World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

Thanx man. I like em since they are not that easy to get in presentable shape. Not sure if I have shown this before,

KM# 155.4 Boliviano 1872 PTS FE

 

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Please share a photo of the Bolivares. A serious coin in good condition.

 

Seller pictures - just won this still in mint packaging 1981 BU silver Pan-European set for just a touch over melt. Well, not just a touch, but not a fortune either - 1.43 oz of silver for $44 shipped. Plus it will fit in nicely with my 1981 collection and will likely go to PCGS next spring. The 250d appears to have lovely rim toning on the reverse.

100 Drachma
250 Drachma
500 Drachma

 

Saw this at the coin shop today for $3....Remembered I didn't have a silver 6P...
Dratted addiction.....
Is bright and shiny but didn't wanna cooperate with the camera and lights and I don't do the color adjust thing (too darn lazy)

 

Picked up some new Germans.

Empire 1913 A 3 Mark



And some of my favorite type, the Federal Republic silver 5 Mark.





This is the cleanest one I have ever received.

 

I finished my small set of coppers in 1, 2, 5, and 10 centimes from Belgian Congo (1887 and 1888 dates). The 10c was the last piece I needed:






And, for the fun of it, here is my full set of 4 coppers all together (and proportional size shown):

 

that first coin has the best toning ever. and those screaming eagles wow the luster is fantastic.

 

I want this set. great set. I collect coins with stars too. these are on my list. what grade that 10 centimes ?

 

The grades are:

1 and 5 centimes: MS66RB
2 centimes: MS66BN
10 centimes: MS64RB (hard to find in higher grades)

 

here's some cheapie keepers from the coins i found in my own cabinet.

 

Nice find! I have several of those. Sucks they arent worth much

 

I have a few mint frosted ones like that (various years). Too many of them out there have hairlines and wipe marks. It took several auctions to get ones I liked, despite the grading promises on German ebay and elsewhere. I must have swapped 6 to 8 of these coins at melt, because all were supposedly mint, but arrived wiped or cleaned . They still treat their coins like silverware in many parts of Central and Eastern Europe (polishing them every Sunday ). Finally, I caught a transaction that was more than acceptable, then I went back for a couple more.

 

You got that right!
When I do find the ones with blazing luster, they generally seem to have hairlines (like you said) or hits throughout the fields, usually on the obverse. I am not familiar with the minting process on these and how they were stored/transported.
Here is a perfect example, which I received today, of what I am used to seeing.
A beautiful coin with some annoying marks.

 

1924 R Italy 1 Lira

 

The odd Russian C166.1 1858 25 Kopeks. Picked this one up within a bin of coins in Santiago. Still in rather good condition.

 

KM#422 Mexico 25 centavos 1927,

 

I definitely need a better camera to take better pictures, but here are my new pieces from yesterday. I went to a different dealer than my usual, he had more selection, but was over priced items think. I got all these foreign silver pieces plus 12 common non silver foreign for just over $80. Although I did get a lot of silver too. Spain 1966 100 peseta, morocco 1956 500 francs, 1907 Peru 1/5 dinero in really good grade. Still has all the lines on the wreath on her head. Thailand 1921 2 salung, Australia 1966 50 cents, South Africa 1964 10 cents uncirculated. Canada 1960 50 cents with nice toning on reverse, Australia 1935 shilling, not sure why the higher catalog value, and 1960 Finland 1960 1,000 markkaa. The last one I found interesting from what I read, it was a commemorative that wasn't intended to circulate and a mintage of 201,000. Still a lot.

 

As far as I know, the Finnish coin was issued at face. So even though it was not actually intended for circulation, you did not lose any money by using such a piece for purchases. The coin depicts Johan Snellman and commemorates the 100th anniversary of Finland's right to have its own currency. In the mid-19c Finland was a more or less autonomous part of the Russian Empire, and in 1860 it was allowed to introduce the Finnish markka.

Christian

 

Thats a beauty.

 

Thank you. It came out of a old box of coins found in a Santiago dealer's drawer. Fortunately, it was in a bag, so nicely preserved. Got it for free.