I thought I'd start sharing some of the coins in my massive collection that I have accumulated over the last months from private party purchases. There is a crazy story behind every single trip I took to purchase these hoards as most of them were long-distance trips but it provided for so much fun, it's hard to explain in words. Its that feeling of knowing you got a good deal, only realizing exactly how great of a purchase it was once you get home and start cataloging the coins. The point of this "series" will be threefold:
- To Provide (accurate) information and to discuss coins future users and guests might be searching for around the internet ( That's how I got here 
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- Sharpen grading skills of international coins
- Learning more about these specific coinsMy World Coins #1: First one up, is a 1943 5 Pengo from Hungary that is clearly mislabelled. Too bad as the 1939 edition was silver! Nonetheless, when I pulled out this one I couldn't believe the quality, which is going to be a reoccuring theme actually with many of these. Very nice looking coin in a vintage 2x2 holder.
My question to you, valued members of CC, is what kind of a grade this would pass for based on the limited amount of pictures?
Could it pass for MS? I'm sure every country,series and denominations has their own little features that the coins are graded on. There is a small piece of "debris" stuck on the face of the general but it looks harmless and removable without damaging the coin. Of course, 2,000,000 of these were minted so it's not THAT rare, so I won't be sending it off to PCGS but still a beautiful coin from a country that surprisingly produced many highly valuable coins as I found out to my amazement.
Due to the rampant inflation, all coins were withdrawn from circulation by the end of 1945. There is a lot of history behind Admiral Miklos Horthy but I won't get into that
Posted 04/13/2011 9:28 pm
