World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

Nice! Can you provide a bit more info on the two older ones. I like the horsed rider one and the two headed eagle one quite a bit.

 

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That 1848 10 Centimes is really cool looking.

 

amazing coins. tell us more about the 2nd coin and the 5th coin. where are they from ? what date/time period is it ? it has me curious.

 

ok you posted it before I did. great info. and very interesting coins.

 

More than once this thread has been a welcome poison to my collecting interests. Just when I think I have narrowed my focus...bam! Someone opens my eyes to an area or era I didn't know I was in love with. So is life.

Lovin' it,

Mike

 

Here's a totally random pickup for me. I liked it because of the shape. 2007 Hungary 1000 forint. @rooman9 aren't you collecting airplane coins?

 

That I am! As time and money allows haha. I like that one though!

 

Found 2 interesting and low mintage items today
Mintage of 10,000





Mintage of 6,000

 

From the Chattanooga coin show a William III half penny for my type set.

 

Ireland 1939 Threepence
Mintage: 64,000

Picked this one up raw. Key date to the series and extremely difficult to find this nice.

 

I just acquired this today. It is a Mexican "Cap & Ray" 2 Reales that was mutilated and countermarked for use in Costa Rica circa 1841. It has a test punch in the legend between "Republica" and "Mexicana", then had a plug of silver removed to pay for the countermarking process and then was marked with the arms of Costa Rica a double six-pointed star on the eagle's breast.

This is a neat series!

 

That is neat, never knew/seen that before.

 

State of North Borneo (British protactorate).
Minted in Birmingham ("Ralf Heaton and sons" Mint).

 

And Colombia: silver 10 centavos 1946.

 

Mat,
I'm glad that you think this is neat. I love countermarked coinage and am actively studying them. This particular series was issued in 5 silver denominations and 2 gold denominations. The silver issues are Dollar size coins down to 1/2 real size and for the different host coin types such as Mexican "Cap & Ray", Spanish colonial bust type, etc. they are all mutilated in a similar fashion per type with where the plug was removed, where the countermark was applied and where the test punch was added.

Looking at countermarked coinage 1 or 2 at a time it seems that they were countermarked arbitrarily, but in fact there is a method to the madness.

At any rate I'm glad that you think this is a neat piece.

Thanks

 

Tonight I acquired a couple Spanish coins I had been looking at for a while. The first is a 1794 8 Reales coin minted in Mexico City.


The second coin is a 1768 1 Real coin minted in Madrid.

 

Thanks for the writeup. I've always had a hard time getting coins with holes or countermarks, even on ancients I tend to shy away from them and were much more forgiving with coins with issues.

Nice silvers, Mike.