Well, I'm visiting Australia at present and of course in Sydney I had to check out the coin dealers. I bought a number of 19th century Australia...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I suspect the plaque on the reverse of Morgan's medal was to manage the long Roman numerals of the 1870s and 1880s. (1888 is the...
Here's another recent purchase. This I own in a uniface with a mounting screw on the back, and I think I posted it way upthread. They went...
I have a 1973 one for the Jets but sponsored by Johnnie Walker I bought this today at the weekly Covent Garden Jubilee Market. It's about 38mm....
More of my purchases yesterday (I should add I was nowhere near the terrorist incident). This dealer had some quite pricey tokens but I bought...
I'm still in Europe and today I happened to be in London when the thrice-annual London Coin Show was going on. There were a number of medal...
Here's a nice piece I picked up recently in England. Those pages say they were issued dated from 1895 to 1906. You'll note the name Spink, the...
Here are a couple of recent purchases while in the UK: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The Prof Andre one has been discussed online before,...
I bought these in Havana, where I was recently. I was told that there were regular coin markets in the Plaza de Armas but none seemed to happen...
Here's a silver medal (well plated) from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition designed by A.A. Weinmann. Notice the flag draping as clothing, and...
It sure makes life interesting for us collectors!
Counterstamped 1875 Swedish five-ore piece, with a Copenhagen hotel advertising. Part of what I bought yesterday. The dealer explained to me...
Here's one I got today in Copenhagen, as I got a number of nice pieces but this may be the nicest. It is a Danish medal commemorating the Battle...
Here's an interesting old medal, rather beat up but I had to have it. From a dealer in Aix en Provence. Sorry about the lighting and size, it's...
Here's one that should interest Circus. I got this in Naples a week ago Sunday. They have a flea market outside of town and I took a taxi there...
Thank you very much for that. I'm grateful to have the information.
I would think it was costly. It is very heavy. I do admire that the banker on the obverse has not put the bag of gold on the scales just yet,...
Credito Italiano was an Italian bank founded in 1870, so this would have been the centennial. It's merged into UniCredit, according to Wikipedia....
I got this in Livorno in Italy. The edge is shown so you can see the high relief. 70mm give or take a nickel.[ATTACH][ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Here's another piece I bought in Barcelona. It is a shooting award medal and a very nice design. The conventional naked youth getting an award...
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