World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

1912 Ottoman Empire 20 para and 1981 Iraq 1 dinar, came yesterday. Love that Swiss 5 franc. I have been wanting one and have not yet achieved that prize.

 

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George III and Charlotte Marriage Medal. Picked up at a recent CNG auction.

 

That was actually the very first Swiss "commemorative" coin, or coin with an occasion-specific theme and design. The Latin motto means something like "for the fatherland that needs to be protected with weapons" ...

Christian

 

I would be happy to purchuse either from you if/when you grown tired of them.

 

1892 German East Africa 1 paisa

 

Only one coin came today, and it was this dandy Wildman

 

Netherlands 1 Gulden 1967


Switzerland 1/2 Franc 1957-B

 

This was an impulse buy from CNG. Need to do some more research. Images and text from the listing.

Hungary
Béla III
1172-1196
Æ Rézpénz

Diameter 23mm
Weight 1.60 g

Pseudo-Arabic legend on both sides.

Frynas H.15.25; Huszár 73; Réthy 102.

 

Arrived today from the Royal Mint. 2019 Britannia Silver Proof. These keep getting better and better.

Great Britain 2019 Britannia Silver Proof, Mintage 5,200
Special Edition Presentation(which I have) mintage 3,390

 

This one came yesterday, type 91.13

 

Some goodies came today

 

Réz = copper
pénz = money
Based on what is in Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Béla_III_of_Hungary ), Bela was an adopted member of the Constantinople court, where he was named Alexios. Why the coin has Arabic or blundered Arabic inscriptions remains unanswered.

Nice find.

 

Here is a new medieval coin I picked up a few months ago & just now getting around to posting it.


Henry II 1154-1189 A.D.
AR Penny
Short Cross coinage, class Ic.
O: hЄNRICVS R • ЄX, crowned facing bust, holding quatrefoil tipped scepter in right hand.
R: + RΛVL • ON • LVN, voided cross pommée; quatrefoils in angles.
1.03g
20mm
London Mint, 1185-89 A.D
North 964; SCBC 1345

 

I picked up this 1792 Coventry halfpenny for my elephants collection.

 

Purchased these for a project I’m working on.

 

These came yesterday

 

I had one of those Myanmar Kyats in my hands last weekend. it was too shiny. yours looks like one I saw on ebay recently

 

That's where I got it. I agree it is too shiny, and I sometimes wonder if those guys in India are making some of these coins they sell. I examined it carefully for any signs of fakery and can not see any. Same for the 1888 Mombasa coins and the ones from Zanzibar, Ethiopia, Tibet, etc.