I didn't check for a general junk bin of base world coins, but the junk world silver had a nice selection of 50%-90% coins of varying countries. The other one I wanted to buy but didn't buy was a nice 1930 Netherlands 2.5 Gulden. You should run down there if you get the chance. He seemed very nice, had a nice friendly store dog and sold the coins I bought for spot, which is a decent deal. BTW - I lived in Chicagoland for 8 years until I became an economic refugee and had to move to another state.
This WW1-era German Imperial was shockingly cheap considering it's in PCGS MS65 plastic with nice toning and great luster and a TrueView image. I know these are common, but I couldn't pass this up for a measly 31 bucks. This Guatemala quarter-real is tiny but lovely, and tied for second-finest graded at PCGS (pop. 2/1- there is one MS67 out there). Considering the grade, eye appeal, and PCGS plastic, it too was reasonably inexpensive ($60-something plus shipping). One or both of these are to be "transitional fillers" to hold a place in my Box of 20 collection when something else is off being graded or isn't imaged yet.
The mid-1960s. @Jaelus looked in a Hungarian reference work that quotes it at mintage of 2,080 I believe.
Yep. This was a popular restrike. I believe they did a couple runs of them between 1965-1967 with that as the total struck. Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk
Love this issue. I've been working on a Austria-Hungarian empire type set for a while and still suprised at how many nice restrikes there are of the really nice issues. Many are commanding more demand than originals.
New pickup related to both my Austro-Hungarian korona set and my Hungarian Millennium set. An interesting piece of period coin jewelry made from the 1896KB Hungarian Millennium korona.
New pickup for my Hungarian type set (1848-1946). Hungary 3 Krajczar 1849NB (KM-434) NGC MS61 War of Independence This is a one-year War of Independence (1848-1849) type that is extremely difficult to find in any uncirculated grade due to its low mintage, it being a copper piece, and also due to its size. Many coins of this type had significant planchet defects and are often found with corrosion. This coin is a pretty sizable hunk of copper at 32mm in diameter and 3.2mm thick, weighing in at just under 27g.