Lord Marcovan's "Eclectic Box" collection as of June 22, 2017

The former "Eclectic Box of 20" has undergone an expansion from a "Box of 20" to a "Box of 25". (I've been using a 25-count slab box for more than a year anyway.) As such, due to the 20-image-per-post limitation here on CoinTalk, I'm breaking it up into separate categories, as you'll see below.

Many thanks to my talented Photoshop-savvy friends: @Deacon Ray, for the new little category banners, and @brg5658, for assistance with the "shadowbox" templates of the latest "newps" (new purchases).



Ancient Greece (Ionia, Phokaia): electrum hekte, Athena and quadripartite punch, ca. 478-387 BC

(Presently raw- this is a temporary photo)

Ancient Greece (Corinth): silver stater featuring Pegasos and Athena, ca. 345-307 BC

(Presently raw)

Ancient Greece (Spartans in Taras, Calabria, Italy): silver drachm, Athena and owl, ca. 302-281 BC

(Presently raw)

Ancient Greece (Kingdom of Macedon): silver "Mercenaries" drachm of King Perseus, ca. 175-170 BC

(NGC Ch MS; Strike 5/5, Surface 5/5)

Ancient Roman Republic: silver denarius of moneyer L. Furius Brocchus, ca. 63 BC

(NGC Ch VF; Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5)

Ancient Roman Empire: silver "Capricorn" denarius of Vespasian, struck by Titus ca. 80-81 AD

(Presently raw)

Ancient Byzantine Empire: gold tremissis of Justinian I, ca. 527-565 AD

(NGC MS; Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5, "wrinkled")

 

England (Anglo-Saxon): silver penny of Aethelred II, struck ca. 997-1003 AD

(PCGS MS63)

Turkey (Seljuq Sultanate of Rum): silver "Lion & Sun" dirham of Kaykhusraw II, AH 638 (1240-1241 AD)


(Presently raw)

Netherlands (Gelderland): "St. John" type goldgulden (florin) of Arnold van Egmond, ca. 1423-1472

(PCGS Genuine; XF details, "Filed Rims")

Belgium (Brabant): gold florin (Carolus d’or) of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, ca. 1521-1545

(Presently raw)

German States (Teutonic Order): silver 1/4-thaler of Grand Master Maximilian of Austria, ca. 1615

(PCGS XF45)

 

Great Britain: silver "South Sea Company" shilling of George I, 1723

(PCGS MS63+, formerly NGC MS64)

Switzerland (Zurich): silver "city view" 1/2-thaler (1 gulden/36 schillings), 1739

(PCGS AU58)

Spain: gold half-escudo of Ferdinand VI, 1759, Madrid mint

(Presently raw- another temporary image)

Mexico (Spanish Colonial): silver 8 reales ("Pillar Dollar"), 1761, Mexico City mint

(PCGS AU50)

Belgium (Austrian Netherlands): copper 2 liards (2 Oorden), Insurrection coinage, 1790

(NGC MS63 BN)

Great Britain: gilt copper proof halfpenny of George III, Soho Mint, 1806

(PCGS PR65 DCAM, formerly NGC PR64 CAM)

Great Britain: silver shilling of George IV, off-center mint error, ca. 1826-1829

(PCGS XF40)

United States: gold 5-dollar half-eagle, Liberty Head type, 1842-D (small date)

(PCGS VF30; CAC)

Liberia: proof copper cent, 1847

(PCGS PR65 BN)

France: copper specimen striking of a 10-centime pattern (essai), 1848

(PCGS SP65 RB)

United States: bronze Civil War token, "Our Little Monitor" type, 1863

(NGC MS65 BN)

Japan (Meiji Era): gold/electrum Nibu-Kin (2 bu), ca. 1868-1869

(PCGS AU55)

Great Britain: gold half-sovereign of Queen Victoria, 1901, from the Terner Collection

(PCGS MS64)

 

Archives of previous incarnations of this set:

On CoinTalk:
~Eclectic Box archive, 06/22/2017
~Eclectic Box archive, 05/10/2017
~Eclectic Box archive, 04/29/2017
~Eclectic Box archive, 12/28/2016

On Collectors Universe:
~ LordM Box of 20 archive, 09/15/2016
~ LordM Box of 20 archive, 05/26/2016
~ LordM Box of 20 archive, 12/01/2015
~ LordM Box of 20 archive, 10/06/2015
~ LordM Box of 20 archive, 03/17/2015
~ LordM Box of 20 archive, 11/06/2014
~ LordM Box of 20 archive, 10/24/2014
~ LordM Box of 20 archive, 10/22/2014
~ LordM Box of 20 archive, 10/11/2014
~ LordM Box of 20 archive, 04/29/2014
~ LordM Box of 20 archive, 03/18/2014
~ LordM Box of 20 archive, 03/08/2014
~ LordM Box of 20 archive, 03/04/2014
~ LordM Box of 20 archive, 03/03/2014
~ LordM Box of 20 archive, 03/01/2014
~ LordM Box of 20 archive, 08/07/2013
~ LordM Box of 20 archive, 07/25/2013​

 

Here's what's new this time around:

Ancient Greece (Ionia, Phokaia): electrum hekte, Athena and quadripartite punch, ca. 478-387 BC


Ancient Greece (Corinth): silver stater featuring Pegasos and Athena, ca. 345-307 BC


Switzerland (Zurich): silver "city view" 1/2-thaler (1 gulden/36 schillings), 1739


Spain: gold half-escudo of Ferdinand VI, 1759, Madrid mint


Japan (Meiji Era): gold/electrum Nibu-Kin (2 bu), ca. 1868-1869

 

Here's what was sold since last time:

Ancient Greece (Pontos, Amisos): silver drachm or siglos featuring Hera and owl, ca. late 5th to 4th century BC


Ancient Roman Empire: silver denarius of Septimius Severus, "Dea Caelestis" type, ca. 193-211 AD

 

A joy to behold . . .

 

Thank you! That's a pretty fresh newp, from just the last few weeks.

I've wanted a cityview for a while. The lion was just icing on the cake, since I already had a rampant lion on that 1790 Belgian insurrection piece.

 

Also a brand new purchase, from right here on CT via @jwitten, whose taste for toned gold I share and appreciate. I had a PCGS XF45 a while back. This one is not only 10 points better but also has some nice traces of iridescence.

That also happens to presently be the least expensive coin in the box (lots of bang for the buck there!) and I needed a non-round-shaped coin for variety's sake. I also needed a Far Eastern coin.

 

Indeed. Has that whole "Viking age" mystique. That one is quite obviously a hoard coin but unfortunately the specific provenance of the source hoard is now unknown.

That one's in my "Top Three", sentimentally, along with the Macedonian "Mercenaries" drachm I got from @AncientJoe, and the 1806 gilt proof British halfpenny I got from @yarm.

I waited 19 years for @Aethelred to sell me that Aethelred II penny. It is his onetime "signature" piece; his very namesake he based his username on, more than a decade ago. I was astonished to end up with it, but I parted with some nice Romans in the deal. He's much more focused on ancients, then and now.

He almost got the coin back, recently, but it remains mine... for now.

Thanks for looking.

 

Thanks again to @Deacon Ray for the further tweaking of the category banners and the Photoshop template of the new Taras, Calabria owl drachm (third one down in the ancients).

So now it is a "Box of 24". It will be up to the new quota of 25 as soon as I decide what the last piece is going to be.

 

And now, at last, it is a "Box of 25".

Turkey (Seljuk Sultanate of Rum): silver "Lion & Sun" dirham of Kaykhusraw II, AH 638 (1240-1241 AD)