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Very nice!

 

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This arrived last week and is one of the British Monarchs series and this one is Charles II . I don't have that many modern coins but I like these as they show the portraits of some of obverses of my coins in a condition I could never afford and possibly don't exist. They are supplied in decent wooden boxes , cardboard illustrated slips and supplied with a booklet overview of the Monarch featured on the coin. They are available in 1 oz, 2 oz and 5 oz .99 pure silver.

 

Bolivia 8 Soles 1836 PTS LM and Guatemala 10 Quetzales 1995 Medallic ICB Issue

 

I have acquired quite a few Canadian tokens over the years. This is a new type for me.
LC-60-1 Bust & Harp

 

1683 Paderborn taler - sede vacante issue. This one is proving to be a difficult one to find in "straight grade" condition. This example recently made it into a NGC EF details holder for cleaning.

 

Cologne,1744, Stuber, MS 62

Bern, 1796, 1/2 Kreuzer, MS 63

Wurttemberg,1759, 15 kreuzer, MS 62 (one of my few recent upgrades!)

St. Gallen, ND c.1808, pfennig, MS63

 

Annamese Gold 3 Tien of Minh Mang (minted in Hue in 1835):

 

Annamese Gold 1½ Tien of Minh Mang (minted in Hue sometime between 1820 and 1841):

 

1/48th Einen Thaler
German States, 1863 A

That spot needs a tooth pic and a little Verdi-Care. I just don't know if I want to be the one. The radial die cracks on the reverse drew me to it.

 

Nice Mecklenburg-Schwerin. At this point, these small denominations were very low purity silver, billon. They often tend to get this look and the accompanying green encrustations. These are nice small coins too. There are some earlier billon 3 pfennigs that are even smaller from this state.

 

Yeah, I believe that the coin is .208 ag.
As far as the little green encrustation. Do you think that is just verdigri or possibly bronze disease because of the low purity?

 

Abbasid Silver Hemidrachm of Umar ibn al-'Ala (minted in Tabaristan in either 776 or 777):

 

I'm no expert,but I've seen many coins with this, even owned a few, and the spots don't seem to get any worse, so I think a little Verdicare might touch it up a bit. I'll say, it's not going to hurt the value much either way. Personally, I think it is either likely verdigris or depending on previous storage, a slight PVC issue, but it seems to be more prevalent at the edges and devices, so I'm leaning toward verdigris.

 

A couple new coins in today.

Munster, 1608, 3 pfennig, KM# 400. Three Wolfsangel countermark. The countermark was applied, it seems almost 50 years later, to validate the coin. This being after the Kipper period where coins were increasingly debased and clipped.


Aachen, 1767, 12 Heller, PCGS MS64BN, KM# 51. Not a rare coin by any means, but very difficult to find in this condition. These pieces circulated heavily. The true view gives this example a bit of a reddish tone, but in hand it's much more of that chocolate color popular on old copper.

 

Belgium 10 Euro 2005 - Italian Papal States 1 Giulio 1686 - Lithuania 1/2 Groshen / Półgrosz 1549 NGC MS63

 

Nice strike on the Lithuanian!

 

"Anti-Corn Law League" bronze Medal 1840 MS63 Brown NGC, BHM-1972, Eimer-1406. 54mm. By J. Taylor. CORN MONOPOLY; A NATION'S CURSE. Standing figure, a twisted sword in one hand and a scroll of the CORN LAWS in the other, prevents a destitute family from reaching a boat laden with produce, at bottom THOU HAST WITHHOLDEN / BREAD FROM THE / HUNGRY. / JOB 22.C.7.V. // Harmonious scene of people unloading goods from a boat on the shore, billowing smoke from factories in the background on the left and ships on the right, FREE TRADE THE / PEOPLE'S RIGHT'S.

The Corn Laws were tariffs and other trade restrictions on imported food and corn enforced in the United Kingdom between 1815 and 1846. The word "corn" in British English denoted all cereal grains, including wheat, oats and barley. The laws were designed to keep corn prices high to favor domestic farmers, and represented British mercantilism. The Corn Laws blocked the import of cheap corn, initially by simply forbidding importation below a set price, and later by imposing steep import duties, making it too expensive to import it from abroad, even when food supplies were short.