Probably will be my epitaph...

From yesterday's Anaheim show. There was a stunning silver medal but way out of my price range...
1813 Presentation of Colours to the Royal Military College by Queen Charlotte.
Mudie XI
BHM - 769
Bramsen - 1246


1790 Netherlands Gelderland - Holland
2 Stuivers

Nice purchases.

The 1813 really has some character 1813.

1800 1 Pfenning, Salzburg.

Not a great example but decent.

and

1805 Le Tombeau de Desaix, France.
Bramsen 426/427 (mule from two reverses)
d'Essling 1079


From the Long Beach show today.

Ooh! Nice!

That 1805 is really crisp!

A $4 coin. Nothing special but I collect everything from 1789-1815 so I'm not really picky about condition if I don't own one yet...

1802 2 Skilling, Norway (as a Danish possession).

If you ever get an upgrade...

I love cheap copper!

1805 ¼ Skilling, Sweden.

Skillings WOOHOO!

As always, holding up the cheap coin collector's end here...

1814 1/24 Thaler, Hessen-Cassel


and another I collected a while back with extremely strong interior detail and almost smooth, yet porous rims.

Oooh. I like.

1 ½ Pfennig, Saxe - Weimar - Eisenach.



The first of this denomination and country I've collected.
Well, I've got others from SWE but I meant the first 1 ½ pfennig from there...

1808 3 Kreuzer, Wurzburg.



Only my second coin from this country. Neither is particularly good but heck, I'm cheap!

I like well circulated coins. They have character and history. Your 3 Kreuzer is great.

Thanks Art, I appreciate it. Of course the period I collect virtually everything in AU costs a small fortune.

Another came in today as well:

1802 Comptoir commercial, France.
Bramsen 240
Julius 1121-1122
d'Essling 2060
Milan - 374



A jeton de presence for an organization in Paris. An X is roughly 1802-1803.

That's a really catchy coin. It would get my vote in the next Idol comp.

Today's mail had this upgrade from a filler:

1814 Thaler, Prussia.

Very nice.

1798 1 Kopek, Russia.



Fills a hole at least.

1791 12 Heller, Aachen.

You've been busy.

1808 10 Soldi, Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy.
Milan mint, mintage 174,948.



Hard to believe, but an upgrade. I'm still looking...

That dead duck(???) looks ready to be plucked!

(Nice acqusitions. )

Yeah, it has to be just about the ugliest eagle ever!

1808 20 Kreuzer, Austria.



From the Vienna mint.

1927 5 cents, United States.

Ever seen the colonial Massachusets 1/2 and 1 cent coppers? The eagle looks pretty similar to me.

1818 1/12 Thaler, Saxony.



Not a year I normally collect but it came in a lot.

I like it! I like it!

Thanks, I like it too but I'm probably going to find it a new home. You want it Tiff?

Also in today:

1806 1/48 Thaler, Saxony.


This was one I was actually bidding on believe it or not... as well as this one:

1810 1/6 Thaler, Saxony.

Wow... That is one of the best 1/12 Thaler from Saxony I ever have seen. It is a very nice coin .

Oh... Doublepost... can somebody delete this post? Thanks

Thanks Marvin. I was very surprised to see how nice that 1818 was. It was just buried in a lot that I was after to fill some holes.

1809 1/6 Thaler, Westphalia.



Another duplicate frankly from a lot and not an upgrade. The neon green doesn't appear to be PVC damage under a loupe but I've been wrong before.

1815 2 Grote, Oldenburg


12mm

Little question... The name of this thread is "Elverno - cheap but fun" ... Are those coins really "cheap" ... In my opinion 1$ - 5$ is cheap... my pocketmoney is 15 Euro.. For example... what does one of these coins cost? Maybe I should collect them too, if they are so cheap

That's a great collecting area... enjoy it

For me cheap is less than $20. Most of the coins I collect fall into that category because I'm more than happy to give a well circulated coin a new home. The medals need to be less than $150 for me to think they're cheap. It used to be that $150 would buy me 8-10 medals and the dealer would toss another in just so he didn't have to take it home. I think that for a while there couldn't have been more than a couple dozen serious Napoleonic medal collectors anywhere. Ah the good old days...

1790 1 Pfennig, Frankfurt.


21mm

1800 1/12 Thaler, Brunswick-Luneburg.


21mm Link

1789 King George III Recovers his Health, Great Britain
BHM 307
D&H Midx. 1130


21mm Link

Technically a farthing but actually a medal. D&H said scarce, BHM says rare.

1833 Statue sur la colonne de la place Vendôme rétablie, France
Bramsen 1907


23mm Link

Louis Phillipe was forced by the events that threatened his throne to attempt to appease the Bonapartist party in France. One way was to re-establish Napoleon's statue on a column in the place Vendôme in Paris. It had been pulled down after Napoleon's fall by the Bourbon government, or at least with its tacit approval.

Nice stuff

1794 Death of Elisabeth-Philippe Marie-Hélène, France
Hennin 621
Milan 108


31mm Link

Struck in the German States, engraved by Loos. She was a sister of Louis XVI sent to the block about 15 months after her brother. Despite how she looks she was only a couple weeks away from her 30th birthday.

Thats a real catchy design. One question, chaining a dove to a rock I'm assuming for traning the falcon? And she was a falconer?

Uh, I believe that image is allegorical and refers to her execution (the rock has the date of her execution on it).

Beautiful!