World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

Some more world coins over the last few weeks.
Proof 1953 New Zealand threepence


Proof 1953 British threepence

Cool British coin that I've wanted for a while and finally found a cheap one

And a UNC South African farthing that I don't have a reverse photo to.

 

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Don't know why I got this. It obviously has been cleaned and they made a million of them. But it looks so neat. Besides, it cost me less than $5. And it's Silver.

 

I like the coin. I wish it wasn't in as much packaging, I might take it out but the design is very well done.

 

At one of my local "coin" shops today. Picked up $5 fv in mercury dimes and picked out a handful from the junk bin.

How many do you have?
17 ( sign says .35c each)
Just give me a dollar.

 

That Romania one has toned very nicely!

 

I don't know why I didn't order one when I purchased the 2015 £50 Britannia Proof from the Royal Mint. Brain dead I guess.

 

This is a token from the Ghent Socialist Cooperative, which I think is kind of interesting. The seller said it is counterstamped by the Socialist Working Party as well.

 

Just got this pretty decent example of the Japanese key date Showa 32 (1957) 10 Yen coin.

 

If you watch you can get them pretty cheap in the secondary market. I picked this one up for a few pennies under $8.

 

That's a great honeyhole you have there. You got the non-silver ones for multiples of 'free'.

 

After WWI Germany was split into Two Zones. Actually it was 5, but later 2. The Western zone became the Federal Republic of Germany and the eastern part became the Democratic Republic. In 1990 the Democratic Republic was dissolved and Germany reunited. At that time the coinage of East Germany was recalled and melted. This created a need and an opportunity for producing after market uncirculated coins sets. Most of these sets are made up of different years. The set I have has 1982,1989, and 1990 coins. I would be happy if all were the same year but that's OK. I would really be happy if the 5 Pfennig was a 1982 instead of a 1990. 1982 was the key date for the 5 Pfennig. Worth about $175 vs. $2 for the 1990. All these coins are only worth $2-$3 each in Unc. condition, but I think it comes together as a set.
BTW, I noticed that Coin World mentioned this set in their January 2016 issue.
The article inspired me to search for and purchase another set which I'll post when it arrives from overseas.

 

Look just like what I had to pack up West I go!!!!

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Nice set! Apparently a third party issue, as the GDR would not have put "East Germany" on its sets, and they would have added the 2 M and 5 M coins. By the way, from what I have read, the reason why the 20 Pf coin is a brass (and not aluminum) pieces was that "alu" would not work well with pay phones.

As for the "zones", at the end of WW2 Germany was split into four zones. The territories east of the Oder-Neiße Line became part of Poland and the USSR, and the Saarland got an autonomous status (and had its own money, a local version of the French franc) - those parts did not have the status of occupation zones. In 1949 the three Western zones formed the Federal Republic of Germany; a few months later the Soviet zone became the German Democratic Republic.

In 1957 Saarland joined the Federal Republic (and two years later introduced the Deutsche Mark); in mid-1990 the GDR (East G.) adopted the DM and, six months later, the states on its territory joined the Federal Republic. What I have always found kind of strange: The CoA of the GDR has the circular wreath like many other countries associated with the USSR, but it never had a star at the top ...

Christian

 

I was going to mention the Brass 20 Pfennig as being different that the other Aluminum. Now I know why. Thanks

Mike

 

FYI i live in MN and like i said, I'm not a coin collector but i do like antiques and i am an artist so i watch a few different auction sites and one of the local sites is having an auction of coins. It closes today or tomorrow which i know doesn't give a lot of time and i dont have a clue if there are any great deals, because i dont collect, but i thought I'd pay the link in case there are.
Here is the link: http://www.do-bid.com/cgi-bin/mnlist.cgi?dobid87/category/ALL.

 

The Hungarian millennium korona is one of my favorite coin designs of all time. I just picked up a PF68 CAM restrike of this coin last week.

 

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Good key dates for sure! ↑

 

German States - 1761 - Munster, Sede Vacante taler MS65 NGC

 

What a beauty!