World Coin Contest!

Here's my favorite world coin. Its a 1891 Argentinan 2 pesos. Thanks for the contest

 

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Always loved this piece, and this particular example has a wonderful toning. It's also a fairly common piece that can be acquired by any mid range collector.

German state of Prussia , one thaler
Thaler 1861 A
Mintage: 1,000,000
KM#488 THALER 18.5200g., 0.9000 Silver .5360oz. Ruler: Friedrich Wilhelm IV Subject: Coronation of Wilhelm and Augusta Note: Vereins Thaler.

 

This is one of my only world coins so lol

 

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is my entry hope im not too late!!! and thanks for contest!!!

Jim

 

The contest will end on Friday at 6pm EST, keep posting your coins!

 

1560 Queen Elizabeth I Shilling from Great Britain. My best foreign coin, and one of the favorites of all my coins. There is luster underneath the toning, which is far more colorful than I can capture. Reds, oranges, and some yellows around the edges; light blue, very old silver look in the centers. Well struck except for the small portion, very well centered and full planchet. This is a choice piece.

 

Here's one of my few; Swiss 5 Franc, .835 silver, .4027 asw. The start of my birth year silver worl coin collection. Switzerland also happens to be the country of my ancestors.

 

I will have to go with my favorite coin in my collection.
Italy 1 Lira 1909
(km 45) ASW .1342

 

keep on postin'

 

One of my all time favs. Click on pic to make it larger.

 

Here's an interesting coin. I won it in a contest..like this one, lol.
It's silver, and they look like it was hammered. This is because it was actually struck with dies, but they used the dies until they literally fell apart! Interesting coin
The Batzen was a coin minted in Bern Switzerland from the 15th century up to the mid 19th century. The Batzen is named for the bear (Batz, meaning bear) depicted on the obverse of the coin. The Batzen was originally minted in silver, but by the mid-1800’s it was struck in billon. The 2½ Batzen and the 5 Batzen was always minted in silver. Bern’s monetary system, called the Batzen, was worth 4 Kreuzers

 

One of the best-looking coins I have ever seen:



German 3 mark, 1913, Defeat of Napoleon commemorative. Awesome coin!

Edited: NOT eligible for the contest as it is NOT the example from my collection, still learning how to take a half-way decent picture of a coin!

 

Is this a exemple from your collection ?

 

Victoria Florin



Q

 

Napoleon II, 50 Fr gold :



Q

 

Louis XIII, quart d'ecu :



Q

 

Bavarian Taler

 

old world

Aigina 525-500 BC


Aspendus 4th century BC with spellingCountermark of Baal (LUY)



Alexander the Great fourree from Arados Phonecia

 

No, it is not, and my post has been edited to clearly reflect that as so there's no further confusion.

 

1891 Spanish Peseta purchased from a local auction. I picked it up because I thought it had some nice toning, but I am still working on my photography so only a little of the color comes out here. I think I need to diffuse the lighting more.