World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

The silver commems of Finland have been a fun diversion or side-collection for me. I rarely add one, but they can be found reasonably priced (This was $30 including s/h for ~$11 of silver, slabbed). I'm on a numismatic diet right now, but I can't be expected to STARVE right?

 

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That's for sure.... I like it.

 

I just got this one yesterday.

Any thoughts on the condition?

 

I am thinking AU

 

Depends - I can't help you with a US grading but in the UK this would be VF or maybe VF+. In Italy I believe this corresponds to "Bellissimo" (BB) but not quite up to "Splendid" (SPL). I can see nascent verdigris spots in the eyebrows and in the ground in front of the face.

 

Cuba

 

^ would you consider this junk silver? , i.e. melt?

 

Nope. Not melt to me.

 

picked up in the scrape bin for spot

 

From the LanDenMar NGC #1 Registry Set of 50 Soles Inca Heads.

 

If you want a nicer example (and a better date too) be sure to check the Stack's Bower's NYINC catalog when it comes out. There will be a 1908 Italy 5c PCGS MS66 with a mind-blowing sky blue sheen.

 

What an incredible coin in beautiful condition! I really like the designs on this one

 

One of 8 coins that came in the mail today.

 

Here is another, from Peru. Very small coin, 1/2 Dinero

 

Nice french & peru additions!

 

Have this one coming. My first Proof Commemorative Euro coin. Description: Athletics has its roots in ancient Greek history. Today Greeks still refer to Athletic events as classical sports. Its first Olympic Games in 776 BC included a 192.2 m sprint known as the one stadium race (equivalent to today's 200m sprint). During the first 13 Olympiads between 776 and 728 B.C. it was in fact the only athletic event. In the composition a modern athlete figure appears in the foreground, shown in the starting position, while in the background two ancient runners are carved in such way as to give the appearance of a coin "worn" by time, a scene originally appearing on a black-figure vase of the 6th century B.C.
Country Greece
Type Non circulating coin
Year 2003
Value 10 Euro
10 EUR = 12 USD
Metal Silver (.925)
Weight 35 g
Diameter 40 mm
Thickness 3 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
References KM# 190

 

Nice coin Steve. Looks like a little bit of treatment with verdicare would remove that verdigris easily.

 

Balboa's

 

This dandy little six pence came yesterday, along with a couple other George V silver coins...

 

Ben Gurion 1974