I'm digging the Antigua too. I love obscure stuff like that. I believe you also have a Barbados coin with the pineapple.
Some more recent ones: East Hopei - 2 Chiao - 1937 Essequibo and Demerary - Half Stiver - 1813 French Guyana - 2 Sous - 1789 A China, Japanese Occupation - 10 Fen - 1940 Bolivia - Half Melgarejo - 1865 Bolivia - 50 Centavos - 1904 PTS MM
I like them all! Joe, what is your collecting direction or ambition? Is it nationality, rarity, the strange and unusual, or just knowledge of key date/key variety coins?
Another set from a large acquisition several weeks ago. Tibet - 1 Rupee - 1942 Martinique - 1 Franc - 1922 Colombia - 50 Centavos - 1928 - Leprosarium Coinage Colombia - 1 Decimo - 1853 - Nueva Granada Thanks to all for your replies and likes. Hope everyone is enjoying these examples.
Basically whatever comes my way except for NCLTs. I tend to favor low priced obscure coins over collecting a series of ordinary issues. But when the money tree isn't in full bloom type sets of common coins helps see me through the famine. I had ceased purchasing and or actively collecting coins last year due to the financial down turn in the construction industry last November. This lot was my first purchase since then. I picked these, plus many more I haven't posted yet, up at a local coin shop. I paid about $180 for the lot. The shop had them priced at $220 Krause value. They gave me a discount because I'm a regular there. If I had purchased them on eBay I would have paid $300 plus shipping. In fact, I used to find these type of coins in foreign junk bins just a few years ago. Not any more though. Visiting Asian and Indian buyers buy the lot (several bins at a time) and the coin shops are all to happy to get rid of their foreign "junk" coins. Now the Los Angeles area is a barren waste land when it comes to foreign bin "dumpster diving" finds. There's none to be had...so sad...
There's a lot of stuff here that I like. I bid on a few lots of leper colony coins last week but didn't win them. I think stuff like that is really cool. I too feel like the foreign junk bins are drying up somewhat. Last time I went to my favorite coin shop they hardly had anything to look through. That's the best place to find bargains.
