My Sunday Market Finds

Thanks - for the link and design details. The lack of number of "teeth" on the design seems atypical. Its still a LOT better than I could ever do though.

Italy has awesome figures and busts on their coins.

Excellent!

Another nice haul Andreas.
I like bulk lots too. :)
That Aussie coin is a long way from home.

Weather was in general good today, warmer than what it's been fron the past week. Despite that, not many coin sellers around (compared to the usual). I got a very small bunch of ten coins. A bit of disappointment from last week, but better than leaving empty handed today.



1 Lira, Vatican City 1952
10 Centavos Convertibles, Cuba 1996
25 Dirhams, Qatar 1976
50 Pesetas, Spain 1997
5 Schilling, Austria 1971
1 Peso, Colombia 1976
50 Centavos, Colombia 1958
100 Drachmes, Greece 1990 & 1992 (x2)

So yeah, not as much as last time, but you've got to be happy with what you get

Something is always preferred to nothing.

Today was actually a mistake going in to Hötorget. An actual mistake.

I went in as usual but was reather surprised when I saw my ordinary Metro exit to street level being completely shut off. I took a different entrance and was met by police "Do-not-cross"-lines and plenty of cars neatly parked on the square with police guarding the place.

Little did I know it was December 10th, also know here as Nobel Day, the day whent he Nobel award has its ceremony in Stockholm. Prices are handed out in the Concert Hall which Hötorget happens to lie just in front of. So no wonder there were parked cars in a closed off area by the police.

Being completely confused what was going on, still completely oblivious I walked alongside the sealed off area only to overhear a tourist guide in perfect American English say someting like "...large sums of money being granted..." - and that's when I realised what day it was. Nothing to do but to go home.

Now the reason this was a mistake wasn't because of this, but rather the fact that there was a very popular Christmas market on my way home this weekend, including today. This of course leads to (relatively) massive traffic jams and packed and massively delayed buses. I knew about this ahead of time but figured it would be worth it anyway with the ordinary Sunday market. Well, it wasn't worth it. Luckily the bit of road to the Christmas market was rather short but it still took much longer than what it should have on a packed bus. A not so pleasant experience.

Christmas markets are not my thing, apart from sweets there's nothing that I want from those places. There's rarely anything else but coins I'm interested in at the ordinary market, and I could definitely do without plenty of Christmas stuff. It gets excessive quickly