World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

This is from my favourite period of British history - at least 1599 - 1660. A great find.

 

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Yes - a very interesting period. Here is a Charles I halfcrown from that time - not as good or as scarce as the pound but still nice.

 

Thanks. For me the most important, and expensive of the coins is the 1897 Brazilian 2000 reis. I live in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and am a member of the Brazilian Numismatic Group here and for the past 2 years have just been beating my head against the wall trying to find a decent one. Yes, I've seen all 3 dates here locally (1891,96, & 97) but no true uncs w/o problems.

The other coin, well, I'm a BSA merit badge counselor and I enjoy having coins which look good in displays which people see. I also have the website [which is broken at present ] for coinsandhistory. So I've been aware of these for a while, but they tend to be a little hard to find. I think due to the Brexit and/or the details label this piece sold cheaply.

Also Stacks had someone (Vicken Y.) look at the coins for me over the phone and describe problems & stuff. I will no longer buy slabs without someone good giving me an actual description of the pieces. This is particularly true with foreign, where the grading services are "less experienced".

 

Ah, but be very afraid! One of my very first English hammered coins was also a halfcrown of Charles I, bought from Frank Robinson of NY many years ago. It is way inferior to your specimen. Thus one day too you may end up getting a hammered pound. Yours is a very nice specimen and you should be able to narrow down the time when it was made much more closely, perhaps to 2 or 3 years?

 

Actually the bit about the debt repayment is not published in any book I'm aware of but is the result of a conversation I've had this year with one of the authors of the Brazilian Coin pricing Guides (similar to the USA's Red Book). There are a lot less, like 1/100th, people who are Brazilian numismatists so people here know each other more.

I should clarify. I'm a USA citizen, but am living in Brazil for work for a couple of years. When the assignment ends, I'll have to return to the US but hope to always come back to visit for the Numismatic meetings & dinners.

 

Buy a Krause. When I started collecting foreign I bought the 1972 Krause World Coin Guide which went back to 1800 or the late 1700's for some stuff. This was really good as I couldn't afford anything before 1800 anyway. About 25 years later I began to specialize in certain areas of foreign and tried to become more expert in those.

Still there are some coins that one runs across which I think are really neat even tho they're in different areas. I really shouldn't buy those but sometimes I'm unable to help myself: particularly if the price is right. The Charles I XX shillings is an example. Also I really think coins are markers of important events in man's history and I've become drawn to coins made during turbulent periods or which are "historically significant" in some way.

 

I am already afraid! Afraid that I am addicted to this hobby - I have been building my British collection now for 15 years and my enthusiasm to fill the gaps is not diminished.
My earliest coin is an Athelwulf penny from around 850 AD and I still make sure I get all the new issues each year now. With the hammered coins I have had to restrict myself to one from each monarch and even that is a challenge!

BTW the Charles I halfcrown is S2779 with mm Star which makes it 1640 - two years before the official start of the Civil War.

Here is Athelwulf - I have posted it before but that was under Ancients I think.

 

Got lucky and found this at an LCS about 1 minute after it walked in. I'll take low mintage Chinese any day of the week.

 

I think that coins are an excellent way to illustrate history and connect with our past. Also as you've seen, they go way back: well at least to ~650 BC or for British at least to the issues of Lucius Verus or Marcus Aurelius (161 -180 AD) with the "Britannia" spelled out on the reverse.

There's always the challenge of finding a difficult specimen and the thrill of the hunt. However for the 1897 Brazil crown I'd have greatly preferred if my quarry simply submitted and died a lot more peacefully. I think the "Brexit" and the absolute lack of write-up, let my Charles I XX shillings go [relatively] cheaply tho.

I'm also working on a project where I hope to research and author a book with a very in-depth historical tie-in for coins of certain countries. Also I have a website devoted to this although it's really in a very early stage.

Your can semi-easily create a website where you illustrate your collection. You can privately register the domain so that it's invisible to a "whois lookup". This way you can create a digital library of your collection. You can even add maps showing the size of the different Kingdoms under various Kings such as Athelwulf or Alfred the Great, or William I.

Also people sometimes think of coins as "an investment". Reasons against this are the static or decreasing demographics of those types of people who care about Western Civilization in Europe, UK, or the USA. Factors for this are the increasing availability of knowledge and coins as markers of history, particularly since the advent of the internet. Also coins appear to be a way of passing some "hobby remnants" to one's children, where they can squirrel them away in a box unlike old furniture. Finally since many are made of silver, gold, or other valuable metals (Gadolinium or Iridium), they may offer an inflationary hedge in a world where everyone is printing paper money with abandon.

My son earlier this year collecting Brazil's 1st nickel coin (1871 200 reis) from a coin vendor in Republic Square; center city Sao Paulo.

 

New pickups. A mid grade Victoria. And then a coin I've had my eyes on for a little while. I first saw it in Krause and finally picked one up. I love airplanes

 

I recently got this, my first gold coin!


Mysore, Tipu Sultan (1782-1799)
AV Fanam, 7mm, Patan mint (1789)
OBV: HA (initials of Hyder Ali, Tipu Sultan's father) within inner linear and outer dotted border
REV: 1218 (1789 AD)
Zarb Patan (Patan mint) within inner linear and outer dotted border
(KM 128.1)

Tipu Sultan introduced his own Mauludi date system, replacing the Hijiri calendar, making the dates on these coins different than those of other Islamic issues. Info provided by JAZ Numismatics.

 

Some new additions to my Australian Type Set.

 

1893 Canadian Five Cent, Double 9

 

Nice find, Rick.

 

Well was going to bid till H.A min bid was add 13K PR 63
But to much money for me.

 

Coin due in the mail today and I'm going to take new images of the date . There's 2 different types ( R/P'd 9 and a R/P'd 3 ) for this year . Bill In Burl is helping me out with this coin ( as always ) . He also gave me a link to buy a Charlton 64th edition (2010), for 3 bucks and free shipping too . This book lists all the 5 cent silver Varieties, at least the ones I need . To me it looks like the 8 & 9 and maybe the 3 too, are re-punched . Bill also told me the Mint could of used a different year Hub or Die to strike this coin too . This should be fun ...

 

Nice, good luck. I have a junk canada 1893 canada, but no Varieties.

 

Wow! Amazing coin though. I enjoy collecting coins of the Franz Joseph era but this is one I will have to admire outside of my collection.

Thanks for sharing

Mike

 

Here's a couple of images of the date .
The 8, 9, and 3 all have been re-punched ..

 

Recent buys:

1763 Sweden 2 Ore - $5



1816 Danish West Indies 10 Skilling - $5



1939A Greman 2 Mark ($7) & 1937J German 5 Mark ($10)




1937 Canada 25 cent - $6