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Went back today with a friend. He bought 50 francs to use in vending machines, and here are select coins from what I got for $2:  A Dutch gas token, good for 1 cubic meter of gas in Zutphen. I have no idea why it has that " Cud", but apparently you had to feed these into your meter - the meter maid would periodically check and empty it. The tokens would then be re-sold. This explains why it is so circulated! Apparently, since they do not bear the head of Wilhelmina, they were legal to use during the German occupation of the Netherlands.  A really worn Haitian 20 centavo coin. The date is barely visible - 1907 (and the only other choice is 1908, which is very rare).  A miscellany.  10 para from the Ottoman Empire, date AH1293, regnal year 26 (1900). I thought it was copper, but it is actually a junk bin silver find. It's .100 fine and heavily worn and tarnished... 0.0064 ASW... melt value, today, is just 17 cents!! |
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Nice buys! It's always fun finding old worn coins for little money.
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Nice acquisitions.  |
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Total price today was $5! Gotta save up for the Edmonton Coin Show.  First was a Sarawak cent that looked awesome through the slightly milky 2x2. Busted it out... it's been harshly wire-brushed...  this is the third time I've been disappointed like this... so, like all coins I have with horribly damaged surfaces, it will probably join my pocket-piece roster until the harsh scratches wear off and it becomes a nice piece of [recent] history.  In revenge, I dug out $21 face value of coins.  Here's a Saudi Riyal, denominated as 100 halala (so, imagine a "100-cent" coin). Apparently, this date only has a mintage of 250,000. I am still looking for the newer, bi-metallic riyal coins - this is like a Saudi Eisenhower dollar.  Check your pineapples! https://goccf.com/t/160254http://koinpro.tripod.com/Articles/...DualDate.htmDespite the 1981 date, remnants of the old 1973 date are still visible in hand (and maybe in-photo)! So what's up with that?  Obligatory "miscellaneous" picture. Edited by nalaberong
11/06/2013 11:58 pm
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Look out! I mentioned something about the Edmonton Coin Show before... and here's what $20 plus $5 for admission got me. I'm not 16 yet, but I've grown a few inches since the 2013 Spring show, and this time I didn't get free admission... but there was a little box of free world coins for the youths, and I made a few very good picks. First... 1850, 10 rappen, had me thinking "What the Hel-vetia is this doing in the free bin?!". Apparently it is billon.   And on the way out... a strange copper coin caught my eye. It is my first and only countermark!! I am very interested in seeing what it is. The host coin looks like a Victorian, British Indian 1/4 anna. Furthermore, if you look at the traces of [QUARTE]R and [ANN]A, the dies are misaligned by about 25 degrees.   Here are the other 4 I picked up... 3 of them all claim to be "1" something...   It was immediately to a 20-cent tub, which was thoroughly combed through:  I'll admit the bent 25 pennia fooled me into thinking it was silver, because nobody's perfect. Here are my two real silver finds   Next it was on to a 12/$1 bin:  Which yielded one silver:  $3 for this pair of coins:   50 cents got me a Panama Pearl - the tiny 2.5 centesimos.  Actually, it's bit bigger than the silver and sets-only Pearl issues, but still very tiny:  These four cost me $10:  I liberated all 4 from their 2x2s. The kreuzer:  It's one of my first old copper coins in readable condition, and is one of those large coppers with a finely worked edge:  The nice Egyptian silver coin:  My new oldest Persian coin:  And 50 Japanese sen, in very good condition:  This beauty was $2.50 and graded "AU", underpriced already - but out of the 2x2, it looks uncirculated. I'll go toss it in the World Coin Grading forum.  An ugly, possibly wire-brushed (what's up with this?! it's enough to make me want to blow up a wire-brush factory!!) Austrian coin, but the price on the 2x2 was 25 cents, so if I'm really desperate I can just slip it inside a quarter roll and recoup my investment.  Finally - an intriguing French phone token.  The next show is 6 months away, so I hope I did well at this one  |
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I am continuing to live vicariously through your numismatic posts. Nice acquisitions! |
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Wow, I've never even seen those new 20 and 50 centavos pieces. IMO they don't need the 20 centavos coin. It buys nothing but candy. Your 5 peso pieces look very circulated. It wouldn't be too hard to track down BU pieces since they are still quite new. I'm only missing Zapata because they get hoarded like Kennedy half dollars. |
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Quote:I am continuing to live vicariously through your numismatic posts. Nice acquisitions! Well... it's all done on a $10 weekly budget, so there's not much that's vicarious here... I just like buying world coins in volume than spending lots of money on one really good coin. Quote:Wow, I've never even seen those new 20 and 50 centavos pieces. IMO they don't need the 20 centavos coin. It buys nothing but candy. Your 5 peso pieces look very circulated. It wouldn't be too hard to track down BU pieces since they are still quite new. I'm only missing Zapata because they get hoarded like Kennedy half dollars. The only new peso denomination to be pulled is 5 centavos... I think the (also downsized) 10-centavo coins are still out there somewhere. The first 2 Mexico 2010 commemoratives I found were XF or better, but the other 6 are all fairly worn... they look much more ugly than the average $5 coin you find! And, an enticing update... I am expecting a letter from the Ukraine sometime next week. |
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I just like buying world coins in volume than spending lots of money on one really good coin. More coins, more to look at. I do appreciate that. |
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I like your 20 peso coin on the previous page...I live in Mexico and still haven't even seen one of those until now!
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OK, even though the coin show was Sunday I still like to go to the store proper on Wednesdays. It's force of habit. $6 got me a whole bunch of world coins. First, someone came in with a little box full of various Latin American coins. After the store had bought it (for a pretty good price, actually), I got to pick through it!  The Peruvian sol is very high-relief. The colon is from El Salvador - it looks pretty old but it's only from 1985. Hopefully you noticed the little Mo mintmark.  I hope you all know the difference between the Cuban peso and the Cuban convertible peso! The former is your typical low-value Latin American currency (worth ~3 cents) - the latter is pegged to the U.S. dollar. This was a good deal :D  I found another, identical Dutch gas token. Since I haven't found Zutphen's local token anywhere on the Internet, and its population is just 47,000, I think it is good to have two. Notice how the artificial " Cud" is in a different place: I assume the planchets are made with the Cud, then struck in random orientation.   Two circulating commemoratives. France is lousy with collectors, so French commemoratives are easy to buy - but fairly difficult to find in junk bins. I guess the French already got to them all.  This coin gave me some trouble. It is 5 centimes from the "French Colonies", with Louis Philippe I. The date is 1844 - the lowest-mintage of the lot. I always like deciphering these worn ones...  A high-face-value coin from Sweden, 10 kronor, worth maybe $1.57. I had been looking for this one - Sweden will redesign its coinage in a couple years, and 10 kronor is the only denomination that will be spared. Exciting!  Today was a good day for OFEC efforts - I got something from Brunei, Zambia, Sierra Leone and Ethiopia. Also pictured: a one-year Mexican type (last of the 50-centavos), a Brazilian commemorative, an Indian Republic pre-decimal coin in good condition, and a couple others.  Another new country - the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, which joins Transdinestria in my pile of "not-quite-countries that are still big enough to afford coins of their own". Today went pretty well! Edited by nalaberong
11/13/2013 11:51 pm
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OK, even though the coin show was Sunday I still like to go to the store proper on Wednesdays. It's force of habit. $6 got me a whole bunch of world coins. Another nice haul on the cheap. Well done. |
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Say hello to Ho Chi! (alternative but unused byline: "Wanna see my dongs?") Nothing came in the mail this week, but I will happily chalk it up to Eastern European postal inefficiency. If nothing arrives... I'm only out about $3. Anyway, a friend's relative returned from Vietnam recently and brought back a bounty of Far Eastern goods, including one of each low-denomination dong note for me - thanks . You may be thinking... "weren't 200 to 5000 dong notes replaced by coins in 2003?". Well, good job memorizing the Krause Catalog, but sadly, these new coins reportedly proved to be unpopular with the Vietnamese public, which had dealt only with paper money for the last generation, and they are now out of use. So, even the lowly 1000-dong note (5 cents) sees day-to-day circulation.  The larger polymer bills are pretty cool... so even if Vietnam is far behind the curve when it comes to coin usage, you can't beat them at their own game (bills). Mexico also has some nice low-denomination polymers... the latest Canadian $5 notes are not really "low denominations" in my mind.  Edited by nalaberong
11/16/2013 12:56 am
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Today... four mixed bin silver finds... one nice silver purchase... the new oldest coin in my collection... tons of African coins... and all for $2!! Well, it was $7, but my franc-buying friend paid $5 for a bag of 45 French francs that I dug out of the mixed bins. I can't imagine what they would be used for... what could anyone do with a big pile of cheap-to-purchase 24-mm pure nickel coins in Canada?   The silver. - Isles du Vent (Windward Islands, now a part of French Polynesia), 12 sols, 1731. This beats my George II 1745 LIMA shilling by 14 years! Can you believe it was in the 18/$1 bin?! - Wait and see what this one is... - Belgium, 1 franc, 1910. A badly dipped coin... Dip: not even once. 12/$1 bin. - Netherlands, 10 cents, probably 1925. 18/$1 bin.  The mystery silver was... a Mexican Republic 2-reale coin!! I almost screamed when I recognized that cap and rays and the Mexican eagle under the pitted surfaces. I have been looking around for a reasonably priced 2-reale coin for a while... it doesn't get much more reasonable than just under 6 cents!!  I can't read the date, because it is not in nice condition, nor the assayer's initials... but it is still a long-time want of mine.  Know your dealer, kids (ok, I'm the kid here). Some bags of world coins (mostly Africa) were sitting behind the counter, and I got to look through them first! You'll see more later, but here's a badly pitted German East Africa heller (1904 A). It could be a fake, but the weird blotches don't seem like a good thing to copy. Still... a new country, and one of the rare German colonies that issued its own coins.  This was also in those bags. I admit... I don't recognize it (although the scales remind me of Ethiopia, the modern 1 birr). Still, it looks neat and it's certainly old.  Almost all of the African coins I bought today. This fills in a few new countries for me  Some Congolese coins. There was a whole bag full of those 50-centime coins, but only these two were not pitted... also interestingly, a Saudi 50-halala coin was mixed in with the lot. I can only assume that the number "50" and the date palm on the Saudi emblem made it look similar to its Congolese compatriots...  I think this 1977 gulden is an impaired proof.  This half rupee came in a 2x2, priced at $2. I thought... "hey, isn't that pretty much melt?" and bought it. Melt value is $1.99 today... and in XF (this is my grade estimate), it is at least a $10 coin.  It is also that rare [affordable] silver coin with a special security edge! This was initially filled with white gunk  but the ultrasonic cleaner got all of it out .  Here's a small fraction of the other coins I bought. Edited by nalaberong
11/21/2013 12:43 am
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Nice buys! That Mexican coin is just to real! Now, knowing nothing about this coin, the date looks like 1839. I'm not even sure if these coins were minted in this year but that is what I see. Obviously it starts with a 1. I'm taking these coins are old so I'm assuming the next is an 8 (could be 9 or 7 or 6). I can see an outline of a 3 and there's an O closer to the top where the date is. It doest look like there's anything below it canceling out the number 8... so probably 9. Put them together and I get 1839! that's just my opinion though  . |
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