Yes they were part silver, around 250/1000. Size: 26 mm Weight: 4,3g
The King is wearing his Armour Helm. There are two types of Helm for this same coin. This is the other type. (This one is top quality, expensive...
It's one of the iconic type coins of Portuguese hammered coins. Rarely do they appear with full and readable legend.
Hope you like it. Its a Portuguese coin from the reign of King Ferdinand I (1367-83) We call these coins "Barbudas". It is not clear where the...
Yup from 1918 onwards things went downhill really fast. This piece closes my set of 2/3/5 Mark set in Proof. Both the 2 and 5 in PR65DCAM and the...
Have already posted in the newly acquired thread but it also needs to be here. Top PCGS grade for DeepCameo. Mintage nº: Unkown [IMG]
PCGS PR65 DCAM [IMG]
I then look at the HA CICF auction and some of the german states specimens they have for bids... and uffffff... why mother did you make me...
Unfortunately its not only the gold ones... its also a lot of the silver ones.
Im a sucker for Kaisereich 1871-1918 coins, specially the 2, 3 and 5 Mark. What I expect will be a life long challenge to get it complete....
I believe Jaelus has it in MS62.
My next goal is a 20,000 Reis Minas Gerais mint - not a lot of them around in FDC state im afraid.
It is ONE of the most beautiful commemorative issued coins (1896 Hungarian millennium korona)... so largely agree with you (although I fully...
Portuguese gold coins are still a "dont tell anyone they are still affordable" secret... so... shhhhhh
Its really interesting that for example in Portugal, NGC has I would say 99,9% of the market in TPG's. On the other hand I also collect German...
I fully agree, I also think that Portugal has had some really amazing coins and mostly with low mintage numbers. But maybe I'm bias given that I'm...
What a Thaler... amazing detail !!!
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For the German coin appreciators... German Empire (Kaiserreich) circulating strike (mintage: 609,835) Wurrtemberg 2 Mark 1905 [IMG]
Update - NGC decided to photograph the PL coin and post it as reference in the Portugal 200 Reis D. Luis I series of the NGC Census. That made...
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