World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

Here is my last new pick up. I'm still confused on why i bought it with a details grade, but I paid very little for it.

 

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Here are two i just paid for today. one I have questions about, but will post seperately about that. Oman 1381 A.H. 1/2 Rial silver. A simple design, but I like it. And second, a Philippines 1970 1 Piso, Silver?? paid a bit under $15 for both.

 

Some fun newps out of NYINC. I've been saving my coin funds for awhile for the show and it was a relief to get to spend it.

A non-exhaustive sampling:


An 1870/M3 20 sen (shallow scale variety). MUCH nicer than my previous example.



A very debased Ansei era chogin (1859~1865). IIRC <20% silver at this point.



I've been wanting one of these for awhile. I'm not a collector of Italy (well a few type pieces) or Italian States, or Napoleon but this one has always appealed to me. Give the female allegory in front a bit of wear and she looks quite pregnant. No wear, not as much. Too much wear, hard to see. This was just the look I'd be wanting and found it reasonably priced to boot.

I bought things ranging from a $5 cash coin, a modern 500 yen commemorative (also $5 and sitting in the case of guy specializing in Ireland), one ancient, a few more Japanese (including another chogin, a 5 sen variety, a 10 sen date I didn't have at a reasonable price), plus one nice budget buster Albanian which meant leaving another interesting ancient and a nice 1 yen on the table.

Sadly, did NOT purchase the Yap stone. It was totally cool and they let me touch it at the auction preview . The auction previews were a great chance to see and hold some nice coins!

A great show readily accessible by train. Great cheesecake and bagels. A great opportunity to pick the brains of a few dealers on some issues. And, best of all, a great chance to meet fellow collectors and internet friends.

 

Here's a new pickup for my Hungarian type set (1848-1956):

Austria Ducat 1864E (Hungarian Mint GYF)
NGC MS62
KM-2264 (1860-1865)
Gold 0.986, 3.49g, 21mm
Mintage: 364,286

While classified as an Austrian coin by Krause, this is also a Hungarian coin (and a Transylvanian coin), and is considered to be a Hungarian coin by Hungarian catalogs. During the Austrian Occupation of 1849-1867, Hungarian mints produced Austrian types, with the mint marks changed to conform to the Austrian system. Mint E from this period is the Hungarian mint GYF (Gyulafehérvár), also of Transylvania. This type is one of four trade ducat types from this period.

 

The Piso has the look of the Nickel version, to me anyway. Nice coin.

 

These two arrived in the post today. Spain (Mexico mint) 8 reales 1798 and British Trade Dollar 1929:

 

Nice additions, Paddy.

 

Love that trade dollar!

 

This one showed up yesterday

 

I got a bunch of coins in the past few days. Here is an Argentina 10 centavos, Portugal 50 centavos, Angola 1 macuta and Austria 50 shillings. It's too bad one side of the Austrian proof coin doesn't look too hot. Looks worse in pictures than in hand though.

 

Here are some animal coins I added to my collection. Tanzania 25 shillings, Turks and Caicos 1 crown and Cyprus 1 pound, which was surprisingly expensive.

 

Really like the Austrian coin, they make some beautiful coins.

 

A few new additions to the Ireland type set

 

Thanks to @lordmarcovan for including this in his December giveaway!

 

Ooh, that 3 pence is a key date as I'm sure you know. I think that was the most expensive of all the Irish coins I got for my set. Nice pickup.

 

Yes, I did. Which is why I didn't hesitate to pay $40 for it. The coin still has mint luster.

 

Austria - 5 Euro 2015