Welcome to May of 2026 (Here in New Zealand at least!).
This coin arrived in the morning post.
Very nice UNC 1942 Palestinian (British Palestine) 100 mils silver piece, 1942 was the last date of this type and the 3rd most commonly found after 1935 and 1939 for the 100 mils (1/10 of the old Palestinian pound).
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Nice group, noticed a Maximilian peso or 50 centavos in there!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Thanks guys, there were three of the fish scales with rainbow toning and I can't complain at melt. My personal fave here is the Yunnan 50c but the Maximilian peso is arguably the best coin
Kenny
- Verifying your Asian and British-territorial coins everyday with the best quality photos and the best information.
Whats the coin above the Trade Yen, looks like some late 18th or early 19th century Swedish or Danish silver piece, very interesting.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Bought a small lot of French pacific territory coinage and a rogue Samoa coin for only £6.99.
French Oceania x1
French Polynesia x8
New Caledonia x4
New Hebrides x8
Samoa x1
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.
A very worn Canadian cent from a year I don't have, every date I get, brings me closer - this one is definitely down there and well used!
A very worn Greek 10 Lepta from 1878 (Penny sized), in Greek it says “DUO OBOLOI” - 2 obols.
Imagine the tales these coins could tell. Both coins cost almost as much in letter rate postage!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
That is cool! Love the 1848 2d Stefan, it may actually be a circulation one, as they did a small issue in 1848 for Caribbean colonies. The 3 halfpence coin is cute too, another bow to West Indian women who did not like copper/bronze coins and look rich at the church donation table!
1985 $100 note is amazing Mr Midnight. I am assuming you are Canadian/American but live near the border. If I wanted a $100 note from 1985, I would have to buy it on trade me and it would look completely different to the ones of today!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
1822 and 1834 farthings. In reasonably good condition considering the lower value bronze would've been used alot in those days. Not perfect but still collection worthy.
I don't know about other folks, but today I'm getting the ‘I’m not a robot' pretty much everytime I try to do stuff. I've been upgrading my collection, and find that if I hit the ‘back’ button enough times, the AI, or whatever sinister culprit behind it loses interest, and I can move on.
Same place and time period of the Moroccan Spinosaurus by the way. (Now I must specify Morocco because of that new Spinosaurus species from Niger)
If you loved dinosaurs as a kid, you'll understand the temptation of getting a real piece of them at your hand.
But hey, getting the distant past at the palm of your hand is also the reason some of you likes ancient coins.
The third photo is to show that a part of the tooth's serration was preserved at the back edge. The partially preserved serration is the reason I picked this one over the others of the lot (a half dozen teeth with visible cracks and heavy restoration, hence the lower price compared to other specimens elsewhere).
And the little thing appearing at the top of the tooth is a quartz crystal.
This lot, acquired during the last few months, was waiting for me in the USA. Saving hundreds of $ on shipping, I had them sent to a friend I am currently visiting. While it meant patience and postponed satisfaction, it was worth it in the end.
So, I apologize to all the postal services but your service will be used only in dire emergency 😊
This lot, acquired during the last few months, was waiting for me in the USA. Saving hundreds of $ on shipping, I had them sent to a friend I am currently visiting. While it meant patience and postponed satisfaction, it was worth it in the end.
So, I apologize to all the postal services but your service will be used only in dire emergency 😊
Holy moly what a lot! The South African coins and the La Rochelle medal, incredible
Kenny
- Verifying your Asian and British-territorial coins everyday with the best quality photos and the best information.
Sudan non magnetic 20 and 50 Piastres and a full set of South Sudan coins. Glad ro finally find a full set of South Sudan coins on the UK market and even happier I paid £5.
After a quick sort through, some of the highlights are…
Some nice condition predecimal UK circulation coins, some silver of various grades from various places, a few Soviet era aluminium light weights, an interesting Cumberland Jack, and my very first brothel token. As a mixed lot, at not a great cost, this has been a good start to May. Also, I've not had to go very far over to the Dark Side (Surrey) for these :-).
I have also joined the theme of collection filling!
Managed to finally get a 1965 UK Halfcrown yesterday at the princely cost of $1 - bought a lot of common date Canadian coins to make the $8 courier post a viable option. Not rare in any sense of the word, but this is a coin I have needed since 2019. With its final addition it means my UK halfcrown collection is complete from 1849 to 1970. So having a common coin like that missing has been a massive thorn in my side.
Also bought a junk collection at the Riccarton Market (A weekly bric a brac thing in Christchurch in which some antique/junk dealers jostle with book and tool dealers along with people selling knock off Pokemon cards, ethnic food and veges (A day out every Sunday!) and the collection cost me $70. Actually likely overpaid, it was a grotty 1960s album with about 100 pennies and halfpennies but some good coins including a 1936 Swedish 1 Krone coin, which was decent and had about $25 silver value and a very manky US quarter from 1943. Of the pennies, there was an UNC 1953 Penny and Halfpenny of the UK. So that was $70 all up!
I have coming a AU 1944 UK Halfcrown and a AU 1941 Australian shilling. Both are basically upgrades.
Otherwise that may be me for May, I just spent a kiloton on new Lego models - Neuschwanstein castle and Town Street (Modular).
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Today I just received these two silver coins from the mail:
Earlier in the month I searched through a few small bags of foreign coins and found these rather common non-silver coins that are new types for my collection:
Today I just received these two silver coins from the mail:
Earlier in the month I searched through a few small bags of foreign coins and found these rather common non-silver coins that are new types for my collection:
Today I just received these two silver coins from the mail:
Earlier in the month I searched through a few small bags of foreign coins and found these rather common non-silver coins that are new types for my collection:
A selection of Tanzania and Kenya coins in a joblot. These 3 being the most interesting ones. The 1978 FAO 5 Shilingi being a non circulating commemorative according to numista but this one shows signs of circulation. Also low mintage at 50,000 so a nice haul.
Probably as inflation worsened, the coins got pressed into service, by the 1990s Tanzania was issuing 100 shillingi coins.
The portrait of Nyerere changed on the bank notes, but never the coins until the 2000s series.
Dejan, any pre1940s Walker in Fine or better condition is a great coin! 90% of the walkers around are always like 1941 to 1944 I find.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Great group! As you may know I love those big Ottoman and Egyptian silver pieces of the late Ottoman empire. The Turkish ones always have those ribbon, crescent rings and are smaller and lighter than the Egyptian coins. The 1848 one looks super modern as I read in 1844, the British gave or sold the Ottomans a modern coin steam press that made perfectly round, machine made coins and this superseded a machine for milled coins the French gave Suleiman II in 1689 (That is why my 1700s Zolotas are fairly round).
You will also find a lot of the Egyptian coins of Abdul Mecid onwards have H's on them, indicating they were minted by Heaton in Birmingham. I remember in 2020 when I first saw and bought a huge 20 piastres coin of Egypt and knew nothing about Ottoman coins, I thought it was like some medieval dirham from like 1100AD and got the shock of my life it was from like 1895 (1293 +22) and had a big old H on it, my dreams of Arabian nights and jaded odalesques, the coin on a hexagonal bowl surrounded by Aladdin's Lamp were shattered for it being on a table in some “Cafe de France” in Cairo c.1906.
The last 2 photos before the very nice 50 mils (Great score! makes my 100 from 1942 look meh!) show what I think are Persian coins possibly of Nasr al Din or one of his successors - definitely Qajar era! Very interesting pieces!
Above them is the large (25mm) cupro nickel 1 piastre coins introduced by Mehmed Reshad V around 1912 to replace the teensy 1 piastre coins in silver, next to a 5 piastres. The last date for these coins are Year 6 of 1327 (1332 = 1913/14) and then its the Hussein Kamil coins of 1916/17. Yours are year 5 for the 1 piastre and Year 3 for the 5 in silver.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
A shop owner had all their 50ps for change on show and these 2 amongst them and kindly let me swap them out. It's good to know I can still find one of the 1998 European Union anniversary in 2026. Last one I found was last year and the only 1 that year too.
cool finds! I actually wanted to post my recent purchase in this thread, but I forgot, so now I'm a bit late. I do have quite an interesting purchase, I wrote more about it here:
This half coin is now one of my favourites. Interestingly, the standard catalogue of German coins from 1997 does not record this coin, at all! I did find a mention in 2011, though.
The lot also included some other minor coins, e.g.
Back from my vacation in Spain. My first time there, and stuck to The areas in and around Madrid- Barcelona. I can see myself coming back to the country many times in the future!
Visiting The Casa de Moneda in Madrid was high on my list. I had read the exhibitions were not that great, but I would strongly disagree. There are so many absolutely amazing pieces over there although not all exhibits were in English. Else Id have hung around much Longer than I already did.
i picked up a couple souvenir coins depicting places and monuments I had just visited.. viz Segovia and Toledo. I’ll put more pictures about the mint in another thread
I also had The opportunity to go to the Sunday Coin market in Barcelona at the plaça Reail on two separate occasions. I picked up some nice older coins as well as a couple of newer coins, all just a smidge over melt value. I was quite happy indeed!
I picked up the 40€ coin since it had Leonor on it.
The 2000ptas completes my type collection of that denomination which was available at face value; an endeavour that has come to an end after 26yrs
the 2€ coins were at 3€ each, so I figured what the heck though I don’t collect post 2020 €2CC coins anymore
and finally I like crownsize silvers, these also plug a lot of my want list with them coming in practically at melt value. I particularly like the set showing Alfons XIII as a baby, toddler and pre-teen.
Recently saved all these from the melting pot, but some are in such worn condition that they may still end up there once I've checked the dates…
The 1921 half crown is a keeper
Indeed !!! My eyes practically popped out of my head when I saw it, especially as I only paid a few pounds for the whole lot, plus some other nice non silver coins.
even though the mint mark is pretty worn I think I can make out an ϵ.
Bottom right is some kind of barbarous imitation, probably late 200s?
Bottom middle is maybe a litra or dichalkon of some sorts, will do more research tomorrow.
Bottom left, a little nummus from one of the Constantines, only bought it because of the incredible condition of the reverse!
And finally, top right is a little russian wire kopeck. No idea of the ruler, no idea of the period, will I ask for help on the forum? Absolutely.
Such a sweet combination of some of my favourite coins! The kopeck is this one - one of the first ever made: N#111786
Thanks! Is there any kind of guide to help identify these wire kopecks?
There are several great books about them, but the easily available ones are in Russian only and heavy on history, so lots of the information will be useless if you don't understand the language. More English friendly literature is hard to find, at least as printed books. Quite the usable resource online used to be silver-copeck.ru, but it hasn't been up in a while. There's a good general guide to wire money in English here, and the contents of silver-copeck.ru seem to be available there also!
General attribution to a ruler and mint is often pretty straightforward if you are able to read the legends, but anything more precise usually requires comparing the details to catalogue pictures. They are absolutely fascinating coins! Sadly, the “current events” have made accessing coins and literature a lot more difficult.
Danish West Indies 1 cent 1860 found in a joblot of British and Channel islands coins. My best find this year so far and my first Danish colonial coin.
This May I once again got various uncirculated world coins.
Macau: 1982 full series
Jordan: King Abdullah II full series. It had been issued in a mint set, however the set is very rare. At least I have never seen it for sale before. So I decided to get just a simple set until I find one. I already had 1 qirsh coin in a better condition, so this one goes to my swap list.
Argentina: 1 cent - 1 peso (1983-1984)
Brazil: various immediately pre- and inflationary coins. I heard some people dislike them…But I think they are great!
Uruguay: 1989 5-500 peso. Got them from CSAN set. Unfortunately, it didn't contain 1 peso, which also seems to be much scarcer than the rest of the coins from this series.
Zambia: new series, which was first issued in 2024. All my coins are dated 2025. I really like the 2 and 5 kwacha coins. Specially the 5 kwacha. It is very thick, and has a security edge, which is quite rare nowadays. It is quite similar to Hong Kong 5 dollars.
Sudan: 1983 full series. 20 qirsh is quite rare. SCWC assigns it a mintage of just 72 000, and Schon of 79 500. It also has a small clip. Earlier I asked about it in the forum.
Bulgaria: 1974 series. These coins have been issued in proof sets (1979 and 1980), but for some reason those sets are way too expensive. It seems very strange because there is nothing outstanding about them. They both had a mintage of 2000 pieces, which is not low. Plenty of other countries have issued proof sets in even smaller numbers, and those don't cost nearly as much. And even the coins are extremely boring, and are basically just copies of Soviet coins. Maybe someday I will decide to get a proof set…but for now general coins will do.
Interesting detail: 20 stotinki has a very prominent die clash.
Mauritius:
- 1, 5 rupee 2012
- 10 rupee 2000
- 20 rupee 2007
Got them in a lot with few other Mauritian coins. Those however are present in the 1987 proof set, which isn't rare, therefore I decided to rather swap/sell them.
Tonga: 20, 50 cents 2011. Similarly to Mauritian coins, these also came in a lot with some other coins, which I already have. The duplicates will also go to my swap list.
Gambia: 50 bututs, 1 dalasi 2016. They also came in a lot with few 1998 coins. When I started to add coins to my collection, I noticed that Gambia issued a mint set in 1998. It doesn't seem to be very expensive, so those are also going straight to my swap list.
Honduras: 1 cent 1992. Also came in a lot with other uncirculated Honduran coins from the 90's, which I already had. Those are also in my swap list.
Kiribati: 1 cent 1992 (magnetic)
India: 1 paisa 1957. It was issued in proof sets, but those are very rare. For now I decided to just get a general coin.
Uganda: 50 cents 1976
Philippines: 5 cents 1966
Bonus:
Swap list additions. Besides those coins I have mentioned previously, I also got a polish grosz from 2023 as a gift from one seller.
One interesting detail is that the Tongan 10 cent from this lot is a 2012 issue which is dated 1981. I guess it can be called a restrike?
Stamps from CSAN sets, from which I got some of the coins
Great group, I love buying those fresh new sets of uncirculated coins from less seen countries. I bought a lot of a dealer in late 2022 and early 2023 and did a thread here on them.https://en.numista.com/forum/topic134913.html
Those designs on the Tongan coins remained through to 2012, the Fa akai Meakai means “Make more (produce) food” in Tongan and the coins were issued from 1975 through to 2011/12 with post 1992 issues in stainless steel and copper plated steel rather than cupronickel and bronze. In 2015 these coins were replaced with a smaller steel set from 5 to 50 seniti and a $1 pa'anga brass plated steel coin.
I agree the Jordanian set is very expensive, I paid around $20 for my one. I think their half dinar has a face value of around $2 (NZ) and they are nice coins. The Tongan/Mauritian group I suspect are all part of a FAO set, as they periodically did coins on many developing nation sets.
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 took a good chunk of this morning sorting through the coins in my reception box, which has just filled up for the first time in months:
These mostly came from clearing up the clutter in my relatives' place as they are moving for a short while. They are all exceedingly common, late-era British Hong Kong coins dated 1975-1992.
"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."
I have been collecting all of the post Ottoman countries of the Levant, here from Iraq, one from the Hashemite kingdom, and two from the post 1958 revolution Republic.
From the other end of the Med, here one is the last silver 50 cent coins struck in Spain, and the only coin I think, with the 6th portrait of Alphonso XIII.
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
The obverse legend is rather uncommon for this Caesar (heir): DN FL CL CONSTANTINVS NOB C.
The reverse shows a campgate with three turrets and the legend PROVIDEN—TIAE CAESS; mintmark SMHЄ for Heraclea. At first I thought it was SMKЄ but the combinaison of the obverse legend plus the campgate seems to exist only at Heraclea (though I haven't completed my research yet).
My last buys for the month have been low key, a local shop has a coin seller and she has big bins of bulk world coins, you can search through and she looks at the pile and says a price, always cheap.
I got a gigantic pile of world change for $5. In it was 7 Euro in various coins from a Euro down to 1 cent, 7 Canadian quarters I did not have, 650 Yen mostly in 100Yen coins, 5 Swiss francs including 2 x 2 Franc coins, a silver war nickel (1943S), 7 shiny 1950s UK shillings, a shiny 25 centimos from Venezuela, a 1912 French 10 Centimes in VF, 15 Danish Kroner, and at least 20 other coins, in all about a kg of coins for $5. Just a massive bargain.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
