World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

Here's an 1858 Austrian florin that was just sitting there in the junk box waiting for a new home

 

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Bumping this thread back with my latest addition
Haiti 500 Gourdes 1974 (not 1975 )

 

If you like incuse designs, this coin along with about 4 or 5 others from Finland make great additions.

 

Franc last franc 2000 2001 coin

 

I picked this one up as a conversational piece because of its history. It is from 1940 Italy, the year that Italy entered World War II as part of the Axis Powers. The eagle on the reverse I thought was particularly emblematic of this timeframe.

 

biafra 3d bought today for £11.00

 

Some nice low mintage Chinese coins I picked up this week, one from the US and two from Germany. They are the 1 oz 2001 (D) silver panda which tends to command a premium because it's intended for the domestic market. The 1990 1 oz proof also has a low mintage of 20,000 though there looks to be some slight marks on the forehead of the mother panda. I think this is not uncommon and probably leaves the mint like that but should still slab OK. Then there's the rare 1991 2 oz Piefort Proof Panda, mintage of 10,000. Probably slab and flip that one.

 

Here's mine:

Greenland - 1 Krone - 1926


This thread is set to go on for a 100 years.

 

Nice coin jlblonde.

I purchased this little hoard of 1,000 world coins. Someone pulled all the silver & then I took these 1,000 which are from 1925 to 1985 and grade XF to MS. About 90% are MS.

 

Looks good, are you going to take it out of pouch and weight it or send it for slabbing?

 

Panamanian coins are made by the US mint and use current US planchets. They are interchangeable in mechanical devices. When US went off of silver in 1965, so did Panama. If you look at a Panamanian 1/4 balboa, it is exactly the same as a quarter, including the sandwich planchet.

Old Panamanian coins are silver like US coins of the same year.

Now a 1965 half balboa on a 64 silver JFK planchet.....that would be quite a find!

 

I had purchased a Wayne Gretzky autographed Gartlan plate, and I noticed the seller had some coins available, as well. I bid on the 1934 1/4 Balboa, which was stated as AU (though I grade it closer to VF/XF range -- look at the high points on the reverse eagle and shield), and asked for the Japanese coin as a $2 throw in. It will eventually go into a framed setting with a silk painting of my grandmother and grandfather when they first got married.

Anyway, the coin has some nice color to it, even though it looks "black" without the right lighting.

 

That looks like a Japanese Mon cash coin you got there.

 

It's a 4-mon coin (Bunkyu Eiho) that was minted in Japan from 1862 to 1869. Total mintage (with several varieties): 890 million.

http://homepage3.nifty.com/~sirakawa/Coin/J036.htm

 

My latest foreign acquisition consists of 3 China Panda 2010 MS 69.

 

Yeah, it's a 4-mon coin. Mine is brown, rather than yellow, so I assume it's one of the copper variations. As I said, it was a toss in, and I'm going to throw it in with a family thing.

 

1966, that's a good resource... unfortunately, I can't read ascii, and I don't have Japanese language on my computer.

 

Here's an English-language site for you

http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/roberts/coins/Yonmonkanei.html

 

Here is my weekend addition been looking for these for a while. Shame it has pvc residue thank you franklin mint