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Is that North Korea?

 

Yes it is

 

Got these 1800s Chinese gaming tokens.

Cool, I don’t really collect them though so will hopefully be able to trade them for something!

 

Two new Dutch 18h century coins arrived this week. Both are silver 1 stuiver coins, nicknamed broom stuivers for obvious reasons. I like to call these coins silver fingernails: they're usually about 16 to 17 mm in diameter, weigh around .75 to .8 grams and they're very thin. These are no exception. First up is a 1769 example from the province of Overijssel, or Transisalania as it was then called in modern Latin:



And next, an example from the province of Zeeland from 1738:

 

I am pretty sure these are for Xiangqi or Chinese Chess. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiangqi

 

From Richard Ponterio.

 

Ludwig II (Bavaria), this one also from Rick Ponterio. An inexpensive souvenir as it turns out. We visited Linderhof last summer, Ludwig II's palace, but aside from a few post cards skipped the gift shop figuring I would eventually find a far more suitable coin to remember the place by instead. Struck to commemorate victory in the Franco-Prussian War. A generally available coin costing less than $100 even in mint state, and with a pretty good design.

 

I picked up this interesting notgeld coin the other day. There's a whole lot going on on here! "Goldmark" used as an acronym, Bismark getting ready to take a nap, a French president as the devil, references to Wilson "14 points", the French occupation of the Ruhr, the date of the Beer Hall Putsch, and verses from an ancient Hebrew text (ironic hu?). Here is a write up of the coin if interested...

http://www.cachecoins.org/bielefeld02.htm

 

Err, what? Our date format is simply "ascending" (day-month-year), so 11.8. is the eleventh of August. The Hitler-Ludendorff coup was on 11/8 and thus about three months later. The date on that medal refers to when Germany stopped the reparation payments. (Edit - "stopped" is not quite right; there was a call to stop them, and on that day the British government criticized the Belgian-French position regarding the reparation and Ruhr occupation.) Also see this earlier topic: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/german-notgeld-1-goldmark-from-bielefeld.290359/

Christian

 

Acquired some nice Victoria silver yesterday, a bit tarnished and that's OK.

 

Oh I see, well I feel a bit silly. Thanks.

 

Heck, we all learn things on here. That is one of the best things about this forum. Fortunately, most members are polite in pointing out certain enlightening tidbits of information. No need to feel silly. You should see some of the errors I have made in coin identification and stories! Right here for the world to see, also.

 

Got these 4 for just over $20 each. They cleaned up quite nice after soaking but I haven't taken new pictures.

 

The confusion works both ways. When I see a date such as "7/1", I will almost automatically assume that is 7 January. Later I learned that date formats can be different. Similarly, I had to get used to the fact that in Hungarian for example the family name usually comes first, also on coins. We live and keep learning.

Christian

 

Got this yesterday from a friend, this is one of a group of 8 really nice Polish coins.