World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

@chrsmat71 -My mouth is still hanging open in amazement from all the goodies you sent me. Since this is the world coin thread, and I haven’t photographed everything you sent to me, let me post the older of the German coins. I’ll be adding the other and the Italian coin here soon. I am still swooning over my Romulus and Remus suckling at the she-wolf. Wasn’t expecting to see that reverse! Thank you again Chris!
P.S. Very nice daylight lit photographs of those Egyptians. Artsy!

 

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Here's an interesting new pickup of an undocumented mule.

The Coronation of Empress Elisabeth as Queen of Hungary
Hungary 1867A (Vienna mint)
Mule Mont.2714/Mont.2716
Ducat (in silver) 20mm

Two versions of the coronation ducat were produced with this diameter in silver, one with Hungarian legends and one with Latin legends. This example, however, is a mule with the obverse of Montenuovo-2714 (Hungarian Legends) and the reverse of Montenuovo-2716 (Latin Legends). I've been working on completing a set of all 36 coronation types in this series for years, and this is the first mule I've seen. As far as I can tell, it's not documented anywhere.

Of note, these coronation pieces are Hungarian but were struck in Vienna. 1867 was a transition year with Hungary coming out of a period of Austrian occupation and resuming minting of their own coinage. The Hungarian types of 1867 still used the Austrian mint marks A and B with some types struck in Vienna.

 

Here is my new Italian addition thanks to @chrsmat71.

 

Beautiful coin. I think you are going to have a very nice collection when you are done.

 

Picked this up after I got the 150th Anniversary Voyageur. I also ordered another similar version. I think I might build some type of collection around the theme. Maybe start collecting some of the other Canadian Commemorative Silver Dollars from the mid Eighties.

Canada 1984 One Dollar, Toronto Sesquicentennial Proof Mintage 732,542

 

There are a couple really cool train designs during that time period.

 

Japan 1853-1865 KAEI Era
1 SHU

 

Sorry for posting the reverse upside down.

 

Some of us can notice the orientation (no pun intended) of the Kanji or Chinese characters.

 

So I did get it right, in that it is upside down ? Does this orientation, the same as the Obverse, technically make the coin a medal? I looked it up before I decided to buy it in the SCWC. It doesn't really make much of a difference to me. It is nice and was one used as currency, makes it a coin to me.

 

Like this one.

 

Yes, the one on the right is upside down. I can not actually read many of the characters, however I can nearly always recognize the up and down of them.

 

Ok, cool... thanks

 

color looks funky, but they were using a 50-40-10 mix, give or take, of gold, silver ,copper? I love them I buy them

 

but thats ony one of seven, can you or anyone else tell me which?

 

penny tokens Canada

 

Nice tokens.

 

my scan screwed up, didn't get all, didn't get backs ,

 

1 half View attachment 690662 View attachment 690663

 

This is one of seven coins that arrived today, and by far the prettiest of the bunch. 1850 German State of Scheide Munze, 1 pfenning