Some of my most successful sets were the limited ones. New Zealand coins start in 1934. Australian coins start in 1910. And if you go up to...
For years what I did was try to collect a coin of every date and denomination from every country in the world. Obviously this is impossible, but...
OK, fine, I'll get in on this. I have Danzig, Katanga, South Arabia, British Honduras and Swaziland. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
As for the crown, "emperor of India" was one of his titles and I believe that is why they did that.
That's the best. One of the Guadeloupe 50 centimes I posted here I got on eBay for less than a dollar. I couldn't believe it.
Very nice. That's one I'll probably never be able to own unfortunately.
That's a good one. Along the same lines are these from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Here are a few more. 1791 Sierra Leone 1 penny. According to Krause there was an 1814 penny and after that nothing until 1964. 1882 Zanzibar 1...
Good thinking! I have these two. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I just ordered one of these today. I happened to notice it in the Krause while I was looking up info for this post.
I can't believe I almost forgot St. Pierre and Miquelon. This is a small island group near Canada that for some reason is still controlled by...
Here's my second page. I know there are others I'm not thinking of or that I don't have pictures of right now. Biafra comes to mind, which only...
One thing that I'm interested in is coins from countries that only issued a few different coins. Either they issued one coin and then not another...
If you're looking for astronomy coins for your grandson, there's a set from 2022 from Turkey featuring all the planets. Here's one of them....
I'm not trying to make this about me. Just a general point that people get coins to impress others but at the end of the day does it matter what...
I think a lot of people are motivated by being able to brag about what they just bought. But half the time when I get something I'm really excited...
I also got these two today. One is for my coins with dinosaurs collection and the other is for my animals collection. Believe it or not but I just...
Here's one that came today. 1852 Myanmar 1 kyat. This is one of those iconic coins that I wanted to have in my collection. Unfortunately they're...
There's been a lot of sharing of expensive, rare gold coins on the forum lately, but I'm here to show you what I picked up slumming in the value...
I've always preferred the one with the black background. I think it makes the details look sharper.
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