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you are all probably bugged out by now ? lol
off Topic but here's a leaf bug my ex-girlfriend gave me she bought off Ebay from the Philippines..... I am not sure if this leaf bug/insect is from the Philippines ? very interesting to me...looks just like leaves...

 

It's from Prussia.

 

thank you, going to look it up in my 2004 Krause catalog now.
German States/Prussia
1846A Thaler, KM#445, .750 silver, mintage-1,115,000 , ruler- Frederich Wilhelm IV

grade/values
F-$25.00 VF-$50.00 XF-$100.00 UNC.-$250.00
Krause values may differ than real life market values.

 

German States/Saxony 1869B, Thaler, 2004 Krause catalog KM#1214, .900 silver, mintage- 1,622,000 , Ruler- Johann.

grade/value
F-$20.00 VF-$35.00 XF-$70.00 UNC.-$150.00
Krause values may differ than real life market values. a very cool coin. I liked the lions side best.

 

Great collection of bugs, yoda!

 

I have to say, I am super impressed by your bug collection yoda. I don't think anyone of us would have guessed there were so many coins with bugs on them.

 

Here's a new pickup from the Heritage auction last night. It was attributed as an Austrian Franz Joseph medal, but it is obviously Hungarian as all the text is Hungarian and Franz Joseph's Hungarian name is exclusively used.

Hungary
Ferencz Jozsef medal 1916
Enameled bronze, 65mm

The reverse reads (in Hungarian):
"Bizom nepemben s ugyunk igazsagaban 1914-1915 Ferencz Jozsef", which translates to something like "I am insured in my people and in the truth of our situation 1914-1915 Franz Joseph"

Based on the text and date, it seems to be a commemorative of Franz Joseph I during the period of the declaration of war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia at the onset of WWI.

Interestingly, I have a pair of Hungarian coronation medals in exactly the same style as this that are dated 1917 and were made for the coronation of Karoly IV and Empress Zita.

 

1798 Paul Tsarist Rouble

 

very interesting coin. in my 2002 Krause catalog it is C#101a, .868 silver, 38mm size, mintage- 3,279,000, Ruler- Paul I

grade/value
VG-$20.00 F-40.00 VF-$90.00 XF-$150.00
Krause values may differ from real life values.
very interesting design. nice early date too.
curious to know what those words mean on the reverse ???

 

Thanks. But Krause prices are quite outdated now. This type is not easy to come by. I waited a long time for this coin.

 

curious as to the new value ? if to personal I will understand.

 

Picked up these two today.
British Indian Rupee 1840. (b) KM#457.3 type 1
French Ecu 1781 k - Bordeaux mint

Neither of them perfect but interesting coins with lots of history.

 

cool coins.
France 1781K, ECU, KM#564.8 , Mint: Bordeaux , .917 silver. a very low mintage-34,000
grade/value
VG-35.00 F-$55.00 VF-$150.00 XF-$275.00
based on my 2002 Krause catalog, Krause values may differ from real life market values.

 

India-British, 1840, Rupee, KM#458.3, .917 silver, 30.8mm size, mint-Bombay, mintage- 312,598,000
grade/value 2002 Krause catalog
F-$3.00 VF-$6.00 XF-$12.00 UNC.-$25.00
Krause values may differ from real life market values.

 

Nice additions, Paddy!

 

Yes - this shows you just how out of date the 2002 Krause figures are! Not only do they take no account of the Silver content, there has also been a huge upsurge in interest for Indian coins since their economy started to boom. I would expect to pay GBP 25 to 30 for this now in the UK and expect to get more if I sold it back to India.
Huge numbers of these were scrapped after India got its independence - both because they were no longer in circulation and because the Indian metalsmiths love to work in Silver and fashioned their old coins into endless different artifacts.

I had an Indian 8 Anna coin a few years back - an unusual thing - large with 8 sides. Krause told me it was worth USD 20 - it sold to India for GBP 243!

 

how close was the France eco coin
values ?

 

Difficult to say! The person I bought it from had used a similar old copy of Krause to price it.
On E**y it is difficult to get a clear steer - not many close matches and vast differences in price. I found this one on a buy it now: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FRANCE-Ec...516659?hash=item4af3e5fff3:g:UicAAOSwIwhWRRIk
and this one which has actually sold: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FRANCE-LO...324071?hash=item3f6428a1a7:g:IH0AAOSwd0BVrsph
but both these are different mints as well as different dates.
This one is a closer match and seems cheap, but then look at the difference in actual weight to expected weight at the bottom! https://www.numiscorner.com/product...hes-dolivier-ecu-1781-bordeaux-vf20-25-silver

 

It's more like $500 and of course MUCH more in a high grade. But then high grades in the older Russian coins are very hard to come by. Most were heavily circularised or cleaned.