Most you ever paid for a coin/ World survey

My newest and probably won’t be overtaken.

 

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How about that, I got the smaller version of your coin.

 

This was $$$$ too!

 

That’s so cool! It looks like it’s a German coin? I’d have expected Dutch, but the words on the reverse don’t seem to be in Dutch.

 

Yes, its also from Regensburg. It commerated the Peace Treaty of Westphalia that ended the "Thirty Years War" in 1648. Regensburg was Imperial City in HRE/ Germany today.
They are nenowned for their "city view" coinage. These were struck under Holy Roman Emperors as definative issues, from 1/4 Dukat too AV 40 Dukaten. I only have the smaller version.... To show how prices went ballistic, I got mine for 1900E, recently one sold for 28K euros.

 

By a small margin, the most I have paid for a foreign coin was this 1813 British military guinea. These pieces were issued for use in Spain when the British were fighting Nepoleon.



And this is the previous coin's cousin, the first British sovereign.

 

The British soldiers were well paid, but for putting your life on the line, a AV Guinea is not enough.

 

Neat coin from a real neat city. I have in-laws who live there, about the most civilized spot on the planet.

 

That probably goes for Germany as a whole nation. The top brass sure hired expert die cutters, mint masters! The designs were amazing, Basel, Zurich, Sachsen were also right up there with Regensburg. German coins today, are God Awfull no artistic merit or design, sad.

 

They also had to buy stuff from the local population, and the local population would not accept anything but gold.

 

That's pretty much all modern coinage, the last gasp was Finland before the artform was completely snuffed-out by automation and lifeless graphic design software.

 

Salzburg struck some of the multiple Dukaten from 1600s in 1920s, but they were struck from original dies.

 

The new record holder (for the coin itself):

 

Nice! I hope to own a Caligula coin someday.

 

This is my most expensive I ever bought:





It cost me about 1700 lawn mowings and walk-the-dogs. not to mention a new dinner table.

 

This one, I got into stupid bidding war, paid $8400US with fees

I am on the otherend of Eduard....

I had to cut 200 lawns to afford it or 100 hrs! Coming at it from menial laborers' point of view.