World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

I just put myself on a self-imposed restriction due to a recent large non-numismatic expense. This is one I had bid on beforehand and forgot about. Got it for the reasonable opening bid. It appealed to me because of the odd denomination.



Seller's description:

Italian States, Genoa. Republic. 1719-1727. AR 6/8 lire (21.1 mm, 2.81 g, 6 h). struck 1719/20. DV[X (star) ET (star) GV]B (star) REIP (star) GENV, crowned arms divide denomination (6 - 8 in field) / ET (star) REGE (star) EOS [(star) (date)] (3 stars), Madonna and Child emerging from clouds. MIR 332; KM 173. aVF, squarish flan crowds and/or loses some legend, large die break 9:30 reverse, original toning. Scarce.

 

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Some of the ones that came today

 

How did you eventually carefully clean this coin? I recently came into possession of a Canadian large cent with a similar surface condition and was hoping for some advice on how you cleaned the coin you posted.

 

Picked up a small handful of William III Sixpences at auction. I had planned to sell them on, but they were too nice to part with! Here are a few:

 

Nice, I think I do not yet have any William III coins of any type here...hint, hint...

 

Nice ones, Paddy.

 

Hand full of ancient India AE that came yesterday. 3rd one down is from the Maldive Islands, has a clear date AH 1202. 4th one down is more modern, 1907.

 

I have been a bad boy and I deserve to be punished! I saw this group of 5 Germanic Crown size coins as one lot at an auction, and I couldn't resist...

 

Nice haul there Paddy! You done good, and don't worry. Its only money...

 

I wouldn’t have been able to resist either.

 

I bought 4 Seat Belt coins in a recent auction. The seller called the pieces Gettoni, or medals and not quite coins. I had not seen them before, and was unaware of the history around the Northern Republic of Italy. The coins are dated 1992. This date is before references I find on line (Wikipedia) for a political movement in northern Italy.





the seller's description was short: Gettoni - 1, 2, 5 & 10 leghe
from the coin I can see:
Obv - 1 LEGA (ALLOY); or 2, 5, OR 10 LEGHE (ALLOYS); two lines that cross
Rev - Republica Del Nord Liberta Al Popoli; a google translation is: Northern Republic Freedom To the People

from a seller on ebay -
COIN FROM A LEAGUE ISSUED IN 1992 FOR THE ADVERTISING PURPOSE OF THE NORTH LEAGUE WITH IMAGE OF ALBERTO DA GIUSSANO

The package had some colorful stamps.

 

You scored something very unusual, good job!

 

I think “gettone” is better translated as “token”. When I lived there, the price of a pay-telephone call frequently changed, so the devices only accepted a specially-made metal disc, universally called a “gettone” (pl. gettoni). Bilingual local folk always called them tokens to us newbies. And, while a “liga” is indeed an alloy, it also means “league” & I think these pieces refer to a separatist political movement, the Northern League (still plenty active in Italian politics). You got some pretty interesting stuff there. (BTW, “medal” is “medaglia” in Italian; it sounds like “medalya”, believe it or not!).

 

Always wanted one of these, finally bought one.

 

Nice!
...now I want one of these.

 

I was really after the two PF70UC coins but when you factor in the current selling price of the PF69UC sovereign and the PF67UC 5 sovereign, I got the other two for almost nothing

 

You sure did get those quickly. Did you pick them up locally or did they ship super promptly?

 

Here's a rather rare Netherlands 10 cent I recently acquired. I'd put it at XF/XF+ . Great beard on this fella...lush beard curls!

 

No they were posted. I paid online on Thursday afternoon and they arrived on Saturday morning. DNW are always very prompt with their postage and pretty good value too. Obviously it will take longer for yours to get to you in the US, but I would be confident they posted it ASP.