How Far Back Can We Go? Sixth Edition! Ended At 1380 Waiting On 1379

Ok, no one should have So much gold.

1910 LWC:

Nothing wrong with too much gold! Pepactonius and Dorado have some amazing coins and we have seen Gold coins from Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, Netherlands, Denmark, France and Italy amongst many other places. I say keep it coming - it makes all my base metal coins and tiny Islamic silver coins look at home in great company.

They are all becoming social climbers. 100 years ago, coins were so much more exciting not like now with all these base metals (Way too much steel, zinc, brass and bimetallic muck metals).
Then you had Gold coins worth a lot of money, silver which was the better pocket stuff and cheap coins made out of Bronze or Nickel type base metals like 90% of my coins

Here is another working class hero from my collection!





A holed 5 cent coin of Belgium and this one is in Flemish and must be a very early version of this design (Which I have coins dated 1929 from too). I think its the first or second year of Albert as Leopold II (The Butcher of the Congo) died around 1908/09.

It's my last 1910 coin.

My selection for 1910 is quite lacking.

But the few 1910 dated coins I do have are decent!

Edward VII was King for only a short while, but he ruled over what was arguably the start of the twilight of the Empire, and the cultural shift from Victorian to Edwardian society was immense and impactful.

It was an era when those who had wealth flaunted it, and the good life was truly the best living; yet some of that ostentation inspired David Lloyd George and the trade unions to rock the Tory boat in their pursuit of better working and living conditions for the less wealthy, building a foundation for the modern Labour party.

Early 1900s urban England was a dichotomy of the masses, where slum warrens, sweatshops, destitution, crime and abject poverty nestled uncomfortably near to extravagance, opulence and a life of leisure. Yet Britannia still strode confidently on the Trade dollar and stood vigilant on the prow of the Florin, her country an industrial powerhouse with what must have seemed to be a nearly limitless empire of territories and commonwealths, and she watched over her sailors and seamen, who still commanded and served in one of the finest, most well-trained Navies in the world.

Ruler of land and sea, sitting on the throne in a time of wealth and prosperity, surely he must not have foreseen that only 15 years after his coronation in 1901 the bells would start to toll for Merry Olde England, and that his nephew Wilhelm -- Victoria's eldest grandchild, by then a grown man, Emperor indeed, in his 50s -- would be on the other side of the battlefield.



1910 - Canada - Large Cent - Edward VII

1910 - Britain - Shilling - Edward VII

Nice original circulated coin.

Most gold coins I post here are just bullion coins which cost spot plus a small percentage markup. They are part of my gold stack that I've been accumulating since the 1960s.

Peak gold for Europe was from about 1900 to 1913.

1909 Austria - Habsburg
10 Heller- Franz Joseph I.