World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

That's wrong! I'm looking at my own chart that I uploaded, and it's 50 Million mintage for the 100 Hwan. Still, there are very few of them left...

 

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Here's my newest bear. 2017 Peru 1 sol.

 

Decided to add some Silver from South Korea to my Bullion Collection. I know these were massed produced but I was able to get this for only $4 over melt so not much of a premium for a one ounce Silver coin.

South Korea 1987 10,000 Won Proof Mintage 227,500

 

1/3 Pavali
Krishnaraja Wadiyar lll
1799-1810
Silver 0.9G

 

Yep! Some of the cheapest silver proof coins for their size and weight that you can find... And indeed because they were mass-produced! Still, they are great designs, all 32 of the 1988 Olympics coins.

You may be interested in this little factoid about this coin:
The Krause catalog implies that the 1988-dated mint-strike of this coin is an "error" coin (with a very high collector-price). I'm not so sure that Krause has it correct. The series that this coin was issued with (the 4th Series) were all dated "1988" on the 'flowers' side of the coin, and were initially released in Korea in July 1988.

[Of the five series of coins issued for the Seoul Olympics that year, the 1st series were dated "1986", the second series "1987" and the other three series were dated "1988"].

I think it's the mint strikes with the "1987" date that are the more rare errors. Still, I would consider yours to be an "error," too, although these "1987" proofs seem to me to be just as common as the 1988s.

The Daegwangsa catalog says that 109,570 mint strikes and 209,490 proof strikes is the mintage for this 10,000-Won Olympic coin.

This image shows all five series that were released. These do NOT include the 1982 and 1983-dated "Olympic Promotional Coins". As is normal for the Olympics, they went waaaaay overboard!

 

The more I read your articles, the more interested I get in coinage from South Korea. Looks like I got a new area to discover in my "retirement" years. thanks for sharing.

 

Picked these up. One is for me and the other two are a Christmas present for my Sister and her hubby. She used to live in Mexico and he lived in Spain. So I figured get a coin that was from Mexico for Spain. I'm going to put together a nice shadow box presentation with them (I know they're pretty ugly, but they won't know).

 

This is the oldest of a dozen old German States coins I got over the weekend. I'll try to get images of some of the others.

Hildesheim, 1/24th Thaler, 1699

 

Here is another. Cologne, 1746, 1/4 Stuber.

 

Here are a few of the coins I've gotten recently:

A nice AU 1875 Peruvian sol which seems to have some doubling on the reverse (this one is most certainly genuine )






1934 Australian florin (love that coat of arms)




1915 Hungarian korona

 

Picked up a HUGE lot of Canadian stuff this weekend. As I was going through it, enamored with the toned silver dollars that were part of the lot, I found a tube of about ten 1968 BU Dollars. I wondered to myself, "Why would someone take the time to save these common coins (even though they were UNC, you can find them easily for a couple dollars in PL sets.)"

Well, mystery solved - they are all DDR. There are three DHL1 (the stronger of the two varieties; strong doubling is shown on both right side water lines, the date, DOLLAR, and most of the central figures) and seven DHL2 (the weaker of the two; exhibits doubling on only the top water line.) Here is one of the DHL1:









Oh, you say, "Where are the toned silver dollars you mentioned earlier? Well...here are the two strongest toners:





(Here is another shot of the 1973 with my cell phone and the post-eclipse daylight.)

 

Now that I'm back in the States and can easily access ebay, I have started on my world silver coins for less than or melt value. These are my recent aquisitions. All were purchased at or less than silver melt.

 

Nice haul, FF.

 

Another recent pickup. Love the condition of this coin.​

Italy - 1965 R 500 Lire
(Commemorating the birth of Dante Alighieri)
KM 100
Mintage of 4,272,000
.835 silver (.2953 ASW)

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Here is another. Nassau, 1/4 Kreuzer, 1819

 

And Schaumburg-Lippe, 1858 4 Pfennige

 

I love those Canadian dollars. I may have to get some.
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Here's a new pickup for both my Hungarian krajczár date set and my Hungarian type set. Finding krajczárs from this period that are RB is quite doable, but this is only the second RD example I've seen.

Hungary 1 Krajczár 1891KB
KM-478 (1891-1892)
Copper 3.33g, 19mm

 

interesting coin with a small mintage-180,000 KM# (C#40) German States Schaumburg-Lippe, metal-copper, ruler-Georg Wilhelm
grade/value from my 2004 Catalog today market could be more money
F-$6.00 VF-$12.50 XF-$30.00 UNC-$75.00 BU-?
not sure what grade your coins is ? XF-AU ?

 

German States/Nassau, 1/4 Kreuzer, 1819, metal-copper, mintage-4,932,000
grade/value from my 2004 Catalog today market could be more money
F-$1.50 VF-$2.50 XF-$5.00 UNC-$20.00
not sure what your coins grade is ? F-VF ?