World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

An upgrade shilling I picked up for me today, plus a Crown to add to my selling stock!

 

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This coin is breathtaking in hand (especially the reverse)...

 

My wife got this in change today at out local store. Was mistaken for a US quarter. Found it's way to the middle of nowhere Montana.

 

This tiny coin fills a big hole in my US minted coins from Panama.

1904 Panama 2 1/2 Centesimos. The "Panama Pill"

 

I used to have an NGC graded one of these. Neat little coin.

 

Only 12,000 minted

 

I have one of those also, not as nice as yours and not slabbed.

Got this huge coin today, 40 mm diameter,1972 Sudan 50 quirsh.

 

Not a nice looking piece, but not a common one either. It has the typical characteristic poor strike, corrosion, etc. I lucked out on this because the seller did not spell "Sinkiang" correctly. I found it while randomly browsing through his sale items. At the offer price it should have sold fast, but it sat for quite a while due to the spelling error.

Uighuristan Republic

 

Not too long ago I acquired this little medieval coin as Bertram for a reasonable price, but looking for more info about it, I found it was a much scarcer/rarer piece,Friedrich von Pluvoise AKA Frédéric de Pluvoise. Different spellings.

I couldn't find too many examples of this type, let alone hardly any info on the fellow himself.

I was able to tell it was this person solely due to the curly hair, Bertram lacks it.

So it turned out to be a happy mistake that worked in my favor.


Friedrich von Pluvoise (1171-1173 A.D.)
FRANCE, Provincial
Metz (évêché)
AR Denier
O: FRIDERICS, Bareheaded and draped bust left.
R: (rose) METE[N]SIS, Cross path with central pellet; crescent in second quarter, rosette in third quarter.
.76g
15mm
Robert 1; Boudeau 1623; Roberts 8856

 

1986 Israel 1/2 new sheqel Edmond de Rothschild. One of a batch of 15 Israeli coins I got yesterday.

 

St. Helena

 

12 000 mintage for a country like South Africa isn't a small mintage.
One must remember the U.S. mintages vs world coin mintages are two different things...many Americans judge or think average mint totals for other countries are low...and by America standards they ma seem to be..... but theses countries aren't America.....they are much smaller 3rd world nations.

 

Despite their recent problems, I think South Africa would object to being classified as "third world"!

 

Well in 1952 I say they were....what year did Rhodesia become part of S.A.?

 

Thank you @Paddy54

You just set off a light bulb that I think could be very fruitful.

 

Glad I could help....however I cannot take credit as a former Rhodesian friend named Jono educated me.... Again thinking as to what we know..not what is actual. As he said to me ...Americans don't think in a gobal mind set....they think like Americans....most speak 1 language, most never leave their country.
So they are not in a mind set as many European, or those from other countries.

 

Actually in 1952 South Africa was less "third world" than it is now. A very wealthy country with a strong economy based on Gold, Diamonds and Agriculture. It was a major contributor of resources to the Allied forces in WW2. Recent policies to break up the large farming estates in order to give small packets of land out has undermined the agricultural strength, but mineral wealth is still very strong. Currently listed around 30th in the world based on GDP. If they count as third world then there is very little left for 1st and 2nd world!
Rhodesia, formerly the independent colony of Southern Rhodesia, became Zimbabwe and not part of South Africa.

 

There are 3rd world nations which per person have way more than 4 liters of water per person per day! Try taking a long shower in Johannesburg.

 

I'd always thought that the concept behind "Third World" was that the First World were the Western democracies, the Second World was the communist countries, and the Third World was everyone else. Apparently with the demise of the Soviet Union that definition has shifted now. I don't think there really is a "second world" anymore. It's not a ranking, as it may appear, but just a classification. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World