Not a purchase, but a trade again with JoseMartins, two lovely Portuguese girl coins on the way from Portugal Pics hopefully soon.

Now three more silver dollars are coming home.

Then the 10 German Euro Silver Mozart Commem.

Nice! You are on a Bunny-like Rampage!

And he gives me crap.

You outspend me exponentially

Deutschland today, courtesy of Tabbs:



The top two are mine, the rest are for the kinders The Mozart coin is perfect, couldn't have come in better shape

Portugal 5 Centavos 1927.


Portugal 20 Centavos 1921.

And to make matters much worse, I ventured to the Portugal tourism site today, oh my what a remarkably beautiful country, I think I should have to visit there so I can haunt the beaches and the coin shops.

Oh Jo-se^ee!!!!! Can I talk with you for a moment?

NO, only I get to collect Portuguese coins! Darn it, I start collecting these, and now Tiff is collecting them. I do NOT like competition Now Sisu wants them...

They are just really nice coins, so collectible, and probably really not that common by comparison to other countries, Portugal is a fairly small country.

I promise, the only trouble I'll give you is when 1963 issues are on the line.

I won't collect after 1940 anyway. Anything after that is fair game

These coins just took Sir Sisu attention because he has some coins with similar designs that he never saw BU.

Well, not that scarce i can get them by the Kilogram (not in that grade tough...)
Honestly, Portuguese numismatic isn't as "rich" as the German, French and Italian (among others), but there are some very nice designs one should get if you're a world coin collector.


Jose

Dave will turn 4 centavos coins scarce...

You're welcome, just avoid the summer and Algarve, more than half of the people there are retired English.

Jose

I would avoid anywhere where there are lots of English tourists, they are just too much like Americans and look and eat like them too. I prefer to hang out with the Latin crowd, their food, music, and dance are much better

Awesome design. Simpe, elegant, beautiful.

Yup, I already have the 2,4,5,10,50 centavos. Just not BU. Expect a PM from me soon.




Actually, I have had this design for years already. The haul of coins that my great-uncle left me some years ago had a few of the centavos coins from Portuguese Guiné. Here are 2:
http://www.omnicoin.com/coin_view_enlarge.aspx?id=890089
http://www.omnicoin.com/coin_view_enlarge.aspx?id=890090

While nice, they do not have that "WOW!" factor that a unc version has. I did not see that until you put the 4 centavos as your avatar. That is when I decided to get better examples. Blame yourself.

And don't blame me when I started collecting them I had no idea you did. I only knew Dan did.

Rcvd today from daggit, I don't think my nippers might get these in their allowances this week, they have been ornery and I think I need to start hoarding my own dollars.

Anya's PCI-6 Prize along with the CP Dollar came in the mail today.

Beautiful.

The too bad thing is, that could be my nude entry into the PCI-6, but this coin was prize was promised to my daughter.

I just bought a lovely Iberian Girl banknote for my collection:



10 Pesetas Silver Certificate 1935(6).

Let her enter it.

And I am still flabbergasted that those got there that fast. They must have thrown them out the window to the guy on the pony express horse as soon as I handed them over at the counter.

My 2006 Proof quarter set and a set each of nickles for the kiddies from the Bunny:) Thanks Bunny!

Sicily, Syracuse

Circa 410 BC. Hemi-Litron (3.21 gm; 18 mm x 14 mm). Head of Arethusa left, hair in ampyx and sphendone, in field right, laurel twig; whole in linear circle / SURA Dolphin right, below, pecten. Calciati II, 55, 24. SNG ANS 418. Choice EF and scarce.

That's a beautiful coin and the condition is wonderful.

What Art said. Nice piece.

My new earliest USA gold coin. The stories this could tell, if only it would talk!

The first of these I have ever owned.

you having your own private gold rush? very nice, especially the 10 Indian

Gold is addictive. Never have too much of it.

Great coins. Go gold!

These things are lovely, frosted surfaces with mirrored finishes, look a lot better when not scanned through the plastic holder.

Love that Panda!

The way they arranged the frost on those pandas is cool!

Not the best image, scanned through the case it is in. I bought this in Guangzhou, and oh my God what a nightmare it was to buy. There was a coin dealer near the hotel that employed young ladies that spoke Cantonese only and they could not find the box for it. So the lady attempted to take it out of it's plastic case and squeeze it into a smaller box, just the coin, no case! At least she put on cotton gloves so she didn't add her fingerprints into the transaction. The frustrating part was trying to convey to her that I didn't care about the box, just the coin with the plastic case. So finally after a frustrating 15 minute attempt, she acquiesed and put the coin in a bigger box, too big, but didn't damage the coin.

These are commemorative coins for the Tang Dynasty Treasury Vault. The obverse of the coin has the seal from the Tang Dynasty, these were fascinating because of the link with ancient Chinese coinage.




I saw this at the same time, but after the frustration of trying to buy the silver example, I decided to hold off on the 1/10th oz gold example til the following day, and another lady, friendlier and more accomodating for putting in a box of my choice

With the upsurge in gold in the last few days, the gold coin is worth quite a bit more than I paid for it. Apparently they were a bit slow on updating spot prices for bullion. Now I kind of wish I bought the 50 gramme Beijing Olympic bar.

I have been slow to post these, just not a lot of time to do this stuff since I have been back. More to come soon, including Ching Dynasty coins, and paper money wonders.

Nice coins and an interesting story. Sometimes customer service can be a hastle for the customer too.

Nice coins!!!

Very nice Netherlands 5 Euro coin commemorating Australia from Trantor_3 today

Netherlands Antilles 5 ¢ 1943, one of my favourite coins.

France 10 Centimes 1918, this replaced the large bronze Marianne issue.

Saar 100 Franks from the French Occupation period after WWII.

And another beautiful Italian for my collection, 2 Centesimi, 1915.

Great coins to add to your collection.

Okay, like I hate coins in plastic, and usually don't think the high graded coins match the grade on the holder. But when I saw this MS63 I had to have it, it is a nice blast white coin with nice clean fields free of most bagmarks. And at the ridiculously low price our Doogy was asking for said piece, I had to plunge and buy it:



While I was scanning this, a certain somebody decided it should be hers instead. Well it was nice while it lasted.

That's a really nice Morgan.

That's a high end 63 in my opinion. Even with scans the coin looks fantastic.

PCI-7 Material me thinks.