GOLD COINS: Your New Purchases Posted Here !

Thought gold coins should have their own dedicated thread. It's not only often an investment in a numismatic piece, but a bullion investment, too.

Here's a recent purchase of mine: a gem quality 1931 Vatican 100 Lira coin. I believe that the portrait is of Pope Piux X, the previous pope. Got it from Heritage, I didn't recall seeing many Vatican coins at FUN (though it wasn't my focus at the time).

But I thought this was a nice looking piece and the premium to bullion wasn't outrageous for MS65 and Vatican/Italian history.

 

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Nice coin. Roman numeral XI is Eleven. Label shows X (10) but coin shows XI (11) The label is correct because the 1930 coin shows IX (9) on the label and the 1932 shows XI (11) and the coins show XI.

 

The label is right, it means the year x of his "regency"

 

Last year of issue

 

Thank you. I knew the label was correct. Just didn't know why they were labeled that way.

 

I only have one tiny gold coin. Was my last purchase of 2019 so I guess it could be considered a newp.

This is a one year type with a mintage of only 2,496.

Actual coin

Generic close-up photo of obverse borrowed from the net

 

I often fell asleep in CCD classes......

 

I like those Brittania designs....Mont, working on getting a full ouncer !

 

San Marino .917 gold spider...low mintage: 9,000 1. I like it for the spider 2. I like it because it is gold. and 3. I like that its mintage is very low

 

My other MISC. gold world coins...

 

Low mintage issue and nice for the grade plus I like pre 1918 gold coins most.

 

I just picked this one up for about $3 over spot.

1961 Malta 10 Scudi

 

Wow...spiders, insects, butterflys.....didn't know they were on gold coins !!

 

It's funny/weird...sometimes you can pick up these obscure gold coins for just over spot/melt...other times, they want a premium that is obscene.

The premiums on some of the larger-than-1 ounce Australia Wedge-Tailed Eagle coins are often 100-200% !!!! That's for a recent coin...not something from decades ago like Saints that has rarity in it and lots of collectors demanding it.

I wonder often if those premiums will slowly dissipate over time....like with the SS Central America stuff that was so overpriced back in 2000 and 2001.

 

Why pre-1918 ? Anything special about that year (besides WW I ending and the Russian Revolution) ?

Where'd you find the mintage on this ? Because I have interest in that as you can see here........




Picked it up on the last day of FUN.

 

These purchases were from earlier this month at the FUN Convention, I posted them on other threads so I'll leave the commentary over there and just post pics for the most part here.

MS66 1923-D was something I have saved up for a few years....the 2015 American Eagle Proof I love the look and it was in place of my regular year-end bullion purchase....and the MS63 1915-S was my first lower-graded common Saint used as a substitute for bullion (usually bought Buffalos, Eagles, Pandas, etc.).

 

Check out my other insect coins here... Link: https://collectivecoin.com/spirityoda/hDU8RfxfZCIb6xD0pqGd/nJ4jcxZJePbbAuChbguO