Those are really cool Bacchus! I may have to figure out how to show them online sometime. And yeah for volume 2 eventually I will have to take a look again at the Post a Crown thread or expand my search on numista to include older coins since I am not sure I can get all those holes filled from different countries in those sizes (36-41mm). Volume 1 is all listed now I just need to wait and search. The first volume will cost approx. the same as a completed US Type Album 7070 without the gold page so it will take some time but I am in no hurry :)
The album you got made looks well - it must be very satisfying to commission something that way. Here in the UK I think albums are less common - most reasonable collections are kept in cabinets - I have a couple. I've included some pictures below. There are pro's and con's with both.
Woah that cabinet is pretty sweet! And looks like it is a little more discreet than Albums too. And you quite a number of crowns I will be looking to add to my collection too! Very nice and thanks for the pics!
Thanks - I like "playing" with my coins and I can't really do that as easily with albums so this is my storage method of choice. Oriloe, you'd be fine with them - I'd be more worried about a coin falling out of a "push in" type album - horses for courses :)
There's little rhyme or reason to the order :) - they all have tickets/roundels under them to identify them. There's even a Churchill crown in there too - which I should really take out as it's not silver.
Ah I see there has been some more posting on my thread! I will put up a few pics later hopefully this evening to update on the extra purchases I have made for my crown-sized collection! Also, that Sierra Leone dollar is pretty sweet! Highly doubtful I will ever have it but still! :P
Years ago I began picking up the below coin whenever I could find them cheap, which was usually a few bucks or so over the value of the silver. In my view, it was a gorgeous coin, one-year type, proof, silver, (at the time) nearly 40 years old, and at then-current prices, very undervalued. Today it sells for 2-3 times its silver value.
(These are not my videos, just ones I found on youtube)
What lead me to finding the Sierra Leone Dollar above was searching for a gold version of my next little bet, the below coin, which I began stock-piling for the very same reason. While less historically significant, it is also a one-year type with a much lower mintage. It's 40+ years old, silver, proof, and has a very eye-appealing design, a lion guarding a treasure. Ironic, sure, as central banks destroy money instead of protecting it, but the lion has always been a symbol of strength, power, and courage, and people just like lions.
Just a warning to anyone wanting to go out and buy it, there are two versions of this coin, the proof is the sterling silver coin, and there is a CLAD uncirculated version I have zero interest in. Oh, and I mentioned, there is a gold version with a mintage of 100, which I have never been able to find.
Included in my collection of World silver crowns listed in no particular order, (British grading):
Great Britain Charles 11, 1662 fine * Egypt 1916 20 Piastres, VF Egypt AH 1293 20 Qirsh, good Fine German New Guinea 1894 5 Marks, very Fine Israel 500 Prutah, Unc. Bank of England Dollar 1804, Fine cleaned, Bank of Ireland 1804 6 Shillings token, fine cleaned, U.S.A Trade dollar 1877s Very Fine/ good very Fine Papua New Guinea 5 Kina, mint state, (777 struck),
in a overall collection of about 65 coins.
I tend to shy away from modern NCLT silver crowns, unless they can be had at only a very small premium above their melt value. I am not a silver stacker with these.
I had a collection of over 100 copper nickel crowns with very many interesting designs. I gave these away to a kid, who had a growing interest in coin collecting.
* I had a pair of these, I gave the other to another member of the CCF.
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