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Essequebo and Demerary ½ stiver, KM#9.



Auction house pictures.

 

Great pickups. Siege of Vienna piece used to be mine - wonderful look to it, enjoy!

 

My plan to dominate the world of bear numismatics comes one step closer to fruition with this Greenland 10 ore.

 

Here is bear from my collection
Swiss Cantons/ Bern
AV Dukat 1794 Bern Mint

 

Very nice. That one's a bit out of my price range for now at least.

 

Some of my latest back. A key date Aussie half sovereign. Everyone who says the small guy can't get a 70 are wrong! Only the third proof 2 cent in 70. The German 3 mark I picked out of a silver junk bin.

 

Well then, if you haven't already got one you'll be needing a Walsall (my home town) penny, Bear and Ragged Staff.

 

Here is another one of my 'bears"
AV Doppelduplone 1793 Bern Mint
Bern

 

German States - Hannover 1818 3 Mariengroschen

Common coin in an uncommon condition. I don't believe I have ever seen one struck this nicely.

 

That Saxony 3 Mark is particularly sweet. Hard to believe it was in a junk bin.

 

I do have one and I was quite happy to find it. Yours is in nicer condition than mine though. If you're curious, here's a website showing all my bear coins. https://coinswithbears.wordpress.com/portfolio/bear-coins/

 

that's a lot of bears and turtles!

 

Yeah, gotta have something to focus on. I was thinking of going after elephants too but there's way too much bullion and silver commemoratives from Africa. I'd need to set some kind of parameters.

 

My oldest coin with an animal is this
AV 1/12 Stater ND Lydia Sardes Mint/King Kroisos circa 550 BC
Lion/ Bull

 

Good work! You're right - mine is in better condition. But mine's a Withers 1147 (C - common), whilst yours appears to be Withers 1148 (RR - very rare). Make of that what you will. There's a halfpenny too, if such completionism is important to you (I'm guessing you know this already). I don't have one. Yet.

 

He had it listed just over melt. I pointed it out to him. But he felt like the color was AT. Which it really wasn't. I'm really happy with that one.

 

I need to find more dealers like that.

 

I didn't know there was a halfpenny. I'll have to keep an eye out for it. What's the difference between the two penny types?

 

There are 7 varieties listed in Withers. I've scanned the relevant pages which I can forward to you if you PM me an email address?