My Sunday Market Finds

Looks like I picked a good Monday to stay away and not expect anything.

Not to worry, this coming Sunday is sure to be more successful!

Now this is a great find. 100 SEK for all of this is a very good deal.

To me, 200 SEK for an AU Morgan dollar sounds like a very fair deal. I paid about the same for mine, I believe.

The luck continues! (Forgot to post this yesterday again, aargh!)
Any day is sucessful when silver's in the mix!



10 Öre, Sweden 1960
25 Öre, Sweden 1961
7.2 Candareens (1 Jiao), Kwangtung province, Chinese Empire
2 Qirsh, Egypt 1923
5 Cents, US 1945-P

(2x) 1 Øre, Norway 1919
1 Pfennig, Germany 1874-A
10 Haleru, Czechoslovakia 1930
10 Heller, Austria 1893

1 Rand, South Africa 2008
5 Yen, 1948
½ Sol, Peru 1965 (commemorative: Casa de moneda de Lima 400th anniversary)
25 Cents, Netherlands 1941
50 Pence, UK 2004 (running legs?)

I need to remember posting these before going to bed.

OK, that makes more sense, considering there was nothing on the coin explaining it. Thanks!

Great finds!

The good thing about South African coins is that different dates have different wording, and hence the coin is more interesting. I don't collect coins by date, I collect by difference. So when I went to SA I would try and collect all of those different languages on the coins.

There's a pattern to it too. I can't find the chart for it, but each year they move down one, so one year SOUTH AFRICA will be on the 1 Rand, the next on the 2 Rand, the next year on the 5 Rand, then disappear and come back on the 1C (which they don't produce any more, at least for circulation).

A bit jealous of that Morgan dollar. I paid the same for mine but it looks less good than yours.

Anyway, despite there not being much chance of having coins around, I'll be in Stockholm next week on Tuesday morning (having a meeting on Tuesday afternoon). As my hotel is just 2 streets away, I know what I'll be doing...

I like the SA:n different wording, it's there on both the coins and banknotes. However, I'd like a standard. But considering the history of the country I feel it's only fair to be more open to the native cultures.

I also really love the latest SA:n coat of arms. It feels so happy for some reason.


Feel free to have a look at vegetable sellers shouting at you as sonn as you even get close to their stuff. Sundays are the day to go, any other day is everyday business. Although I don't look there on any other day than Sundays I have seen a wallet vendor showing up some banknotes to demonstrate the size of the wallets, but that's it currency-wise.


The Morgan dollar found here is a clear exception of the usual better quality US coin presence. I've seen a seller selling silver Ikes but I didn't even dare ask about the price.
Other than that, your best luck is on coin shows, but they happen fairly rarely. I go to about two every year, but then there's always some slabbed morgans on sale and plenty of other US coins avalible. Be ready to buy raw, though. Coin shops have had them but I don't go to many of these, mostly because few (good) of them exist.

In general, I feel there's a sort of "hype" going around US currency. Just because it says "United States of America" on the coin (or note) it's automatically worth a lot. I have seen people putting ridiculous prices on common 80's quarters. Morgan dollars are very prone to this aswell, considering the sheer size and age of them. 200 SEK is comparably low. This seller had plenty of other Morgans and Peace dollars on sale, all in worse condition for the same price. Some dollars did look nicer than most (and were lusterous) but all had hairlines on them. The one I bought was clearly the best of them.

I always keep my eyes open, scanning for the better stuff. Most of it is shown here