Additions to your collection - April 2026

Hi everyone,

Welcome to this month's thread 🙂

I'll start as I had to drive overnight to secure this one into my collection. Only just got back, just in time for work, but I think you'll all agree it was totally worthwhile for this exceptionally rare UK £5 from 1847!

A beauty in amazing condition!

Well they predicted the rise of Donald Trump correctly by 170 years 🤣😂😁😀😃

Oh come on, that's offensive. 😲

Fools don't deserve to be compared to the Mango Mussolini. 😛

Anyway, I'll grab some pics of some other actual additions. I've had that “fiver” skit note for a couple of months just to pop it on here today. 😁

Mango Mussolini 🤣

I picked up these three today:

Bulgaria, 100 leva, 1930

Egypt, 1 pound, 1970

Prussia, 2 mark, 1913

ngdawa

I picked up these three today:

 

Bulgaria, 100 leva, 1930

 

Egypt, 1 pound, 1970

 

Prussia, 2 mark, 1913

All superb! 

US 20 cent coin 1875S.  Only US 20 cent coin made and only made for circulation in 1875 (plus a few made in 1876).

N#18403

@rsorian,

well dome, i didn'r know this US value so far.

Let me continue with a recent addition, Franz II, last emperor.

You know, I was trying to figure out why a .20 coin was considered so special. Then remembered the US typically works in .25 coins.

So what you have is an interesting, almost experimental, piece. Very, very nice.

Interestingly enough, at the time, the UK used .25 coins (or rather 5/- being worth a quarter of a pound). We had a rather short-lived .20 coin (4/- the “double florin”) from 1887-90. Looks like we had the same experiment with the same failed result.

Seems that at that time a quarter was more useful than a fifth. Wonder what had changed by the introduction of the .20 in 1982 rather than creating a .25 instead. 🤔

I find it interesting how much Liberty looks like Britannia here. Shield, symbolic “spear”-style weapon. Seated in flowing robes. Suppose it was rather the style of the time for depictions of national identity. Suspect you could find a lot of nations from that era in that design.

It was pretty much a failure from the start for a variety of reasons, primarily people thought it was the current 25 cent coin in circulation at the time.  

  vs.      

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-cent_piece_(United_States_coin)

Size comparison:

Just back from a coin show, have made some photos.

Starting with modern Europe

Some MS 1928 coins of Irish Republic

And this - I have wanted one for years

rim has a pinch mark

otherwise a decent looking VF.

Congrats on the 1943 ½ crown! It must be amazing having one of about 500 in the world!

 Wow - yes - N#10970  👍 

A Collector

You know, I was trying to figure out why a .20 coin was considered so special. Then remembered the US typically works in .25 coins.

So what you have is an interesting, almost experimental, piece. Very, very nice.

Interestingly enough, at the time, the UK used .25 coins (or rather 5/- being worth a quarter of a pound). We had a rather short-lived .20 coin (4/- the “double florin”) from 1887-90. Looks like we had the same experiment with the same failed result.

 

Seems that at that time a quarter was more useful than a fifth. Wonder what had changed by the introduction of the .20 in 1982 rather than creating a .25 instead. 🤔

 

I find it interesting how much Liberty looks like Britannia here. Shield, symbolic “spear”-style weapon. Seated in flowing robes. Suppose it was rather the style of the time for depictions of national identity. Suspect you could find a lot of nations from that era in that design.

It was not for the UK shilling which was around 22 - 24 cents, it was for the LMU market, a 20 cent piece would equate to, or would be close to a 1 Franc, 1 Peseta, 1 Lira etc of this group. However as the American coin was 90% silver, it was still worth slightly more than a 1 unit of the LMU, as 1 units of LMU only had 0.833/0.835 silver or 4.1667 grams of silver, whereas this American coin had 4.5 grams at least. Plus the American dollars contained more silver proportionally than the 50c/25c/10c and 5c silver coins. A half dollar weighed 12.5 grams and contained 11.25 grams of silver, but a dollar (Morgan) weighed 26.73 grams and had 24.07 grams of silver. A 5 unit of LMU was 25 grams and 90% silver only containing 22.5 grams of silver, well under an American dollar of German 5 marks and British crowns.

I did a lot of buying at the Auckland show over the weekend and will show my purchases over a few posts, but can show you my superstar buy now, easily my best coin outside of anything gold.

It was actually one of the lesser crowns on offer. This is a 1645 Charles I hammered crown from Exeter (castle/turret mintmark) with sashed king on horseback holding sword. Overall in fine/near fine condition, roughly made and some minor clipping (Weight 27.97 grams when it should be 30.08 grams new). This coin is so interesting, its concave and generally a good strike, looks like hack silver/likely melted down silver from some noble's plates that were seized?

N#52420 - was 100 until I added mine!

This thing looks and feels huge. But it was nothing next to the 1551 Crown my friend bought and a 1645 Newarke Lozenge shape siege shilling! A display there featured a proof Cromwell crown with blue/red toning, a 1653 Commonwealth crowne and even a pair of James I gold coins including a 1607 Sovereign in AU condition, and a gVF 1622 Laurel in cleaned but nice shape.

Wow, nice stuff! interesting, two posts in a row of hammered coins, high end ones too 😘

Here are some common 20th century middle east subjects.

N#26771

N#5963

Paris minted LMU silver francs

Post-silver nickle alloy 10 rial  N#12220

Moneytane

A Collector

You know, I was trying to figure out why a .20 coin was considered so special. Then remembered the US typically works in .25 coins.

So what you have is an interesting, almost experimental, piece. Very, very nice.

Interestingly enough, at the time, the UK used .25 coins (or rather 5/- being worth a quarter of a pound). We had a rather short-lived .20 coin (4/- the “double florin”) from 1887-90. Looks like we had the same experiment with the same failed result.

 

Seems that at that time a quarter was more useful than a fifth. Wonder what had changed by the introduction of the .20 in 1982 rather than creating a .25 instead. 🤔

 

I find it interesting how much Liberty looks like Britannia here. Shield, symbolic “spear”-style weapon. Seated in flowing robes. Suppose it was rather the style of the time for depictions of national identity. Suspect you could find a lot of nations from that era in that design.

It was not for the UK shilling which was around 22 - 24 cents, it was for the LMU market, a 20 cent piece would equate to, or would be close to a 1 Franc, 1 Peseta, 1 Lira etc of this group. However as the American coin was 90% silver, it was still worth slightly more than a 1 unit of the LMU, as 1 units of LMU only had 0.833/0.835 silver or 4.1667 grams of silver, whereas this American coin had 4.5 grams at least. Plus the American dollars contained more silver proportionally than the 50c/25c/10c and 5c silver coins. A half dollar weighed 12.5 grams and contained 11.25 grams of silver, but a dollar (Morgan) weighed 26.73 grams and had 24.07 grams of silver. A 5 unit of LMU was 25 grams and 90% silver only containing 22.5 grams of silver, well under an American dollar of German 5 marks and British crowns.

True, and also several Latin American countries has 20 cent or LMU franc size coins, some in .900 and some in 835.

Cuba for example got 20 cent and 40 cent coins in 1914, presumably to replace the Spanish one and two paseta coins.

And even more goodies from that show

The only photo I got of it!

Mr Midnight, some coins from your country!

My new oldest American coin, a 1831 Coronet Head cent in Fine, this is a nice original piece and like most large cents, its got wear and the usual bangs and dings. It comes from a time when the USA was not as mighty as it is now and screams a homemade, down home pioneer feel. Classic early Americana!

I also added an 1840s braided hair cent to join my 1853 and 1854 ones, this 1847 is also fine, but as you can see has had some serious dings and gashes. It was a bit cheaper than the 1831. These later 1840s and the 1850s braided hair cents have a more machine/factory made mid 19th century feel than the bespoke frontier feel of my earlier large cent. Its basically a product of the emerging industrial giant.

My 3rd ever half dime and this little beauty was quite cheap, its pretty worn though - still I love cute coins a mix of when a silver 5 cent coin was worth something, yet with that whole industrial mid 19th century feel with the perfectly round huge rim. Despite all this buying, my collection still lacks a half cent or a silver 3 cent coin (trime). The weirdest fact was finding they circulated in Nicaragua of all places!

Probably the worst ever Columbian, this beauty cost me under melt value, usually found in various MS grades or at least AU, cleaned Fine examples of these coins, may be rare as none are truly this awful!

The worn and battered halves keep coming, again bargain basement prices got me this 1899S (A better date) which is essentially VG8 but the rim on the reverse is really heavily worn into the lettering (G4 level), essentially detail is the VG region.

UPDATE: Reading the Numista Page told me these coins likely circulated in the Philippines and that is why they are generally found more battered (1898/99/1900S) and that may explain the nastier than expected rim.

I also picked up a 1890 Indian head cent in EF but a bit streaked, a 1903 cent AU but shined up a bit (Both cost like $5 each) and a 1957 quarter, 1935, 1954 dime and 1935S dime in EF under melt. One more coin which is decent.

A standing liberty quarter of 1930s in VF condition (Possibly cleaned in past), but one of my favourite designs and not much over melt.

Moneytane

And even more goodies from that show

 

The only photo I got of it!

 

Mr Midnight, some coins from your country!

 

 

My new oldest American coin, a 1831 Coronet Head cent in Fine, this is a nice original piece and like most large cents, its got wear and the usual bangs and dings. It comes from a time when the USA was not as mighty as it is now and screams a homemade, down home pioneer feel. Classic early Americana!

 

 

I also added an 1840s braided hair cent to join my 1853 and 1854 ones, this 1847 is also fine, but as you can see has had some serious dings and gashes. It was a bit cheaper than the 1831. These later 1840s and the 1850s braided hair cents have a more machine/factory made mid 19th century feel than the bespoke frontier feel of my earlier large cent. Its basically a product of the emerging industrial giant.

 

 

My 3rd ever half dime and this little beauty was quite cheap, its pretty worn though - still I love cute coins a mix of when a silver 5 cent coin was worth something, yet with that whole industrial mid 19th century feel with the perfectly round huge rim. Despite all this buying, my collection still lacks a half cent or a silver 3 cent coin (trime).

 

 

Probably the worst ever Columbian, this beauty cost me under melt value, usually found in various MS grades or at least AU, cleaned Fine examples of these coins, may be rare as none are truly this awful!

 

The worn and battered halves keep coming, again bargain basement prices got me this 1899S (A better date) which is essentially VG8 but the rim on the reverse is really heavily worn into the lettering (G4 level), essentially detail is the VG region.

 

I also picked up a 1890 Indian head cent in EF but a bit streaked, a 1903 cent AU but shined up a bit (Both cost like $5 each) and a 1957 quarter, 1935, 1954 dime and 1935S dime in EF under melt. One more coin which is decent.

 

 

A standing liberty quarter of 1930s in VF condition (Possibly cleaned in past), but one of my favourite designs and not much over melt.

Nice lots of US. I don't have any half dimes, but I do have a silver 3C . It is really tiny and thin. and mine is bent.

 When I was a boy it was still possible to find a mercury dime or a standing liberty quarter in circulation.  I found more than one Barber dime in change as well, as late as 1975.

Those 19th century ones especially the large cents make me think of a wonderful episode in a Charles Dickens novel, Martin Chuzzelwit. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/968 starting at Chapter 16.  It's 1842, Martin, a young gentleman and his serving man, Marc Tapley, seek their fortune in America with mixed results.

Some new items from the Americas

Nice group, the Panamanian 1904 one is interesting I bought that set from 5c to 50c and the joy is they are twice the size, your 50 centesimos is like dollar sized etc. Agree about Martin Chuzzlewit and love the generous size of the large cents, the true working classics of the early USA. Great Canadian half too.

Here's more of my buy in from the sale/show.

Another 17th century silver coin, this time not as spectacular worn but very old James I shilling. This is second coinage and scallop mintmark which dates it to 1606/07 a great coin for a mere $80. Its only my 3rd James shilling and surprsingly not clipped with a decent strike/well centered and good planchet. Only its wear lets it down.

Some Canadian pennies I pulled out of the $4 bin, and these coins are all dates I don't have. The 1881H is only G/VG but a good date and the 1901 and 1918 are gVF to EF despite verdigris on the 1918. The 1901 is my favourite here.

2 dimes which came out of the $8 box, normally such coins would be $4 but high silver prices move them up (Actually $5 and $10 bins, but if you buy 4 coins, you get the 5th free!). The 1914 is very worn, but a date I needed, the 1928 is a much nicer gFine to VF and a harder date. Again both are straight to the main collection!

1936 Quarter (No dots sorry), this is a cleaned Fine (Obv may be VF) and its an upgrade on a very worn 36 I have, just looks a bit better to my very nice 1937. The coin cost near melt.

Better shots of the Gunmoney, the shlling is the worst, its corroded Fine- Sep 1689 is better in the flesh

The Halfcrown is less corroded, but gVG, date is likely April or May 1690. This weighs more (13.76 grams) than the crown! (12.72 grams).

The star of the show, the crown, I like these coins, so historic and they appeal to my Irish Catholic heritage (Well all the others apply to the English Anglican side).

2 more conders, I don't collect them hardcore, but when I see them cheap and they look interesting I buy them. Mainly as if I went into conders hardcore (Conders - privately made copper halfpence from 1787 to 1799 issued in the UK), I would get obsessed, spend thousands and just get carried away like I have with Halfcrowns, Morgan dollars, Canadian, Gold, Kruger coins etc.

Birmingham copper token with a nice stork, dated 1792. Like the gunmoney these coins look nicer in the flesh than in photos. Like the gunmoney, photos have background removed to give the coin more effect. Heavy coin at 13 grams

London and Middlesex halfpenny, very worn which shows 30 something Prince of Wales (Whales then), before he was George IV and the coin is interesting as the edge says “Payable in London, Dublin and Bristol”, no date, but bewigged George Portraits mostly appear on conders 1794 and later. Its lightweight (9 grams) all suggest a later (mid - late 1790s date).

More fascinating history. I love the stork on the cornucopia. 

Here are the last of my April show purchase.

Two Suisse 5 rappen , very thin billon flans.

Ionion Islands lepton. This is very small coin, 16mm, on a similar module as contemporary Italian centesimo coins. 

Some rim dings but also a die crack on the Σ  in KPATOΣ

I invariably get interesting change at a coin show. I got this 40 year old finn at the lunch counter in the hall.

You dont see many of the small oval portraits anymore.

Final part of my show buy ins

A 1896 Kruger 3d, out of my Kruger collection, this is the first threepence coin of theirs, gVF but a bad photo, many of  my photos of small coins like 3ds, 5 cent silver coins etc usually come out bad.

Another Kruger  Florin, this one was cheap and close to melt value, again date I don't have.

Group of NZ slabbed sixpence coins, 1936, 1937, 1940, 1941 and 1943. All are AU55 or 58, my first slabbed coins, the 1937 (Top right) is MS64 but its tone stained.

1935 Irish shilling, VF range - always good to get more Irish silver

1934 3d in a slab also, was part of a group of 1940s 6pences all mostly AU and EF.

I love the Ionian Islands coin!

Mail day!

Two coins I ordered at the end of the month (but posted after the easter holidays):

N#140452 

With it, my coin dashboard now reached 200 countries.

Ancient Greece - Salamis of Cyprus. Not in Numista yet but I'll add it soon.

Edit: page created, pending approval: N#571389 

I have been seeing a lot of Egyptian coins amongst additions recently, so I'll start with them:
 

I got a large lot of Egyptian coins in the beginning of April. It Included the entire 1967 series, and the entire 1972-1980 series (including both aluminum and brass 5 and 10 millimes), Besides that it also has two FAO coins (on the right), a 1984 5 qirsh with denomination above (upgrade), 2005 brass 50 qirsh, and the 2008 10 qirsh. The lot also had a 1980 2 qirsh (not in the picture), which I already had in great quality, so that one goes to my swap list. All coins came straight from mint rolls/bags.

Andorra: 1 cent 1999 - FAO

Honduras: 1974 5 cent - FAO

Nepal: 1990 5 rupees - FAO

And the last three coins are upgrades:

San Tome: 1971 20 cents

Ecuador: 1991 20 sucres

Sudan: 1994 1 dinar. My previous coin is technically uncirculated, but has a large dark spot all over the obverse. This one also has some dark spots, but they are much smaller, so I think this one is better. Although, I will have to compare the two, when I go back. I also saw few “widely shaded” varieties, but from a different seller, for a relatively low price (about 1.5-2 euros). Now I am thinking about buying one to do the experiment: https://en.numista.com/forum/topic112472.html

Found these yesterday…

It appears that neither of these are genuine coins, but I'm still looking into exactly what they are.  So far, the closest I can find is…

Etsy - Commemorative coin with countermark 8 Reales 1803 Charles IIII

N#452123 (Mine is 36mm across and 3mm thick)

Second coin is actually this one: 

N#13256 

Quite a bit better than a sovereign eh? 😁

Unfortunately, not gold.  Probably brass (see earlier link - ‘Replica’).  FYI - See the corrosion on the obv.

LDC63

Unfortunately, not gold.  Probably brass (see earlier link - ‘Replica’).  FYI - See the corrosion on the obv.

 

But its a good quality replica at least, George looks realistic and the positioning of St George is usual for the £5 coins. 36mm is the right size for one too. A great space filler, but yeah the 8 reales is fooling no one!😁

Ma9nWaRr10

I have been seeing a lot of Egyptian coins amongst additions recently, so I'll start with them:
 

I got a large lot of Egyptian coins in the beginning of April. It Included the entire 1967 series, and the entire 1972-1980 series (including both aluminum and brass 5 and 10 millimes), Besides that it also has two FAO coins (on the right), a 1984 5 qirsh with denomination above (upgrade), 2005 brass 50 qirsh, and the 2008 10 qirsh. The lot also had a 1980 2 qirsh (not in the picture), which I already had in great quality, so that one goes to my swap list. All coins came straight from mint rolls/bags.

Andorra: 1 cent 1999 - FAO

Honduras: 1974 5 cent - FAO

Nepal: 1990 5 rupees - FAO

And the last three coins are upgrades:

San Tome: 1971 20 cents

Ecuador: 1991 20 sucres

Sudan: 1994 1 dinar. My previous coin is technically uncirculated, but has a large dark spot all over the obverse. This one also has some dark spots, but they are much smaller, so I think this one is better. Although, I will have to compare the two, when I go back. I also saw few “widely shaded” varieties, but from a different seller, for a relatively low price (about 1.5-2 euros). Now I am thinking about buying one to do the experiment: https://en.numista.com/forum/topic112472.html

Nice lot of Egypt coins, I guess mint sets broken out of damaged packaging. I have circulated examples of many of those, but not full date sets of any year I don't think.  

The other set is quite eclectic , 5 Continents represented!

Mr. Midnight

Ma9nWaRr10

I have been seeing a lot of Egyptian coins amongst additions recently, so I'll start with them:
 

I got a large lot of Egyptian coins in the beginning of April. It Included the entire 1967 series, and the entire 1972-1980 series (including both aluminum and brass 5 and 10 millimes), Besides that it also has two FAO coins (on the right), a 1984 5 qirsh with denomination above (upgrade), 2005 brass 50 qirsh, and the 2008 10 qirsh. The lot also had a 1980 2 qirsh (not in the picture), which I already had in great quality, so that one goes to my swap list. All coins came straight from mint rolls/bags.

Andorra: 1 cent 1999 - FAO

Honduras: 1974 5 cent - FAO

Nepal: 1990 5 rupees - FAO

And the last three coins are upgrades:

San Tome: 1971 20 cents

Ecuador: 1991 20 sucres

Sudan: 1994 1 dinar. My previous coin is technically uncirculated, but has a large dark spot all over the obverse. This one also has some dark spots, but they are much smaller, so I think this one is better. Although, I will have to compare the two, when I go back. I also saw few “widely shaded” varieties, but from a different seller, for a relatively low price (about 1.5-2 euros). Now I am thinking about buying one to do the experiment: https://en.numista.com/forum/topic112472.html

Nice lot of Egypt coins, I guess mint sets broken out of damaged packaging. I have circulated examples of many of those, but not full date sets of any year I don't think.  

The other set is quite eclectic , 5 Continents represented!

 

Thank you! The seller told me, they all are from mint bags/rolls.

Were there any mint sets issued though? 

Because I don't know about any from those years. Egypt issued a proof set in 1966, and then a set in 1984. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/set.php?id=742 (which I think is official)

Plus there probably were few commemorative sets in between, because I have seen a few. (I don't know if those were official or not)

There are also FM sets, that have the 1972-1980 series, excluding aluminum coins, but the brass coins in them usually have heavy discolouration.

It seems like the coin bug has bit me quite bad, cuz here's more! 😅

Kingdom of Hungary, 1 Forint, 1879

Great Mongol, 1 Jital, 1206-1227

ngdawa

It seems like the coin bug has bit me quite bad, cuz here's more! 😅

 

Kingdom of Hungary, 1 Forint, 1879

 

Great Mongol, 1 Jital, 1206-1227

So that's the 13th century coin you mentioned in the centuries' thread?

Wow, that's not any coin, you got a Genghis Khan's coin! Congrats!

Giobruno

ngdawa

Great Mongol, 1 Jital, 1206-1227

So that's the 13th century coin you mentioned in the centuries' thread?

Wow, that's not any coin, you got a Genghis Khan's coin! Congrats!

Haha, yeah. Maybe I did mention it! I was, and am, very excited to have a Chingis Khaan coin. 😁

Very nice coin! I haven seen plenty of Golden Horde coins before, but never from Genghis Khan himself

Ma9nWaRr10

Very nice coin! I haven seen plenty of Golden Horde coins before, but never from Genghis Khan himself

Me neither, so I was very excited when I found it. 😆

rsirian1

US 20 cent coin 1875S.  Only US 20 cent coin made and only made for circulation in 1875 (plus a few made in 1876).

 

   

N#18403

I believe it was made as a equiliviant of the Latin Monetary System One Franc? I may be wrong.

Mr._Investor

rsirian1

US 20 cent coin 1875S.  Only US 20 cent coin made and only made for circulation in 1875 (plus a few made in 1876).

 

   

N#18403

I believe it was made as a equiliviant of the Latin Monetary System One Franc? I may be wrong.

That's what Moneytane was explaining earlier. I hadn't heard that but it makes sense.

Mr._Investor

rsirian1

US 20 cent coin 1875S.  Only US 20 cent coin made and only made for circulation in 1875 (plus a few made in 1876).

 

   

N#18403

I believe it was made as a equiliviant of the Latin Monetary System One Franc? I may be wrong.

Yes and no,  same module but the US coin was .900 silver.  also compare to Newfoundland 20c. N#1304

some other common modules in US .900  N#6835 , N#5166

and true LMU  compliant N#48157 , N#10338 

Picked up a few Canadiana pieces. Old silver pieces I would have generally been more inclined towards felt a bit pricey, so I settled on more reasonable contemporary coins this time round 

and a few pics of the Queen‘s portraits in BU and Proof

Nothing too special but just some modern spendable coins and notes that a tutor at university gave me. 

Japanese Yen 703

USD 1.07

Philippine Piso 20

Romania Leu 11.10

Taiwan Dollar 353

Overall £14.46 just in exchange. 

3 more lovely coins from my favourite dealers who take studio quality photographs!

2 lovely 19th century North American half dollars. These are both quite worn or have some issues, but are easily my oldest for both countries.

1881H Canadian Half Dollar - Cleaned and Bleached, but honest VG condition, lovely historic coin and my oldest half dollar from Canada.

First year Barber 1892P - nice coin near VF (Full Liberty), but coin is cleaned and evidence of brooch mount at 10 o'clock on reverse. Still a great coin and a scarce date as under 1 million minted. Has a good rim too and decent detail. I love Barber halves. This is my 11th.

Nice UNC Newfoundland 5 cent coin, unlike Canada they did not do nickels and even more bizarre is this coin remained at 92.5% silver rather than 80%. My fourth Newfoundland coin. However just bought New Brunswick cent. This coin was described as Toned UNC and has a C indicating it was minted at the Canadian mint (Must have been interesting given Canadian coins were 80% silver).

PS: Just concluded a massive trade with a local dealer, I am trading 3 half sovereigns for an amazing selection of coins he has including Roman, old English, American and Canadian, tokens, Mexican silver pesos and even a 2 shilling silver token from 1811!

Stopped by my local coin shop yesterday and got 23 new types to my collection, including a couple German notgeld coins I got  for 50 cents a piece!

(The notgeld coins are on the top row of coins labeled from which issuer it came from)

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Stopped by my local coin shop yesterday and got 23 new types to my collection, including a couple German notgeld coins I got  for 50 cents a piece!

(The notgeld coins are on the top row of coins labeled from which issuer it came from)

Nice lot! Quite a bit of silver B)

Yesterday received this thing:

1968 set of Jordanian coins, which looks like the very rare 1968 specimen set, for a very low price. However, considering the price, I don't know whether it is original.

I have created a discussion about it, where you can find more information and pictures:

 https://en.numista.com/forum/topic176012.html

Two more Egyptian has arrived. 😅

10 Qirsh, 1957

10 Qirsh, 1960

Nice new stuff, mates.

I went to a show today and got home early enough to photo and catalog everything.

starting with Middle east, to continue the theme - N#11729

Yemen a new issuer for me. This is 720 silver, and I find bought a number of 720 silver coins

Some small silvers.  I dont collect six pences, but I do collect rainbow toned coins. 

Netherlands Indies is another new country for me, it is .720

the Philadelphia minted Cuba 10c us US .900 silver.

These Venezuelan coins are LMU francs, the 1960 was struck in Paris, 40 years after France abandoned the LMU.

Two of these Morocco inter-war coins were minted in Paris, the 25c. was minted in Poissy.

Great coins Mr Midnight, see you have the interwar Dutch rixdollars, nice coins with 72% silver content down from the old 94.5%, but still a decent amount for a post WW1 coin. I have 7 of them 1929 to 1932 and 1937 to 1939. You have the 1940 coin I don't have, the last one before the Nazis. The Arabian coins are very interesting too. Venezuela strikes me too, how they made good silver coins well into the 1960s and then I looked it up and found the country was really well off in the 50s and 60s.

I have done a trade with another collector, he wanted some gold and I gave him some for a mix of cash and coins he was selling and added these beauties to my collection (In Transit)

Brazilian 2,000 Reis - last year of Empire and easily one of the weirder coins I have, all my Brazilians are mainly cheap steel inflation coins from the 1930s onwards - this is good silver and LMU 5 franc size I think.

Bath silver 2 shilling token (Daltonista on CCF would love this), silver tokens were quite scarce, undated, but believed to be from 1811 or 1812. A bit worn and cleaned but my first ever.

Very nice (VFish) Queen Anne sixpence of Great Britain from 1711 - better than average and good portrait.

GB Sixpence, finally a companion to my SSC Shilling of the same year, ironically the company behind the South Sea Bubble of 1720 lasted well after the crash and supplied silver for minting, my first George I sixpence. Of all the early milled rulers with the exception of James II, George I coins are the hardest to find. A bit more worn, but I find Queen Anne and King George I (1702 - 1727), coins had those generous thick lettering and numerals, so even worn coins are easy to identify easier than the thin wiry letters of later Georgians and the wispy stuff of earlier Stuart monarchs.

Very nice 1838 Groat, this coin replaces a very worn one I have for the year, this is pure eye porn. I mean look at the detail and that tone, yet its still just EF rather than UNC, but what a beauty.

Stunning 1900s US Barber dime, probably my best ever Barber coin, this is high AU borderline UNC - lovely stuff.

More later including one incredible Mexican coin.

Mr. Midnight

Nice new stuff, mates.

I went to a show today and got home early enough to photo and catalog everything.

starting with Middle east, to continue the theme - N#11729

 

I've seen these coins popping up basically everywhere nowadays. I don't know if they've always been around, or if something's happened. Great coin nonetheless.

I've found a great example for 87.95 €, which I thought was too pricy.

Well, I think should stop visiyong places and websites with coins. Yesterday I had a crazy auction night, and won way more than I was expecting. 😅 And today came another coin to its new home. 🤪

Mongolia, 1 tögrög 1925

Sorry for the blurryness. My hands was quite shaky and I tried to catch some light for the photos. 😁

I also dipped my toes into ancient coins and started at the ground floor/sub basement level with some 4th century Roman coppers, but I have at least splurged on better and clearer condition examples. These coins only cost between $20 - $30 each.

Licinius dating between 317 and 320  - Late Pagan coin and co emperor with Constantine the great.

Constantius II (351 - 355AD) Constainople Man killing boar?

Valentianian II - 370s - Antioch, apparently this design with the ship is quite common (These are all common Follis)

Honorius - the worst emperor ever apparently - The coin is Gloria Romanorum and dates from 393 - 395AD (Apparently 5th century coins are quite hard to find).

Moneytane

I also dipped my toes into ancient coins and started at the ground floor/sub basement level with some 4th century Roman coppers, but I have at least splurged on better and clearer condition examples. These coins only cost between $20 - $30 each.

 

  

Licinius dating between 317 and 320  - Late Pagan coin and co emperor with Constantine the great.

 

 

Constantius II (351 - 355AD) Constainople Man killing boar?

 

Valentianian II - 370s - Antioch, apparently this design with the ship is quite common (These are all common Follis)

 

Honorius - the worst emperor ever apparently - The coin is Gloria Romanorum and dates from 393 - 395AD (Apparently 5th century coins are quite hard to find).

Welcome to the world of ancient coinage. That's a nice lot you got there. All of them are well readable.

And the FEL TEMP REPARATIO coin doesn't show a boar, but a fallen horse and horseman. It's one of the most common reverse types of the Constantinian era, along with the GLORIA EXERCITVS with two soldiers, and some others.

I don't know if Honorius was the worst, but surely is on the top part of the list. From that later period there's also Valentinian III and Ricimer. And also there's Nero and Caligula and many others I don't remember, if we consider the whole empire's lifespan.

Giobruno

Moneytane

I also dipped my toes into ancient coins and started at the ground floor/sub basement level with some 4th century Roman coppers, but I have at least splurged on better and clearer condition examples. These coins only cost between $20 - $30 each.

 

  

Licinius dating between 317 and 320  - Late Pagan coin and co emperor with Constantine the great.

 

 

Constantius II (351 - 355AD) Constainople Man killing boar?

 

Valentianian II - 370s - Antioch, apparently this design with the ship is quite common (These are all common Follis)

 

Honorius - the worst emperor ever apparently - The coin is Gloria Romanorum and dates from 393 - 395AD (Apparently 5th century coins are quite hard to find).

Welcome to the world of ancient coinage. That's a nice lot you got there. All of them are well readable.

 

And the FEL TEMP REPARATIO coin doesn't show a boar, but a fallen horse and horseman. It's one of the most common reverse types of the Constantinian era, along with the GLORIA EXERCITVS with two soldiers, and some others.

 

I don't know if Honorius was the worst, but surely is on the top part of the list. From that later period there's also Valentinian III and Ricimer. And also there's Nero and Caligula and many others I don't remember, if we consider the whole empire's lifespan.

Thanks for the praise, I was waiting for “Oh those are fakes” or “Those are very overpriced” etc and happy its not the case. I have a few ancients in collections, but most are very worn and again of the 3rd - 4th century coppers (I had a worn lump of Elagabalus (Another worst emperor) and a worn lump of Julian, but a decent Diocletian and Constantius at least.

The goal is to extend up to Republican and 12 caesars denarii. Greek coins seem a bit beyond me.

Yes I know my British coins and various 19th century silver pieces, but when  it comes to ancients, I am as dumb as a box of frogs and they kind of “intimidate” me. I need to face the fear and enjoy these ancient beauties. Cheap or basic coppers - still 1,600 - 1,800 year old coins, no one lived in New Zealand when these coins were made!

I got Honorius from a youtube video by Spectrum, who also listed Caligula, Elgabalus and some other 3rd century rulers like Gordians 1 - 3, Pertinax, Vitellius etc. Nero was decent as he was just debauched but the story of him fiddling through Rome's fire is a myth, he was apparently handing out pork and grain rations and spent money on rebuilding parts of Rome. His other stuff like a clean sweep of the Olympics, sinking his mother and marrying men and women en masse - sound dreadful though.

Moneytane

 

Thanks for the praise, I was waiting for “Oh those are fakes” or “Those are very overpriced” etc and happy its not the case. I have a few ancients in collections, but most are very worn and again of the 3rd - 4th century coppers (I had a worn lump of Elagabalus (Another worst emperor) and a worn lump of Julian, but a decent Diocletian and Constantius at least.

Not at all, they're nice examples and prices just right. As Giobruno said welcome to the world of ancient coinage!

Republican coins is a very wide term, maybe focus on a specific theme like mythology or military. The 12 caesars denarii is a very popular series but it gets very pricey.

Moneytane

 

Thanks for the praise, I was waiting for “Oh those are fakes” or “Those are very overpriced” etc and happy its not the case. I have a few ancients in collections, but most are very worn and again of the 3rd - 4th century coppers (I had a worn lump of Elagabalus (Another worst emperor) and a worn lump of Julian, but a decent Diocletian and Constantius at least.

 

The goal is to extend up to Republican and 12 caesars denarii. Greek coins seem a bit beyond me.

Yes I know my British coins and various 19th century silver pieces, but when  it comes to ancients, I am as dumb as a box of frogs and they kind of “intimidate” me. I need to face the fear and enjoy these ancient beauties. Cheap or basic coppers - still 1,600 - 1,800 year old coins, no one lived in New Zealand when these coins were made!

 

I got Honorius from a youtube video by Spectrum, who also listed Caligula, Elgabalus and some other 3rd century rulers like Gordians 1 - 3, Pertinax, Vitellius etc. Nero was decent as he was just debauched but the story of him fiddling through Rome's fire is a myth, he was apparently handing out pork and grain rations and spent money on rebuilding parts of Rome. His other stuff like a clean sweep of the Olympics, sinking his mother and marrying men and women en masse - sound dreadful though.

Oh don't worry, 4th century bronzes are common enough to not worth faking. That's why they're a very affordable way to start into ancients.

$20 a piece sounds fine, nowadays the only romans I find for $10 or less are or very very worn or decent but unidentified. Buying cheap but unidentified romans can be fun, if you consider the work of identification as part of the fun.

Republic and early Empire are more expensive to get, but perhaps you can find something. As for the 12 caesars… it starts to get tough. Bronzes from Claudius, Vespasian or Domitian are not that rare, I got mine for around $40. But the ones who reigned for a shorter period, good luck, even their bronzes are very expensive.

My Nero bronze was for $40-50 as well because it's very worn, and my Julius Caesar bronze is a posthumous issue (his face on one side and Octavian's face on the other) that is so worn that I can't be sure if it's real or a barbarous imitation. For silvers, try something from the 2nd century onwards, like Marcus Aurelius.

Greece may be daunting indeed, lots of city-states, little or nothing to read… If you buy an unlabeled coin you will 100% need to ask for help on the ID forum. But, some bronze types are not that expensive, you may even find an Alexander the Great bronze.

I still have to look on this video, but I get why he ranked Honorius as #1, Alaric's Sack of Rome was during his reign.

The other two I mentioned also had their contributions to the demise of the empire.

Thats great - understand fully, like when I started UK coins 8 years ago, it was just $25 for this 1929 Halfcrown and now its like $500 halfcrowns from 1707 and $2000 crowns from 1645. I expect that Aureus of Nero to cost $3k plus or a Caesar denarius to also be 4 figures. 

I got the Nero story from our trip to Europe in 2014, we visited the site of Olympic Games in Olympia and we learnt that a lot of it is Roman like the arch on to the track and the “Neronium” a surviving Roman gymnasia from Nero's time and our guide casually mentioned one year 64 or 66AD I think, Nero won every single event at the Olympic Games and then made everyone sit through hours of his poetry and odes - all very bad and on his lyre. I did like seeing the 6th century BC temple of Hera more and the Philippeon of around 320BC.

I can understand why 3rd and 4th century coppers are common and it seems hoards of them are being dug up regularly as Romans of the era buried coins, due to the uncertainty after 375AD or so. I find surprising not many coins were minted in the West in the 400s compared to the explosion of them through the 4th century AD. Plus it seemed the silver denarii/antonnianni had collapsed in value, leaving little but worthless copper by 280AD.

Any some more coins - back to one of my favourite eras

This copper halfpenny of George I from 1720, despite all the verdigris, its a decent piece and often when metal detectorists find them, they are easily confused as Roman coppers, until they see “Georgius” (Not a roman name) but the crude manufacture, Britannia etc have all fit on Roman coins (I think she first appeared on a coin of Septimius Severus).

1724 another half penny, they look better in the flesh and quite large (28mm). Unlike silver these coins were not collared rims and appear quite oval shaped. Great preservation for a low value 300 year coin, but they are eclipsed by low value coins that are over 1,400 years older!

More likely from a cess pit rather than the ground like my 1720s group, this 1752 is sharper than it looks and we have a later king George II. I have very few halfpennies this old, so welcome additions (The farthings are more common). Unlike silver which adopted the king's older head around 1741, small silver and copper kept the youthful head of him.

This worn thing was cheap and is a William IV accession medalet, the obverse reads “William IV acceded the throne June (_6) 1830”, I can't read the other side, but may be something about him marrying Adelaide in 1813 or 1818.

The most worn and battered Upper canada half penny of all time, but its real and cost just $3.

A decent New Brunswick penny and new oldest Canadian coin (Except for my 1813 Waterloo Token). This was at least decent and about Fine I would say. Its a big coin too.

Worn but verfy charming Queen Anne shilling from 1709 - I love my expanding shilling collection. Who knows the stories this well worn beauty could tell. Again the heavy lettering ensures that even in this state, these coins endure.

Moneytane

 

 

This worn thing was cheap and is a William IV accession medalet, the obverse reads “William IV acceded the throne June (_6) 1830”, I can't read the other side, but may be something about him marrying Adelaide in 1813 or 1818. 

 I thought I had one of those, but can not find it at the moment. 

 There is that one in the British Museum - the lettering is 

WILLIAM IV ASCENDED THE THRONE JUNE 26 1830 //
HER MAJESTY QUEEN ADELAIDE MARRIED JULY 11 1818 

ZacUK

Moneytane

 

 

This worn thing was cheap and is a William IV accession medalet, the obverse reads “William IV acceded the throne June (_6) 1830”, I can't read the other side, but may be something about him marrying Adelaide in 1813 or 1818. 

 I thought I had one of those, but can not find it at the moment. 

 

 There is that one in the British Museum - the lettering is 

WILLIAM IV ASCENDED THE THRONE JUNE 26 1830 //
HER MAJESTY QUEEN ADELAIDE MARRIED JULY 11 1818 

Thanks, couldn't find it Numista, but gald you have - looks like the exemplar is worn too!

Mail day, this time it's something for my side collection of fossils.

A small and cute Gerastos trilobite (Early-Middle Devonian, 413-387 MYA, Morocco).

It's 27 mm long, same size of a brazilian 1 Real coin.

It's also one of the most affordable trilobite species.

As for coins, I think I may order something at the end of the month.

Found all these fossils in rock pools on Folkestone beach with the kids some years ago…

Mostly bits of ammonites, but also a tooth, some sort of shell and a tubular crystal (?).

Wow those are like 400 million years older than anything else here. Here is the best coin I got.

Its a Peso of the ill fated Maximilian emperor of Mexico between 1864 - 1867, massively unpopular and assassinated.

He was a younger brother of the Austro Hungarian emperor Franz Josef. These pesos are quite rare and beautifully designed coins and the story makes it more interesting. Although after his downfall, Mexico at least got the decent rule of Benito Juarez and then sadly 35 years of the Porfirato, which led to the civil war.

Another Maundy tuppence that I love - cute little coins and this one has some wear (gVF)

Worn Canadian cent, but fills a cent

5 cents from 1885, another good early Canadian “fish scale” for my collection and a better year

More worn dime from 1899 - another good addition to my early Canada

yesterday in my mailbox: A contrast to all the historical coins, an unreasonable purchase and the temple obverse is new in my collection.

LDC63

Found all these fossils in rock pools on Folkestone beach with the kids some years ago…

 

Mostly bits of ammonites, but also a tooth, some sort of shell and a tubular crystal (?).

Your "tubular crystal" is most likely a Belemnite,

Dejan

LDC63

Found all these fossils in rock pools on Folkestone beach with the kids some years ago…

 

Mostly bits of ammonites, but also a tooth, some sort of shell and a tubular crystal (?).

Your "tubular crystal" is most likely a Belemnite,

Many thanks :-)

A good effort all round this month so far, and still 5 and a bit days to go.  Looks like April is the month when everyone goes out buying coins.  Here's my small, and somewhat feeble, haul of silver for the month…

N#184 

N#180 

N#48353 

N#58360 

N#7962 

N#34087 

N#4016 

And you too sir!

A fine group you have there, especially the Charles I shilling and Hyderabad rupee!

My few additions worth discussing.

I bought a large job lot of very low grade current Mexico coinage for about £20 below the exchange rate and amongst the coins I found a 1993 10 new Pesos coin which has a sterling silver core!

Yes it’s in badly circulated condition but these are one of the last standard silver coins that were minted for mass circulation.

Also I won this 2004 100 Peso Mexico City commemorative coin also with a sterling silver core , while these were minted for circulation due to their large size and mintage under 500k these rarely saw mass use. Mines been badly cleaned and a few circulation marks but for just under £35 

it’s not to bad of a deal. These were released between 2003-07 for each state of Mexico, the first series had the coat of arms while the second series had things deposits that were famous from there. These were inspired by the success of similar programs in Canada in the 90s as well as at the time the ongoing US states program.

Lastly a 2026 Gibraltar £2 coin commemorating the 100th birthday of the late Queen in portraits.   

Giobruno

Mail day, this time it's something for my side collection of fossils.

 

A small and cute Gerastos trilobite (Early-Middle Devonian, 413-387 MYA, Morocco).

It's 27 mm long, same size of a brazilian 1 Real coin.

It's also one of the most affordable trilobite species.

 

As for coins, I think I may order something at the end of the month.

That is SUPER cool, I love that !

Recent new coin types from a couple swaps I did:

SueBeeCoins

Giobruno

Mail day, this time it's something for my side collection of fossils.

 

A small and cute Gerastos trilobite (Early-Middle Devonian, 413-387 MYA, Morocco).

It's 27 mm long, same size of a brazilian 1 Real coin.

It's also one of the most affordable trilobite species.

 

As for coins, I think I may order something at the end of the month.

That is SUPER cool, I love that !

Thank you!

And last friday they've put a few Carcharodontosaurus teeth available which price are below average (due to being heavily restored).

That's a big temptation for me, I loved dinosaurs a lot as a kid, but I've just ordered a medieval silver (way more beautiful than the one at it's Numista page by the way), so the tooth will wait a little more.

And I already have a Spinosaurus tooth which I got by the same way (being cheaper than average due to restoration). I've shown it here in the monthly additions thread, last August.

And LDC, that's a nice Charles I shilling.

Just got these…

N#930 

Good condition and good mintage figures too !

Just got an instant Canada penny collection in a bag of mixed coins…

1859-1920 on and off  (1890-1920 one for each year)

42 new coin types for my collection, including 11 coins from North Korea:

LDC63

Just got an instant Canada penny collection in a bag of mixed coins…

1859-1920 on and off  (1890-1920 one for each year)

 

 

That is fantastic to get it in one swoop like that, taking me years to get that group coin by coin!

Moneytane

LDC63

Just got an instant Canada penny collection in a bag of mixed coins…

1859-1920 on and off  (1890-1920 one for each year)

 

 

That is fantastic to get it in one swoop like that, taking me years to get that group coin by coin!

I Know !!  My eyes practically popped out of my head when I saw them.   The only ones I had were a 1906 and a 1911 (which is in better condition than the one in this group).  I also got these (below), which I still need to sort through, as well as the other Canadian coins in the previous photo, some UK pre decimal pennies and some Euros.

April is definitely the best month to find coins 😃

Mail day!

Only one coin this time, I mentioned it last week.

N#227749 

Some more purchases from the corner coin  shop!

Gorgeous old Dutch Rix dollar - 1847 and short reigned king Willem 2, goes well with my 1851, 

Mr Midnight will like this one, an actual LMU crown and one of the very last. 1936 5 Bolivianos (1 Venezuelo) in cleaned EF condition. This coin was minted from 1879 to 1936 and was the LMU standard of 25 grams and 90% silver, minted at Philadelphia.

Another one, he may like a 1920 Swiss 2 Francs, looks like it has been badly polished/cleaning after toning.

German silver 5 marks from Hamburg 1963, despite bad photo, likely UNC with a nice tone

Another very nice American quarter, standing Liberty in EF/AU condition - 1923S

And for the stack, 3 more NZ centennial crowns.

Finally for the first time this month, some new coins;

Five absolute beauties! 😁

Top middle is a 2 kroner from norway dated 1913, as the sunlight was very good I got some better pics of it;

Maybe the best norwegian coin design IMO.

Top right, a 10 öre sm from 1740, not the best condition but for the price I got this lot for it made me very happy that it was included.

Bottom right, a schilling from riga 1599. Nothing really special, just a freebie that got added to the lot.

Bottom left, a 50 øre of norway from 1893. The norwegian Oscar II silver coins are pretty expensive so I’m happy to have gotten it for a good price.

Finally, top left. A high grade poltinnik from 1925, my favourite soviet coin behind the rouble. This one actually has a bit of mint luster left, so a very nice addition!

Sunlight pics;

@ Marc16

That poltinnik is absolutely a very  very cool coin, the patina just adds to it's tough Motif / Theme ! 

Dang I want one of these ! Very jealous :)

I only had 4 additions this month.

with a cool pedigree, I tried to translate.

planchet error.

and  

SueBeeCoins

I only had 4 additions this month.

with a cool pedigree, I tried to translate.

 

Nice 640 réis Sue.

The observation written is actually “C.ONST instead of CONST”.

The coin was labeled as rare because there's this error at the obverse lettering.

Linking the coin page for comparison: N#36207 

Nice 640 réis Sue.

 

The observation written is actually “C.ONST instead of CONST”.

The coin was labeled as rare because there's this error at the obverse lettering.

 

Linking the coin page for comparison: N#36207 

Well Wow, thank you so much Giobruno, I did not even notice that, makes me feel better considering the price I paid for it. 

SueBeeCoins

@ Marc16

That poltinnik is absolutely a very  very cool coin, the patina just adds to it's tough Motif / Theme ! 

Dang I want one of these ! Very jealous :)

Thanks! 

Your 640 reis is amazing, I’ve been wanting some silver brazilian coins for a while now but the only brazilian coin I’ve seen at all in my lcs is a countermarked 40 reis (Very common it seems as I already bought one before in decent condition for less than 5€).

Marc16

SueBeeCoins

@ Marc16

That poltinnik is absolutely a very  very cool coin, the patina just adds to it's tough Motif / Theme ! 

Dang I want one of these ! Very jealous :)

Thanks! 

Your 640 reis is amazing, I’ve been wanting some silver brazilian coins for a while now but the only brazilian coin I’ve seen at all in my lcs is a countermarked 40 reis (Very common it seems as I already bought one before in decent condition for less than 5€).

Yes, nice coins.  Like the UK 2p.  I regularly check my change for oddities, but have never seen anything quite like that.  Good find !!

Last day of April, and here's my last additions! 😅

My Danish collection has transformed drastically from basically change coins to this:

Guatemala got a face lift as well from its former two coin collection:

My first silver coin from Argentina:

And then a yet unidentified coin bought as “Indian rupee, 2.7 grams, silver”:

Any ideas?

Well, that's all from me for now. I shouldn't return, but I probably will. It seems like it's the season for the coin bugs. 😅

Main item I grabbed this month that has arrived and been sent to grading.

Marc16

SueBeeCoins

@ Marc16

That poltinnik is absolutely a very  very cool coin, the patina just adds to it's tough Motif / Theme ! 

Dang I want one of these ! Very jealous :)

Thanks! 

Your 640 reis is amazing, I’ve been wanting some silver brazilian coins for a while now but the only brazilian coin I’ve seen at all in my lcs is a countermarked 40 reis (Very common it seems as I already bought one before in decent condition for less than 5€).

Hey Marc,

I hope you find some brazilian silver. Some small types from later Empire and Old Republic periods are not hard to find, they got pricier solely due to the silver spike.

Sue, you're welcome.

Surely you paid a lot, these brazilian 1820-1840s silvers are harder to get, some have very low mintages. These silvers only get higher mintages from the 1850s onwards. The 960 réis from the 1810s are bigger but easier to find.

And congrats for finding one that is both hard to find and comes with an error. You got lucky with this one.

And ngdawa, nice islamic silver. It reminds me a lot that Ilkhanate silver I posted here earlier.

But I see that your ID thread already got answered.

wow, last few days of April were a bonanza!

yes, Moneytane, very admiring all those big silvers, but everything else in the last 48 hours too!

 I love seeing all this stuff safe in caring hands! 

I agree - just fantastic coins, that Norwegian 2 Krone is beautiful, the Danish collection and the Quetzal coins in silver - wow.

The Brazilian 640 Reis, everyone is just collecting the best stuff.

April has been such a fantastic come back month compared to March!

Long may it continue!

A bit late, but I picked these up while visiting my parents in April. Most of the coins are either described or easy to recognise (the big RHS coin is a Bavarian Kronenthaler, the coin next to the Weisspfennig is a French Gros aux lis sous une couronne of Charles VI from 1413 N#16237 ):

Bartweegie

A bit late, but I picked these up while visiting my parents in April. Most of the coins are either described or easy to recognise (the big RHS coin is a Bavarian Kronenthaler, the coin next to the Weisspfennig is a French Gros aux lis sous une couronne of Charles VI from 1413 N#16237 ):

 

Beautiful lot! 

Yes a great group, love that Kleve- Julich Whitepenny and the 1501/03 pieces - such beautiful late medieval dated pieces.

Less crazy of course about that “symbol” on the 1939 5 Mark coin, yet that regime issued precious little silver coinage. Most of their coins are zinc low value ones. Even East Germany issued more silver.

Interesting German states lead to so many beautiful coins pretty much from the 1300s up to WW1 era.

 

Beautiful lot! 

Thanks Dejan.

Moneytane

Yes a great group, love that Kleve- Julich Whitepenny and the 1501/03 pieces - such beautiful late medieval dated pieces.

Less crazy of course about that “symbol” on the 1939 5 Mark coin, yet that regime issued precious little silver coinage. Most of their coins are zinc low value ones. Even East Germany issued more silver.

 

Interesting German states lead to so many beautiful coins pretty much from the 1300s up to WW1 era.

Thanks. The Nazi regime was more interesting in squeezing the money out of their own people for the armaments and removing the precious metal from the market and printing more paper notes was one way to do it (I know it's a simplification). Luckily, they didn't  manage to melt down all of the 3 mark pieces and the one that I presented above is the last one I needed to add to my collection to finalise the commemorative series (regular, patterns don't count) of the Weimar Republic.