World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

Little silver denga from the reign of Ivan the Terrible, courtesy of the very generous @lordmarcovan

My first bit of wire money, it's about as cool as the contents of my freezer.

 

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The caption: GRE(AT) IVAN.

 

Thank you. I only recognised IVAN.

 

My latest acquisition = nothing. I think the world postal systems are broken down.

 

I've had so many international customers who bought coins from me sending me messages asking where their coins are. I end up giving a lot of refunds. It's frustrating.

 

Brunswick to Walsall in about a week. That's not broken. Must be your end.

 

Glad you got it all figured out man. While you're at it, how about find my lost shipments of coins? Its the luck of the draw. That plus India has been shut down for a long time now.

 

Sorry...I didn't know you were missing stuff. That sucks.

 

Heck, we all going through some hard times lately, lots of folks are having a much worse time than I am, I know. Sorry if I snapped at you there. The postal system here in Thailand is generally really good and the people are honest. The crooks, I think, are mostly the higher ups in the military, police and politics. Kinda like America that way.

 

First new arrivals for nearly 3 months!
Bavaria 3 and 2 Mark coins 1911:

 

Wow, look at the beard on that guy! Super nice condition too, great silver!

 

Picked up this 1973 Jamaica proof set today. The original case is falling apart and all kinds of blue velvet hairs everywhere. Lucky this seems to be in the original plastic (but coming apart) and probably kept in low humidity. Quick pictures with the phone will try to get individual pics soon.

 

Mexico1944 50c NGC 65

 

I came across a lot of South American coins a week ago. I thought I spotted some good coins in it, and that turned out to be right. The best in the (40$) lot was this one:



I really like it. Makes me want more South American coins. (Here we go again.)

 

When I first got into ancient coins this was one of the first coins I saw on a dealer website that I always wanted. I always liked the bust of Artemis on it and the overall design of the coin.

Fast forward over 10 years later & I saw this added on a Vcoins Store back in April & bought it.

After eyeing them for a decade, it's nice to finally have one.


Macedonia, Roman Protectorate, First Meris, (167 - 148 B.C.)
AR tetradrachm
O: Diademed and draped bust of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder, in the center of a Macedonian shield.
R: MAKEDONWN PRWTHS; Club; monogram above, two monograms below; all within oak wreath, thunderbolt to left.
Amphipolis Mint
16.56g
30mm
SNG Copenhagen 1315 // AMNG 176

 

So here

So here is a better picture of the money coin. I believe this was in the original packaging for 47 years before I just freed it to photograph. Absolutely a rush as I picked it out by the crisp edges. A total bear to photograph. ASW is 1.2336 oz. 45 mm diameter.

 

Razz. Excellent if a bit dark.
I hope you get the Franklin Mint "disease". They have struck some very great coins with lovely designs well executed, and in the case of some of those struck in the early 1980s and various matte versions of 1975 and 1976 being quite scarce to rare.

 

The problem with photographing proofs is over saturation with light...