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Found a big chunk of Napoleonic copper hiding in a box - high relief is not a new thing

Great coins - the 1812M 40 Lire is the 1812 with the 2nd 1/0 variety. Such overdates are very common on the coinage of Napoleonic Italy - quality control was a shambles, even compared to some of the mints today.

Great coins - the 1812M 40 Lire is the 1812 with the 2nd 1/0 variety. Such overdates are very common on the coinage of Napoleonic Italy - quality control was a shambles, even compared to some of the mints today.

Some amazing additions to my world gold collection arrived today, thanks to @DuncanWylieWilson the 8 Escudos and 16 Pesos are huge !!

Found a big chunk of Napoleonic copper hiding in a box - high relief is not a new thing

Found a big chunk of Napoleonic copper hiding in a box - high relief is not a new thing

Found a big chunk of Napoleonic copper hiding in a box - high relief is not a new thing

Found a big chunk of Napoleonic copper hiding in a box - high relief is not a new thing

Found a big chunk of Napoleonic copper hiding in a box - high relief is not a new thing

Found a big chunk of Napoleonic copper hiding in a box - high relief is not a new thing

Found a big chunk of Napoleonic copper hiding in a box - high relief is not a new thing

Found a big chunk of Napoleonic copper hiding in a box - high relief is not a new thing

Found a big chunk of Napoleonic copper hiding in a box - high relief is not a new thing

Found a big chunk of Napoleonic copper hiding in a box - high relief is not a new thing

Found a big chunk of Napoleonic copper hiding in a box - high relief is not a new thing

Found a big chunk of Napoleonic copper hiding in a box - high relief is not a new thing

Found a big chunk of Napoleonic copper hiding in a box - high relief is not a new thing

Found a big chunk of Napoleonic copper hiding in a box - high relief is not a new thing

Found a big chunk of Napoleonic copper hiding in a box - high relief is not a new thing

Found a big chunk of Napoleonic copper hiding in a box - high relief is not a new thing

Found a big chunk of Napoleonic copper hiding in a box - high relief is not a new thing

Found a big chunk of Napoleonic copper hiding in a box - high relief is not a new thing

Found a big chunk of Napoleonic copper hiding in a box - high relief is not a new thing

Today I received a number of fantastic world gold pieces from @Leonmarsh
It would be hard to pick a favorite out of this batch but I'm going to do it anyways and give a special shout out to the Tunisian 100 Franc, for more reasons than one. Not only is it a beautiful design and in flawless condition, but its face value and metal content can't help but get you thinking.
Unlike a true LMU 100F minted in the decades previous (even into the late 20's in Italy), which were 35mm and contained nearly a full ounce of gold (0.9335ozt), this 100F measures 21mm, weighs 6.55g, and contains 0.1895 ozt of gold. Of course, fellow LMU nerds will immediately recognize this as essentially a 20F, though its not dead on.

So when is 100F not 100F? You might say its when it goes from nearly an ounce of gold to a fifth of an ounce. In Europe, it happened during and after the first world war. Ironically, because countries tried hard to maintain a fixed point of reference using gold, and the gold (or silver) was literally in the coin, you can see very clearly the points along the way where these devaluations/debasements happened. Moving into the post WWII era, Bretton Woods, and into modern times, those points become difficult to see clearly, with little or no fixed points of reference.
Its interesting to think about today in terms of the inflation we see all around us, the $1M price tags on houses, people feeling priced
out of absolutely everything. Is it even really possible to know when $100 is not $100 anymore? Or £ or €? At least in France (or Tunisia, lol) in 1935, if you held a 100F coin in your hand that used to mean an ounce but now meant a fifth-ounce, you knew exactly where you stood in the world, economically. You probably didn't like it, but you knew!
Sorry for the rant folks. Not only did I receive these beautiful coins this week, but I also filled some diesel trucks at work with fuel at historically high prices. Puts me in a philosophical frame of mind and reminds me why I like precious metals! 

In the same spirit as the 'today I received ' thread
Some of us only meet our stack a few times a year, if we keep it in safe deposit box.
Feel free to share a pic or two of your visit
* a random coin/bar,
* a coin your forgot you had,
* a coin you don't see every day. 
* A top population coin 
* In fact Ànything from your vaulted stack 
(To keep all ok, safe and stalker/robber free, ensure your metal vault locker box is visible/shown in your images