elverno
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1797 ½ Penny Token, Great Britain.
D & H 20 - Angusshire; Dundee.
Not a great example but I picked it up cheap.
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Kind of an interesting color at least. I was pleased that the color is accurate, I've finally found lighting that gets it right though it doesn't show the toning as well as I'd like.
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1804 Le couronnement, France.
Bramsen 335
d'Essling 1029
This horrible filler is an example of an extremely rare brass medal. This example is slightly oval in shape for no reason I can tell.
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1808 ½ Dute, Napoleonic East Indies.
Struck on a slightly undersized planchet this piece is in better shape than you usually see.
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1812 1 Grosz, Grand Duchy of Warsaw.
This is the second example I've collected. The first:
1812 1 Grosz, Grand Duchy of Warsaw.
comes from what I call the "Smith Collection", a collection of coins from 1812 that an very nice individual dropped off to my house one day as a gift.
I don't know why either but he did mention I was out of luck on the gold in the collection...
BTW, I'm happy to store your Napoleonic era collections at no cost.
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1808 1 Centesimo, Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy.
I bought a lot of 4 Venice centesimos. None of them were particularly nice...
Sigh...
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Meaning that coin is probably VF++ for issue...
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Thanks Art. Mostly just cheap stuff so far but I enjoy them.
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1797 3 Pfennige, Prussia
A tiny silver piece, paper thin. The weakness on the reverse may be the result of metal "pulling" through to the obverse design.
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1792 2 Sols, France.
This was sold to me as a 6 deniers piece, very tough to find here in my part of the states btw. When I received it it was clearly too large for either a 6 D or a 12D but only under by 1mm from a "standard" 2 Sols. Most of these were struck from confiscated church bells. Very few show up in copper which had been diverted for the first major war effort of the new republic. This one is interesting in the placement of the mintmark, crammed under the bust almost as an after-thought. The regular pieces I've collected from Lille from 1792 (4 more I'm somewhat ashamed to say) show the mintmark nicely placed.
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Ah well I'm saving the medals until last until I work out the lighting on silver better than I have now.
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More great additions. These are interesting coins and it's an interesting direction for collecting. What sources do you use most often to search for these?
On eBay, my main source, I systematically search each year from 1789 to 1815 and then refer back to my website to see if I've already got an example of one that caught my eye. I'm always looking to upgrade on the cheap and someday I'll get around to selling the actual duplicates. Right now I'm saving up for a real grown-up macro lens but these glittery round things keep eating up my funds...
The last few days I've been digging the copper off the shelf I put the un-photographed material and started putting them online. A few more and then the silver and then finally the medals. If I say so myself I've acquired some stunning medals that no one has seen yet.
Most of the copper in particular has lived up to the "cheap" part of this topic heading.
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1814 ¼ Kreuzer, Saxe-Meiningen.
Nicer than the pics. Only the 2nd coin I've collected from Saxe-Meiningen in 30+ years collecting.
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1814 2 Heller, Hesse Cassel.
I'm not certain of the name of the error on the reverse but I'm pretty sure there's a specific term. Too bad as it's a rare coin.
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1805 1 Pfennig, Hesse-Darmstadt.
This porous filler is just identifiable enough to determine that it is the rare variant without the mintmaster's initials on the reverse.
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I agree about both the wear and the color.
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Elverno - cheap but fun!
in My New Purchases
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1797 1 Pfenning, Brunswock-Wolfenbuttel.
20mm
Cheap but fun...