World Coins: Your Newest Acquisition!

My UG degree is in history so of course I decided to find a book on Talers. I found one that covers the years from 1600-1700 and it wasn't inexpensive. It was written by John S Davenport and it looks to be very informative.

 

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You started with the most expensive Davenport book. The rest will be more reasonable and just as informative.

 

St. Saviour's school in Britain renovated their building in 1839 and updated their prize medal with a new reverse.



NGC noticed a few too many hairlines, so "Unc Details".

 

What a fabulous medal @yarm , I've not seen one before but the detail is extraordinary.
I wouldn't worry too much about NGC. The way they splash out details comments there will come a day when they will state "Details - coin once touched by human hands".
I have what I consider to be an outstanding hammered milled Charles 1 sixpence with some great toning and I was able to buy it relatively inexpensively from Stacks and Bowers because of the NGC details comment "cleaned". Of course it was it is 380 years old and came out of the ground! Had this been a raw coin it may have been outside of my budget. The details comment fortunately and probably put many off.
Fortunately I am not influenced by such comments and buy the coin not the plastic. I'll post this coin when I have time.

 

Here's a new one for my turtles collection. 2024 Cayman Islands 1 dollar.

 

Kingdom of Nepal Gold Tola of Prithvi Bir Bikram from 1903:

 

Many moons ago I was involved in an apiary. We had over 1200 hives and every winter we would take some of them from Utica NY to South Carolina. Our base was in a little town called Jedburg. The reason for taking the hives south was to split them a few times and take about three times as many hives back north where they were ready to go to work. We placed hives in the Frances Marion Forest so that we could get a crop of Tupelo honey. The rest of the hives were scattered around Westvaco lands and swamps (we had keys to the gates). Sundays were always special as we would go to Edisto beach, pick up a bushel of cull oysters on the way home and have an oyster roast with the beer that we had purchased the day before. We had to stay in Monks Corner for a little while and that is where I learned to love she crab soup, a true southern delicacy.


This a French Jeton. I do not collect them per se but I do collect 18th and 19th century coins and tokens that depict beehives. MS-63

 

Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Silver 6 Groszy of Jan III Sobieski (minted in Bydgoszcz on the 6th of July 1683):

 

Ukraine Gold 2 Hryvni (minted in Kyiv in 2005):

 

Queen Anne appointed her husband, Prince George, Lord High Admiral in 1702.
J. Croker, 42mm.



I didn't notice an "edge filing" on this medal but figured I'd take a closer look when I received the slab! Where are those prongs when you need them?

 

Roman Silver Denarius of Elagabalus (minted in Rome in either 219 or 220):

 

Roman Silver Denarius of Julia Maesa (minted in Rome sometime between 218 and 222):

 

Belarus Gold 50 Roubles (minted in Warsaw, Poland in 2006):

 

A nice recent buy at a local antiques shop for $80. 1732 A France Ecu. And I’m sure it’s genuine.

 

New one for my collection. Never seen one of these before

 

Completely forgot I picked this up at work

 

Now i'm going to have to find out if it's genuine or a brilliant fake.

Mintmark HI = There is no mention of mintmaster Nicolay Iossa pre-1848




Opinions are welcome

 

On the side with the double headed eagle, on a 25 kopecks piece, the number on the left should be 5 1/2, not 10 1/2 ( which would make this a Poltina). It looks a though you have a mismatch of obverse and reverse between two different denominations. So you have a weight on the piece?

 

Kushan Gold Dinar of Vasishka (minted sometime between 247 and 265):