World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

Here is my latest addition for THE CROWN COLLECTION - WORLD GOLD
From the Stack's-Bowers 2017 NYINC auction.

Belgium - Flanders
Mouton d'Or
Louis de Male (1346-84)
NGC MS-63

 

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wow, that's beautiful!

 

Received this little gem today. Not a scarce coin, but I've been meaning to get a nice MS example of this one year type for a wile

 

Another coin I got from H8_modern.

Keep up & I will be getting all of his castoffs.

Bank of Ireland 30 Pence

Bit ruff but affordable, which I like.

 

Thanks and also a big thank you for this very useful link.

 

That is a gorgeous coin.

 

Just won this 1884 M Sovereign (St. George) MS64....highest graded to date with a population of 1.

I'm VERY pleased with the purchase
Seller's Pics

 

Awesome addition, gorgeous coin.

 

Very nice gold !!

 

Love that gold, very nice!

 

Purchased last night

 

This just arrived today:



Ireland 1942 Shilling, PCGS MS-65+
Mintage: 286,000

Only 286,000 shillings were minted in 1942, but they are relatively easy to find certified in mint state - PCGS and NGC list 114 in all MS grades in their pop reports (a relatively high amount for Irish coins). So, this was a year where I had plenty of specimens to choose from and I was just waiting for the right coin to show up. This is the coin I was waiting for. Shown is the PCGS True View picture, and it looks just as good in hand. There are quite a few certified examples with a higher numerical grade than this coin, but this is the most eye-appealing example I've seen.

Also of note is that 1942 is the last year for silver shillings, and nearly the last year for silver in any Irish coin. Some silver 1943 half crowns and florins exist, but after that all large denomination Irish coins were cupronickel.

 

How about some hammered coins!


Edward III, (1327 - 1377 A.D.)
AR Groat
Pre-Treaty
O: Plain Cross, HENRIC' DI' GRA' REX ANGLIE Z FRANC, crowned facing bust, rosette and mascle stops.
R: CIVI (mascle)TAS LONDON(pinecone), long cross pattée; three pellets in angles, pinecone and double saltire stops
London Mint
28mm
4.03g


Henri II (1547 - 1559 A.D.)
AR Douzain aux croissants
France, Royal
O: A sous l'écu pour l'atelier de Paris
A/ +HENRICVS DEI G FRAMCORVM REX, Crowned shield of arms, with crowned crescents either side
R/ + SIT NOMEN DNI BENEDICTVM , Cross of lis with crowns and H’s in alternate angles
24mm
2.36g
Duplessy 997


Ivan “The Terrible” (1533 - 1584)
AR Kopeck
O: Tsar on horseback advancing right, thrusting spear downward.
R: Legend in Cyrillic.
Pskov mint
18mm
.69g

 

Ahmed Shah Abdali (Afghanistan 1755-72). Founder of the Barakzai Dynasty.

I really liked the quality of the strike and the script on this one.

Seller's pictures.

 

Simply gorgeous.

 

Oliver Cromwell Halfcrown 1658
COMMONWEALTH. Oliver Cromwell. Lord Protector, 1653-1658. AR Halfcrown (34mm, 14.99 g, 6h). Tower (London) mint. Dated 1658. Laureate and draped bust left / Crowned coat-of-arms. ESC 447; North 2746; SCBC 3227A. Good VF, toned, holed and plugged, small dig near edge of obverse top. Ex CNG 389 Lot 1273

Hard one to get without spending top dollar. That little plugged hole saved me quite a bit. Almost missed it. Remembered with 3 minutes left in the auction.

 

Is this your photograph? Very bright and flashy and with proper white balance. Nice(!)

 

NYINC, --from my buddy Bob Steinberg. Not the greatest picture, but you get the idea. For some reason I always thought this coin along with the 25 and 50 Franken coins with the same portrait all had the same date. Turns-out they don't, the 100 Franken having been issued 4 years earlier in 1952 and others dated 1956.

 

More Liechenstein, this one from Ron Gillio. A real knock-out(!)

 

No .. auction house photo