This Groschen was minted in Bacharach. The planchet is a little wavy, the centers are weak, but the date is nice and clear. Since the date is so nice, I can only say "Winner, winner, chicken dinner". A DN M CCCC XLIII MONE NOVA BACH
This piece was minted in Riehl. The reference number does not need the "a". Another nice clear date, I'm on a run. A NO DNI M CCCC XLV MONE NOVE RILE
thanks..oh. i been on collecting the Habsburg coinage... i'm trying to get all the HRE's (mostly) at the moment
Today's haul, came in two packets. The Sasanian AR drachms, I think I will stop buying them. I have more than enough and they are all kind of the same. At times I wonder if some of those fellows over in India have a machine that churns them out.
Most recent pick up for the set and a big upgrade at that! This thing has blinding luster which is tough to find on the older pieces. 1930-1937. Here's my old piece for reference
Not a personal new acquisition, but Northeast purchased this 1871 Gold Sovereign S-3856. It's in a PCGS PR65+ DCAM holder.
Common as dirt, but I could not resist the beauty of the surfaces. Many examples in higher grades do not even close to having the eye appeal of this one, imho. Eugene
After seeing @lordmarcovan example of this coin, I liked this design, and while perusing the interwebs for something else, ran across this example that I ended up winning. Love the look of this coin and subtle blue toning. I think with this coin, my mexican revolution provisional centavo, Gerona Duro, and some other pieces of the sorts, I might put together a coin set called "Tumultuous Times" with provisional government coinage and emergency issue pieces, etc.
It's been a while since I filled a hole in my classic Hungarian type set (1848-1945), but I just picked up an elusive earlier type today. Hungary (Transylvania) 1851E 1 Kreuzer Copper 5.4g, 22.5mm x 1.75mm Mintage: Unknown NGC MS62 BN This scarce one-year large kreuzer type was struck in Hungary at the Transylvanian mint during the Austrian occupation of 1849-1867. During this coining period, Hungarian mints functioned as Austrian branch mints, atypically minting Austrian types, and mirroring the Austrian coinage decimalization changes in 1857. This makes for a rather complicated set of coinage, as these coins are technically Austrian, but are considered to be Hungarian (and in this case also Transylvanian) in Hungarian numismatics.
This Goldgulden was minted in Bacharach. Surprisingly, the first dated gold coins are some of the reasonably available of dated gold coins. The date range for the earliest coins runs from 1436-38. There are 21 different coins including varieties and countermarks. About half of that number are possible to collect. The others have less than 3 collectable opportunities.
This Weisspfennig was minted in Bingen. These Weisspfennig are some of my favorite Early Dated coins. Several rare pieces scattered among the available pieces.
This Weisspfennig was minted in Bonn. I believe that 1450 is the last date for this type of Weiss- pfennig depicting St. Peter. This particular piece, I-89, has only six collectable pieces.