A while back I decided that in addition to my Finnish coin collection, my other long term collection will be for crown and crown-size coins. Though I have piked up some 19th century stuff recently, I am going to focus on the 20th first. Here is a list that I compiled of the coins that I will look to completet my set.

There are some basic definitions that I gave to what I am looking to get. Some of the samples that I have chosen do not neatly fall within these rules, but for almost all of them I worked out a reason why I feel it is justified to be in the collection that I am after. I will not explain individual cases now, but if someone is curious about a particular inclusion, feel free to ask.

The general definitions:
-Business strikes i.e. non-proof/proof-like
-silver
-minimum 20g
-in general I avoided commems dating after the 1960s, when silver was no longer used in circulating coins
-MAIN types included; types with very minor design changes were often bulked together


The list is organized alphabetically and them by Krause #. There are some "AND"s & "OR"s for some where I have bulked types together. The grades listed are the ranges that I hope to get them in. I may have to adjust these when I confront actual prices. I used the Krause prices as a rough starting guide. For example an "XF-UNC" means that for a certain date I may have to settle for an XF, whereas a different date in the series might be affordable in UNC.

The indented red ones listed I already have.

When I complete this someday, I will move on to the 19th century.

Cool.

That's quite an undertaking. Good luck with it.

Let me know if i can help you...

There's a couple of dealers over here that usually sell silver coins below melt, i'll check them out (its a real pity that i didn't knew your want list a month ago, Iceland, Equador and some other countries would be a done deal).

Warning: Shameless self-promotion ahead:

BTW, altough not UNC there's a cheap New Hebrides coin on Auctionmonster.net right now.


Good luck!!!

Jose

Please feel free to help if you can. Especially with the Portugal pieces. That is one of the reasons why I posted it.




Too bad.




Thanks for the hint. But as that is one coin that I should be able to afford as UNC, I will wait.

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Thanks!

Back to your regularly scheduled thread already in progress...

"I think i saw a pussy cat,..."

"..., I did, i did saw a pussycat"


I'll make a "market study" over here and will PM you with the prices so you can choose where its cheaper (I'm almost sure the 1910-14 escudo is cheaper on Ebay...), on the other hand the 1953 its our "unofficial" silver bullion coin.

BTW, the 2000 Reis Brazilian coins are very hard to find in UNC, i'ge got the older Pedro II silver coins in UNC, but these two "2000 Reis" coins in VF/XF only...


Jose

Well, I have been working on this project and have picked up numerous coins towards this. Here is a small sample of what I have acquired in the past week:



Below is a link to individual pics of the coins. Sorry, but most are blurry as I took these very quickly. Also, I accidentally resized the Morgan smaller than the rest.

slideshow

I will try and post better pics when I can.

Look at all that silver... I want that '47 Panamanian.

Wonderfull coins! Especially the Portuguese Escudo, I want one too!

Great coins. I especially like the Phillipines crown. San Francisco Mint for that one.

Ohhhhhhh, I like'm all (and have four of them )

how you gunna store those, Sir, looks like capsules would be a nice way to store that, in Lindner drawers

Yes, I do intend the air-tite capsules, but specifically with the outer black ring: I can hopefully have uniform diameter capsules, plus the black will highlight the silver well. I am hoping (fingers crossed) at some point to get some assistance from across the pond with ordering these. I went up to the check-out on these at Brent-Kruger and the shipping charges to Finland were astronomical! The minimum charge is $20+! They use Global Express rather than Global Priority.

Always at your service, Sir.

Which pond ???

Thank you , and I had a hunch that you might offer your service. (You have been so helpful in the past, however, I did not want to take it for granted and make assumptions.)

Well, those I could probably get into a fixed price envelope.

I updated the slide show with what I hope are sharper pictures. Plus I added a couple of other coins from the set that I have already had. Will try and add some more later.

I went right out yesterday and bought that 47 Balboa, thanks a lot.

Great stuff. I love Balboas and that Philippines is way cool.

Thanks. That Philippines is the one I was telling you about. I am quite happy with it.

Not sure what I did, but you are welcome nonetheless!

You just posted it. Saw it and had to have it.

Another coin to check off the list, thanks Tiff! But now you put me in a dilemna; I have never removed coins from their original holders. ...........

If you are interested in a trade I can help you with some of the mexican pieces, just let me know

I added some coins that I acquireded recently plus some that I already had.

Thank god you haven't started on the 19th century Sisu!

I know there are too many difficult coins to collect and this is one as well:



The only silver crown issued by Korea for circulation. Actually there is another crown after this, which is a 1 hwan coin, but most of them were melted down and it is said that only 77 of such survived.

Beautiful stuff!

Oh, I hope to one day focus on the 19th century. I have picked one up here and there that belongs to that century.

Such rare coins as the ones you mention however, would not be on my target list. If you notice my current want list, at the bottom I have left out the more rare pieces altogether. Maybe if I hit the lottery.

Here are 2 more that arrived in today's mail:

Netherlands 2½ gulden




Muscat & Oman 1 saidi rial

You're quite ambitious.

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I thought you already had that one....

Nevertheless : great one!!

No, I did not have that one yet. You must be thinking about this one:

Then what's the one posted here?

That is the obverse of the Curacao coin.

ah, ok

I won this one on eBay in the first week of December. By New Year I still had not received it. I won another auction from the same seller and received that in a couple of weeks. So I had given this one up as lost, but it finally came today.

BIG and silver!

oooooooooooooh 1966

Need one need one!!

Another one arrived today: Great Britain George VI 1937 crown. Now I have the 2 easy (=inexpensive) ones taken care of, Edward VII and George V-wreath are still left and may be the last ones that I get.

After having purchased and received some of the coins on my original list, I have decided to define the coins more narrowly, which means that a fair number of the coins on my list will be removed -some of which I have already purchased.

The main change is defining the coin size more narrowly. I originally went with silver coins weighing 20g or higher. Now I will define it between 23g-35g. This is mainly to get the size (diameter) as uniform as possible, i.e. Crown size. Some of the 20g coins that I have purchased are considerable smaller than most of the others. Then there is the Bahamas 5 dollars (pictured above) that is considerable larger. I want the coins to be as near the common crown size as possible. Ideally I would define the coins by size and not by weight, but I am working with the Krause in drawing up my list, and it only lists weight and not diameter.

One country's coins that fit my requirements but do not have the ideal diameter is Hungary. The 1938 5 Pengo weighs 25g but since it is thick, the diameter is consequently smaller than a crown.

I was about to keep the higher end at 30g, but decided to stretch it to allow for bullion coins, most of which are over 30g.

For anyone interested I made a new list showing which coins that I have decide to remove from my crown type set list. I have indented the coins into the middle of the page and made the color greenish(aqua). Any comments/questions are more than welcome.

Revised List

I'll take 'em.

Though I am removing some coins from my crown type collection, I am not removing them from my entire collection. Sorry if I was unclear about that.

I figured that but I had to try.