Random fact of day: Did you know that part of the reason for the scarcity of the Panama pacific gold coins, is that people mainly wanted the $1 one with the dolphin on it, at the expense of the others? So less of the dolphin ones were melted, and more of the others!
Major focus on German coins this week; my "lost" packages from June and July that were returned to sender, have started turning up:
Set of 3 WWI Eastern Front occupation coins used in occupied Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia.
A 1/12th Thaler in billon from Brunswick that I got for close to melt; the George referenced is indeed George IV of the United Kingdom, as regent for Karl II.
Something not German for a change, I upgraded my Pei Yang dragon dollar with a better example of the same type, Y#73.3; the short tail variety indicates that this is actually a restrike from the early Republican era.
Got some nice stuff including the following romans:
Emperor Tacitus - Concordia Milit
Valerianus Caesar - Prince of the youth
Crispus Caesar - Battle stance portrait - Votis XX
Also those 2 nice medals:
Vatican City medal featuring a portrait of Pope Pius XI - 1925
And a serbian medal from the Balkan Wars
Quote: "Raibas"
Cass, can you please provide the Numista link for these three? I'm super interested in them, and I'd like to research their history more.
Fantastic! Thank you! I'm gaining more of an interest and admiration for the coins made from nontraditional metals that the World Wars caused to be brought into existence. These are three of them that I added to my collection this month.
I just bought a MASSIVE collection of NZ predecimal coins including 65 or more SYLVER ones
The coins on left are all Silver (Well .500 silver of pre 1947)
Ones on right are cupronickel ones of 1947 - 1965 period.
The Silvers include 13 half crowns, most are worn as possible and I got them under face
Also in them was a 1924 British and 1945 British one, the rest of the coins are all New Zealand
Most of the Cupronickel ones were in Nice condition
The collection also included 3 x large crown dollars of 1967 and 1969 and those damn 1967 sets which are
common as dirt (They made 400,000 of them compared to 10 - 30k in most 70s and 80s sets and a few thousand after 1990, they stopped uncirculated sets in 2013, although they still make proof ones)
Those 1967, 69 sets are just as common as dirt and I pay under face for them. I feel sorry for the mugus who paid like $2.50 each for them in 1967 dollars (About $60 in todays money)
They are always in that sticky PVC dangerous plastic of the time and like all of my sets of the era will need to be "Liberated" from that packaging. Even worse is the pink label are the cheapest, the better ones were the blue label polished coins. For some reason the 1c to 10c Australian 1966 UNC were also there. I bought the collection for the silver more than this extra stuff.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Quote: "Raibas"Cass, can you please provide the Numista link for these three? I'm super interested in them, and I'd like to research their history more.
Very interesting - known as Julian the apostate. He reinstituted the old pagan religions and reopened the temple of Jupiter. His reign only lasted a few years until he was succeeded by Jovian.
Then we had the most christian Theodosius after him. Still he was surprised to find many Roman citizens were still pagan and evidences of Paganism lasted through the rest of the empire.
His coins must be scarce!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
'GB Guinea Weight (21 Shillings) Brass Token Circa 1720 '
Though on first image, above where the IN of SHILLINGS is looks
like an X is there, so it may read THIRTY SIX SHILLINGS instead.
'A blank unpressed UK 10 pence coin planchet'
Further described as: 'found in sealed bag of 10p's from the bank'
Which I believe as the seller does not usually sell coins, and now
I have received it seems genuine in comparison to a normal coin.
I got this today at the ANA show just before it closed. A 1876 Japan 5 sen type 2. Graded NGC MS-65. It was just a amazing coin and I just had to have it. I think I got a decent deal at $60
Quote: "Idolenz"Very nice , listed for over 300 bucks in Japanese catalogs, I'm just not a fan of coin graves.
Really!?! Can you please show me? I can’t seem to find much info on this because of the high grade. And I’d have to disagree. I do like the coin slabs
Another visit to my coin ladies saw another haul of common stuff very cheaply
There was a bizarre accumulation of Thai 20 baht commems from 2007 of the Kings 80th birthday, each coin is Cupronickel 32mm in size and has a yellow ring in a case, except one. How will I get rid of them?
Much better was a nice British crown from 1953 in AU condition. Shiny but some light wear.
British modern coins including a £2 and a few 50ps
Some Japanese coins including a 500 yen
The rest was mostly Canadian nickels and dimes and some Australian change along with a couple of foreign junk pieces like Taiwanese Yuan, a Samoan Tala etc.
Total I paid - $44 NZ or about £25 or €28
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
what do you mean by Taiwanese Yuan? Taiwan’s currency is the New Taiwan Dollar not Yuan...... only China used Yuan
Maybe you can clarify for those of us who are outside the sinosphere. I'm curious because I also call the currency Yuan/Dollar in Taiwan (ROC) and Yuan/Renminbi in China (PRC). However, now that i read the wikipedia articles, it seems that while we make the distinction in English, in chinese apparently the NT$ is called yuan and represented by the character 元 or 圓 depending whether simplified or traditional.
what do you mean by Taiwanese Yuan? Taiwan’s currency is the New Taiwan Dollar not Yuan...... only China used Yuan
Maybe you can clarify for those of us who are outside the sinosphere. I'm curious because I also call the currency Yuan/Dollar in Taiwan (ROC) and Yuan/Renminbi in China (PRC). However, now that i read the wikipedia articles, it seems that while we make the distinction in English, in chinese apparently the NT$ is called yuan and represented by the character 元 or 圓 depending whether simplified or traditional.
Yuan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_(currency)
NT$: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Taiwan_dollar
Am i interpreting this right?
well if you see the reverse of all TWD Taiwanese coins they use 圓 because in Taiwan we use traditional mandarin and Taiwanese. Not simplified Mandarin
Yes, I put both characters in there because HK and Taiwan use traditional characters. But wikipedia says that in Chinese the NT$ is called Yuan (or a variation of it). Is that indeed the case? What do ordinary citizens in Taiwan call the currency in the local language?
Quote: "ashlobo"Yes, I put both characters in there because HK and Taiwan use traditional characters. But wikipedia says that in Chinese the NT$ is called Yuan (or a variation of it). Is that indeed the case? What do ordinary citizens in Taiwan call the currency in the local language?
Its dollar not Yuan for the whole country. You shouldn’t believe what Wikipedia says it must have mean simplified not traditional mandarin
Quote: "ashlobo"Yes, I put both characters in there because HK and Taiwan use traditional characters. But wikipedia says that in Chinese the NT$ is called Yuan (or a variation of it). Is that indeed the case? What do ordinary citizens in Taiwan call the currency in the local language?
Its dollar not Yuan for the whole country. You shouldn’t believe what Wikipedia says it must have mean simplified not traditional mandarin
That is far as writing is concerned, I wanted to know how do people pronounce the word. I agree wikipedia has to always be treated cautiously. From this website, it seems it is locally called "Kuai"
The New Taiwan dollar is the official currency of Taiwan (Republic of China). The currency code is TWD and is commonly abbreviated as NT$ or simply $ in front of the amount, or a Chinese character 元 (pronounced yuán) following the amount.
For example, prices could either be displayed as: "NT$30" or "30元".
The official name of the New Taiwan dollar in Chinese is 新台幣 (新台币 in simplified Chinese), pronounced Xīntáibì. Many people refer to currency in Taiwan as kuài (塊, or pieces) as an informal way to describe amounts of money, as yuán is difficult to pronounce repeatedly and is reserved for more formal situations. For example, NT$30 could be stated as "thirty NT", "thirty dollars", "thirty yuan", or, most commonly in informal situations, "thirty kuai". https://guidetotaipei.com/article/new-taiwan-dollar-nt-twd-%E6%96%B0%E5%8F%B0%E5%B9%A3
what do you mean by Taiwanese Yuan? Taiwan’s currency is the New Taiwan Dollar not Yuan...... only China used Yuan
Maybe you can clarify for those of us who are outside the sinosphere. I'm curious because I also call the currency Yuan/Dollar in Taiwan (ROC) and Yuan/Renminbi in China (PRC). However, now that i read the wikipedia articles, it seems that while we make the distinction in English, in chinese apparently the NT$ is called yuan and represented by the character 元 or 圓 depending whether simplified or traditional.
Yuan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_(currency)
NT$: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Taiwan_dollar
Am i interpreting this right?
Sorry I only speak one language and that is English - As far as I know Its always been the Taiwan yuan.
I do not speak or know anyform of Chinese or Taiwanese languages and have NO interest in learning them , even if the Chinese take over the world!
Yuan is a Chinese word for dollar, and even Hong Kong stamps of the early era have the denomination in Chinese in Yuan, Jiao and Fen rather than cents. I believe the old Chinese imperial currency system before Communism was 10 cash = 1 Fen 10 Fen = 1 Jiao, 10Jiao = 1 Yuan or Dollar (An old silver dollar coin).
And the other currency was 1 Tael = 10 Mace each of 10 Candereens and Yuan was 7 Mace and some candareens.
This is the tone of Numista's forum lately, arrogant know it alls who are never please and just seem to scan for mistakes.
Shoot me for not knowing about global cultures.
I can bet you if a person from Taiwan showed a British or English language coin wrong and called it something else and then someone from the English world corrected them, they would be called racist, colonialist and everything else under the sun.
I will stop showing my coins here and will cut down on forum posts, because I am tired of this crap.
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 love the story of this coin; French Sun King (Louis XIVth) was englued in a war. That one lasted so long that he got broken. Servicemen decided to strike as long as they would not have been paid (France, 4 centuries ago).
Value: 2 liards or a half "sou" (sol) or 40 coins for one silver pound (Livre = Écu).
Soldiers were earning around 6 sols and 4 deniers a day, id est 12 coins of "6 deniers Dardenne".
To cope with that strike, King Louis XIVth decided to let the obsolete marine guns melted in the arsenals where they were stored: La Rochelle, Montpellier and Aix en provence.
The war ended 1714, Philippe V is crowned. He is the first Bourbon and replaces the last Habsburg.
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