This time I double and triple checked that no one else had started the monthly thread before me.
These all technically came from last weekend, but I only added them to my Numista collection just today so they are officially at least, additions from July 2019.
First off, Weimar #11 came in the mail from a Numista member:
Along with this set of Potsdam Garrison church commemoratives with the "21st March 1933" date- really common coins but I didn't want to spend money on them so I'm glad I got them from a swap instead.
(the 5 RM has a lot of hairlines, probably from a past cleaning but it definitely retoned spectacularly!)
I also went to a local weekend coin market/fair, and got some goodies there as well; two common, circulating Imperial thalers, one of which has nice toning/patina:
As well as finally getting a Belgian Congo 50 Francs, the big silver (almost) crown from this issuer:
Speaking of Belgium, there was also this one that I picked up cheap, the copper version of the 50th anniversary of Belgium 5 francs from 1880.
Thing is even though the silver ones on the 25g crownsize module circulated as normal 5F coins, these copper ones probably didn't- and yet this coin definitely shows a fair deal of wear, much more on the reverse than obverse too.
And finally, it's not every day you can say you got a gold coin for 15 euro!
Wanted an Indian gold fanam for a while, but was unwilling to pay too much- this one was 20 euro asking price but with the net discount I got from the seller I probably paid 15, if not less.
I posted this on the French forum since it is a French coin, but I thought some of you would be interested as well since I got a nice surprise when I opened the envelope this morning:
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So, a 5 francs Napoleon 1812 K, but as you can see there was a neat die clash so that the date is clearly mirrored on the obverse. This seems to have been missed by the seller and his photo on eBay wasn't clear enough to see it either, unless you really looked closely. So, as soon as I got to look at it up close, it was quite a surprise to see such a neat die clash!
A dream came true! One of my favorite coronation medals, which has been on a high spot in my wishlist for a long time, is mine now. I never thought I would see one of those in my pricerange but this one sold pretty cheap due to the edge damage I guess.
Also Iam fully back in collecting roman coins, and received a bunch of mainly constantinian ones today. But I also one these 2: 1. Gordian III -Virtus Augustus
2. Macrinus and son Diadumenian on a provincial coin I think, I havent identified the goddess on the reverse yet
A Roman denarius from Elagabalus.
The winged victory type with the star in the left field, Sear #7535.
I got this one for 500 Hong Kong dollars after bargaining from a price of 600.
This one’s my most expensive coin yet. I think I’m going to abstain from buying coins for the next few weeks, until my pocket money pays me back- Ooh a coin!
光復香港 時代革命
五大訴求 缺一不可
Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of our times
A Jamaican mint set from 1969, UNC but taken from its packet, long before I got it.
Features 1c to 25c and a $1 with Bustamante on it.
Back when a Jamaican dollar was actually worth a dollar.
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 am not an habitual in this topic and i will not be since i am trying to stop buying coins this month (a few packages coming and i will stop) but I got this today
Despite thoose spots and the worn that can be saw in the Friedrich face, i got it by a very good price.
Se queres ca muller che queira, ten diñeiro na carteira
Απόσπασμα: "klei92"I am not an habitual in this topic and i will not be since i am trying to stop buying coins this month (a few packages coming and i will stop) but I got this today
Despite thoose spots and the worn that can be saw in the Friedrich face, i got it by a very good price.
If you keep buying coins like this - Please don't, historic, interesting and beautiful.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Highlights from yesterday+today packages (not all added to my collection yet; Daylight is not helping me making the pics, I swear none of the them is hardly cleaned (1st very worn of corse, 2nd mostly original lustre seem to me).
1 Real - Mexico (Spain)
5 Centimes - Tunisia
10 Centimes - Tunisia
1 Pfennig - Kingdom of Hannover
10 Pfennig - Mainz
1 Sen - Japan (1885)
1 Mil - British Palestine
1 Cent - Canada
1 Penny - Australia
Got a few Spanish (2 and 4) Maravedies from XVIII century but the daylight is making them seem like they are polished to look like silver when they are dark borwn and they are not even thaaaat worn
Edit: got them in carboard by seller, so picks are with it.
Se queres ca muller che queira, ten diñeiro na carteira
Hello people. I got a new brunei specimen 1970 coin set.
Only problem, I am not sure where does this belongs to. The information is very fuzzy as there is no COA.
Word of mouth I check with afew people, they confirmed that this set was issued by Singapore mint. They are base metal. They do looked Alittle shiny like proof. But I do not think they are proof sets.
I looked at Steven tan catalogue, they only say set. In the later years they are called deluxe set because they come with a wooden box and polish to proof with COA.
I did Alittle read up on specimen coins, how to regonised them. I realise that, there is no standard for specimen coins.
Be kind to people. Sharing is Caring. Collect what you like and not by the Crowd.
To seek for perfection, it is too painful and there is a very high price to pay. To seek for something comfortable is more easy. To seek for nothing is even more easy.
This coin was probably the inspiration for the Finnish Markka coins made in the late 19th and early 20th century. The coin was worth 1/8 of a riksdaler.
Απόσπασμα: "HongKongCoinCollector"I think I’m going to abstain from buying coins for the next few weeks, until my pocket money pays me back.
Yeah, that obviously never actually happened.
I got some nice coins in a boxful of 25p each in a coin shop in Liverpool. Some Maltese, some Barbadian and a Nazi German coin. (Yes. That, for 25p.)
And then a British 1 pound and 2 pound coin from circulation that will complete my British type collection. Yaaaay!
And then a Roman bronze coin. Diocletian, Jupiter standing naked holding thunderbolts and Victoria, Rome mint. My Roman collection is starting to grow. And my ability to identify them is too. (With help from Wildwinds, deffo.)
I’ll be looking for more coins in Cambridge and London. (A BIG thanks to the people’s list.)
光復香港 時代革命
五大訴求 缺一不可
Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of our times
Been a slow month so far for my collection since that coin market, because it turns out there was an error in my address listed on Ebay- so now all my packages from the past few weeks are being returned to sender.
But a couple of things I did get:
A 10 cash coin from Chingkiang (not to be confused with Chekiang) province, in what is modern day Kiangsu province; the listings on Numista for its copper coins are under two different province "currencies" under China Empire, presumably because of a variation in the Romanisation of the province name. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces27782.html
And also a holed 2 reales from Catalonia (Spanish states) I got for close to melt:
Interesting "monogram" (not sure if we can call it that anymore given his whole name is in it), but this coin is also interesting in another way- to a non historian it would seem Charles III of Spain ruled until 1788, so this coin would seem to be evidence of him having a 80+ year long reign- but this is not the case!
It was minted during the War of Spanish Succession, when the Habsburg candidate for the Spanish throne, Archduke Charles, claimed it as Charles III (of Spain)- he was only able to rule in Catalonia for a few years, until he became Holy Roman Emperor in 1709, whereupon the British withdrew from supporting him.
Believe it or not, there's a place in northern Ontario called Moose Factory. Its claim to some numismatic fame is the Hudson's Bay Company "made beaver" tokens (produced about 1870) countermarked with a punch on the reverse. I received this one over the past week:
1 Öre 1626.This is a coin from the first copper coin "set" of 1 fyrk (1/4 öre) 1/2 öre, 1 öre and 2 öre, these coins were first struck in 1624. It is a thick copper klippe. The copper is probably from the falun mine.
Απόσπασμα: "Roublizer"Pleased with what I got this month
I don’t know anything about these but they are beautiful
Top is a Toman of Iran under Nasir al din Shah, it was under his reign that Iran moved from hammered coinage to machined coinage.
Bottom is a (edit: one of the two varieties of the) Surre Altin of the Ottoman Empire under Mahmud II, this was just one of the many different series issued under his reign, this one apparently made for use by pilgrims traveling to Mecca.
A nice bag of some used African circulation coins. Condition not best, but some stunners and not easy to find here.
Includes Kenya 1 shilling to 2shilling, Botswana 5thebe to 5Pula, Ghanaian 50 cedis, French west africa 100 Francs, Namibia 5c to 50c, Various south african to 2 rand, Uganda 100 and 200 shilingi and Malawian kwacha - a very interesting mix.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Got myself this 1925 5 Mark Rhineland Millenary commemorative; you gotta hold one in hand to appreciate it's really nicely sized, not big enough to be a crown but enough to make a statement. My second Weimar 5RM commemorative; felt a little guilty buying one when I haven't completed the 3s yet but this coin I won at only 40€, so would've been a shame to let it go (even though it has some PVC residue across the obverse)!
Also this electrum (gold-silver alloy) Meiji-era 1868-69 Japanese 2 Bu, which will go well with my 2 Shu; this is one of the last Japanese "bar money" ever made (1 or 2 years before the introduction of Western made coinage struck at Osaka and Tokyo with machinery purchased from the British at Hong Kong).
And speaking of Japanese bar money, my contemporary counterfeit 1 Bu Gin that a friend gave me gratis; despite it being designated a fake of JNDA 09-52 (Ansei type) by PCGS, the bottom stroke on the character "是" seems to indicate that it's an imitation of a Tenpo coin.
Hello and have a nice day.
I brought the Prague groschen from my trip to Prague and the second one (the token is embarrassing to put next to abreast) the granddaughter gave me. However, the continuity and development there is from silver to plastic.
+ I have received the Danube Celts, and the Roman province, I'll give it so I can better identify it- Coin identifications and valuations.
Wo.... I found a error coins while just casually buying it. Its a minor die rotation error.
So happy for this 1st error coin finding.
Be kind to people. Sharing is Caring. Collect what you like and not by the Crowd.
To seek for perfection, it is too painful and there is a very high price to pay. To seek for something comfortable is more easy. To seek for nothing is even more easy.
Paid only slightly under book but well under market value in VF:
Looks like a British coin at first glance but no, it's my first double thaler! Still can't get over how magnificent the full arms on the reverse looks either.
. 10 and 20 korun with T.G. Masaryk.
Still can't get over how magnificent the full arms on the reverse looks either. 
