Today I decided to stop by a little thrift store on the way home and take a peak in the normally way over priced foriegn coin jar where no matter what it is its $0.50USD each mostly banged up yen and Canadian cents nothing woth a flip but today to my surprise I found this.
It's a Munich Olympics Commemorative 10 Mark KM#134.1. Not only is it a beautiful coin and a part of history but for only $0.50USD I was able to get 15.50g of 0.625 Silver. I thought that wasquite a steal and the guy is notorious for overpricing any silver coins he ever gets in but fortunately for me I guess he is clueless when it comes to non US Currency LOL.
Just been to the local coin dealers and bought the following 9 coins from the Solomon Islands
They are all dated 2005 or 2006 with a face value of 25 dollars and seem to be part of a collection of famous ships. See photograph attached.
Top line l-r USS MISSOURI, USS CONSTELLATION & SANTISIMA TRINIDAD
Centre line l-r HMS VICTORY, HMS DORSETSHIRE & BONHOMME RICHARD
Bottom line l-r YAMATO, THE MARY ROSE & BISMARK
Each coin is .999 silver with a mintage of 25,000 and are proof with certificate. Weight 31.103gms
Cost- unbelievable at £17.00 each
Cannot find and reference to them in my Krause catalogue of 2012, so do not have KM#'s
Quote: COINMAN1Just been to the local coin dealers and bought the following 9 coins from the Solomon Islands
They are all dated 2005 or 2006 with a face value of 25 dollars and seem to be part of a collection of famous ships. See photograph attached.
Top line l-r USS MISSOURI, USS CONSTELLATION & SANTISIMA TRINIDAD
Centre line l-r HMS VICTORY, HMS DORSETSHIRE & BONHOMME RICHARD
Bottom line l-r YAMATO, THE MARY ROSE & BISMARK
Each coin is .999 silver with a mintage of 25,000 and are proof with certificate. Weight 31.103gms
Cost- unbelievable at £17.00 each
Cannot find and reference to them in my Krause catalogue of 2012, so do not have KM#'s
Comments very welcome or help with KM#'s
Krause takes longer to include those types of coins because small islands like Cook, Palau and Solomon tend to do a lot of curious coins, so they take a bit longer to be 100% sure they where minted and authorized by the government of their countries. A lot of thieves (as there is no other way to call them) take advantage of the small islands names and seals (and their small jurisdiction) to mint fantasy coins and pass them as authorized coinage, so Krause has to be pretty careful when cataloging them, as in the past they had to change several coins from their KM# coin nomenclature to their X# one meaning they once where considered official coins, and then they realized they where actually made by unauthorized persons using the country's seal without permission.
But that is certainly and awesome find. It was almost at Silver value of 1-year ago, so it is pretty impressive. And the coins are quite sweet considering a lot of people loves "ships coins".
Numista referee for the "Viceroyalty of the New Spain" (most of it).
History through coins.
Eli V
I did get some bargain coins, well I am selling them on behalf of my grandfather, so there not really bargains for me. But he got them as bargains a long time ago. Faroer Islands 1941, Greenland and Spitsbergen. Wish I could afford all of them, but I already have some of them.
he bought them for 20 euros combined, best bargain ever!
Nordfljot Groningen-Friesland.
Referee for Dutch Republic, Netherlands and Frisia
Quote: COINMAN1Just been to the local coin dealers and bought the following 9 coins from the Solomon Islands
They are all dated 2005 or 2006 with a face value of 25 dollars and seem to be part of a collection of famous ships. See photograph attached.
Top line l-r USS MISSOURI, USS CONSTELLATION & SANTISIMA TRINIDAD
Centre line l-r HMS VICTORY, HMS DORSETSHIRE & BONHOMME RICHARD
Bottom line l-r YAMATO, THE MARY ROSE & BISMARK
Each coin is .999 silver with a mintage of 25,000 and are proof with certificate. Weight 31.103gms
Cost- unbelievable at £17.00 each
Cannot find and reference to them in my Krause catalogue of 2012, so do not have KM#'s
Comments very welcome or help with KM#'s
Krause takes longer to include those types of coins because small islands like Cook, Palau and Solomon tend to do a lot of curious coins, so they take a bit longer to be 100% sure they where minted and authorized by the government of their countries. A lot of thieves (as there is no other way to call them) take advantage of the small islands names and seals (and their small jurisdiction) to mint fantasy coins and pass them as authorized coinage, so Krause has to be pretty careful when cataloging them, as in the past they had to change several coins from their KM# coin nomenclature to their X# one meaning they once where considered official coins, and then they realized they where actually made by unauthorized persons using the country's seal without permission.
But that is certainly and awesome find. It was almost at Silver value of 1-year ago, so it is pretty impressive. And the coins are quite sweet considering a lot of people loves "ships coins".
The certificates that came with the coins are from the Royal Mint. I would have thought that they would have been trustworthy enough, even for Krause.
They will be added to the 700 other coins which do not have a Krause number on my collection database
Quote: COINMAN1The certificates that came with the coins are from the Royal Mint. I would have thought that they would have been trustworthy enough, even for Krause.
They will be added to the 700 other coins which do not have a Krause number on my collection database
Royal Mint accepts jobs from anyone with the money, and they don't ask too much questions. So if a politician at Solomon islands wanted the coins to be made he wouldn't need too much paperwork to have them done with the country's seal. That would be called Official but unauthorized.
Krause seems to stay away from countries that are a bit harder to certify longer, or if the coin Mintage is low then it is probable they won't get any to certify for a long period of time, they might have a minimum number that has to pass through their personnel before consider addition to the catalog. In Mexico we have the "Numismatic heritage" sets, and Krause has just recently added #2 and 3, and skipped the 1st one, the 4th just came out in 2014 so it is understandable that it hasn't been added, but it is weird that #1 was skipped in favor of the 2nd and 3rd. Maybe not enough people had their 1st sets sent to be certified as they where somewhat unknown then, but they gain huge popularity once people saw the following ones, and with only 8,000 per set, the 1st might ended in the hands of people who don't certifies them.
Numista referee for the "Viceroyalty of the New Spain" (most of it).
History through coins.
Eli V
I think i did ok got 4 Mexico coins for 10 US dollars a 1914 5 cent KM422
and 1914 5 cent km421
And two 10 cent Km428 1906 and 1910
Well i need all four but did i get a deal. I think i did
yours daryl
Quote: ALLRED1950I think i did ok got 4 Mexico coins for 10 US dollars a 1914 5 cent KM422
and 1914 5 cent km421
And two 10 cent Km428 1906 and 1910
Well i need all four but did i get a deal. I think i did
yours daryl
Great catch there!
Those big 5 Centavo coins are often quite expensive here, good thing is that sellers here don't consider the dates to much, so you can get a somewhat rare date for a nice low price, but on the other hand you could have a hard time getting a common date for a fair price instead
Also Nickel 5 Cents are always a good find as those preserve their luster way better, I wish they used pure nickel nowadays.
And the sweet 10 Cents are also quite a nice catch, they aren't as common as it can seem.
And all that for 10 Dollars... I often have to pay that for a single one from your catch
Numista referee for the "Viceroyalty of the New Spain" (most of it).
History through coins.
Eli V
Quote: FrenchloverI've just received my first Central African Rep. coin
Sometimes it is useful to go further than the title of the ad here "West Africa"
You should be getting coins from the ex-and-actual French territories / islands / and imaginary domains that I don't have in my collection to swap them with me
Numista referee for the "Viceroyalty of the New Spain" (most of it).
History through coins.
Eli V
I found this in my Freach franc coins this last year i did not know i had it.One of the reasons iam redoing all of my coin collection. Most of got it in alot of Freach coins.
And iam still finding odd coins, and i have been working on my coins now for over a year. I really let it go bad.
But are catalog sayes it was demonetized in 1937, Funny it dated 1944
Quote: erdvillaYou should be getting coins from the ex-and-actual French territories / islands / and imaginary domains that I don't have in my collection to swap them with me
You've got so much countries that I can't provide any new county
Still ... ther are some available on the web
France - Feudal
French Afars & Issas
French cochinchina
French Guiana
French Somaliland
Quote: ALLRED1950Nice French 2 franc coin.What i found funny is are catalog saies it was demonetized 7 years before it was made.
Yes indeed , and it's not easy at all to find when this coin was demonetized
And even more, this coin is called 1 Franc CFA but ... the CFA was decided on 1945
Quote: erdvillaYou should be getting coins from the ex-and-actual French territories / islands / and imaginary domains that I don't have in my collection to swap them with me
You've got so much countries that I can't provide any new county
Still ... ther are some available on the web
France - Feudal
French Afars & Issas
French cochinchina
French Guiana
French Somaliland
I just swapped for the FRENCH Guiana, so that is a win win, not triple win, just double; French and Americas. It would be a triple win if it also was an island I think there isn't any triple win left, I already got the Caribbean ones, so I think hat tricks are no longer possible, are they? Tell your mint to do coins for Clipperton, that would be a quadruple win, Mexico, French, Americas and Island
Numista referee for the "Viceroyalty of the New Spain" (most of it).
History through coins.
Eli V
But not less than other islands like Saba, Bonaire, St Eustatius, Coco (Keeling), Easter, Isla de Juventud, Kermadec, Viinamarisaar, Andaman & Nicobar, Palau, Cook, Excelsior republic, Aleutian, Bioko, Alhucemas, Gough, Gilbert, Redoonda, Bouvet, Pheasant, Mafia (Shole Shamba), Chafarinas, Kuryl (recommended for animal coins), Sakhalin, etc...
just some clue to extend your ocean empire
or Belarus which is not an island but ... a country
, and it's not easy at all to find when this coin was demonetized 
I think there isn't any triple win left, I already got the Caribbean ones, so I think hat tricks are no longer possible, are they? Tell your mint to do coins for Clipperton, that would be a quadruple win, Mexico, French, Americas and Island 
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