World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

This arrived today. Very nice looking coin in hand.

 

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This one arrived today.I soaked it in acetone for a bit and it looks much better. Unfortunately my USB scope is no longer working so I can't do a before / after.

 

Picked up a cool bank of Canada token...




This is a emergency issue from German East Africa during WWI, I guess they were minted using shell casings and other scrap metal. Mine is made of brass, I bet it was shell casing..neat!

 

A couple of new moderns...

1974 Samoa, Tala, Proof
Mintage 11,000




1970 Guinea, 500 Francs, Proof
Mintage 1,900

 

Acquisition as in "Dug out of a box of coins my mom collected in early travels"

1868 5 Franc! Beautifully designed coin I think! This one has some damage so not worth over melt I suspect, but still pretty

 

Also found

1890 8 Reales

Again not worth much beside melt, but also a very pretty coin, design wise

 

Heck, those are OK coins with a little honest wear and use on them. Every coin does not have to be UNC MS## and all that to be desirable and collectible. Being over 100 years old means something to me. Talking about the coins, not myself.

 

I agree - I would never send them to the melt pot Im not sure where I will focus coin collecting yet but Im happy to have them!

 

This coin may worth more than melt value.
France 1868-A, 5 francs, KM#799.1, .900 silver, mintage-6,834,000
grade/value
F-$10.00 VF-$20.00 XF-$90.00 UNC-$275.00
these values are from my 2004 Krause world coin catalog. I am certain the values are higher now...just not sure how much higher ?
I would guess your coins grade is in between VF-XF.
wait for more experienced opinions...

 

This coin may be worth more than melt value.
Mexico, 1890-Z, Z=Zacatecas mint, KM#377.13, .903 silver, mintage-3,887,000
grade/value
F-$10.00 VF-$12.00 XF-$20.00 UNC-$65.00
these values are from my 2004 Krause world coin catalog. I am certain the values are higher now...just not sure how much higher ?
I am guess this coins grade is XF ?
wait for more experienced opinions...

 

Nicaragua. I like this old-fashion desiign.

 

Mexico 1744/3Mo M Real
Graded NGC AU Details - Cleaned
Nice, clear overdate.

Obverse Legend: PHS • V • D • G • HISP • ET • IND • R

Ruler: Philip V
Note: Mint mark M, Mo.

Composition: Silver
Fineness: 0.9170
Weight: 3.3834g

 

Just received this one as an upgrade to my Half Crown collection. Not the best coin ever but an improvement on the previous space holder!

 

... and here is a little "accidental" addition to my stock: Gun Money Shilling from James II abortive Irish expedition. Dated Jan 1689 but was almost certainly struck in Jan 1690. (He only got started in Jul 1689 and the first ones issued with a 1690 date are for March.)

 

At the time they used a different calendar so anything dated January of 1689 would have actually been what we would consider 1690. At the time they weren't changing the year in January. I picked this up from the recently published book on Gunmoney.

 

Yes - I rather assumed that was what was going on. Looking at the lists of possible Gun money dates, two other interesting things emerge:
- There are coins for the month of March with both 1689 and 1690 years, though these must all have been made in what we would think of as 1690. I can see in the notes in the Coincraft book that the change over to the new year was probably on the 25th March.
- Some of the coins have a number instead of a month and for these month 8 is October, month 9 is November and month 10 is December. This again fits with the change over to the new year being in March and also coincides with the Roman numbering of the months.

 

I couldn't pull the date from my memory but March 25th is it.

 

Nice set of 1930 Panama Balboa coins

 

Thank you! What isnt obvious in the pics is that the edge is pretty chewed up - Not sure how that effects grading but I hear edge damage basically kills the grade.