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Pillar of the Community
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Looking around, I've noticed some places like Libria have gold coins that are tiny...some only .5 gram of gold.
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United States
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Amazon99, I'm going to drop by a dealer I trust who trades a lot of gold--should I look for anything interesting "at melt"?  I recall he had an Australia Victoria era half-sov. at melt last time, LOL. (I should've mentioned this to my Aussie friends) |
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If you could that would be great. I already have France, Australia and the US. I'd be more interested in some countries that aren't too well known for their gold (Canada, Britian, Austria, etc) since those coins will always be more around than some of the other ones. But, I'm open minded to anything right now.
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United States
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Mexico is easy. A 2 peso coin can go for $50.
If you know a good dealer, they can give you great deals (like sell you a coin for melt). I always thought about collecting random gold coins from different countries.
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United Kingdom
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Sap, - Actually Ireland did strike very few (and very rare) gold coins in 1646 - the pistole and the half pistole. There is one in the Ulster museum (where I used to work) as well as a few in the Dublin museum. From memory I think there are only one or two known in private collections - so I do agree that to all intents and purposes getting one is an impossibility.
I think there are also a few gold pattern ECU's and Euros and such like from modern times but I wouldn't really count them.
Malcolm
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07/03/2008 03:27 am
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Yes - horrible isn;t it :)
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Norway
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Interesting project! Best of luck with it.  I myself have always liked gold coins, and I have from eight different countries: Norway Denmark Russia Sweden The Netherlands Switzerland Great Britain Belgium The youngest of these: The Swiss, from 1921. Modern commemoratives have less appeal to me. |
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Bacchus, I don't really care for that one or the price. Maybe I'll find a different one. Litotes, any photos? I need to start getting some ideas. |
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United States
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"Gold Coins of the World", by Robert Friedberg Just out of curiosity, is this the same Robert Friedberg that wrote the paper money books? |
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United States
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The youngest of these: The Swiss, from 1921.  That's a good period to collect Swiss gold, versus the issues around WWII, which I find a bit unsettling (due to gold sources) Amazon, I dropped by that dealer and came up empty-handed. I guess I just need to catch him on the right day. |
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United States
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Oh, well Kurt but I really appreciate you thinking about me. Thank you.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I was buying foreign gold on occasion, until the spot price went too high. Now adding to that collection is a low priority. Still, it's a fascinating project if you choose to spend your available coin bucks in that area. In my experience most common world gold coins are available for maybe 10-25% over melt.
My world gold collection includes one gold coin each from:
Argentina
Australia
Canada
Chile
Hungary
The Netherlands
Peru
Russia
Sweden
Spain
Uruguay
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United Kingdom
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I don't particularly look for gold coins (too expensive) but I do have a 1/4 koula from Tonga because of my OFEC collection. Oh and a 1963 sovereign for my birth year collection.
Good luck with the collection, I hope you have somewhere very safe for them, but will still get to look at them occasionally!
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Germany
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"Some countries have never issued a gold coin. Ireland, for example." https://goccf.com/t/32416#251701Ireland has issued several gold coins; the most recent one is the Skellig Michael €20 piece. Not for circulation, sure, but then there are many others that should not be counted either ... Christian |
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Posted 07/02/2008 7:55 pm
