World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

622-1781 Princely State of Jaipur 1 paisa. One of the dozen old Indian coins that came recently, and I have ID'ed only 6 of them so far. It is a thick, heavy dump type coin.

 

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I saw this a few years ago and finally bought it today at the Santa Clara show. I love how its struck over an 8 Reales. The date would be above the crown and the only numbers I can see are 181. The bust facing right, is to the left of "9". That's his chin. Now, I would really like to find the one struck over the US bust dollar.

 

I have some coins that have a similar yellow substance on them as your Philippines coin. Do you know what that is?

 

Its came with old 2x2 flip cardboard . i have the similar yellow spots on other silver coin! Nobody knows for sure what causes them

 

1859 Switzerland 20 Rappen

 

Recently picked up these coins as a lot, paid $50 for all the coins shown.

 

I think you did OK. Wonder why those (cobs?) each have 4 holes in them...

 

I'd guess they were used as buttons or something similar.

 

(Referring to the Swiss 20 rappen above)
I love the toning/surface effects of that coin. I think I will try carefully cleaning this old rappen and see what comes out. No way it will be as stunning as yours, I am sure.

 

I finally pulled off a huge want--it's a coin I have my 'coin savings account' for. For me it's a good idea to have one account where I put my truly discretionary funds so when one of the big (for me...huge for some, small potatoes for others) want coins comes around I can buy it. On those rare occasions I actually sell something, well this is where those funds go.

Stacks had this coin in the Hong Kong auction. It's very hard to find this variety in this kind of grade (or any kind of grade if you are US based). The Japanese collectors seem to be skewing heavily towards PCGS so I suspect this played a part in being slightly more 'affordable'.

My photos are not glamour shots, they seem to emphasize the warts on coins while minimizing the nicer bits. This is a pretty luster-y coin, not perfect by any means, but super satisfactory. And I finally got to finish my type I, II, and III graphic without using 'artist renditions'.



And my new graphic. I may have to rethink the arrows, but I was using them to show where the different bits are.

 

eBay wins I’m waiting to receive. The 1923 is a higher grade for the date. Only 5 or so graded higher.

 

2012 Latvia, 1 Lats

 

Well...I wasn't going to deal with coins at all today (the weather is absolutely gorgeous and yard work is calling my name softly and sweetly)...but I sent a text to someone who works at a local coin shop asking if they had anything I'd be interested in. The response:

"Yes! Come in!"

Okay. That's enthusiastic. I'm headed over. I'm also hoping it's not for a couple small pieces of nothing, like it so often is. Or a story about how they "just sold something..."

Nope. Not today.

Get there, and they are very excited to show me a small pile of world silver (which I bought at spot) and a much larger pile of sterling jewelry (which I also bought at spot)

World Silver:



BUT...something else caught my eye immediately.

As soon as it was within arms reach, I told them "And I'll take this, too."



Opened it up to make sure it wasn't empty.

It wasn't empty.

20 Different Cards:



Countries:

Australia
Austria
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Egypt
Finland
Guernsey
Hungary
Iceland
Israel
Luxembourg
Mongolia
New Zealand
Norway
Oman
South Africa
Thailand

"But..." you're saying, "That's only 17 cards. Where are the other three?"

These were the oh-so-sweet cherries on the top of this sundae:



That's one China Proof, one China BU, one USSR Prooflike.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is my Buy Of The Year so far.

So very, very happy.

 

A friend gave me these coins from Kyrgyzstan which he picked up in his recent travels. It seems the denomination of "com" is pronounced "som".

 

Nice buy on the circulated silvers. I always like teens Aus coinage and Cuban.

Are the last three cards valuable on the market? I've been hearing that MS/PL/PF 70's and 80's coins for these countries are very desirable. Is that the reason for your excitement?

 

Looks like it:
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/400240466096

 

Ah - but, just because someone is asking crazy money for something, doesn't mean it is necessarily worth that much. I agree the deal was exceptionally good value - but I can't see a set like that making $750!

 

Me either, and that set may be grossly overvalued, but it's an indication with that many watchers that there is some type of significant interest in it one way or the other.

 

"A thing is worth what you can get for it"

 

If you check the sold listings, there are quite a few examples that have sold for that much (and more.)

Agreed on @coin_nut statement that something is worth what you can get for it. I’ve had a nice Korean half won in AU58 where I see multiple examples selling for more...but mine has gotten zero love (in the form of offers or bids.)