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5 Old European Silver Coins Up For Grabbing

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 Posted 01/10/2011  7:33 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Kingz to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
5 Old Silver Coins up for Grabbing.... uh Grading

I traded some of my regular Dutch silver guilders from 50's / 60's and small money for some old foreign silver coins and regular coins.
Don't know if I did well in all, so I was just wondering if higher grades actually have a premium with silver coins, or do they remain bullion value? (especially when it comes to Dutch or European older coins, since the are cheaper then for example a lot of U.S. older coins in higher grade)

The guy was not a coincollector but a bullion / silver & gold hoarder He didn't care about Any of the catalogue values or grading systems!, only how much pure silver was in the coin.. That meaned I could go through, and collect the best grades (didn't really look for key dates, only gut instinct)

So we traded almost equal to weight in silver, I gave him like 55 grams and he gave me 42,5 grams. Which left the total for him to pay me like €9, so we agreed he gave me 15 old non bullion coins some of them pretty rare / expensive. I think we both got a nice deal and were bot happy so I guess it's ok either way. Now on to the pics hahahahh Posted few different grades, so that I can work my way from there...

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He had several coins like this grade, most unfortuanetly above my budget hahah, but it seems like these might be uncirculated / MS maybe?


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This one is pretty busted, but was my first of cuba, and like the pattern


2 Dutch coins, the one from 1943D was specially minted in Denver for use in Netherlands Indies (it also is a different variation, with rougher hair it says in Dutch catalogue

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All input is welcome
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 Posted 01/11/2011  09:10 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Kingz to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
As I was registering my coins in the database, I noticed that the one from Cuba has 2 variantions.. One of them is pretty expensive according to Krause, it talks of a fine reeding and coarse reeding. I don't know what coarse exactly means, but I think my coin will not be the fine reeded unfortuanetly... but just to be shure and not make myself go nuts over it, I hope to get a definitive answer


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And can maybe someone tell me if I have a highr relief or low, because it also talks about:

Note: Coins with high relief stars normally exhibit a
weak key and palm tree on the reverse. Coins with low relief stars
tend to exhibit much more distinct lines in the valleys running
towards the center of the star.
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01/11/2011 09:11 am
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 Posted 01/12/2011  7:04 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Kingz to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
hmmm... I think the title of the topic is not so clear...
so this is a bump (because I can not edit the topic, or maybe if a moderator sees this.. how can I edit the topic title?)

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 Posted 01/12/2011  10:14 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add svslav to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I believe fine reeding versus coarse reeding refers to spacing between the grooves. Based on the pic yours is rather coarse one.
Can't really say anything about the star relief. I think you need to take a picture like the one in your second post but of the other (star) side.
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