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Another East India Company coin showed up today.

 

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Here's a new pickup for my Hungarian type set:

Hungary 1915KB 10 Fillér
KM-496 (1915-1918) (sort of)*
Iron Planchet



*This is a particularly interesting coin in that it is typically catalogued as a 1915-1920 type, which erroneously implies that its production overlapped a total of five (!) Hungarian governments:

• Franz Joseph I (1867-1916)
• Charles I/IV (1916-1918)
• The First Hungarian Republic (1918-1919)
• The Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)
• Miklós Horthy (1920-1944)

This is just not the case.

In reality, production of this coin entirely happened under Charles I/IV (1916-1918). Except for the planchet composition, the KM-496 iron type is identical to the Franz Joseph 10 fillér nickel-brass type KM-494 (issued 1914-1916). Accordingly, leftover dies for the KM-494 type dated 1915 and 1916 were pressed into use to strike the KM-496 type.

The actual production of the coin did not happen until late 1916 at the earliest though, with most of the issues dated 1915-1916 being struck in 1917 (none are dated 1917). Dies were prepared dated 1918 for the issues of the following year, however.

After 1918, the type was not produced by the two intervening short-lived governments, neither of which were in power long enough to issue circulating coinage. When Miklós Horthy's government came to power in 1920, the type was re-issued for one-year (1920) during the transitional coinage period of 1920-1922. For the above reasons, I consider the issue of 1920 to be a distinct type from the type of 1915-1918.

 

Roman Empire.
Gallienus (253-268) and Constantine I the Great (306-337).

 

UK - 1869 Halfpenny



Well worn and was cleaned at one point, but a less common date.

 

Mintage of only 2,000

 

Mighty purdy!

 

Picked this up yesterday at my LCS.

The owner of my LCS was sorting through some of these when I walked in yesterday. We didn't have any coins from this time period so I picked this one out. I asked him not to tell me what it was as I wanted to figure it out myself. Did I get it right?

 

Basically. You missed the mint mark.

The full attribution is:
Hungary AR Denár (Ferdinánd I)
ÉH-748 (1559-1565)
1561KB

 

Thanks! Added the info to my files.

 

Not new purchases. But just got these back. Sorry for the bad photos. Just took them quick.

 

The latest addition to my English side collection is a Groat of Henry VI.


Henry VI (1422 - 1461 A.D.)
AR Groat
O: +HENRIC DI GRA REX ANGL Z FRANC / Crowned bust facing, with annulet on each side of neck.
R: +POSVI DEVM ADIVTORE MEVM VILLA CALISIE / Long cross with three pellets in each angle, annulet in two quarters and after POSVI.
Annulet issue. Calais mint; im: pierced cross 2. Struck 1422-1427.
3.72g
27mm
North 1424; SCBC 1836

 

My first piece from Scotland.

Charles I 1625-1649 XX (Twenty) Pence
AR XX (Twenty) Pence 16mm. 0.68g. Edinburgh mint Falconer's Anonymous issue, 1637-1642

Crowned bust left, denomination behind the head.
CAR. D.G. SCOT. ANG. FR. & HIB. R

Crowned thistle.
IVST. THRONVM. FIRMAT.

S. 5591

 

Nice find!

 

A new addition to my collection of "Central Asia" tengas. This one is from Bukhara. I like the teardrop form.

 

A friend passed through Japan last week and brought me some pocket change.

 

A couple of serious additions to my own collection.
Edward the Elder Penny, 899 to 924 AD, moneyer is Grimwald of London, Ref S1087.

.. and an upgrade - Henry II Penny S1344 by Walter of Northampton:

 

PCGS PR66

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What does the flip side of the Chinese coin look like? And any idea of what the words say?

 

It is uniface. These were just about the last of the "cash" type coins issued in Vietnam. This type was cast and struck. There are two different types of the struck coin. I have been looking for a nice example of this struck type with little luck. This one came in a cheap lot with a bunch of nice coins. The title is “Khai Dinh Thong Bao" and it was struck 1916 - 1925. KM# 656.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khải_Định

This is the other struck type