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 I get a lot of new numismatic items all the time. Most of them are low priced world coins as I collect by type. I am also drawn to the margins so I tend to pick up hard to identifty or strange items. I thought I would showcase my growing collection here, and use this thread to work on taking pictures and editing them in a presentable format. This is my first try so...   New type for me, the Cyprus 3 Mils, 1955. I only have a few Cyprus coins so this is a welcome addition. It is AU, to bad about the fingerprint.  The Great Britain 3 Pence 1889 is an upgrade. Got it for a few bucks. Low VF I think. These small silver coins are always hard to grade for me. This coin is part of the Maundy Coinage series, where the King or Queen hands out special silver coins as alms for the poor, widows and elderly. The coins are then sold to collectors. Maundy Thursday is the Thursday before Easter and commemorates the Last Supper of Christ and the washing of the feet of the disciples.  Africa is the populated continent I have the least amount of coins from. In 1989 the composition changed from Copper-nickel-zinc to Nickel clad Steel. I had the clad steel and now I have both.  I bought this one forgetting I already had it. Still a nice coin though, a New Caledonia 50 Centimes, 1949. It will go in the trade pile. Mintage: 1,000,000. KM#1.  A new one year type from South America, a Venezuela 5 Centimos, 1986. Mintage: 500,000,000. My third coin from Venezuela.  Nigeria 1 Kobo, 1974. One of those that has a decimal in the catalog number: KM#8.1 (short motto). Mintage: 14,500,000. *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. *** Edited by allranger
01/21/2014 1:54 pm
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Very nice! Thank you for sharing.  |
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Been having problems with lighting. Pictures seem to have a richer brown than the pieces have in real life. I think I took the other shots in more natural sunlight.  Yugoslavia 5 Dinar, 2000. On another coin forum Yugoslavia was voted as one of the least collected countries. This is now my seventh Yugoslavia coin.  Mike R. Morell, Weiser, Idaho. Good for 5 cents in trade. Weiser was a large in prosperous town in the early Idaho days. Speculators bought up large amounts of land before the railroad came to town and tried to resell it at vastly inflated prices. This caused the railroad to build the rails on the Oregon side of the river. The led to the decline of industry and commerce in the area. Mike R. Morell and his wife Jessie had a store in Weiser, Idaho in the 1930's and 1940's. This is one of several tokens their store produced.  |
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Nifty Yugoslav coin: they are still in circulation in Serbia, which uses dinar coins of the exact same specifications. Montenegro, the other component of the State Union of Yugoslavia, now uses the Euro (unofficially, mind you; they are not a Eurozone member).
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 I have this set, it comes with a Chinese 1 and 10 Yuan coin. The 1 Yuan is cupronickel and the 10 Yuan is silver. This is the 1 Yuan 1985, commemorating the "Tibet Autonomous Region - 20 years". KM# 110. Yup, China made a coin set commemorating the 20th anniversary of them annexing Tibet.  |
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I was not aware they were still in circulation, although if they were replaced with coins of the same specifications that would certainly lend to them staying in circulation.
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 Serbia 1 Dinara, 2003.  I pulled this one out of the junk box at the LCS. I knew that Wert-marke meant token so I took a chance. Unfortunately I can't find an example of it any where and I think it is a generic token and the vender was supposed to punch their name in the blank space. Someone probably didn't want to have to pay up on the change they were giving out.   One 26 pfennig note from a four note series from the town of Suhl in Germany. I think they were printed in 1921. I have it in a currency hold and the mylar caused some glare. I'll have to remove them from the holder next time I photograph notes. Edited by allranger
01/22/2014 9:00 pm
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The rest of the Suhl, Germany notgeld notes.     A one year type from Australia, a 50 cent piece. In 1968 they changed to the dodecagonal coin and were no longer silver.  This Bulgarian 10 Stotinki has the Madara Rider on the obverse. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madara_Rider) The Madara Rider is an early medieval carving on the side of a cliff.  A lonely German 50 Pfennig, 1991 F, I found in the junk box. It now has a good home. |
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 A transportation token from Alaska. A small curiosity as it is dated 1995 and the information I find says the company opened May 4, 1995, so it is from the first year of operation. |
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Nifty Yugoslav coin: they are still in circulation in Serbia, Well not any more, at least not officially. Few years ago all coins with "Jugoslavija" on them are out of use but you can still find them in circulation. |
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The Tibet set is actually quite scarce to rare. It looks like the 1 yuan coin that you have is proof which is rather rare. This set especially if you have the mint set itself is worth probably more than several hundred if not thousand dollars.
My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseriesMy numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htmRegularly updated at least once a month. |
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gxseries: Wait, what? I didn't know the Tibet set was rare. I have the little box it came in too, with the COA. I'll have to dig it out and take a picture of it.
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A 1974 Winnipeg Dollar. Not worth a lot but I got it free in a trade. I get these Canadian Municipal Tokens when ever I see them. I've never paid more than a dollar for them. They certainly don't seem to ever get any love.  |
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A 1974 Winnipeg Dollar. Not worth a lot but I got it free in a trade. I get these Canadian Municipal Tokens when ever I see them. I've never paid more than a dollar for them. They certainly don't seem to ever get any love. The pride of my numismatic library is the Standard Catalogue of Canadian Municipal Trade Tokens & Notes, 1993 edition. It was sponsored by the very same company that manufactures almost all Canadian private tokens, the Sherritt Mint. There were actually four varieties of this dollar produced - you have the version with the Red River cart (the famous pioneer conveyance made entirely of wood with no metal parts) to the bottom-left of the cross with the dates inside. The two other marks used in lieu of the cart were a buffalo and a boy, plus there is a variety with no mark at all. Apparently the boy mark is worth more than the other three ($6 instead of $4) but you have to wonder how accurately the Sherritt Mint prices its own products in a book that was "made possible with a grant from the Sherritt Mint". |
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nalaberong: Thank you for the info, I've had the Standard Catalog of Canadian Municipal Trade Tokens on to buy list for sometime now. I did not realize it was sponsorded by the same company that minted most of the tokens. If you don't mind, what is the format of the catalog? I am imagining something similar to the World Coins Catalog. |
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Sorted by province in alphabetical order, then sorted by town in alphabetical order, then sorted by date. There is also some history included for many entries.
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