ikaros Posted July 31, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2010 And with this coin: ...I complete my 20th Century US type set (excluding gold and commemorative halves). It's kind of a weird feeling, having a book with no holes in it... and now, I start upgrading everything. It may stop, but it never ends! Scans of the kopeks and other things to come later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted August 1, 2010 Report Share Posted August 1, 2010 I like it! I always have this "thing" for well-circulated coins with natural patina. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikaros Posted August 1, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2010 I like it! I always have this "thing" for well-circulated coins with natural patina. Especially when their high-grade big brothers are a painful kick in the wallet. I was pleased that the date wasn't completely eroded away, and there's still detail in the recesses. I about had a stroke when my dealer said he had a '17 at very fine for $52 and immediately asked after it... he of course meant VG. Oh, well...! I think I've said before, one of the things I like about well-circulated coins is I don't feel paranoid about just *looking* at them. I mean, an MS-60 1917 SLQ, and I'd be afraid of breathing in the same room as it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikaros Posted September 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2010 Gonna have to do this in stages, because I really overdid it today at the coin show. We'll do it by groups. The SCIENCE! collection: 1999 Romanian 500 lei commemorating the solar eclipse that year The British collection: 1977 Jubilee Crown The "They were handing these away for free" collection: 2009P&D "Presidency" cents, 2010P&D Shield cents. The "In Soviet Russia, coin collects YOU!" set: 1932 20 kopek, 1936 2 kopek, 1943 and 1969 5 kopek, ND (1967) 50th anniversary of the Revolution 50 kopek, 1987 Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy ruble. The Poland collection: 1935 2 grosze, 1967 10 zł. General Swierczewski, 1969 10zł. 25th anniversary of the People's Republic, 1971 5 groszy, 1971 10 zł 50th anniversary of Silesian uprising, 1973 20 zł, 1989 2 zł, 1990 100 zł. The Jefferson Project: 1939S T1, 1940, 1947, 1947D, 1956 proof, 1957 proof, 1965 SMS with hint of frost on Monticello, 1966 SMS, 1967 SMS, 2010P, 2010D. The Birth Year Project: Colombia 20 & 50 centavos; Cyprus 100 mils; Denmark 5 kroner; East Germany 10 pfennig (mm: A); West Germany 2 pfennig (mm: J); Great Britain half crown; Iran 10 rials; Ireland half crown; Jordan 1 fils; Netherlands 25c; Netherlands Antilles 1/10 gulden; New Zealand halfpenny, penny, threepence, sixpence, shilling, florin and half crown; Norway 1 øre; Pakistan 25 paisa; Portugal 50 centavos; Russia (USSR) 1 kopek; Sweden 1 krona; Switzerland 1 franc; Yugoslavia 2 and 5 dinara. Photos eventually. Oy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted September 6, 2010 Report Share Posted September 6, 2010 "In Soviet Russia, coin collects YOU!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikaros Posted September 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2010 First load of pictures! To the "SCIENCE!" collection (it really works best if you say "SCIENCE!" like from the Thomas Dolby song -- I could subtitle this collection "She blinded me with coinage!"), a 1999 Romanian 500 Lei commemorating the 11 August total eclipse of the sun: To the "In Soviet Russia, coin collects YOU!" collection: 1932 20 kopeks 1936 2 kopeks 1943 5 kopeks ND (1967) 50 kopeks commemorating the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution 1987 1 ruble, Konstantin E. Tsiolkovskiy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted September 6, 2010 Report Share Posted September 6, 2010 Very nice. I have to admit these Soviet coins are tempting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikaros Posted September 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2010 Very nice. I have to admit these Soviet coins are tempting. I find them fascinating for several reasons. First is the deliberate effort by Soviet authorities to make them uninteresting to coin collectors, which they considered a "bourgeois" hobby. And paradoxically, that makes them interesting, at least to collectors like me. Second is the strange array of denominations of kopeks: 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 50. I can't think of anywhere else that had a coin representing 15% of the base currency. The others are all common -- even the US once had two, three and twenty cent pieces, but we never had a 15c piece. I'm sure there's an equivalent somewhere, but nothing common that comes to mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikaros Posted October 4, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2010 Well, my job assignment ended early, so I'm unemployed again, putting The Jefferson Project on indefinite hold. I still have pix from my last several purchases to put up here. Before I do that, though, these from the Glendinning Man In Space set from 1969. These same designs were used (with a Shell Oil logo on the back) as a gasoline premium. Mercury VI: Gemini VII: Apollo VIII: Apollo XI: These were found while cleaning out Grandpa's house after he passed away last year--though they were probably my late uncle's, who was a collector of collections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikaros Posted October 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2010 Back on the Jefferson Project, and getting a little out of order, here's some more: 1947: 1947-D: More coming! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted October 6, 2010 Report Share Posted October 6, 2010 Out of order? Get back on track, ikaros! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikaros Posted October 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2010 Out of order? Get back on track, ikaros! Can't, my job went byebye last week! That 39D is gonna have to wait... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted October 7, 2010 Report Share Posted October 7, 2010 Oh no! What do you do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikaros Posted October 8, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 8, 2010 Oh no! What do you do? Whatever they'll pay me to do that doesn't involve possible jail time or exposing things that shouldn't be exposed. Actually, I had a great interview today that looks like it could lead back into a Tier 2 helpdesk slot, or maybe back into VB/VBScript. That would be most excellent. Fingers, toes and eyes crossed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikaros Posted January 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 You know, one of the benefits of being a forgetful person is that you can pleasantly surprise yourself months after the fact. Just found the pile of 1963s that I got at the Ohio State Coin Show last fall. Here's the first four: 20 and 50 Colombian centavos: 100 Cypriot mils (this coin has lustre all day long): 5 Danish kroner: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmarotta Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 Not a big fan of the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, but the coin is nice, a pleasant modernization of an old icon. Re the aboves, I have an interest in aviation and space, so I have the Tsiolkovski commemorative ruble and some of the "Man in Space" coins, which I believe were gas station issues. Interesting... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikaros Posted January 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 Not a big fan of the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, but the coin is nice, a pleasant modernization of an old icon. Re the aboves, I have an interest in aviation and space, so I have the Tsiolkovski commemorative ruble and some of the "Man in Space" coins, which I believe were gas station issues. Interesting... I generally don't think of the politics behind a coin much, except where they made an impact on the design itself. Poland seems to have never stopped fighting Soviet domination, to judge by the extraordinary issues of the 60s and 70s -- the ones celebrating Poles, Poland itself and Polish history are still some of the most remarkable designs in my collection... and the ones celebrating the Communist state seem to be deliberately unappealing. Meanwhile, Soviet issues appear to have been deliberately "uninteresting" (common designs across all denominations for many decades) in order to kill off the hobby of coin collecting, which the state considered a bourgeois activity and unsuitable for the proletariat -- which has paradoxically made them interesting to me, anyway. Anyway, the 'Man in Space' coins were issued by Shell after Glendinning had two issues. Shell's had the original Glendinning obverse and the Shell logo on the obverse. The first Glendinning issue was bronze and had a brief mission outline on the reverse; the second issue was aluminium and had the 'Man in Space' logo. I'd like to get the bronze set eventually. They turn up on eBay periodically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikaros Posted January 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 In the immortal lyrics of Tom Lehrer, "More, more, I'm still not satisfied!" West Germany 1963J 2 pfennig East Germany 1963A 10 pfennig Great Britain 1963 Half Crown Ireland 1963 Half Crown Iran SH1343 (1963CE) 10 Riyals More to come... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 Very nice. I especially like the half crowns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikaros Posted January 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Very nice. I especially like the half crowns. I love the big coins. I don't know how it is I haven't got the crown bug yet, other than price. There's another half crown coming soon -- as they say, watch this space! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikaros Posted January 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 And even yet more! Jordan - 1 fils AH1383/1963CE -- this little guy might now be my lowest-mintage coin (3000 struck), and is worth five times what I paid for it... too bad I only paid a buck. Netherlands 25 cent Netherlands Antilles 1/10 gulden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedeadpoint Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 You are a beast, Ikaros! Always have great things to share! Who are you rooting for for the Super Bowl? You're stuck in the middle! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikaros Posted January 31, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 You are a beast, Ikaros! Always have great things to share! Thanks! Thinking about going up to Allen's today, but it's cold and I have a headache... feh. Anyway, I have more scans coming from the Birth Year Set. I'm still not satisfied with the quality of the scans, but they'll do. Who are you rooting for for the Super Bowl? You're stuck in the middle! Was it yesterday? Did I miss it? I don't even have an educated guess as to who's playing... "stuck in the middle" would be Bengals vs Browns, and since there haven't been any other signs of the end of the universe, I doubt that's who's playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikaros Posted January 31, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Big post: complete New Zealand unc set. Woo! If there's a PCI 2011, I think I'm entering the half crown from this set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Very nice set. I think they'd all be solid entries in PCI. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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