Coins with fractional and mixed number denominations

Brandenburg-Prussia
AV Quarter Dukat 1716-HFN
Magdeburg Mint
Friedrich Wilhelm I

 

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Not sure whether this has been included - a 1/2 Franc from Westphalia

 

Portugal
AV 1/2 Escudo 1796 Lisbon Mint
Maria I
I really wish that the TPG firms would include important data like the name of the ruler/ mint/ etc.

 

1941 S Netherlands Indies 1/10 gulden

 

GB 1762 Quarter Guinea, sole year of issue and struck from a rusty obverse die.

 

And something a little bigger, a 1798 first head third guinea. Ex Terner.

 

Nice coins!

 

Thanks.
The Terner is a PCGS 64 which is the only one in that grade, but I wouldn't rate it any higher than the 63 in the last Baldwins of St. James's sale. The cross on the orb was better on that one. Maybe grade inflation due to the name on the label?

 

AV 1/2 Guinea
London Mint
George I Elector of Hannover/ King of Great Britain 1660-1727

 

Dang, you guys post all these beautiful gold coins in MS condition, and all I can offer is some silver or copper maybe AU50 or better...so another 1/10 gulden, 1963 Netherlands Antilles.

 

How about an oddball? Three fractionals for the price of one on this trial piece. A pair of 1689 farthings struck on a Charles II halfpenny. The Peck 564 farthing is a copper striking of a die pair used for tin farthings and as a discrete coin is rare with only 3 listed by him, 2 of which are in museums. This is the piece recorded in footnote 2 on p.155 as being in Baldwin's possession at the time of writing (1958).

 

It's not important. Every coin has its place in a collection. We've all got some nice ones and some grotty ones, some worth a lot and some worth face value or melt. e.g. I have a 2006 penny which ticks the example of a copper clad steel coin - value 1p. In the trays it's sandwiched between a proof 1868 1/3 farthing in cupro-nickel and a 1921 florin with a dull finish, both of which are worth many times that of the penny, but in the context of the collection, all have equal value as they tick specific boxes. The same goes for higher or lower grade coins.

And as the first of the above pair is appropriate for the thread, here is the third farthing.

 

Here is my 1762 Quarter Guinea
NGC MS-64
Bought as "unsold lot" Stacks Auction.

 

Here's a 1/8 Melgarejo, though it doesn't have the denomination marked. 2.4 g 19 mm. Struck to "celebrate" Gen. José Mariano Melgarejo's seizure of power in Bolivia in 1864. He managed to hold onto power for 7 years before being purged and killed by dissatisfied Indios in 1871. Incidentally, my Standard Catalog (6th Edition) doesn't list this one, but only a whole Melgarejo. If anybody has a more recent catalog that assigns it a reference number, please let me know what it is.

 

Very nice, with better aesthetics than mine. These smaller pieces are a lot easier to acquire in top grades unless you have a printing press.

 

A 2/3 Thaler from 1693, Friedrich III. A number of 1/3 and 2/3 Thaler were struck in this era because 2/3 Thaler = 1 Gulden, which was common currency in northern Germany and the Netherlands at the time.

 

How about the weight and diameter as well ? But probably too much to hope for.

 

So how did this come about ?

 

Sorry

It is 16mm. 1.85g. .917

John

 

Ionia/ uncertain Mint City State
1/96 EL Stater ND 600BC