World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

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This came a day or two ago. German East Africa, area now called Tanzania. 1916 T, 20 heller, Tabora mint, emergency coinage, brass. I have read that these coins were minted on a railway car from locally acquired metals of brass or copper. Obverse B, Reverse B.

 

My most recent purchases:

Netherlands East Indies, 1/20 Gulden (5 cents) 1855. A cute little coin at 12.5 millimeters in diameter. I'd been looking for a nice one for some time. Lots of original lustre on this one and it was clearly struck from rather scratchy dies.



Dutch Republic, region of West-Friesland, 1 Gulden 1794. While part of the province of Holland, the prosperous trading towns of the region of West-Friesland managed to establish a mint of their own in the early years of the Dutch Republic and resisted all attempts to centralize coin production for the province in Dordrecht.




Dutch Republic, province of Utrecht, 1 GUlden 1791. Some lovely grody toning going on on the reverse. Obverse has been cleaned a bit more, but luckily it's restricted to the fields.



Kingdom of the Netherlands, half cent 1906. Another tiny coin at 14 millimeters in diameter.



Kingdom of the Netherlands, 2.5 Gulden 1960. After the upheavals of World War 2, it took quite a few years before silver coins could be issued again. The silver Gulden reappeared in 1954, the 2.5 Gulden coin or rijksdaalder didn't reappear until 1959. While much reduced in size and weight from their prewar predecessors, their silver content was the same at .720. They were produced for only a couple of years (the rijksdaalder up to 1966, the 1 gulden up to 1967) before the worldwide end of silver currency in the 1960s led to a switch to pure nickel coins, struck to the same design. However, freed from its intrinsic value, the rijksdaalder was reduced in size from a cumbersome 33 millimeters and 15 grams to a more manageable 29 millimeters and 10 grams.

 

I am very fond of any coins from the Netherlands. It appears I now have 680 of them, ranging from VOC duits to modern silver and nickel.

 

Mughal, Akbar, AE Dam, Agra, AH981. Zeno # 288744

 

i really like the 6 stuiver of the 1600s and 1700s. i only have a few of them

 

France 1 Centime 1968 - 15mm

 

Not a huge purchase, but a neat coin. Soest(Germany), 3 pfennig, 1716. KM# 56

 

Netherlands Antilles 2 1/2 Cent

 

It is a pleasant enough piece, but as a coin collector I don't really consider items such as these as coins. They are never meant for use, they are not found in circulation ever - 15 euros is not an official denomination for an EU coin.

These are examples of the engravers skill, and a money-making exercise for governments

 

My 1929 Puffin came this afternoon....wow one of my better under paid purchases this year. I can't believe that I won it so cheap! The seller images weren't very good.

 

Martin Coles Harman led an interesting life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Coles_Harman

 

A recent pickup courtesy of Instagram.

 

Looks like a half crown, nice.

 

Yugoslavia 20 Dinara 1955

 

Austria 50 Schilling 1974 - 34mm 0.4115 oz ASW. Picked up today for exactly melt. 2 sets of pictures.

 

Austria 50 Schilling 1974 - 34mm 0.4115 oz ASW. Same cost as above and another 2 sets of pictures.

 

1955 Japan 100 yen