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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;princeofwaldo, post: 25249959, member: 24091&quot;]Some 35 years after I began, I finally completed my Fuad/Farouk gold date set.&nbsp; In total, there are (16) coins in the set, including 1929 and 1930 dated Fuad left coins (1932 instead of 1930 for the second Fuad left 500 Piastres).</p><p><br /></p><p>For the less ambitious, the type set comprising just (12) coins would likely include only the 1930 &amp; 1932 dated Fuad left coins since they are so much easier to find than the 1929 dates.</p><p><br /></p><p>The nicest coin the set is the Farouk 500 Piastres in NGC PF66-Cameo.&nbsp; The lowest grade is the 1929 Egypt 50 Piastres in NGC MS61 which comes close to PL and is very conservatively graded.&nbsp; It was the last coin I needed, and it arrived in the mail yesterday from a medals dealer in Tallinn, Estonia.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve included the 1930 coin as well since it was received the day before from a dealer in Ohio.&nbsp; Again, close to PL, maybe even more so than the 1929 piece but without the designation.&nbsp; In any case, both coins superior for the grade but priced in-line with the assigned grade.</p><p><br /></p><p>These have gone up a lot in the last few years, but are still less than $1,000 in the lower mint state grades.&nbsp; There are other much more common coins from the same era (Czechoslovakia &amp; Poland immediately comes to mind) that have gone up much-much more for coins that are far more common.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were recent examples of both these sold at Heritage in MS64 that soared past $1,500 each.&nbsp; I was outbid on both, then immediately went to eBay to acquire these lower graded coins at steep discounts to the MS64 examples. The MS61 coin from Estonia was only $638 on a best offer. The Heritage coins were marginally nicer, but the coins are scarce enough (mintage of 6,000 and 10,000) that anything mint state is going to be pretty hard to find, and these were a nice compromise between price and quality in my opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1610161[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1610162[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1610164[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1610166[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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