Stretching it a little, here's a 5 Kopeck 1915 that cost me 2 EUR.[ATTACH]
Turkish 1910 Kurush. 15 mm, 1.2 g silver. Cost me 1.40 EUR[ATTACH]
I've also noted that Australian lunars, particularly in two-ounce coins, can appreciate rapidly--at least if you're trying to buy a specific year...
For just bullion I like Maple Leaves and US Liberty ounces, but also Mexican Libertads. But I am always interested in a new designs--like this...
and here's a follis from Tancred. 4.3 g, 23 mm.[ATTACH]
Here are my examples of Crusader coinage. First a denier from Bohemund IV (1201-16) from Antioch. 1 g, 17.7 mm [ATTACH]
MA-Shops is a sister site to MuenzAuktion (https://www.muenzauktion.info/auction/list.php?lang=en&), where dealers and others auction off coins...
Here's my last aluminum coin: 10 centimes French Indochina 1945. 1.4 g 23 mm.[ATTACH]
A Hannoverian "Ausbeutethaler" from 1850. My understanding is that these were struck from locally mined silver. I love this guy's head (though...
3 Stueber from Berg 1860. 1.6 g 220-silver.[ATTACH]
Here's a Prussian coronation thaler from 1861.[ATTACH]
A 5-franc piece from 1949.[ATTACH]
A Vichy French 2 franc piece from 1943. No "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité" for Marshal Petain, but "Travail, Famille, Patrie" (work, family,...
... and then, 2 years later during the Great Inflation, an aluminum 500 mark piece. 1.7 g, 27 mm[ATTACH]
A German 50-pfennig piece from 1921--in fine condition.[ATTACH]
Here's an Armenian 10 Dram piece from 1994.[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Unfortunately, several of these links are no longer valid.
100 Francs Afars & Issas - present-day Djibouti[ATTACH]
I have just changed my ISP and accordingly have updated my email address in cointalk. However, the emails are still coming to my old address:...
Here's a 20 Kreuzer from 1787, with Joseph II, still a Habsburg.[ATTACH]
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