Man, i was doing so well with focusing my numismatic spend, too... Visited a new (to me) coin shop in Toronto West and had an great conversation with a passionate coin dealer about coins, market, books - you name it. He didn't have any colonial mexico, but did mention he had an album. One look at the coins and I knew I must photograph these beauties! He was very fair on the price and I walked out smiling ear to ear. This is one of the albums released by Mexico Mint to commemorate 180 years of Federation. 35 100-Peso coins, all beautiful MS with every color of the rainbow you can imagine, are bi-metallic and contain a half ounce of silver surrounded by a bronze outer ring. These things are pretty large, too - 39mm. Going to remove them from the album for storage, since some of the coins are starting to display toning nearing terminal, but will definitely keep it as a set along with the album. Now to acetone wash these beauties and take some individual glamour shots!!!
Nice set. I'm pursuing the Zacatecas coin for my turtles collection, but I haven't seen it at a price I like yet.
Well, just finished taking all the photos and cropping. Learned that bronze does not tone gracefully. A mixed bag overall - quite a few wonderful looking coins and some that I would consider at this point to be environmentally damaged and should be conserved. First page was the most cruddy with the later pages having a more pleasant tone. I took them out of the album and gave all an acetone bath to hopefully stabilize the toning process. Now residing in 2x2's. All in all - had fun taking photos. Really like the scenery on these. Enjoy
I've never seen all of the designs. There are a few I really like, like the butterflies and the sheep. The Zaragoza one is the one I need, not Zacatecas.
