World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

envy is the word. that silver mantis is still on my list. nice score

 

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well today after doing a search on Ebay for the 2017 2001-date Krause world coin catalog I was pleasantly surprized to see 1 on my coins on the cover. the 2001 beetle cross 500 Korun coin from Slovakia...




here's my UNC version and my Proof version of that coin...


2016 KM#56, .925 silver, mintage-10,200 MS-60 $90.00...





2016 KM#56, .925 silver, mintage-1,800 Proof 65 $250.00...




the proof version was only a 15 year hunt on Ebay... yeah pretty scarce. I got this 1 for $120.00

 

Another eagle for the Germany 5-10 marks Commemorative Collection.

1989G 10 Marks Mintage 8,000,000 40th Anniversary-Republic

 

The last couple months of world silver coin purchases:

 

Pretty neat to see one of your coins on the cover. I have one of the coins on the 2013 edition and thought it was pretty cool also.


Cuba 1996 Peso Mintage 10,000


I am not in to colorized coins, but this was part of a "lot" of coins i purchased from Germany last year. Krause value at $20 I only paid $1.70.

 

an indian princely state coin, a paisa of bahawalpur from the early 20th century.

can anyone read the date?

 

A fellow collector I trade a lot with found out my wife collects world coins. Well he surprised us and sent her a bunch of his duplicate coins.

This one caught my eye.

Don't know anything about it I just like the way it looks.

 

As far as I know, it was made to commemorate Queen Elizabeth's Silver Jubilee

 

Yep. The image on the right shows a few "coronation related objects" by the way. Below the crown, you can see an ampulla (with the bird) and a spoon which are parts of the Crown Jewels. "When a monarch is anointed, the Dean of Westminster pours holy anointing oil from the Ampulla into the Coronation Spoon." (Source)

Christian

 

I just bought about 30Lbs (13Kg) of mixed coinage a found quite a few of these Euro fantasy coins.
Essai-Pattern-Probe.
Never seen them before although I now see some for sale on eBay.de

 

At one time I had about 20 of those. All looked crude and weakly struck. The date appears in the upper right corner of the obverse and everyone of them looked slightly different. The correct date is AH1342 or AH1343. That would be our 1923 or 1924. This is what it is supposed to look like.



This is the best example of the date on the ones I used to have. It is a AH1343

 

Fantasy is right; anybody can have such medals made. So the terms Essai, Pattern and Probe are somewhat misleading. I know that in the early years of the euro, some people would buy, for example, the Vatican themed thingies assuming they were official issues, or because the real coins were hard to get.

Here are some more pieces like that: http://www.jezuss.nl/eu/euro-pattern.htm The ceros medals (see the "Europ Ceros" and "Xeros Ceros" categories) were made by some Swiss company, I think.

Some of those are dated 2005 or 2006 - now why any collector would still buy such pieces I don't know. But if they were in a big lot - oh well, I hope it contained some interesting pieces as well.

Christian

 

Bought around 30lbs (13kg) of coins and a wad of old banknotes from a guy who calls me about every 6 months. I paid £75.
He buys tons of coins and notes from auctions and fairs but only keeps British notes and few selected coins.
He is ignorant when it comes to old foreign money and metals.
I pulled out £20 in old British coins which I can change for face value at the bank.
150 Deutsche Marks and 10,000 Spanish Pesetas which can be exchanged for Euro`s in Germany and Spain.
100 current Swiss Francs.
and €30 Euros.
I got lots of old collectable coins and some nice silver pieces.
I basically got it for free and I`m in profit already and I`ve not started on the notes.
The copper will go to scrap as will some of the silver.

 

Thank you sonlarson!

 

Ah, then these are not bad deals at all. Cool! Just a reminder - you have another 3½ years to get those pesetas changed ...

Christian

 

am I the 1st? Yippie in hand since yesterday

 

another addition to the series

 

and this tri-metal ....no silver, but cool

 

French Colonies (Martinique, Guadeloupe)
1844