World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

Seller's pics, but much better than I can do. A tiny Swedish piece at 14mm.

 

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New coin catchup time! Coins I bought since I last posted here:

Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1 gulden 1954. The first postwar silver gulden.


Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1 gulden 1967. The last postwar silver gulden before switching to nickel. Nickel guldens of this date also exist.

Kingdom of the Netherlands, 2.5 gulden 1959. The first postwar silver rijksdaalder.

Kingdom of the Netherlands, 2.5 gulden 1960.


Kingdom of the Netherlands, 2.5 gulden 1966. The last silver postwar rijksdaalder.


Netherlands Antilles, 1 gulden 1963. Unlike the Dutch ones, these were struck to the specifications of the prewar guldens (10 grams, 28 mm as opposed to the Dutch ones at 6.5 grams and 25 mm). They kept the prewar coat of arms as well.


Netherlands Antilles (then still called Curaçao after the largest island), 1/10 gulden 1947. These continued to be minted in .640 silver up to 1970 whereas Dutch postwar ones were nickel from the outset.

Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1 gulden 2001. A special final farewell to the gulden before the adoption of the euro, minted in .925 silver rather than the customary nickel.


There's more, but they'll have to wait until tomorrow. It's 2 am over here and I'm knackered!

 

Love all those coins from der Nederlanden, and I have a ton of them also. No new ones lately tho, I remain hooked on my ancient and medieval stuff from India. Let me find a recent one...Malwa Sultans, Mahmud Shah II, AE 1/2 falus, AH 923 c.1510-1531 AD.

 

New coin catchup part two as promised!

Dutch Republic, province of Gelderland (Guelders), 1 duit 1786


Dutch Republic, province of Gelderland (Guelders), 1 duit 1794


Dutch Republic, province of Overijssel, 1 duit 1766. This type was struck to celebrate William V, prince of Orange being appointed stadtholder and has a tiny portrait of him below the date. His son would become king William I in 1815.


Dutch Republic, province of Zeeland, 1 duit 1776.


I got an Almohad dirham just for the heck of it. It's old, square, cute and small and cheap, so what's not to like?


City of Tuticorin (Thoothukudi), Dutch rule, gold fanam


I won some Italian common coins in an ebay auction just because I like the designs:

Kingdom of Italy, 5 centesimi 1925


Kingdom of Italy, 10 centesimi 1921


As well as some coins from Cyprus, for the same reason:

Cyprus, 3 mils 1955


Cyprus, 5 mils 1956

 

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Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1/2 cent 1917


Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1 gulden 1865. The camera pics don't really do it justice, the pics I took with my phone show the lustre much better.



And last but not least, I managed to get my grubby hands on the last type of affordable (to me!) gold 10 gulden coin that was still missing from my collection:

Kingdom of the Netherlands, 10 gulden 1898 (mintage 99,239)

 

Really nice lot of coins from the low countries there. I keep getting more and more from India. I like Kutch a lot, and this big AE 3 dokda ticked my fancy. VS1944/AD1888, Kutch-Bhuj. 19.34 grams, 32 mm

 

Just acquired last week or so. These are Ecudaorian Two Hills 4 reals, the largest denomination of the type made. I already had the 1841 so these two give me a complete date set of this 4 reales type. Unfortunately, they're both circulated but actually quite high grade.

This is the Republic of Ecuador's 1st coin design.
Known as the "Two Hills Design" it was issued on the 1/2 - 2 reales starting in 1833.

Due to the large number of counterfeit "Two Hills" 2 reales, their production was halted on 11 Oct, 1841. All of the other 2 Hills minors were also discontinued. The 4 reales of this design was then authorized on Nov 2nd, 1841 to remove them from circulation. Mintage commenced on 30 Nov and to discourage counterfeiting the 4R's had a very crude raised lettered edge: "MORAL INDUSTRIA". Fineness = .666 silver, 13.3 gr.

They were well received by the public and were issued 1841 thru 1843.


Ecuador Two Hills 4 reals, 1842, NGC AU-53.


Ecuador Two Hills 4 reals, 1843, NGC AU-55.

"For some time everyone has complained that no money circulates in this place other than counterfeit. The green and red pesetas [a peseta is the Spanish equivalent of 2 reales] which appear to have been made of old copper which has been used for the lining of ships are those which go into and come out of the Treasury, with which employees' salaries are paid, with which the government liquidates its debts,... with which merchants settle their accounts" Correo Semanal de Guayaquil, 24 Oct, 1841.

This coin is also a Moneda Feble issue.

 

Just arrived today. Always have a soft spot for Victoria

 

Finally got me a big silver 1 yen. Meiji 27 (1894)

 

Here are a couple recent ones for me.
I've always wanted one of those big, silver Napoleonic 5 franc coins. Just recently I managed to acquire one for a decent price:



Also, a nice colonial-era George II half-penny - for 7 euros, why not -

 

Now I have two of these 1903 Portuguese India uma rupia coins.

 

Coronation coin….

 

Two coins won at Frank Robinson's latest auction, both Italian states issues: Emilia (Tuscany) 1860 1 lira, and Sardinia 1794 20 soldi. The 1860 piece is especially interesting as a transitional coin; the Kingdom of Italy was declared in 1861, and this coin lists Victor Emmanuel as "King-elect" (not a title you hear every day!) and the denomination on the reverse is "one Italian lira" (instead of just one local lira).

 

I’ve been wanting a Victoria crown for a long time and this just came in the mail today (seller’s photos). Not beat up and/or cleaned like most of them are and still didn’t break the bank. It looks even better in hand.

 

Bought yesterday for $31 for my world type set.

2023 Silver Britannia

 

The other day I posted this 1841 2 annas





Then I saw that there is a 2nd variety so I just received this version

 

Another AE jital, King Mahipala Deva, Tomar-Rajput Dynasties. c.988-1038 AD

 

Picked this up at a local coin show, Argentina 1813 8 Reales Provincias del Rio de la Plata. I really love the design of this coin.