World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

Beautiful! Always found this attractive. Especially so in such nice grades. Cheers!

 

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Found this set while cleaning out my Dads house.

 

Very nice

 

Go this from a friend of mine. A bit worn but a nice coin and very much appreciated.

 

I also got these two for my collection.

 

A host of world coins that I picked from many foreign coin boxes today at the Gallatin, TN coin show.

 

Score! You got some nice ones there! I got a kilo of mixed world coins about a week ago and I am still slowly working my way through them, sorting out the culls, the new additions, and the upgrades. Taking pix, cropping, updating spreadsheets, moving pix, adding some and removing some. It gets complicated, my home made inventory system. I do keep plenty of backup. Here are some which are still in the process.

 

Well, this blew my budget for a bit, but it was worth it. A complete major denomination set of Hungarian 1992 business strike patterns.

50 pieces were struck of each of these patterns with a business strike finish. The Hungarian Mint auctioned off most of the sets they had retained (along with other modern patterns) in 2001, retaining 4 sets for national museums and archives.

These are patterns of what I would consider to be the first ultra-modern Hungarian coins. These types are also special to me, since they were the types in use when I was first able to make a trip to Hungary in 1996. I could not visit earlier as my mother was considered a political criminal for fleeing the country through her contacts in the Vatican in the mid 70s, but by the mid 90s her record had been expunged.

Hungary 1992BP Circulating Business Strike Patterns
1 Forint Nickel-Brass (smooth edge) KM-692p
2 Forint Copper-Nickel KM-693p
5 Forint Nickel-Brass KM-694p
10 Forint Copper-Nickel KM-695p
20 Forint Nickel-Brass KM-696p
50 Forint Copper-Nickel KM-697p
100 Forint Nickel-Brass KM-698p

 

As I often say, "Its only money".

 

Those are awesome. That's one of my favorite current series.

 

Picked these up today and was thrilled to get them. Adding to the "Eclectic-ness" of my collection @lordmarcovan
Each is either pretty due to design/appeal or is historically interesting for some reason or is scarce. I believe the condition of the 96 Stivers is unusual and that these are quite rare in this condition. I also think that the 1915 Provisional Government Centavo is fairly scarce. Some of the others are just cool in my opinion.

 

Acquisitions have been a little slow recently but I did pick up this one.




BRANDENBURG-BAYREUTH 1735 ILR

Mint Official: Johann Lorenz Ruckdeschel

Obverse: Inscription
Reverse: Dove flying towards the sun at left, globe at right

Subject: Death of Georg Friedrich Karl
Ruler: Friedrich

Composition: Silver
Weight: 2.9gr
Diameter: 27mm

 

This 1913 silver 3 mark coin from Prussia in Germany commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig, a major battle that started the downfall of Napoleon. (Prussia was a major combatant against Napoleon in the battle.)

 

Here's proof you cant throw anything away. I found this in a bag of "junk" coins I bought recently. A zorkmid was given with a video game called Zork in 1987. Apparently there is some sort of interest in these online. An internet search shows people paying over $100 for one.

 

Yes! I have one of these as well. The game version that it came with is a tough one to find nowadays.