Very nice design

I am not so good with taking proof photos with my camera, but I will give it a try.

Meanwhile thanks to your assistance this is my most recent purchase: my first crown in months that is going towards my crown collection.

Glad you like it

Nice 2.5G.

I have decided to try and put more focus on filling the holes in my Finn collection. Today I received the 2nd mint set issued for 1989. It included a special silver token. I posted the image in the Finn forums.

Very nice

One for my world silver type collection:

Very nice coin, Sir, I need that one too.

But... isn't that one way too small for your collection????

My apologies for not answering this sooner.

It is too small for my silver crown collection, but not as part of a long-term side collection I am working on: a type set of circulating silver (including billon) coins of the 20th century. I hope to achieve this with higher grade coins.


As I may be becoming a student again this autumn (and thus having the corresponding non-existant budget ), I am working on a few final indulgences for my silver crown (and crown-like) collection. This one arrived today.

1966

As they are part of a specific collection that I am working on and have another thread devoted to, my newest additions are there.

It was a good day at auction. A couple of decent deals though I may have overpaid on the Morgan though.

Nice ruble coin, one I don't have myself.

Great loot. I really like the shiny Cuban "Patria Y Libertad"

I'd have to agree that the Cuban is very nice. But a great group in general.

Ditto!!

A bunch of coins:

An SBA dollar, 3 Kennedy halves, and 2 silver coins.

One for the crown collection

and one for the general silver type collection:

Great Peso!

That portrait on the Peso always reminds me of those hornbill birds.

Great shape though.

Yeah, that nose definitely has character.



Thanks! It really is.

I was not able to take a picture that did it justice. The "stain" on the reverse is barely noticeable in hand and the frost on the coin would would make Frosty the Snowman blush! I just could not capture it on camera.

Picked up my first book in a while: The Silver Dollars of North and South America. Published by Whitman in 1964, the prices are way dated and underrated, but it works as a great checklist reference towards one of my main collections, since there were not many new silver types produced after this year. In addition, the book lists types back to the 17th century for some countries, and has other bits of interesting info as well as a decent bibliography section.

Not purchases, but a gift from my mother-in-law who just returned from a trip to Israel. From circulation, all in great shape XF-aUNC:

20 New Sheqalim banknote
10 New Sheqalim 2005
5 New Sheqalim 2005
1 New Sheqalim 2005
1/2 New Sheqalim 2002
2x 10 Agorot 2005+2006

Nice gift!

This came in the mail today. I am a little disappointed though for what I paid for it as I am quite sure it has been cleaned/dipped in some manner. It will have to do for now. Perhaps someday I will upgrade it.

Thought to show one of the many Finn coins that I have recently purchased.

Sisu, I don't know much about Finnish coins, but I do know you are the master of them. So, I have some dumb question for you about this very handsome coin:

What do the legends say?

What mint does the "S" stand for?

Thanks, I'm just curious.

I am definitely not the master (that title currently belongs to Tuukka Talvio - curator of the Coin Cabinet in the National Museum), but it is my main area of interest and collection.

The legend roughly translates as "47.24 pieces from a pound of pure silver". It expresses the fineness in a "reverse" fashion. 47.24 two markkaa coins were made from one pound of silver. The pound in question is a unit of measurement no longer in use.

As for the "S", Finland follows the tradition of adding the initial of the mint master's surname in place of a mintmark. In this case the mintmaster was August Soldan.

Nice purchases.

Thank you Art.

Here are a couple of recent purchases. I have a few more, but my camera battery went dead and the rest will have to wait until tomorrow.

I have come to realize that besides the Scandinavian region, I have a strong affinity towards the coinage of South and Central America, particularly those of Central America and certain Caribbean nations. Coins of this region have become a strong focus of my current collecting efforts.

This one was the result of an error (wrong coin shipped) and will be upgraded in the future (because of the spots).


This one has some weakness in the strike (noticeable in the vertical area from noon to 6), but since it is a clean non-baggy sample I am very pleased with it.

The Guatemalan silver is quite pleasing - I am going to keep an eye out for one. I wish that design was used in a crown size. Looking through Krauss, I see only a few crown size silver coins from Guatemala.

I actually would like to see the design of the 25 centavos used on a crown. Either would be nice anyhow. And yes the crowns are quite scarce, especially the one that I need for my crown-size collection. (I am not that interested in the modern proofs.) It will be a loooooooooong time before I ever get that quetzal.

Here are the other two:

Nice collection that you're putting together.

Here is another one from Guatemala. It is a tiny one:

Ooh I like it.

Here are two thanks to a certain connection in Portugal.

With a few exceptions, I have not done much purchasing in the past year. (Though I do plan on changing that soon, as I have returned to working life after a year of school. ) I have been active with simple circulation finds, and here are a few from the past week. Euro finds:

Missing (and new) dates from Greece, Netherlands, Spain, Luxembourg, and others. €2 commem from Belgium (atom) and the 2007 from Netherlands.

Key dates from Finland:
€0.10 - 2003 and 2006
€0.20 - 2003, 05, and 06
€0.50 - 2003

The 2003 €0.20 is actually my second with the same error. For a low mintage figure, I was surprised to find a second one with the same die fatigue error. (see bottom of sword near hilt)

Welcome back Sisu. BTW I visited Sisuland back at the beginning of last month, well the one here in N. America anyway.

Hah! For a moment there, I thought we missed you here.




Found another FIN €0.20 2003, this one without the cud or whatever it is actually termed.

Ever come my way, we will have to take you up there, then we will drive you to the border to Bunnyland.

Very nice Sir!

I have not purchased many coins while I was studying, but now I went on a silver shopping spree. I only have one image taken so far, but will add more when I get to it. Here is the first:

I like that one!

wow very nice!!

Nice coin and silver too.

Here are a few others:



...and thanks to some help from Jose...




the smaller ones in the series I did not take pics of, but they include the 50, 100, and 200 reis.

A few more silvers, from Honduras:

Interesting when you consider that both coins are dated 1908, the earlier monarch had been assassinated that year, then I believe his immediate successor died minutes later from the same bullet, so it was the year of three monarchs in Portugal. I am surprised that they would release coins with the first and third monarchs dated the same year, and not continue striking the previous monarchs coins until the new year, and then starting out with the new monarch on the 1909 coins. At any rate the third monarch was not long on the throne either as he was deposed in 1910 when Portugal became a republic.

Great coins. You're really building quite a nice collection. Thanks for sharing.

Nice stuff!