He was also very knowledgeable on the coinage of Spanish possessions in Europe (i.e.Spanish Netherlands, Italian possessions such as Sardinia,...
The book that you need is 'Ensayadores, las EmisionesMonetarias Hispánicas, Siglos XV-XXI' by Josep Pellicer I Bru, published in Barcelona in 2010...
"Technically I wasn't in Spain, I was in Catalunya" - that's like saying "Technically I wasn't in the USA, I was in Texas". But Cataluña has...
A beautiful coin in lovely condition. It looks to me like Sceatta Coinage, primary phase c. 680 to C.710. Minted in various rwgions of S.E. and E....
Your Perth 1948 penny is much rarer than the Sydney penny of the same date. Sydney = 26,625,600 penny coins, Perth = 1,533,600
.. always excepting the occasional offers for this coin at 1 or 2 euros, which I find hard to believe and treat wirh a good deal of scepticism....
Well, at the moment there are numismatists here in Spain offering almost uncirculated 1947 one peseta coins dated 19 - 56 at prices from anywhere...
1947 is not the real date of this coin, it is the date when the design was approved. The real date of issue on Franco's coins is shown in the...
I agree, a genuine 2 reales de Cuenca, as shown by the mintmark CA underneath the somewhat worn R of reales. (Please note: 1 real, a half real,...
PS The letter on the neck truncation is an F, the mark of Mr Forbes (no christian name available) who was mintmaster in India from 1834 to1849,...
These are not coins that went into circulation - the East India Company who ruled India at the time did not issue any coins with the head or name...
Palestine was a c mandate from 1923 to 1948. Under Turkish rule, Turkish coins circulated as did French, Egyptian and British coins. In 1923...
These is interesting and baffling too, but allow me to make a few comments. In the first place, I think the Philippines can be discarded. This is...
Get hold if you can of a copy of Spink's Coins of England. Victoria's pennies offer an amazing number of varieties on both the obverse and...
I would just like to make a few remarks on some of the preceding posts. On the question of the colonial and peninsular mints, I have in front of...
Owing to the chronic shortage of silver and the cost of the Napoleonic Wars (1793 to 1815), the British Government counterstamped all sorts of...
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This is a tricky one. On the obverse, on the left hand side of the coin, I can clearly see the letter S, which suggests that it came from the mint...
Hi, your “coin” is not the exact same one as the one on the internet, but one of a small number of identical modern productions which occasionally...
It's a reproduction of a coin that probably didn't exist. It is meant to be a silver 8 reales of 1663 from Madrid. However, in the history of the...
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