zeeland province, dubbele daalder van 10 schelling (double taler, 62.2 gram). MS66. Two full points higher than the Cape Coral specimen that Heritage sold a few years ago (link).







Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone Company. 1791. Silver dollar. One of just 40 proof strikes. PF 62.

 

A couple new pieces.

Wurzburg, 4 Kreuzer, 1748, PCGS AU58, KM# 321 A nice 1 year type. A bit over graded IMO.


Rostock, Pfennig, 1809FL, PCGS MS62BN, KM#
132. Weakly struck, but nice luster and bits of red.i manipulated the true view as it was way too bright compared to the coin in hand.

 

That Sierra Leone is wonderful!

 

Wow, those are really nice.

 

Wow! I can’t decide which I like better! Each with such a unique history and imagery.

 

Idrisid Silver Dirham of Idris II (minted in Walila (Volubilis) either in 818 or 819):

 

This just arrived as an upgrade to my collection:
GB Crown 1700 with the slightly scarcer "Tertio" edge:

 

jan the blind grosch - too bad for the clipping

 

I just picked this up last night at the Heritage auction and I'm very pleased since at this point in my classic Hungarian collection I'm finding perhaps only 1 good upgrade per year. Most of my collecting focus has shifted to patterns.:

So my pick up was a Hungarian 1849 NB Krajczar, War of Independence issue PCGS MS63 BN, though I will be crossing it to NGC.

NB is the Nagybánya mint which was in the principality of Transylvania; the Hungarians declared Transylvania to be be a part of Hungary in March of 1848, though when they lost the War of Independence in 1849, Transylvania was made a separate crown land from Hungary until its reunion with Hungary in 1867. Nagybánya (now known as Baia Mare) is located in Romania today.




This is a very tough issue. I've been collecting the 1848-1849 Hungarian War of Independence set for about 10 years now, and my current example of this coin was an NGC AU53 BN (the next best example I had found over the years was a VF).

Though this new example was clearly struck off-center, the obverse is actually particularly well-struck for this issue which is always found with a weak strike on the crown and shield. The fleur is also very well-struck on the reverse, and the legends are nice and sharp, with some pleasing remaining red color and good luster. There are also no major issues with lamination, something which is very common with this issue and the larger and more plentiful 1849 NB 3 krajczar.

 

Kingdom of Scotland Silver Penny of Alexander III (minted in Edinburgh sometime between 1280 and 1286):

 

In case you are interested, the Alexander III coin was minted in Edinburgh. The way to tell is by the total number of points on the stars on the reverse. 20 is for Edinburgh.