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6 hours ago, GoldElliott said:
It's not in the best condition
lol it gets Silverfingers OCD proof seal of approval, its one of the nicest I seen in a long time, my favourite part of it is where the date is and the surrounding, I just had a really nice coin arrive (and my largest yet) its too dark here now to photograph it, it will have to wait till tomorrow.
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4 minutes ago, GoldElliott said:
First south African rands- great sized coins and high silver content for the date!
Finally an opening of parliament florin. Really love Aussie .925 and think that the portrait of KGV is great- shame it wasnt the same portrait used for GB coins!
I love those Aussie florins, the reverse is more like a beautiful medal than a coin imo, one of those is on my bosses wishlist, stonking example there, still waiting for my two coins, I have seen loads I would like this week, must resist buying more it is so addictive, especially when something that looks nice and has a really low starting bid/buy it now price.
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10 minutes ago, SilverTanner said:
These are impressive coins although looking at the top Registry Set and the census decent UNC examples seem to be a bit of a challenge.
https://coins.www.collectors-society.com/registry/coins/SetListing.aspx?PeopleSetID=199234
I think the size of the coins is against them in finding a minter, harder not to accidentally damage them in circulation, I think this is part of the fun of coin collecting, the hunt.
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2 minutes ago, GoldElliott said:
Some world silvers also arrived this morning
Would ordinarily be excited to receive these but was a tad overshadowed by the gold this morning 😂
Another 2.5 gulden this time with the seahorse privy mark- these really are some of the best looking (and biggest) world silvers out there.
Lovely Edward VII florin- one of the best British coin designs of the 20th century in my opinion.
I love those 2.5 Gulden coins, they are high on my wishlist, there is lots out there but I have yet to find my AUNC / UNC one from the time period I am collecting, I won 2 more coins in auctions, just the wait now till they arrive (if they do) , and if they are any good.
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5 hours ago, ilovesilverireallydo said:
Just bought these Egyptian Commemorative pounds. 72% silver - lovely looking coins. Tempted to try and get as many of the series but individual ones go for stupid money outside of the country.
You have this one I think, but I will keep my eye open for you and send you the link of any I see
This looks different but same rimjob
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1 hour ago, CadmiumGreen said:
Keep on stacking! Received these mixed PMs over the past couple of days...
Really enjoying the Austrian Mint’s Philharmonic design with my first 1996 Austria 1/4 oz Gold Philharmonic BU.
A couple of 2010 1/10 oz American Gold Eagle (BU)...
And we have some bits of Silver starting off with the Peter Rabbit™ 2020 UK 50p Silver Proof Coin. This only took five weeks to arrive from The Royal Mint...
My very first Kookaburra with this lovely 2016 1 Oz Silver Australian Kookaburra Perth Mint (BU)...
We also have added five 2018 1 oz Russian Silver Saint George Coin (BU). These look truly bullion quality, but with an enjoyable St. George and the Dragon design .
Also, picked up a sister series of the Chinese restrikes, with five 2020 China 1 oz Silver Shih Kai "Flying Dragon" Restrike (PU). This could probably have easily been incorporated into the original series hence the reason I added these...
Lastly, a tiny bit of Platinum with these two 1988 1/10 oz Platinum The Australian Koala (BU) in original adjoining capsules...
Jeez you don't do things by halves do you
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Nothing special really but an upgrade to one I already had, this one has lots of its lustre remaining and the production in 1941 was half what it was of my other coin (1945), just got to get a wet wooden toothpick and my microscope out to clean the muck off of it later.
1941 dated British Six Pence .500 silver, production 23,186,600
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7 minutes ago, Liam84 said:
Oh my...
I'd never heard of PowerCoin until now, there's some amazing stuff on there...
Must resist looking
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44 minutes ago, GoldElliott said:
Been waiting on flips for a few days now so had a pile of smaller silvers ready for 22.5mm flips.
There's a little bit of everything here, some nice Russian and Bulgarian coins including an almost proof looking 1913 50 Stotinki.
Some pre-German empire coins and the strangest and most precise silver quantity coin I own! A .4375 silver content Austrian Kreuzer!
A very nice KGV Australia 6 Pence with very strong detail on both reverse and obverse and some nice toning to it !@SILVERFINGER
A couple of Billon coins (I still count these as silver) Inc a 5 rappen 1873.
And my favourite... and quite topical at the moment coin 😂- a 1915 1 Korona Austrian coin with stunning rainbow toning. Very hard to capture the extent of this beautiful obverse toning, but although the condition isn't amazing, the toning makes this coin very beautiful to look at.
Crikey your collection is far bigger than mine, some stonking coins there I had another come today so will try and remember to dig them all out for a group shot.
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51 minutes ago, GoldElliott said:
Some of the world silvers I received today. Particularly like the Australia shilling with great obverse toning - the camera doesn’t do it justice.
Also some rare Norway coins. I am thinking of sending the 1912 krone for grading but am not great at guessing grades- what do you think it would get? (And would it be worth it?)
Such a shame about the holed 1887 krone turning a $150 coin into $10 ouch 😂
No idea on the grading, but its one of the nicest I have seen, I always enjoy your posts and you collect coins from around the era I like, your picture of the Aussie one is quite helpful as I see quite a few of their silver WW2 era coins with that design and the animal side always looks pretty worn, (harder to tell from the GRVI side on a bad photo) but on your GRV the king looks very sharp but the otherside is the same as some others I have seen, was the reverse of these coins a little fuzzy even when freshly minted ?
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Putting these on here on behalf of my daughter who ordered them from @SilverTrader excellent service and items she says as always, that's that series completed now.
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This arrived today that I won in an auction, a 1941 dated Netherlands East Indies 1/10 Gulden silver coin, until the Netherlands were overrun by the Nazi's in WW2 their coins were minted in house, during the war various mints in the USA made them for them, this coin was made by the Philadelphia mint and was made from .720 silver , 41 million were made that year by them and 58 million by the San Francisco mint that year alone, this is a tiny coin as seen next to the modern 5p.
Its a shame that the photo's do not show the lustre on both these coins, what little shows in pictures is just a bright streak that goes across them.
This is a fairly easy to find coin but most I see seem to be well circulated condition, this is a 1938 Dated Swedish 25 Ore silver coin, made from .600 silver, this coin was made by three different mints all having their own designs on the coins, two were made of silver the other was nickel and the dates of some overlap so its worth checking before buying to make sure you get the one you want, this coin of this design had a very long life without change, being made on and off yearly from 1910 to 1941, 3.6 million being minted in 1938 by this mint.
And finally a size comparison with a modern tiny UK 5p
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1 hour ago, MetalMandible said:
Finally came in today after patiently waiting for 1 month:
That's supposed to be a stacker ? 😲 you could build a house with those, lovely.
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2 hours ago, cerramio said:
Actually @Roy is right, on left side are attributes of industry, wheel and hammer and on right side are attributes of agriculture, plow and bunch of ears.
Thanks @cerramio I now can figure it out after you said that, they certainly packed lots of detail and things into this coin, its a shame the photos don't show how much lustre it still has, you have some superb looking coins from your part of the world.
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Just now, Tattoedamat said:
After the curry I had the other night won't be any issue with worms 🤫🤯🤯🤯
I had a Pataks Phal curry tonight, fudge me my lips are burning, my eyes are watering, and I bet the same will be happening down below in a couple of hours.
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34 minutes ago, Tattoedamat said:
Seeing as I've worked mega hard keeping the country going during the virus, I'm an Artic/big-rig driver. Today I rewarded myself with....
Ok so it's not PM but 😋🤫
Urgh dirty, its raw
, you better get wormed when you get home, my mate ate raw fish and he picked up 2 different types of worm when he went to Norway, he should of known better being a doctor.
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2 minutes ago, Roy said:
Obverse: middle national emblem, copy "REPUBLIKA ČESKOSLOVENSKÁ" and the year, preloved.
Rub: sitting figure of the republic with young shoots of linden between attributes of industry and agriculture above the silhouette of Hradčany (Prague?), stamp. values "10Kč", preloved.
Helpful? 😁
Perhaps @richatthecroft was right, but the like the swastika it wasn't always a communist/nazi symbol.
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3 minutes ago, richatthecroft said:
Perhaps an adaptation of the sickle?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Czechoslovakia
Nah this coins long before the communist coup that happened after WW2, I think this coin is celebrating some sort of new republic, we need a Czech collector, there is nothing in any of my books or on Numista about it
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Won this beauty in an auction, I really like the design of both sides of the coin, its a 1931 dated Czechoslovakian 10 Korun made of 70% silver, I think the reverse shows republica (the woman) tending to a Lime Tree (or Linden Tree as its sometimes known) which was the national emblem of Czechoslovakia and the wood from it was used for painting of Christian icons on.
Does anyone know what it is she is sat on especially the thing bottom left which looks like and hammer and something else ?
This coin was minted for 4 years only and is a little bit larger than a UK £2 coin.
Mintage figures below
1930 4,949,000
1931 6,689,000
1932 11,447,500
1933 915,000
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9 minutes ago, richatthecroft said:
My youngest Son is trading out some of his PM’s to fund his upcoming University Studies so I get first dibs 😉
Sadly I sacrificed my Chilean Pesos to put towards this fine lump- cost me a lot more than the one I originally bought. That lad drives a hard bargain, not sure where he gets it from 🤔
Surely a pro collector like you could of found some faults with it to knock the price down a bit
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3 minutes ago, GoldElliott said:
The standard catalog is great, I have the 1801-1900 and the 1901-2000 and am trying to collect as many (eventually all!) silver circulating coins from 1800 to 2000... so far about 350 down only about 30,000 to go!
lol I am still writing up what I want from the book to make a wish list, so far there is 80 coins I am after and I have 12, but I am only a third through the book , my fun part is finding them in my OCD proof condition, I am not sending them off for grading so beauty is in the eye of the beholder for me, but I do want them to look nice, clean and as close to unc as possible, I am not collecting every mintmark version either (yet) so that might save me trying to find 1000's of extra coins,
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Some stunning old coins here in the last couple of posts, thanks so much for sharing them, having been saving for a monster bar for the last couple of years I decided to fill the gap in the time waiting by collecting silver coins in as close to UNC condition as I can from the period 1930 - 1945 , the standard catalogue of world coins 1901 - 2000 book/bible has been a godsend in helping with this especially in seeing how huge some coins are like the 2.5 Guldens are, I hope they make capsules big enough for them lol
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Yeah the Straights settlements were before it was just Malaya, late 1800's I think, then after these I think it was Malaya and Borneo with Elizabeth's head on the coins, there is a couple of British colonial coins of this era and before that had a similar layout.
Sorry straights Settlements coins were going into the late 1920's from what I have seen, they must be what they used pre- WW2 and back.
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, like me going drinking with my mate with no teeth, bad hair an dress sense when on the pull in the 1990's.
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I have been looking at quite a few Polish 1930's coins, I love all of them, finding them in good condition is the fun part, especially the ones with Queen Jadwiga on, I really like your Pilsudski.