Post Your Beautifully-Toned World Coins

Greece (Kingdom of Macedon): silver "Mercenaries" drachm of King Perseus, ca. 175-170 BC
(now in the @kazuma78 collection)


Seleukid Kingdom, silver tetradrachm of Philip I Philadelphos, ca. 94 - 83 or 75 B.C.
(now in the @Aethelred collection)


England (Anglo-Saxon): silver penny of Aethelred II (978-1016 AD), struck ca. 997-1003 AD
(now in the @Aethelred collection- I got it from him and later resold it back to him, as a favor. I owed him money. *sigh*. I really miss this one.)


England: silver sixpence of William III, 1697


France: silver jeton of Louis XV, "Aurora in cloud chariot", undated (ca. 1740)


Spain: gold half-escudo of Ferdinand VI, 1759-JB, Madrid mint


Great Britain (Chichester, Sussex): copper Conder token ("Chichester Halfpenny"), 1794


France: bronze essai (5-centimes pattern by Barre) of Louis Phillipe I, 1840
(gift from @kazuma78)


(It "pops" better at an angle.)


France: copper specimen striking of a 10-centime pattern (essai), 1848


Great Britain: copper-nickel 25 new pence; Queen's Silver Jubilee commemorative, 1977

 

I just realized that every one of the coins I posted above are “bygones” except for the Conder token. Oh well.

Most of the interesting toners in my present collection are US coins.