Additions to your collection - July 2015

Same as the last one, but for july.
Mine is an Ionian islands 2 lepta 1820:


Price was 4.75 dollars.

You beat me to it, I've got a couple coming in the mail that should be here today or tomorrow.

Received a nice little souvenir token this morning from Table Mountain Cableway:


The Bronze version of this.

I got very lucky with the bidding,  13p, with free postage.

Full details of the token here.

Everyone has a worn-out cartwheel penny, but this one is a bit different


Also I got a pile of banknotes

A nice XF Alwar 1891 rupee the script is different on the reverse to the other issue and I've been chasing a nice one for a while, this come up for a good price so I snatched it !
EDIT: Better pics really happy with it. Just need the crude style Victoria rupee's now to have a full set from the princely states

First new coin to arrive this month:


A few more from Romania. The 1867 5 Bani is km#3.1 (5g, medal alignment) and the rest are coin alignment.


For Russia, 10-15-20 kopeks are quite common, as well as the bigger 50 kopeks and 1 Ruble. 25 kopeks is a pretty unusual denomination:


A couple of WWII silver commemoratives - Slovakia under Nazi rule (they fought on the side of Germany for most of WWII):
St. Cyril and St. Methodius

5th Anniversary of Independence (how ironic)


Another commemorative, this one from Uruguay:
Bruno Mauricio de Zabala - 250 years since the establishment of Montevideo


Italy, Victor Emmanuel III:

The 2x2 holders they were in are pretty old and have some scratches on the plastic. The coins are actually in better condition than you would think by looking at on these scans.

Last batch - ok, so I bought a 20-pocket page of 2x2s, which included several coins that I didn't have:

some of them were misidentified, including the Venezuelan Bolivar above (as you might have guessed, as Bolivia) and this nice St. Pierre and Miquelon Frank as France - kind of a nice bonus :)

Waiting for this to pop through my door via Germany.

Mongolia:

I bought a set of Hutt River coins, which is on the way to me now. After buying I try to find more info on Hutt River and noticed it's not a real country, but the story of Prince Leonard I (on the dutch wikipedia) is really funny!
A small part of Australia (max 100 people) with an own army with 8 tanks in the UK and no soldiers. A police officier ... Living in Sweden.... :-))

The month of July started out fairly well with several nice purchases.  Here are just a few.  I'll post several others later...    

Byzantine Empire: Michael VIII Palaeologus (1261-1282) Æ Trachy, Thessalonica (Sear-2297)

Obv: The Archangel Michael standing facing, holding labarum and sword
Rev: Half-length facing figures of Michael, holding cruciform scepter, and St. Demetrius, holding spear, supporting staff surmounted by cross within circle between them




Byzantine Empire: Theophilus (829-842) Æ Follis, Syracuse (Sear-1681)

Obv: Crowned bust facing, wearing loros holding globus cruciger
Rev: Large M; X/X/X to left, cross above, N/N/N to right, Ө below




Byzantine Empire: Constantine V (741-775) AE Follis, Syracuse Mint (Sear-1569)

Obv: Two half-length figures facing, Constantine V, bearded to left, and Leo IV, beardless to right, each wearing crown with cross, holding in right hand akakia; between heads, cross. To left K, Λ/Є/O/N to right
Rev: Half length figure of Leo III facing, bearded, wearing chlamys and crown with cross, holding in right hand, cross potent on base; Λ/Є/O/N to left, Δ/Є/C/Π to right




Byzantine Empire: Constantine VI & Irene (780-797) Æ Follis, Constantinople (Sear-1598)

Obv: Crowned bust of Irene facing, wearing loros and holding globus cruciger and cruciform scepter
Rev: Crowned bust of Constantine facing, [holding globus cruciger; pellet to left;] to right, cross above pellet; in exergue, large M between X N and above A

Another batch , but more to come later...   :

Byzantine Empire: Nicephorus I (802-811) Æ Follis, Syracuse (Sear-1612)

Obv: Crowned bust of Nicephorus facing, wearing loros and holding cross potent
Rev: Crowned bust of Stauracius facing, wearing chlamys and holding cross potent




Byzantine Empire: Michael I Rhangabe (811-813) Æ Follis, Syracuse (Sear-1624; DOC-9; Anastasi-477)

Obv: Crowned bearded bust of Michael facing, wearing loros and holding cross potent
Rev: Crowned beardless bust of Michael facing, wearing chlamys and holding globus cruciger




Byzantine Empire: Leo V the Armenian (813-820) Æ Follis, Syracuse (Sear-1635; DOC 19a; Anastasi 497)

Obv: Crowned half-length busts of Leo and Constantine facing, each wearing crown and chlamys; cross above
Rev: Large Λ K; cross above




Byzantine Empire: Leo III the Isaurian (717-741) Æ Follis, Syracuse (Sear-1531; DOC-55; Anastasi-414)

Obv: Leo standing facing, wearing crown and chlamys, and holding akakia
Rev: Constantine standing facing, wearing crown and chlamys, and holding akakia




Byzantine Empire: Heraclius (610-641) Æ Decanummium, Thessalonica (Sear-818; DOC-97)

Obv: Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right
Rev: Large X; cross above, date to right

Still more to come   :

Byzantine Empire: Justin II with Sophia (565-578) Æ Half Follis, Constantine in Numidia (Sear-403)

Obv: Justin, holding globus cruciger, and Sophia, holding cruciform scepter, seated facing on throne; [cross above]
Rev: Large K; A/N/N/O to left, reversed Christogram above, ςII (date) to right, CON below




Byzantine Empire: Andronicus II Palaeologus with Michael IX (1282-1328) Æ Assarion, Constantinople (Sear-2430)

Obv: Andonicus and Michael standing facing, holding labarum between them
Rev: Cross pattée; pellets in quarters




Empire of Nicaea: John III Ducas-Vatazes (1222-1254) Æ Tetarteron, Magnesia (Sear-2120)

Obv: Emperor standing facing, holding labarumr and globus cruciger
Rev: Patriarchal cross set on two steps




Byzantine Empire: Alexius I Comnenus (1081-1118) Æ Tetarteron, Thessalonica (Sear-1931)

Obv: Crowned facing bust, holding cruciform scepter and globus cruciger
Rev: Jeweled cross with central X and globe at each extremity; C-Φ/AΛ-Δ in angles




Byzantine Empire: Alexius I Comnenus (1081-1118) Æ Follis, Thessalonica (Sear-1911)

Obv: Cross potent set on two steps; pellet at each termination of arm
Rev: CЄP CVN/ЄPΓЄI BA/CIΛЄI AΛ/ЄZIω in five lines




Byzantine Empire: Basil I the Macedonian (867-886) Æ Follis, Constantinople (Sear-1712)

Obv: Crowned facing half-length figures of Basil, wearing loros and holding akakia, flanked by Leo and Constantine, each wearing chlamys
Rev: + ЬASIL / COҺSTAҺ / T S LЄOҺ ЄҺ / ΘO ЬASILS / ROMЄOҺ in five lines; star below

I still have several more neat coins I purchased the past two weeks which needs to be attributed properly, but here are several coins I attributed recently:

Early Anglo-Saxon, Kingdom of Northumbria: Eanred (810-841) Æ Styca (SCBC-862)

Obv: +EANRED REX; Small central cross
Rev: +DIHTRA; Small central cross




Arya Chakravartis of Jaffna: Anonymous (ca. 1284-1410) Æ Massa (MNSI-862)

Obv: Seated king on left facing right with Tamil legend செது (SETU) vertically below his arm.
Rev: Standing king with crown consisting two lines and a dot, trident on left under raised right arm. A bull couchant vertically with a circle before it. All in bead circle. group of spheres on right, surmounted by crescent.




Imperial Chola: Raja Raja I (ca. 1007) Æ Kasu (Biddulph-21)

Obv: King half seated, with raised arm on right; Devanagari legend beneath raised arm; श्री राजा राजा (Sri Raja Raja)
Rev: Standing man, with lamp on left and fish on right, representing the the Pandya conquest

Since this is a free discusion, here is something different that I purchased this month.  It is a cuneiform cone from the reign of Gudea around 2144 - 2124 BCE.  It is dedicated to Ningirsu, the patron deity of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash, in southern Iraq.  I have translated and transcribed the text in cuneiform as well as in the standard latin form.  I'll take better pictures later  

where did you buy it from?
do you know a trustable antique dealer or do you buy them from ebay?

Απόσπασμα: kolikko99where did you buy it from?
do you know a trustable antique dealer or do you buy them from ebay?

The provenance is good and hence predates both Iraqi wars.  It originally came from an legitimate US auctioneer about 25 years ago and was bought directly from a college professor in the US, so its legit  

BTW, this isn't my first cuneiform tablet.  I have two others that needs to be attributed.  One of the two has already been submitted to the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) for archiving.  

I've always been fascinated about antiques and archeology and that's a nice piece of history you got there, I've always been suspicious about tiny ancient egyptian statues sold on ebay for less than a thousand a piece but are real antiques really worth only few hundred dollars?

Απόσπασμα: kolikko99I've always been fascinated about antiques and archeology and that's a nice piece of history you got there, I've always been suspicious about tiny ancient egyptian statues sold on ebay for less than a thousand a piece but are real antiques really worth only few hundred dollars?

Some are very affordable, especially those Egyptian statues.  Just like coins, it all depends on availability and demand.  There are plenty of  Ushabti figurines, as tons of them were buried in the tombs, that only cost a few hundred dollars.  The problem is you got to buy them from legitimate dealers as there are too many fakes out there.  I have been meaning to pick one of them myself, but have been holding out for a good quality one.  The Egyptian scarabs are another cheap antique that can be easily picked up as well as others.  Here is another antique I picked up a while back:


Teotihuacan, Mexico: Anonymous (ca. Late Metepec 650-750 CE) Half-Conical Moldmade Figurine (cf Berrin-95)

Figurine depicts an important member of the ruling elite. He is lavishly adorned with a fancy headdress, multiple necklaces and large ear ornaments. Rare red pigment still present in the grooves of the figurine.

Some more...

Indo-Scythian: Azes I (ca. 58-12 BCE) AR Drachm (Hoover-640)

Obv: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΝ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΑΖΟΥ (The Great King of Kings Azes); Diademed Zeus standing left holding scepter and making benediction gesture
Rev: ?????? ????? ????? ??? (Maharajasa rajarajasa mahatasa Ayasa); Nike standing right holding wreath and filleted palm branch.  Monogram of Taxila to right

Transcription of the Kharosthi legend as most people probably don't have Kharosthi Unicode fonts...

Finally got a new style UK  coin took forever

For the "modern crowd", here is a porcelain Nazi medal I picked up earlier this month.  I have about 7 or 8 more in my collection.

Germany, Third Reich: "Battle of Britain" Porcelain Medal (1940), Meissen Mint (Scheuch-1877a)

Issued to commemorate the Battle of Britain.  According to Scheuch, less than 2,000 of this variety was struck.

Obv: Four “Stuka” dive-bombers descending on the Tower Bridge in London; ES GIBT HEUTE KEINE INSELN MEHR (Today, there are no more islands)
Rev: Swastika within wreath; DER UNS AUFGEZWUNGENE KRIEG MUSS ZUM GLORREICHSTEN SIEG DER DEUTSCHEN GESCHICHTE WERDEN (The war that has been forced upon us, will be the most glorious of our history)

Pre-euro notes from Portugal, Spain and France.

Rupee notes from Mauritius and Ceylon.


Hungarian hyperinflation note.

Romania 5 lei 1881, Austria 5 Coruna 1908, 3rd reich 5 reichsmark 1936D and 1937A.


Austria 1 gulden 1858.


Austria 1 gulden 1866.

I'm an addict !
I was waiting for PR issues from wolfenbuttel (prince regent) I got the 24 mg the other day and I've been waiting for 1 &2 Stüber coins from a hard to get state for such a long time I was miffed that the 24mg & 1 Stüber came up together but now so have these so I had to have them !

 A few additions since my last posting on the June topic ...

'Isle of Man 1981 Beethoven Crown - sealed pack'


'France Lan 7 5 centimes coin 1798-1799 Mintmark A Paris'


'Falkland Islands 20 set of UNC coins job lot'
- 'Astonishing shiny UNC coins taken from Mint bags'


'Falkland Islands 9 Unc coin set 2011'


'Falkland Islands Malvinas 30th Anniversary of war Argentine UNC 1 coin 2012'


'Scarce Argentina 5x 200th Bicentenary Anniversary Comm Bimetallic $1 Coins'


'Isle of Man IOM 9 Unc coin set'


'Lot of mixed World coins & tokens'



'Monneron 2 Sols 1791'

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces26418.html

'Jeton Louis XIV (33)' [Non-dated]  Louis XIV (1643-1715)

Diameter 27mm  Weight 5.3 gram  Brass  (Ref. Feuardent 13202 similar)
LUDOVICUS MAGNUS·REX·  //  LATE·CUNCTA·PROFUNDIT·
Head of the Sun King right  //  Aurora (Dawn) in her carriage to right
 - - - - -
Royal Navy jeton struck circa 1700. Dawn in drapery left, holding in the left hand a gleaming torch, in a chariot galloping right, above the clouds

'Jeton Louis XIV (8) 1677'  Louis XIV (1643-1715)

Diameter 27mm  Weight 5.3 gram  Copper  Ref. Feuardent: 14012
·LVD·XIIII·D·G·FR·ET·NAV·REX·  //  ·LA·FLANDRE·SUBJUGUEE·  ·1677·
Head of the Sun King right  //  captive Flanders seated
 - - - - -
Louis XIV - French Flanders. Historical jeton struck in 1677 to celebrate the annexion
of the province, during the Franco-Dutch war.
Struggle for supremacy over the Spanish Netherlands between the Habsburgs and Bourbons. Signed on the submission of Flanders by Louis XIV. Before Tropaion sits grieving country goddess

'Jeton Louis XIV et Marie-Thérèse (28) 1666'  Louis XIV (1643-1715)

Diameter 25mm  Weight 3.7 gram  Copper  Ref. Feuardent: 13063aaa
LUD·XIIII·ET·MAR·THER·D·G·FR·ET·NAV·REX·  ·ET·REG·  //  AVDAX·IRE·VIAS
Portraits facing, type Guéant-Prieur 486B  //  the sun on the zodiac over a landscape
 - - - - -
Louis XIV and Maria-Theresa of Spain Jeton struck 1666 for the King and the Queen of France and Navarre

 I have a few other coins currently with bids on, but have not won them yet.  

Picked up several more Byzantine coins the past few days (and lost several of them too    , especially ones that are difficult to obtain):

Byzantine Empire: Leontius (695-698) Æ Follis, Syracuse (Sear-1344)

Obv: Leontius standing facing, wearing crown and loros, and holding akakia and globus cruciger
Rev: Large M; monogram above; SCL below




Byzantine Empire: Heraclius (610-641) Æ Decanummium, Catania (Sear-886; DOC-257; Anastasi-62; MIB-241)

Obv: Crowned, draped, and cuirassed busts of Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine facing; cross above
Rev: Large I; X/ς (date) to right; CAT below





Empire of Nicaea: John III Ducas-Vatazes (1222-1254) BI Trachy, Thessalonica (Sear-2131)

Obv: Facing half-length bust of St. George, holding spear and shield
Rev: Facing half-length busts of John and St. Demetrius, holding between them staff surmounted by cross in circle




Byzantine Empire: Andronicus II Palaeologus (1282-1328) Æ Trachy, Constantinople (LPC-12)

Obv: Bust of Archangel Michael facing, holding scepter and globus
Rev: Andronicus standing facing, holding cruciform scepter and being crowned by Christ standing facing to right

As I don't receive directly coins from auctions at home, I've took back some results of these. So I'll add a high list.

Let's start with new denominations from already registered countries:

• British Caribbean Territories/East Caribbean States: 1 cent 1965-1994, 10 cents 1965, 25 cents 1955-1962-1965, 1 dollar 1989
  
• Ceylon: 1 cent 1937
  
• Hong-Kong: 10 cents 1974
  
• Jamaica: 1 cent 1969
  

And now... 10 new countries!

• Falkland Islands: 50 pence 1980
  
• Gabon: 100 francs 1978
  
• India (East India Company): 1/2 Anna 1835 Madras/Chennai Mint
  
• Malaya: 1 cent 1943-1945
  
• Malaya & British Borneo: 10 cents 1953
  
• Mauritania: 1 ouigiya 1983
  
• Ottoman Empire: 1 kurus 1902
  
• Papua New Guinea: 20 toea 2009
  
• Rome (ancient): Follis Constantinus I (Trier)
  
• St Pierre & Miquelon: 1 franc 1948
  

Απόσπασμα: ZacUK'Lot of mixed World coins & tokens'

Argh ... why do people make holes in coins that have there own holes from the beginning?  

Απόσπασμα: IdolenzArgh ... why do people make holes in coins that have there own holes from the beginning?  

 You are correct - that is what I thought too !

Just picked up this beautiful Egyptian 50 piastres... It's a huge coin and I got it for 12.99 half of book value ?

I just got some more NZ trade tokens

Two from Milner and Thompson




And one from Hobday and Jobberns

Here is my splurge for the month:

France 2014 10 Euro Tour Eiffel and Palais de Chailot



France 2015 10 Euro Hôtel des Invalides and Grande Palais



I am a sucker for a great building.

I like this way better than bargain finds, this way everyone can show what they have and if you get a bargain, you can just put it in here too!

  All I have for this month is a wheat cent I found in a friends pennies.

Απόσπασμα: redsmithstudiosI like this way better than bargain finds, this way everyone can show what they have and if you get a bargain, you can just put it in here too!

Yes, and people keep pinching my ideas  

I started this thread back in May because the bargain finds one gets pretty big to sort through after a few months.

Here is another purchase that came in the mail today.  It's a medal from the Antwerp universal expo from 1885.  Unfortunately it's a little worn and has a few dings because it's a beautiful design

Australian Lunar Calendar series II (started in 2008 and will be running thru 2020), MS-BU $1s. Just got this year's coin from APMEX a few days ago. Still missing 2011 (year of the rabbit) - kinda hard to find one for less than $70.


Year of the dragon was issued in multiple color combinations (something like 5 or 6 of them, for different coin shows), but getting them all would be far too expensive, so I had to limit myself to just one.

Much more attractive designs than series I had, I think.

I've added some new :









And a seller of the market where i go gave me these coins freely, they were in his cash box :

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1799.html

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces58463.html

Απόσπασμα: neilithicYes, and people keep pinching my ideas  

Yes, I have seen that over the years, but I guess you will have to take that as a complement. "Monthly additions to your collections"is now a free for all, I guess you will have to cheat and put it up one day early like this post was done

Απόσπασμα: redsmithstudiosYes, I have seen that over the years, but I guess you will have to take that as a complement. "Monthly additions to your collections"is now a free for all, I guess you will have to cheat and put it up one day early like this post was done

I've usually got an advantage because NZ is right on the international date line...I'll just have to make sure I time it so my coins arrive on time  

I got this gem last night as part of a gun sale! I dont know anything about III cents but l really like it.

Nothing super special here, but it's what I got in the mail yesterday.  Several Ebay auctions that I recently won.  While there aren't any really rare coins in here, there are a few that will up my countries count!  At least one more German 10 Pfennig.  I've only got around 300 coins and probably 15 of them are 10 Pfennigs!

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Times almost out for this thread, hope to see you in the August thread  

Απόσπασμα: dsanders337Nothing super special here, but it's what I got in the mail yesterday.  Several Ebay auctions that I recently won.  While there aren't any really rare coins in here, there are a few that will up my countries count!  At least one more German 10 Pfennig.  I've only got around 300 coins and probably 15 of them are 10 Pfennigs!

If your just getting your start you might do better buying a bulk lot, even members here have extra bulk.

Απόσπασμα: redsmithstudioseven members here have extra bulk.

I have plenty of extra bulk, unfortunately it's not coins though

I've bought a couple of bulk lots.  In fact, that's kind of how I got my start.  I had picked up a couple of individual coins here and there over the years, but my wife got me a bulk lot for Father's Day.  That got me hooked, and I picked up a couple of more bulk lots.  The only bad thing about the bulk lots I've had so far is that I get a ton of repeats.  Now I try to focus on countries I don't have, or bulk lots that are pretty cheap (just because they are tons of fun to look through).