I bought a 1889 (Meiji 22) 5 sen cupro nickel coin of Japan on September 1st.
Also a 1 sen dated Meiji 10 (1877). The 5 sen was like the size and weight of an American nickel
Not rare pieces, but very interesting and my first older Japanese coins (Well before Nickel 100 Yens)
Also bought a AU 1945 NZ penny and halfpenny and a few other coins I will show a bit later.
Mods I apologise if I jump the gun here, just wanted to show my new purchases and century old Japanese coins are pretty 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
Despite a few months back i made the decision to stop buying... had an oportunity to get some stuff for a really good price, so... here i go:
3 from Vatican (the lower one, its not in the best shape, but, it came for free):
Easy one from Tunisia:
A few Spanish - Spanish states:
A few falus form Morocco (and 50 centimes 1918 form France):
One extra falus from Morocco:
Edit:
Some Thai ones came too, the one in the middle is silver (didnt know but, for this five, I paid for all of them less than half the value of the silver, lucky me )
Se queres ca muller che queira, ten diñeiro na carteira
Απόσπασμα: "klei92"Edit:
Some Thai ones came too, the one in the middle is silver (didnt know but, for this five, I paid for all of them less than half the value of the silver, lucky me )
Was pretty sure these commems were not silver, so don't want to burst your bubble..but ;). Nonetheless, they're very nice. I myself have the full series of 1/2/5/10/20/50/100 bhat commems. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces10778.html
Απόσπασμα: "klei92"Edit:
Some Thai ones came too, the one in the middle is silver (didnt know but, for this five, I paid for all of them less than half the value of the silver, lucky me )
Was pretty sure these commems were not silver, so don't want to burst your bubble..but ;). Nonetheless, they're very nice. I myself have the full series of 1/2/5/10/20/50/100 bhat commems.
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces10778.html
Oh damit! When fast searching for them I only founded the link that leads you to the silver one
Well, thoose 5 for 3€ all, cant see them as a bad buy anyway! thank you for the warning!!!
Se queres ca muller che queira, ten diñeiro na carteira
2)
So far I have found out-and "NUMISTA" is not yet
Danube Celts-
obol, 2-1 centuries BC, 0,35g, 8 mm, silver
Bohemia Region- Boii tribe ( named coin according to findings finding in opidia,, Staré Hradisko,,)
Απόσπασμα: "Moneytane"Let me be the first to add coins to the thread!
I bought a 1889 (Meiji 22) 5 sen cupro nickel coin of Japan on September 1st.
Also a 1 sen dated Meiji 10 (1877). The 5 sen was like the size and weight of an American nickel
Not rare pieces, but very interesting and my first older Japanese coins (Well before Nickel 100 Yens)
Also bought a AU 1945 NZ penny and halfpenny and a few other coins I will show a bit later.
Mods I apologise if I jump the gun here, just wanted to show my new purchases and century old Japanese coins are pretty interesting
Got them today, they look nicer in real life, the 1 sen is really nice, the reverse is probably good Fine, but the obverse is full VF with lots of detail on the dragon. It's amazing these advanced coins came from a place that had cash style coins with holes and gold oblongs and silver triangles in medieval style 20 years earlier (Mon, Kobans, ryos).
The one sen is quite large too, about 28mm in size. Am interested in an affordable type set (1 Rin up to 1 Yen), the gold Yen coins are pretty expensive, but also very beautiful.
Got more coins this week, 2 x £2 coins of UK with the 2004 Trewithick train one and lots of British and NZ change, along with a silver war nickel of America.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Some stuff that arrived this week:
An awesome wedding medal of Queen Wilhelmina - Netherlands 1901
Belgian ww1 token showing King Albert I
And some more romans for my favorite collection area:
Constantine Junior at child age - Vot V
Valentinian II - Reperatio Reipvb
Maximian Galerius - Genio Populi Romani
And his Ceasar Maximinus II - same reverse type
Just started to get back into collecting after a bit of a hiatus. Been reading quite a bit about WW1 as of late so I thought it'd be nice to get some coins from the era.
I think the French 10 Centimes are absolutely gorgeous. I'm trying to complete the set. Same with the 2 lire Italian coins. That quadriga design is great. Really, just about every country had great designs in the early 1900s, there's almost too many things to choose from lol. Loving the 10 year anniversary of peace pattern as well. Really cool large coin.
Απόσπασμα: "klei92"Edit:
Some Thai ones came too, the one in the middle is silver (didnt know but, for this five, I paid for all of them less than half the value of the silver, lucky me )
Was pretty sure these commems were not silver, so don't want to burst your bubble..but ;). Nonetheless, they're very nice. I myself have the full series of 1/2/5/10/20/50/100 bhat commems.
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces10778.html
Oh damit! When fast searching for them I only founded the link that leads you to the silver one
Well, thoose 5 for 3€ all, cant see them as a bad buy anyway! thank you for the warning!!!
In Thailand here those coins would sell for 2-3 Euro a piece. Yes that was a good buy from my point of view.
I recently purchased 400 2×2 Flips from a Flea Market, at that Flea Market, I also brought a coin from Iran that was minted in 2010, a badly beaten One Florin from 1921, and around 12 more coins I brought from there, I also got 2 new coins from Cuba that the school nurse gave me recently at my High School, one of them is a 50 centavo coin and a 10 centavo coin, that's what I got at this month!
Got some lovely romans this week:
An denarius of emperor Severus Alexander
My first 2 roman empresses :
Salonina - Wife of Emperor Gallienus
And Fausta - Wife of Constantine I with her 2 firstborn childs (Constantine II and Constantius II) on the reverse:
Also a coin from the usurper Magnus Maximus:
And the last one is an medal showing an not so roman Emperor - Wilhelm II maneuver medal.
A few important additions for me today, as well as several losses.
I was bidding on some NZ trade tokens for myself and neilithic, and we got smashed. Also on a coin cabinet which I had wanted for myself (Beaten by just £40 ) - I was very busy with the Supreme Court case this morning so could not attend and had to rely on prebidding which is just one of those facts of life I guess.
Anyway, the 3 I did win are all interesting, as follows:
Charles I - Scotland 30 Shillings. This completes my Scottish Monarchs collection up to 1625. It's also the best coin in this collection. The ill fated king was never popular in Scotland, and it's a wonder so many of his coins survived the melting pot.
Erfurt Purims Thaler 1632 - This is one of a small series struck under SWEDISH control, and references Adolphus as king. It's my 2nd of the series and they are not so easy to pick up. At that time, it was essentially a colony of Sweden - This thaler is of the 1st anniversary of the battle. Note the judeo influence in the design, extremely unusual in German States at the time.
This doesn't look like much, but 1950 is the first proof set of Modern Republic of India and is excessively rare.
Απόσπασμα: "oggy"A few important additions for me today, as well as several losses.
I was bidding on some NZ trade tokens for myself and neilithic, and we got smashed. Also on a coin cabinet which I had wanted for myself (Beaten by just £40 ) - I was very busy with the Supreme Court case this morning so could not attend and had to rely on prebidding which is just one of those facts of life I guess.
Anyway, the 3 I did win are all interesting, as follows:
Charles I - Scotland 30 Shillings. This completes my Scottish Monarchs collection up to 1625. It's also the best coin in this collection. The ill fated king was never popular in Scotland, and it's a wonder so many of his coins survived the melting pot.
Erfurt Purims Thaler 1632 - This is one of a small series struck under SWEDISH control, and references Adolphus as king. It's my 2nd of the series and they are not so easy to pick up. At that time, it was essentially a colony of Sweden - This thaler is of the 1st anniversary of the battle. Note the judeo influence in the design, extremely unusual in German States at the time.
This doesn't look like much, but 1950 is the first proof set of Modern Republic of India and is excessively rare.
those are amazing coins indeed. Of course, my eye draws excessively to those proof 1950 coins of republic of India. It’s a pity they are not in the original presentation cardboards. I don’t know what ridiculous price they are going for now, but atleast until maybe 2013 or so, I recall seeing them in a few auctions in Bombay for around 1lac-3lac rupees (2500-6500USD back then). Of course I couldn’t understand any of it back then because I was always under the impression that official proof mint coins were only issued from 1970 (even the 1964 Nehru and 1969 Gandhi were only BU sets).
Απόσπασμα: "oggy"A few important additions for me today, as well as several losses.
I was bidding on some NZ trade tokens for myself and neilithic, and we got smashed. Also on a coin cabinet which I had wanted for myself (Beaten by just £40 ) - I was very busy with the Supreme Court case this morning so could not attend and had to rely on prebidding which is just one of those facts of life I guess.
Anyway, the 3 I did win are all interesting, as follows:
Charles I - Scotland 30 Shillings. This completes my Scottish Monarchs collection up to 1625. It's also the best coin in this collection. The ill fated king was never popular in Scotland, and it's a wonder so many of his coins survived the melting pot.
Erfurt Purims Thaler 1632 - This is one of a small series struck under SWEDISH control, and references Adolphus as king. It's my 2nd of the series and they are not so easy to pick up. At that time, it was essentially a colony of Sweden - This thaler is of the 1st anniversary of the battle. Note the judeo influence in the design, extremely unusual in German States at the time.
This doesn't look like much, but 1950 is the first proof set of Modern Republic of India and is excessively rare.
those are amazing coins indeed. Of course, my eye draws excessively to those proof 1950 coins of republic of India. It’s a pity they are not in the original presentation cardboards. I don’t know what ridiculous price they are going for now, but atleast until maybe 2013 or so, I recall seeing them in a few auctions in Bombay for around 1lac-3lac rupees (2500-6500USD back then). Of course I couldn’t understand any of it back then because I was always under the impression that official proof mint coins were only issued from 1970 (even the 1964 Nehru and 1969 Gandhi were only BU sets).
Since I started collecting almost I've been collecting the RoI proof sets, and generally loving Indian coins of all angles. [which is strange as I'm not Indian and the only collection I have to the country is a history peice I wrote on them]
It really annoys me too, but it's a compromise I have to make I guess! In the original box I am guessing they would cost me 200,000+ Rupees, which is way too much for me. I did do a bid for 110,000 INR for a set [in the original case] a while ago but I didn't win it and even that was at the limits of my ability price wise.
I actually have a spare 1969 set if you've one from the 80's/70's to swap! I still lack quite a few sets, though I now have both 1950 and 1954
I have all the proof sets in original cases issued since 1970. The only one that alludes me is the 1981 year of the child (both pied-fort and regular). These too are at ridiculous prices, and I still haven’t seen one in the original case.
i have the Nehru and Gandhi sets too though not the 1950 and 1954, though I wonder if those were made for dignitaries rather than the general public.
I’m curious, How do you normally buy your proof sets? I used to live in Bombay till a few years ago. My neighbour took me to buy my first set back in 1993 at the Bombay mint. I was the only 10 year old in a line of 60 year olds lol. Back then, maybe a few hundred to a few thousand sets were issued based on orders received. Then I started buying up all the previous year sets from 2004 onwards beginning at the first mumbai coin society fair that year . Luckily I bought up everything I needed before prices hit the roof between 2008-2013. some of the 1970s sets I bought on eBay US when they were being sold at 10$ a piece. Thank god for my relatives in Washington back then haha. Since 2007-08 the Mint’s streamlined everything through online sales. Now that I’m not in the country anymore, my family in Bombay still books the new sets for me. There are different prices for Indians and foreigners. Since last year, the only commemorative coins issued are collector coins in High non-circilating denominations.
Απόσπασμα: "oggy"A few important additions for me today, as well as several losses.
I was bidding on some NZ trade tokens for myself and neilithic, and we got smashed. Also on a coin cabinet which I had wanted for myself (Beaten by just £40 ) - I was very busy with the Supreme Court case this morning so could not attend and had to rely on prebidding which is just one of those facts of life I guess.
Anyway, the 3 I did win are all interesting, as follows:
Charles I - Scotland 30 Shillings. This completes my Scottish Monarchs collection up to 1625. It's also the best coin in this collection. The ill fated king was never popular in Scotland, and it's a wonder so many of his coins survived the melting pot.
Erfurt Purims Thaler 1632 - This is one of a small series struck under SWEDISH control, and references Adolphus as king. It's my 2nd of the series and they are not so easy to pick up. At that time, it was essentially a colony of Sweden - This thaler is of the 1st anniversary of the battle. Note the judeo influence in the design, extremely unusual in German States at the time.
This doesn't look like much, but 1950 is the first proof set of Modern Republic of India and is excessively rare.
Well, after many days of consideration I have decided to get the 47 prefecture japan 500 yen collection. The price wise is not very nice but what has happened has ald happen. But still I am glad that I have complete the set.
To be honest. When it arrived my heart breaks.... But no matter, they are completed.
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.
A half a coin is better than no coin . This type of coin sold with a different sigla for about $16,000, albeit it was a full coin. Mine was much cheaper at about 40EUR...
Byzantine Empire: Michael VIII Palaeologos (1261-1282) AR Aspron Trachy, Constantinople (Sear 2256var; DOC V 38; PCPC 18; Lianta 507)
Obv: Seraph facing between B B
Rev: Χ/Μ/ΔЄC/ΠO/Τ to left, Ο/ΠΑ/ΛЄO to right; Full-length figure of emperor between B ᗺ wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; right hand holds sword point downward; left hand holds anexikakia
Dim: 24 mm, 0.86 g
Seleukid Empire: Antiochos VI Dionysos (144-142 BCE) Æ Serrate, Antioch on the Orontes (SC 2006; HGC 9, 1043)
Obv: Radiate and diademed head of Antiochos VI right
Rev: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΛNTIOXOY in two lines above, EΠIΦANOYΣ ΔIONYΣOY in two lines below; Elephant advancing left, holding torch in trunk; to right, ΣTA above cornucopia
Απόσπασμα: "Saber82"Well, after many days of consideration I have decided to get the 47 prefecture japan 500 yen collection. The price wise is not very nice but what has happened has ald happen. But still I am glad that I have complete the set.
To be honest. When it arrived my heart breaks.... But no matter, they are completed.
Did the postal service put them in the bag? Or did the seller?
Love them, the 1970 Cook Islands is actually a New Zealand and the second dollar of 1970 - it is much more scarce than the very common "Mt Cook" dollar and the coin also inspired the first issue of separate coins for the Cook Islands in 1972 and then onwards they also had large dollar coins each year, their own circulation pieces and one offs like the $2.50 and $7.50 coins.
I love you have most of the less common ones and a silver proof of the 1981 dollar. The 1990 dollar was part of a special set of 5 coins going down to 5 cents, that never circulated. You also have the complete set of 4 x $1 for the 1990 Commonwealth games issued in 1989.
The 1990 was the last dollar commem issued, as that year the $1 and $2 notes were withdrawn and replaced by small aluminium brass coins. Although dated 1990 - they were only issued on 16 February 1991.
The commem set of 1991 had a $5 coin celebrating the rugby world cup, but this coin was the same size and weight as the old $1 coins and by 1992, we had 4 x $5 coins celebrating Explorers.
And like the $1, the coins were minted in Cupronickel for Uncirculated versions and sterling silver for proof versions each year at least until 2015.
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 those 3 nice medals:
Emperor Wilhelm the victorious, on horseback and surrounded by the other german monarchs on the other side:
Queen Victoria coronation medal:
And a scottish coronation medal for King George V:
Just ordered a Papal State Sede Vacante Piastra from 1669. feel like I got a pretty alright deal for it as well. Top pop as well (granted it's only got a total population of 2 lol)
Cannot wait for it to get here, extremely happy that I got it. Overall it's just a gorgeous design. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have to figure out how to add it to numista since I don't think it's on here.
Απόσπασμα: "Saber82"Well, after many days of consideration I have decided to get the 47 prefecture japan 500 yen collection. The price wise is not very nice but what has happened has ald happen. But still I am glad that I have complete the set.
To be honest. When it arrived my heart breaks.... But no matter, they are completed.
Did the postal service put them in the bag? Or did the seller?
Seller. Nvm. Its okie.
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.
Απόσπασμα: "Moneytane"Love them, the 1970 Cook Islands is actually a New Zealand and the second dollar of 1970 - it is much more scarce than the very common "Mt Cook" dollar.
I love you have most of the less common ones and a silver proof of the 1981 dollar. The 1990 dollar was part of a special set of 5 coins going down to 5 cents, that never circulated. You also have the complete set of 4 x $1 for the 1990 Commonwealth games issued in 1989.
The commem set of 1991 had a $5 coin celebrating the rugby world cup, but this coin was the same size and weight as the old $1 coins and by 1992, we had 4 x $5 coins celebrating Explorers.
Yes, the 1 $ 1970 Cook Islands coin is the copper-nickel crown-sized dollar with the lowest mintage, only 25,070 pieces. So I'm very glad I've already found it (and for a very decent price: only 2,5 €).
These pictures were new additions, so now I have all the copper-nickel crown-sized dollar types except for one: the 1988 Yellow-eyed Penguin.
I do have the 1 $ 1990 Treaty of Waitangi but haven't seen the rest of this set with the lower denominations yet, although I have the 50 cents Silver Proof issue of the Treaty of Waitangi set (but not added yet).
I also have the 4 x 5 $ 1992 celebrating Explorers but not in a set like your pictures. I also have some other 5 $ copper-nickel crown-sized coins but none of these 5 $ coins are already added to the database. That will be for one of the following days.
In the process of upgrading my Kiwi coins, these halfcrowns dated 1941 and 1946 came today. Both are gVF - aEF and were pretty cheap given their condition.
Nice coins, with very light wear, the 1946 is a bit stained. Generally here most people want their silver halfcrowns either perfect (AU or BU) or just a copy of each date (Good - Fine). The former cost at least $100 and as much as $1000 each, the latter sell between melt and $10 each ($5 -$7 melt). The bulk of the coins out there are VG or G, generally coins in VF and near EF have little demand, they are too expensive for the average collector and too worn (Ugly etc) for the top line I want a big shine collectors. Meaning a lot of gVF coins like these with slight flaws can be brought cheap. These two cost $40, which is about half to a quarter of what they are worth.
It is like A grade and C grade coins are popular, these are B+ ones which are not, I like them.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Απόσπασμα: "Moneytane"Love them, the 1970 Cook Islands is actually a New Zealand and the second dollar of 1970 - it is much more scarce than the very common "Mt Cook" dollar.
I love you have most of the less common ones and a silver proof of the 1981 dollar. The 1990 dollar was part of a special set of 5 coins going down to 5 cents, that never circulated. You also have the complete set of 4 x $1 for the 1990 Commonwealth games issued in 1989.
The commem set of 1991 had a $5 coin celebrating the rugby world cup, but this coin was the same size and weight as the old $1 coins and by 1992, we had 4 x $5 coins celebrating Explorers.
Yes, the 1 $ 1970 Cook Islands coin is the copper-nickel crown-sized dollar with the lowest mintage, only 25,070 pieces. So I'm very glad I've already found it (and for a very decent price: only 2,5 €).
These pictures were new additions, so now I have all the copper-nickel crown-sized dollar types except for one: the 1988 Yellow-eyed Penguin.
I do have the 1 $ 1990 Treaty of Waitangi but haven't seen the rest of this set with the lower denominations yet, although I have the 50 cents Silver Proof issue of the Treaty of Waitangi set (but not added yet).
I also have the 4 x 5 $ 1992 celebrating Explorers but not in a set like your pictures. I also have some other 5 $ copper-nickel crown-sized coins but none of these 5 $ coins are already added to the database. That will be for one of the following days.
Cool, I use to have the 1990 set, but sold it ages ago. Here is what the Yellow eyed penguin dollar looks like
Its bottom right, with the blue case - a pretty coin.
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 was very busy with the Supreme Court case this morning so could not attend and had to rely on prebidding which is just one of those facts of life I guess.
. This type of coin sold with a different sigla for about $16,000, albeit it was a full coin. Mine was much cheaper at about 40EUR...
