I don't have anything to add, but amazed no one has started a new thread yet and its June 4th!
Show your new items here!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
37 banknotes and a handful of common coin types I didn’t have before bought from Saint-Ouen. Don’t worry the copper U.K. penny is from Change when I was in the U.K. and the US cent was found on the floor on the top of the Montparnasse Tower in Paris.
Plus a 2022 mint set, Silver 10 Euro and various medals such as the one for the mint, Solidarity for Ukraine and a Olympic handover ¼ Euro coin, Bought from Monnaie de Paris
Finally I’ve been collecting all the different types of Euro coins from change and rolls.
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37 banknotes and a handful of common coin types I didn’t have before bought from Saint-Ouen. Don’t worry the copper U.K. penny is from Change when I was in the U.K. and the US cent was found on the floor on the top of the Montparnasse Tower in Paris.
Plus a 2022 mint set, Silver 10 Euro and various medals such as the one for the mint, Solidarity for Ukraine and a Olympic handover ¼ Euro coin, Bought from Monnaie de Paris
Finally I’ve been collecting all the different types of Euro coins from change and rolls.
Latest purchase was a bit of an impulse buy. Vol I and II of “ Humphrey’s coin collectors manual”, dated 1853, former property of Henry Preston of Grantham, UK, and what looks like David Bowen.
Vol II is a bit fragile (spine coming away from cover, but vol I in reasonable condition and some great printed plates.
Latest purchase was a bit of an impulse buy. Vol I and II of “ Humphrey’s coin collectors manual”, dated 1853, former property of Henry Preston of Grantham, UK, and what looks like David Bowen.
Vol II is a bit fragile (spine coming away from cover, but vol I in reasonable condition and some great printed plates.
37 banknotes and a handful of common coin types I didn’t have before bought from Saint-Ouen. Don’t worry the copper U.K. penny is from Change when I was in the U.K. and the US cent was found on the floor on the top of the Montparnasse Tower in Paris.
Plus a 2022 mint set, Silver 10 Euro and various medals such as the one for the mint, Solidarity for Ukraine and a Olympic handover ¼ Euro coin, Bought from Monnaie de Paris
Finally I’ve been collecting all the different types of Euro coins from change and rolls.
That World Cup 1982 ‘25 Pesetas’ coin😎👌
Thanks. 😄 Better photos coming soon.
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A thin bit of Ottoman silver and pretty far gone. Yirmilik (20 para) 1223 // I think year 31 , 1837
Here is a fine big piece of Silver from Monaco, this is not a rare or even very interesting coin, I have several examples, but it is amusing that it was a gift to participants of an obviously prestigious annual Insurance industry smooze, the Rendez-Vous de Setembre, in a pretty little red case. That event is still happening, but I was unable to find out how much it cost to register - well up in four figures, I imagine.
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
This just arrived, reverse a bit better than the obverse.
Very nice and rare, 1st year florins above Fine are very rare - I would say your coin is EF or darn close. Mine is only gVG!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Which begs the question. Which is the LAST hammered coin produced?
I think I read it here or on the Coin Community Family Forums, but it was some locally made coin from an Indian Feudatory state from the 1930s and some Yemeni tribal coins of similar date.
Peter, love the Japanese silver pieces and the Portuguese Guine 2$50 coin, I have that set for Mozambique from 20 centavos to 20 Escudos.
Camerinvs - Love the overstruck token and crown!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
i got this among other additions , but posted it for two reasons
one realised that Luzern 3 Kreuzer has about 20 varieties listed for this coin for single year and then when you go to next year there are also as many varieties and was wondering how the folks would find out of it was really a valid coin 😄
while on topic I would grateful if some of you also feel that this one is variety 91e, if I am wrong in identifying please be so kind and mention it as well
thanks and wishing the community vast additions and great fun in your collections
Yes. You are right! The left most in the middle row are a Hejaz coin. And the photo has 14 coins of 11 different Switzerland Cantons @
I recognized immediately the Hejaz coin, and I pointed another “impostor” because you initially said 13 swiss coins (they're not my speciality). Looks like I fell for your trick, but finding that impostor was fun.
1888 British shilling, sea stained and corroded, another coin from the Elingamite which sank in 1902 and coins were salvaged after 1965. That's right, this coin spent at least 65 years on the sea floor being guarded by Octopi, the Kraken and Davy Jones 🤣
German 5 Euro climate coins - more of them, this time 2020 and 2021 A mint mark coins (Berlin?) sent by my German friend.
I now have 19 of the 25 different coins (5 designs, each with 5 mintmarks).
Canadian Pride dollar (Standard finish), the coin celebrates Equality and gay pride, a coin that means a lot to my gay self.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Also these Australian $1 Alphabet coins (Not best shots sorry).
They are in alphabetical order.
2021 Second series
2022 Third series
Photos from coin club evening and it was dark, because June in Auckland has 5.10pm sunsets and this was like 8.30pm!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
2 more new shillings arrived today, direct from the early Victorian era.
1839 Shilling, incredibly my first pre 1840 Victorian coin, average VG - GVG condition
1864, harshly cleaned in past, but definitely near Fine condition. This is also a die number coin and the die is 40.
These are found on shillings from 1863 to 1879 and were to test die wear on multiple strikings (On average 3 - 7 million shillings were minted each year).
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
My finds from a local antiques fair a few days ago.
These ones came from a coin collectors stand and most of them were reasonably priced apart from the proof sets which in my opinion were overpriced.
My favourite find is the 1994 Canadian Maple leaf which (after some negotiations) I paid £30 for it but I was shocked when he decided to give the other coins (below) for free! (I assume he wanted to give me more due to me being one of the youngest customers on that day)🙂
Also after I paid and was thanking him for letting me take my time and just before I was leaving he gave me a 1933 sixpence for free.
Next I went to a stand that specialises in precious metals and they did have a few gold jewellery and coins on display (mostly sovereigns minted in the last 10 years or so) but I was more focused on the two massive trays jam packed full of junk silver coins, small bars, jewellery, silverware etc nearly a foot deep.
There was many different coins (from all over the world in there ranging from worn George III to Victoria disks to AU George V half crowns and modern silver proof coins in capsules and loose. So I bought just a 1910 Florin, however I was tempted by a 2018 Britannia 1oz coin but I decided to buy the Maple leaf because I liked it and due to the coin being loose it did receive scratches due to customers constantly moving the tray and the items inside. Anyway I bought this for £8.
This Swiss 20 Rappen was priced at £7-8 but I managed to get it down to £5 but after a while the card machine was playing up so I resorted to cash but I was 40pish short so after a discussion the guy gave in and accepted it.
Finally at the last stand I saw my first A-Z 10ps in my nearly 3 years of looking for them in circulation , so I bought a few all from 2018 due to 2019 being nearly impossible to find.
On Wednesday our business group hosted a plant sale (as part of our work) to raise awareness of the charities we have chosen to talk about, and after the sale the tutor they gave me the role of counting and bagging all the coins up ready to be dropped of at the bank. These are my finds and don’t worry I replaced them with standard coins to fill in the value.
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My favourite find is the 1994 Canadian Maple leaf which (after some negotiations) I paid £30 for it but I was shocked when he decided to give the other coins (below) for free! (I assume he wanted to give me more due to me being one of the youngest customers on that day)🙂
- I don't mean to be a “kill-joy” but it sounds as if the seller felt a bit guilty for selling the Maple Leaf for such a steep price. I bought a few for about a ¼ of what you paid a couple years ago (now I know silver has gone up in value but I bought these on a very dodgy auction site notorious for shill bidding).
One of the first shows I attended, I had this dealer show me a mismatched serial number & quote me a price that was astronomically out of range (or typical of an UNC example). I told him he was “full of crap” (diplomatically) and I would buy it from him for about 1/20th of the price he quoted. We sat & haggled for about 15-20 minutes & we finally came down to a more realistic price but even now I know I probably overpaid (by just being sucked into this guy's vortex/sale's pitch) since the note is “Fine” at best. I now wish I had just walked on (& this is one of the reasons I'm still not a big fan of shows). And shows are typically less dodgy than flea markets or "fairs."
Its been a while since I posted a new coin, even though, I purchased a few in the past few weeks. I have substantially reduced the number of coins I purchase as I have pivoted to one of my other hobbies, but here is a nice coin from the Maharathis of Tungabhadra. They were one of the earliest rulers in the Indian Deccan after the fall of the Mauryan Empire. The Maharathis were local administrators of the Mauryan Empire and thus they eventually flexed their muscles and were somewhat autonomous after the fall of the empire and started issuing their own coins.
Maharathis of Tungabhadra: Sivakuhana (ca. 1st century CE) Pb Unit (Pieper-2163)
Its been a while since I posted a new coin, even though, I purchased a few in the past few weeks. I have substantially reduced the number of coins I purchase as I have pivoted to one of my other hobbies, but here is a nice coin from the Maharathis of Tungabhadra. They were one of the earliest rulers in the Indian Deccan after the fall of the Mauryan Empire. The Maharathis were local administrators of the Mauryan Empire and thus they eventually flexed their muscles and were somewhat autonomous after the fall of the empire and started issuing their own coins.
Maharathis of Tungabhadra: Sivakuhana (ca. 1st century CE) Pb Unit (Pieper-2163)
My favourite find is the 1994 Canadian Maple leaf which (after some negotiations) I paid £30 for it but I was shocked when he decided to give the other coins (below) for free! (I assume he wanted to give me more due to me being one of the youngest customers on that day)🙂
- I don't mean to be a “kill-joy” but it sounds as if the seller felt a bit guilty for selling the Maple Leaf for such a steep price. I bought a few for about a ¼ of what you paid a couple years ago (now I know silver has gone up in value but I bought these on a very dodgy auction site notorious for shill bidding).
One of the first shows I attended, I had this dealer show me a mismatched serial number & quote me a price that was astronomically out of range (or typical of an UNC example). I told him he was “full of crap” (diplomatically) and I would buy it from him for about 1/20th of the price he quoted. We sat & haggled for about 15-20 minutes & we finally came down to a more realistic price but even now I know I probably overpaid (by just being sucked into this guy's vortex/sale's pitch) since the note is “Fine” at best. I now wish I had just walked on (& this is one of the reasons I'm still not a big fan of shows). And shows are typically less dodgy than flea markets or "fairs."
Good story,
When I was at the fair looking at coins that peaked my interests and after seeing the listed price I usually research the coins or notes on Numista and Ebay to see the average price they are selling. That’s why I tend to avoid Ancients, Indian states, older Asian currencies and notgeld unless it’s from reputable dealers because I would spend ages identifying them because they could have mislabelled it.
I‘ve just checked the past sales on Ebay of 1994 Maples leafs and from what I’ve seen in Europe they sell for more than what they do in the US and Canada.
For example I’ve seen 1994 maple leafs in the Americas sell as low as £17 and some as high as £35. But averagely they sell in the early to mid twenties. For Europe most 94 maples sell around the late twenties to the late thirties but I have seen one get sold for £25 and the priciest in the early forties but I did see one go for over £50.
Crazy times we live in.🙂
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
Its been a while since I posted a new coin, even though, I purchased a few in the past few weeks. I have substantially reduced the number of coins I purchase as I have pivoted to one of my other hobbies, but here is a nice coin from the Maharathis of Tungabhadra. They were one of the earliest rulers in the Indian Deccan after the fall of the Mauryan Empire. The Maharathis were local administrators of the Mauryan Empire and thus they eventually flexed their muscles and were somewhat autonomous after the fall of the empire and started issuing their own coins.
Maharathis of Tungabhadra: Sivakuhana (ca. 1st century CE) Pb Unit (Pieper-2163)
Interesting coin. Do we have this issuer here on the catalog?
Highly doubt it. While I commend Numista for arranging a catalog for coins, its just not possible to create one across every country/kingdom across time. There are too many weak sections on Numista during the Medieval and Ancient time periods. There are other sites that cater to some of these areas better…
When I was at the fair looking at coins that peaked my interests and after seeing the listed price I usually research the coins or notes on Numista and Ebay to see the average price they are selling. That’s why I tend to avoid Ancients, Indian states, older Asian currencies and notgeld unless it’s from reputable dealers because I would spend ages identifying them because they could have mislabelled it.
I‘ve just checked the past sales on Ebay of 1994 Maples leafs and from what I’ve seen in Europe they sell for more than what they do in the US and Canada.
For example I’ve seen 1994 maple leafs in the Americas sell as low as £17 and some as high as £35. But averagely they sell in the early to mid twenties. For Europe most 94 maples sell around the late twenties to the late thirties but I have seen one get sold for £25 and the priciest in the early forties but I did see one go for over £50.
Crazy times we live in.🙂
- Wow! I paid a fraction over spot in 2017 (probably about $23 CDN -would be about 14 Pounds?)
Must make a note to bring (& sell) my Maple Leafs with me the next time I stop over in the UK. Don't recall the dates though.
When I was at the fair looking at coins that peaked my interests and after seeing the listed price I usually research the coins or notes on Numista and Ebay to see the average price they are selling. That’s why I tend to avoid Ancients, Indian states, older Asian currencies and notgeld unless it’s from reputable dealers because I would spend ages identifying them because they could have mislabelled it.
I‘ve just checked the past sales on Ebay of 1994 Maples leafs and from what I’ve seen in Europe they sell for more than what they do in the US and Canada.
For example I’ve seen 1994 maple leafs in the Americas sell as low as £17 and some as high as £35. But averagely they sell in the early to mid twenties. For Europe most 94 maples sell around the late twenties to the late thirties but I have seen one get sold for £25 and the priciest in the early forties but I did see one go for over £50.
Crazy times we live in.🙂
- Wow! I paid a fraction over spot in 2017 (probably about $23 CDN -would be about 14 Pounds?)
Must make a note to bring (& sell) my Maple Leafs with me the next time I stop over in the UK. Don't recall the dates though.
I agree.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
Its been a while since I posted a new coin, even though, I purchased a few in the past few weeks. I have substantially reduced the number of coins I purchase as I have pivoted to one of my other hobbies, but here is a nice coin from the Maharathis of Tungabhadra. They were one of the earliest rulers in the Indian Deccan after the fall of the Mauryan Empire. The Maharathis were local administrators of the Mauryan Empire and thus they eventually flexed their muscles and were somewhat autonomous after the fall of the empire and started issuing their own coins.
Maharathis of Tungabhadra: Sivakuhana (ca. 1st century CE) Pb Unit (Pieper-2163)
Only one addition so far - a Bank of China $20 from 2018. I was given free reign over a stack of paper money (fancy number hunting) on my birthday. This was the only one I took. So so so so so close to having solid 3s…
"Life is all about being too wrapped up in the now to care about the future. When the future becomes the past, you start to regret what you've done."
Only one addition so far - a Bank of China $20 from 2018. I was given free reign over a stack of paper money (fancy number hunting) on my birthday. This was the only one I took. So so so so so close to having solid 3s…
At least you didn't get one ending in ‘4’ in the serial numbers - as we know how unlucky the number ‘4’ is in Asian cultures, especially Chinese.
Essentially a pretty gap filler, has some interest though, a thread about collecting coins from the year of your birth. This fills the gap for coins from exactly 100 years before you were born!
Much better and a real prize by my standards, an elusive shilling from the time of Queen Anne
This beauty is from 1711 and has the nice chunky feel and design of her coins. Just enough detail survives of Anne to show her eyes, cheeks and lips. Shillings of hers are much harder than Halfcrowns and in 3 years of collecting British coins, I now have the grand sum of 3 coins of Queen Anne, this and 2 halfcrowns.
Compare that to about the 400 or so of Queen Victoria! 🤣
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
I had over 100 additions for my collection, but these are my favorites.. also I have added 3000 coins to my swap list.
you could say, I found a new “honey hole”
trying to reduce this list to 10 items, but damn, im having a hard time deciding which to keep, I really like the UK half Penny,s, and Cambodia Copper.
1745 MF Mexico 4 Reales - Felipe V KM# 94
1786 Isle of Man 1 Penny - George III, KM# 9.1
1794 UK ½ Penny Sussex - Chichester Eliz I DH# 15 DALLYS CHICHESTER, I know dark picture..
1795 UK ½ Penny Middlesex - London Davidson’s DH# 295 HOUSE of T.R. DAVIDSONS
1830 Bolivia PTS JL 4 Soles, KM# 96a.1
1839 Geneva, Canton of 4 Centimes KM# 127
1840 India - British 1 Rupee - Victoria, KM# 457.2
1847 Liberia 2 Cents KM# 2
1892 Austria, Archduchy of 8 Florins 20 Francs- Franz Joseph I, KM# 2269
1915 Chihuahua 5 Centavos- Constitutionalist Army KM# 613
1921 АГ Soviet Union 1 Ruble R.S.F.S.R. Y# 84
1924 Latvia 1 Lats KM# 7
1934 Mauritius 1 Rupee - George V, KM# 17
1958 Austria 25 Schilling -Auer von Welsbach, KM# 2884
1966 South Africa 1 Rand Afrikaans -Legend - SUID AFRIKA, KM# 71.2
I love that coin - the portrait is so brutally realistic!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Star finds from holiday money ready for my trip to Dubai in less than a fortnights time.
50 Dirhams 50th Anniversary of the Foundation of the United Arab Emirate from UNC consecutive batch And a 100 Dirhams year of Zayed from 2018.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
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