After reading through this excellent thread by nalaberong on another forum for the third time, I decided to give it a go myself. And I'd also encourage everyone else to do the same, I'd love to follow the progress of the coin collecting of others.
I figured this would be a blog-like thread with all things related to my relatively inexperienced ventures into coin collecting - and hopefully with plenty of pictures. I've had a "collection" pretty much since I was a kid (I'm 35 now), with friends and family giving me foreign coins from holidays and such, but it's only been a couple of years since I started organizing, identifying and actually purchasing coins as well.
An initial scare when I started "properly" collecting was to discover the different mint marks of German coins. As a kid I only kept the different years, so now I had to go through buckets of my doubles to check the mint marks as well. Made my collection a little bit bigger though.
Anyway, I joined the local coin club a couple of months ago, and went to my third meeting there last night. Before joining I thought there would be a lot more people bringing stuff to trade/swap and such, but it's pretty much just a members' auction night. It's still fun though, even if I'm not able to buy much due to budget restraints. Luckily there are items priced anywhere from 20 DKK ($3 / £2) for a bag of around 80 world coins to the gold 20 kroner 1874 priced at 19.995 DKK (~$3,000 / ~£2,000) in yesterday's auction list. I went home with these two coins:
2 kronor Sweden 1950 and 1965. Both are .400 silver, and they set me back 45 DKK in total - $6.60 or £4.35. I especially like the older one; I have a couple more of this type, but in nowhere near as good a condition. Very happy with this purchase :)
Found an interesting coin during my sorting last night - a French 5 centimes 1900 with a missing 1:
It isn't in great condition, but from the sparse information I could find it is probably still worth a little more than a normal 1900 coin.
"5 centimes dated 900 (missing the '1') were probably produced by a common minting error -- they command a good premium, as high as $50 in average circulated condition"
I've started doing what I probably should have done a long time ago - reaching out to people I know who live abroad or go on holidays abroad. I have a friend who's in Thailand at the moment, and he's agreed to bring me back an assortment of coins from there.
At my workplace in a Danish university we've had a guest lecturer from a Canadian university, and I asked him if he'd be so kind as to send me some Canadian coins when he returned home. Turns out he wasn't due back in Canada before next summer, but he had actually had a couple of foreign coins with him from his travels, which he duly gave to me:
Canada, 5 cents 2012
Canada, 2 dollars 2009
South Africa, 2 rand 2013
South Africa, 2 rand 2014
South Africa, 5 rand 1995
South Africa, 5 rand 2013
USA, 1 dollar 2000 D
All coins I'm pretty sure I didn't have already :)
Quote: "ngdawa"Why don't you add your coins to your Numista collection?
I will - it is on the to-do-list, but at the moment my first priority is getting all my coins organised from laying loose in plastic boxes with small compartments into coin holders and albums.
It's a lengthy process that has taken more than a year now, but I'd estimate that I'm around 85+% done. After that I should be beginning to enter them on this site, probably starting with my swap list though.
Nice and interesting thread! It is interesting to see how other collectors progress!
I like your swedish 2 kronor and you got them at a good price! I paid for mine more than that.
I think though that it would be quicker if you had added all the coins you inserted in the flips, as you allready go through them! And you would know which coins you have added because they are in the flips! ;)
But as you are 85+% done, it´s long gone!
Regards,
Stavros
Referee for Ancient Greece, Norway and the Kingdom of Cyprus
It would indeed have been quicker if I had added them as I went through them, especially as I'm now using the Numista catalogue to identify them. The only problem is that when I started organizing my collection, I hadn't even discovered the Numista site yet!
As I don't like to start one thing before I have finished what I am doing, I have however decided that I am going to finish the organizing part first, and then starting the "Adding coins in Numista"-project :)
The problem with this method (putting coins in flips => then identify) is that that you sometimes need their weight or you have to know if the rim is plain or reeded etc. and in flips it is not always possible to see.
Quote: "Idolenz"The problem with this method (putting coins in flips => then identify) is that that you sometimes need their weight or you have to know if the rim is plain or reeded etc. and in flips it is not always possible to see.
Completely correct, I also use Numista to identify my coins before I put them in the coin holders. Most of my coins are quite common and easily identified without the weight etc. so it isn't a huge problem. If I need to later, I'll happily bust one out of the holder to properly identify it.
Quote: "g00n"Completely correct, I also use Numista to identify my coins before I put them in the coin holders. Most of my coins are quite common and easily identified without the weight etc. so it isn't a huge problem. If I need to later, I'll happily bust one out of the holder to properly identify it.
Or you make a side note, like reeded edge, small letters, close 2, heavy, etc. Then you have the special facts and you won't have to eventually open up the holers. Just a thought, even if it's probably a little late now
I've taken quite a liking to those Swedish silver 2 kronor coins, so when a couple showed up on a Danish auction site, I couldn't help myself. I got these four for 56 DKK (£5.50 / $8) plus shipping:
1944, 1945 G, 1949 and 1950. I already had two 1950's, but one of them I suspect is the double-punched mintmark variety and the other was from the lot I bought that was glued to some cork wallpaper, so it has an annoying glue spot on the obverse. Which means that all these four coins go in my Swedish coin album :-)
I was in the shop today when I noticed this sucker staring at me with its low, low price of 199 DKK (£20, $29).
It is of course an ultrasonic cleaner, and I couldn't resist. I know there's a lot of people who will resist any form of cleaning, but I thought there's no harm in seeing what this thing can do to some of the low-value coins I have lying around looking terrible.
My friend returned from Thailand a couple of days ago, went round his place today and he gave me a set of Thai coins from 25 satang to 10 baht, almost all of them looking great.
The 10 baht coin was looking a bit dirty, so I thought why not make it the first one into the ultrasonic cleaner. I took some before/after pictures, and although it's a bit blurry it definitely shows some of the black stuff gone.
I'm sure some people would have preferred the "before" coin, as the details of the coin were probably enhanced by the darkness of the residue. Totally subjective opinion though, each to their own :-)
Good to know! I might have to send this one back though, because either the thread in the stand or the screw to attach the stand to the plate isn't right - they certainly don't fit together! So I'll have to wait a little while to get it tested...
The digital scale is probably going to get replaced as well, because I specifically wanted one that could weigh coins with a precision down to two decimals. On the website for this one it said that it could, but it turns out it only does with one decimal...
Oh boy. Took a punt on a small lot before Christmas and it arrived today. Spent a bit more on it that I initially wanted to, but the main reason for buying it was that besides all the common coins I could see two coins from Greenland. I was pleasantly surprised to find THREE coins from Greenland when I opened it tonight - 25 øre unholed AND holed (didn't see this one in the pictures of the lot!) and 50 øre 1926.
Also, a Danish 25 øre 1874 that I didn't have.
There was quite a bit more that makes me think it was a good deal, first off some Danish/Swedish pre-decimals:
It´s in the norwegian catalog, but i think it´s almost the same as the danish. The danish one has the CHL under the crowned shield and the norwegian one has HIAB under it. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces42563.html
Or at least that´s how i see it with my mini investigation!
Hope i helped a bit!
Regards,
Stavros
Referee for Ancient Greece, Norway and the Kingdom of Cyprus
Thank you Stavros - that does make sense. I know next to nothing about Scandinavian pre-decimal coins, and I rather foolishly just assumed it was Danish because it said "danske"...
I had a look in the Nordic catalogue from the library, and while there isn't even a 1780 Danish 2 skilling, it is there under Norway. I'm guessing you're completely right :-)
Yay! In the mail today was a letter from New Zealand, which means I have now completed my first swap on this site. Received this lovely ½ crown in exchange for my Canadian bank token :
A more thorough comb through the box from yesterday revealed a couple more copper pre-decimals, and also this quirky little thing:
Some sort of German token - it says "RECHE. PFENING" on one side and "MIN ERVA" on the other. Haven't been able to find much more information about it other than this:
I did have some that I offered you BAM. I sent you a PM, but you must have missed it because you didn't reply, then I sold them one week when I was feeling poor
I'm after any circulation coins I don't already have, but I do especially like the Swiss. They're nice enough to go almost unchanged for more than 100 years!
Lots received in the mail today! A replacement stand that actually works for my new USB microscope, some new supplies of coin holders so I can finally start to clear out my sorting table, and - some coins!
As a Scandinavian, I feel like I have way too few Icelandic coins. So I bought this little lot on the Danish auction site for 18 DKK ($ 2.60 / £1.80):
I also had a good swap from Norway coming in, resulting in this mighty fine stack of Norwegian 1, 2 and 5 øres to boost my Norwegian album:
A lovely day, and a few more arrivals hopefully to come in the next couple of days :-)
Argh! How am I ever supposed to finish organising my coins when i can't resist the temptation to buy more?!
I saw this little lot on the auction site a couple of weeks ago, the starting price was 100 DKK ($14.50 / £10), and I thought what the heck. Turned out no one else outbid me, so here we are:
There's a coin sheet with 34 UNC coins from places such as Solomon Islands, Tonga, St. Helena & Ascension, Fiji, Kiribati and many more.
Besides that, a whole bunch of other stuff. Quite a few old Danish 2 and 5 øre which will probably go in my swap list, a handful of Swedish iron 2 and 5 öre, and a whole lot of other countries, including my 2nd coin from South Arabia, and a 1953 crown (non circulating, darn it). There's a few tokens in there as well, some look quite old and worn, but they'll likely be available for swap as well.
We've all been there. The only way through it is to either have a complete shutdown of buying and spend a few days organising your coins, or decide on a couple of areas to specialise in and then stick to buying coins from that area for a while
There's certainly some nice looking early 20th century Scandinavian coin in that lot.
Yeah, I'm going to have to try and stop buying lots like that - I don't have any more room on my sorting table :-)
Here's some of the tokens in it:
- There's a couple of 2 pesos from the London Nitrate Co. - Oficina Santa Laura in Chile
- a 50 cents(?) token from "Math Igler's, Chicago's Beauty Spot"
- some TINY 1 øre and 25 øre coins that say Lauer Nurnberg on the other side, apparently some toy coins
- one of these Deux Sols
- what appears to be one of these - only 5 francs and in bronze, couldn't locate it in the catalogue
and two coins I haven't found anything about:
- the one with the horse that says VOLL MUTH
- and the large one upper left. The only writing I can decipher is "...NCES", maybe "PROVINCES"? It has an M countermark on there as well.
QuoteThe only problem is that when I started organizing my collection, I hadn't even discovered the Numista site yet!
I had the same problem. I took me a long time to get it all done, and I did most of it before I discovered Numista. I just did an inventory of all the coins that I posted in Numista to make sure I had all the dates, coins and mint marks correctly because I found out that I had some mislabeled coins when I was doing a swap. I just recently started swapping as well, so it is still a new experience for me here.
A letter from France arrived yesterday - another great swap completed! This time I went for countries I didn't have any coins from, and it made my Kasakhstan collection go from 0 coins to this:
Quote: "ngdawa"I don't really get this one. Is this your personal thread?
I think I pretty much explained it in the first post...
Anyway, after sorting through it those Scandinavian coins in my latest lot, I discovered there was a complete date run 1942-50 of Swedish iron 1 öre, 2 öre and 5 öre - I only had a couple of each of those, but these were in much better condition than mine. Definitely worth the price, that lot :-)
Quote: "g00n"Anyway, after sorting through it those Scandinavian coins in my latest lot, I discovered there was a complete date run 1942-50 of Swedish iron 1 öre, 2 öre and 5 öre - I only had a couple of each of those, but these were in much better condition than mine. Definitely worth the price, that lot :-)
Quote Any going up for swaps (he asks hopefully)
Well, the ones I already had have been added to my swap list - not all in good condition though, I think bar one or two all the ones from the lot were upgrades on what I already had...
Haven't posted in here for a while, mainly because as a result of not having any coin holders of multiple sizes, I've been going slow on getting new coins and slowly started entering my collection on here instead.
A couple of nice swaps have arrived since my last post, but in my hastiness to get them organised into albums, I didn't get any pictures first unfortunately.
Last night the local coin club had another meeting after a short Christmas break, and the main talking point was a bidding war on what is probably the rarest of the Danish circulation coins - the 1 øre 1881. It ended up going for 17.000 DKK (~$2.584 / £1.800), and for a small-time collector like me it was pretty amazing to see someone turn up and fork out that amount of money for a small Danish coin like that.
Quite a few other expensive coins were sold last night, e.g. a 1 øre 1876 for around 5.000 DKK ($760 / ~£527) and several gold 10/20 kroner as well. Obviously some people were out spending their Christmas bonuses...
I went home with a purchase as well - albeit on a much smaller scale:
This handful of American coins was mine for 125 DKK ($19). I bought it mainly for the 1922 S Peace Dollar which I didn't have, but the Half Dollars are nice as well (1972, 1972 D, 1973 D, 1974), I only had a couple of halves beforehand.
I've started to pay a bit more attention to the "bullion value" listed on here for silver coins. I'm assuming it updates regularly, as I've noticed the silver value of my collection changing on a daily basis.
With that in mind, I've been keeping an eye out for low priced silver coins on the Danish auction site, resulting in a couple of purchases that arrived today.
According to Numista, the bullion value of the 1 gulden 1954-67 is 15.50 DKK, so getting two of them + 12 other Dutch coins for 25 DKK seemed like a good deal.
The Swedish 1 and 2 kronor had my interest anyway, but with a bullion value of 19.87 DKK, I couldn't not buy this 1 krona 1937 for 15 DKK...
A couple more of low-priced, 15 DKK worth of silver, Dutch 1 Gulden showed up at 10 DKK a piece, so couldn't help myself and won the auctions unopposed:
Not a lot of Danish collectors interested in Dutch coins I guess.
Also, this fine little swap arrived from France:
Aside from filling a couple of holes in my Austrian collection, I went a little nuts with French 10 Centimes. A couple of them I probably wouldn't have taken if I had seen photos, but that's my own fault for not asking! Rounding it all off, a couple of 1 Rupees from Mauritius to get me a new country :-)
There were a couple of other bids on this one, but I still managed to get 36.51 DKK worth of silver for 30 DKK, so I can't complain!
I also received a swap letter from Macedonia this weekend, and besides some hole fillers from Italy, Greece, Austria and Romania, it also contained this fine little selection of Macedonian coins, which are my first from there :-)
A few additions to my Swedish silver have landed... First up:
Three 1 krona coins with a combined silver value of 60.51 DKK. There was a bit of competition on these, but I didn't have any of the dates before, so I didn't mind getting them for 70 DKK.
And then... an absolute steal at the coin club auction yesterday. 37 2 kronor coins, 17 of them .800 silver, 16 of them .400 silver and 4 coppernickel. Combined silver value of 986.73 DKK. It was listed last month as well with a starting price of 895 DKK, but with my somewhat tight budget I didn't feel like I had that amount of money to spend on coins, even though it was a good deal. No one else bid on it either, so yesterday it was listed again - at 695 DKK! Someone else had sent in a bid by mail, but I had to get it this time:
I ended up paying 800 DKK for almost 1,000 DKK worth of silver! And when the lot included these dates:
1903 (rare)
1910 W far from date (very rare)
1910 W close to date (rare)
1912 (rare)
1913 (rare)
1914 (rare)
1915 (rare)
and I only had 5 of the 37 dates already, I'd say this is one of the best buys I've made so far :-)
I bought a lot of African coins for 45 DKK ($6.8 / £4.7) on Facebook last weekend, and it arrived today:
I was happy to discover that the only coins I already had, were the two Moroccan coins. All the other ones were nice additions to my collection, but I bought it mainly because of these four coins:
My first (3) coins from Rhodesia and a very nice 1890 German East Africa 1 Pesa, which despite having the lowest mintage (1,000,000 compared to 12,500,000 for 1891 and 27,500,000 for 1892) is apparently the least valuable of the three according to the NGC price guide. Even so, it's a lovely coin!
Finally, some things are happening coin-wise, after I've spent the last couple of weeks adding my collection on here due to running out of album pages...
A swap letter from Romania arrived yesterday:
I literally just picked all the Romanian coins that I didn't already have, so this lovely lot pretty much doubles the amount of coins in my Romanian collection!
My small collection of coins from Greenland was also expanded a little:
I bought these two through a Facebook group for 75 DKK ($11.40 / £8).
Last but not least, I filled a hole in my Swedish 2 Kronor collection - this one was mine for 22 DKK ($3.30 / £2.35) on the Danish auction site:
Tomorrow is the last coin club meeting of the "season" - we won't be meeting up again before September. There isn't too much I fancy on the auction list, but you never know...
I wonder what would happen if every single member on Numista would start their own thread for their collection. Tjat would be a lot.
Shouldn't the forum be for questions and discussions, and the dashboard for your personal collection. There are also a few threads where you can post you latest additions to your collection. To have a private threads seems just silly, to be honest.
Hey, each to their own. Personally I put my new stuff in the "additions to your collection" threads, which I started, but if he wants a thread to show off his personal collection then I'm fine with that. I enjoy looking at what other people are buying, that's why I started the "Additions to your collections" threads, and the "Bargain finds" threads before that.
Quote: "ngdawa"I wonder what would happen if every single member on Numista would start their own thread for their collection. Tjat would be a lot.
Shouldn't the forum be for questions and discussions, and the dashboard for your personal collection. There are also a few threads where you can post you latest additions to your collection. To have a private threads seems just silly, to be honest.
It's called free discussion. Personally I enjoy seeing the evolution of a collection over time.
Quote: "ngdawa"I wonder what would happen if every single member on Numista would start their own thread for their collection. Tjat would be a lot.
Shouldn't the forum be for questions and discussions, and the dashboard for your personal collection. There are also a few threads where you can post you latest additions to your collection. To have a private threads seems just silly, to be honest.
Tend your own garden, Free discussion is just that.
Should I flip out every time sports are mentioned?
No. Not my thing so one less thread to read.
Bigger fish out there dude.
Quote: "ngdawa"I wonder what would happen if every single member on Numista would start their own thread for their collection. Tjat would be a lot.
Shouldn't the forum be for questions and discussions, and the dashboard for your personal collection. There are also a few threads where you can post you latest additions to your collection. To have a private threads seems just silly, to be honest.
Tend your own garden, Free discussion is just that.
Should I flip out every time sports are mentioned?
No. Not my thing so one less thread to read.
Bigger fish out there dude.
No no. Before you, or anyone else, starts accusing me for anything and this bursts out in an argument. I am not "flipping out", I am not trying to "make a point" nor am I sayang that his collection is not interesting. I was simply saying, and asking, if this really was the best idea.
The difference between this thread and the "additions to your collection" thread, is that in the latter everyone can post their finds. This one is personal, and no one may add their own finds. That was just it. But if no one minds personal threads on the forum, I won't raise the question anymore. I was simply 'thinking out loud'.
As mentioned in the opening post, this blog-like thread was inspired by another thread on another forum. I could have put it on a personal website, but that seemed silly to me when there are thousands of numismatically like-minded people already on this site who potentially would be interested in having a look. Personally, I'd love to follow similar threads from other collectors on here!
I think we can rule out "every single member starting their own thread" and clogging up the Free Discussion forum though, since I seem to be the only one at the moment and I had to go to page 3 to find this again
Also, this isn't just a "private thread" of me adding coins to my collection, like the dashboard. I share my experiences as a relative newcomer with coin collecting, coin club meetings, storage, supplies etc., and I welcome any comments and discussion on the subjects.
All that said - anyone is welcome to think this thread is silly! Each to their own, as Neil said.
I'm brand new to Numista and really love the site thus far. IIt's going to take a while to catalogue all of my collection which consists of mostly South African coins with the exception of loose foreign coins I've collected over the years. My Favourite ones being aancient roman coins.
My qquestion though, is there no provision on the site to catalogue my notes? And how do I go about cataloging coins and tokens I cannot find on the site?
My apologies if this is the wrong forum for tthese questions.
Welcome to the site - you're probably better off starting a new thread in one of the forum, instead of as a reply in this thread, where fewer people will see it
There is no banknote catalogue on this site, I think quite a few who collect banknotes use colnect.com instead.
Won a couple of auctions from the same seller earlier this week, which gave quite a few coins in areas of my collection that are severely lacking.
First up, 127 DKK (~$19 / ~£13.50) gave me all of this:
Canada - 1 cent 1882
USA - 1 cent 1918
USA - 1 cent 1920
USA - 5 cents 1891
USA - 5 cents 1906
USA - 5 cents 1916
USA - 10 cents 1902
USA - 10 cents 1909
USA - 10 cents 1914
USA - 10 cents 1920
USA - 1/4 dollar 1903
USA - 1/4 dollar 1916
USA - 1/4 dollar 1917
USA - 1/4 dollar 1918
USA - ½ dollar 1917
The silver value alone made this a good deal, and the oldest dime, quarter and half I had in my collection already were 1958, 1940 and 1964 respectively, so it was nice to add some of the classic US coinage - which I think looks much better than the more modern stuff.
About an hour later I won this lot for just 66 DKK ($10 / £7):
Russia - 1 kopeck 1876
Russia - 10 kopecks 1899
USSR - 15 kopecks 1924
Latvia - 10 santimu 1922
Belgium - 2 centimes 1874
Great Britain - ½ crown 1881
Again, with a silver value of DKK 100.81, it was a steal already. It is also my oldest ½ crown (previous was 1887), oldest Dutch 25 cents (previous was 1941) and oldest 1 gulden (previous was 1955).
The silver coins in this lot were all covered in the well-known green residue after being left in their PVC plastic pages for many years, but a good long soak in acetone took it right off. They've found a better home now!
Two coins arrived today that I am very happy to add to my British pre-decimal collection:
My very first Double Florin! I love the 2nd portrait of Victoria, and this one was mine for only 135 DKK ($20.60 / £14.28) through Facebook. In pretty good condition as well.
My very first Crown! (That doesn't have the 'non-circulating issue' tag on it). Same seller as the coin above, and this one was a good price too - just 45 DKK ($6.87 / £4.76 - less than silver value)!
Today I received these two cool Victorian type sets I bought off Facebook:
Unfortunately no shilling, double florin or crown in the jubilee set, and they have all circulated - some more than others, but I only paid slightly more than the silver price for them all.
I almost felt bad about opening the cases as they were really nice, but only almost. Aside from the 1887 half crown, all the coins were either in better conditions than the ones I already had, or coins that I didn't already have, so I'm happy to add these to my collection. Also brings me a little bit closer to the 400 silver coins club...
1900 Farthing
1901 ½ Penny
1899 Penny
1898 3 Pence
1888 6 Pence
1897 6 Pence
1896 Shilling
1887 Florin
1896 Florin
1887 ½ Crown
1901 ½ Crown
Sooner or later - and it might as well be sooner - I'm to have to admit that I have become a silver nut. At least when I am able to buy silver coins I don't have in my collection below silver value...
These 7 coins arrived today:
1 krona 1897, 1910, 1924 and 1940
1 florin 1927 Australia, Parliament House commemorative
½ dollar 1935S
½ dollar 1968
All in all around 180 DKK worth of silver, bought for 122 DKK o/
Quote: "g00n"Won a couple of auctions from the same seller earlier this week, which gave quite a few coins in areas of my collection that are severely lacking.
First up, 127 DKK (~$19 / ~£13.50) gave me all of this:
Wow! Beautiful US coins. What a bargain, keep up the good work!
Quote: "g00n"Sooner or later - and it might as well be sooner - I'm to have to admit that I have become a silver nut. At least when I am able to buy silver coins I don't have in my collection below silver value...
These 7 coins arrived today:
1 krona 1897, 1910, 1924 and 1940
1 florin 1927 Australia, Parliament House commemorative
½ dollar 1935S
½ dollar 1968
All in all around 180 DKK worth of silver, bought for 122 DKK o/
That Parliament House Florin is beautiful g00n, are you telling us you got that for less than melt?
Just because you can't see it ... doesn't mean it isn't there - Anon.
Quote: "g00n"Sooner or later - and it might as well be sooner - I'm to have to admit that I have become a silver nut. At least when I am able to buy silver coins I don't have in my collection below silver value...
These 7 coins arrived today:
1 krona 1897, 1910, 1924 and 1940
1 florin 1927 Australia, Parliament House commemorative
½ dollar 1935S
½ dollar 1968
All in all around 180 DKK worth of silver, bought for 122 DKK o/
That Parliament House Florin is beautiful g00n, are you telling us you got that for less than melt?
Irony is that's the cheapest florin by far in the series if I recall correctly. The rest go for much higher prices; that one goes for close to melt.
I like Greek coins, so I couldnt resist this one at 20 DKK, which is slightly below the silver value. The 5 lati coin is also a stunning one, but I'd never seen one for sale before in the places I usually buy. When this one turned up for 65 DKK with a silver value of 75 DKK it was also a no brainer.
I've previously written about how I'd like one of the Leopold II 5 francs, but my cheapskate bids on Ebay have never been enough. I usually put in sniper bids of €20, and they usually sell for around €24-25 - so I was quite surprised when the emails ticked in that I'd actually won TWO auctions, both at €18,79. Maybe because they were quite strange listings, both being listed as French coins... I don't know but I'm happy to have them both in my collection now
These are actually not my latest acquisitions though, because the other day my father gave me a 20 kroner 1993 that he had found in circulation. It's not like it's rare or anything, but it has a mintage of 674,000 (compared to more than 30 million for the 1990 example), and I hadn't found one yet myself.
Awesome thread! I like how you get all those silver and exotic coins for cheap. It especially amazes me how cheap you get those Dutch coins, here in the Netherlands people pay huge amounts of money just for a few 19th century coppers, not to mention silver coins... Even for the most common pre-1948 coins people go nuts with bidding! Maybe I should move to your country in the future, apparently Denmark is the happiest country on earth according to some surveys and coins cost next to nothing compared to my country!
Anyways, keep up the good work!
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
Dutch silver coins don't show up that often where I buy coins here, but when they do, there's not a lot of interest apparently. If there's anything you're interested in, let me know and I'll keep an eye out for you
Quote: "g00n"Thanks for the nice words, Lotus!
Dutch silver coins don't show up that often where I buy coins here, but when they do, there's not a lot of interest apparently. If there's anything you're interested in, let me know and I'll keep an eye out for you
That'll be great! If you find any silver 1 Gulden coins from the reign of Juliana or any pre-1948 Dutch coins at all, please let me know! ;)
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
My father is proving to be a good coin spotter for me. About a month ago he found the 20 kroner 1993 in circulation that I was missing, and not long after he also found the 10 kroner 1992, which with a mintage of 484,000 (compared to ~38,000,000 for 1989) is the hardest to find of the current circulating 10 kroner - thanks Dad!
Also - I've done it again. I bought two bulk lots for a combined ~9 kg of coins. I paid quite a bit more than I wanted to for the largest of them, but the seller had around 15 large bulk lots for sale, totalling more than 100 kg, and the same buyer was sweeping them all up, constantly outbidding me on a couple of them. Not always the wisest, in the heat of the moment decision to make, but I just thought "he ain't getting this one". And so he didn't. Anyway, I do love sorting through lots of coins, so I'm not too bothered about it now.
There does seem to be a decent mix of countries, and if nothing else I've at least got a new country with a 100 franken 1955 from Saar. My collection is nearing a point where I have most of the common dates from the popular countries though, so my swap list will probably see a surge in numbers in the coming months
I got the Austrian coins (combined silver value of 36 DKK) for 20 DKK, and the Swedish coin (silver value 25.85 DKK) for the same price.
Only bought the Dutch lot for the 1954 as I already have the 1 gulden 1955, so if anyone wants to swap those two for a couple of dates of the same type that I don't already have (1956, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967), hit me up! :-)
Quote: "g00n"Our Canadian guest returned to my office this morning - with 3 more coins he'd like to give me. Yay!
10 cents 2010, 25 cents 2005 and a dollar from 1989. Very kind of him, and now I have both a "loonie" and a "toonie" in my collection!
a loonie and a toonie for goonie---watch out i feel a tunee coming on
(Numista) country number 192 arrived! Normally any kind of Danzig coin is quickly bid up to quite high prices, but I managed to get this nice example unopposed for just 20 DKK (£2.26 / $3):
May do the same 
