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Whoa! Somebody call 911: Libby was shot! Give it to the kid a hammer (=gun in this case), at everything around it became a nail (target)...

Letter from France with a dozen of coins: A superb Gothic Florin 1872 die 16, small die cracks UK 6 pence 1890 with superb black patina UK Half Crown 1923 UK 1 Shilling 1938 and 1945 XF UK 6 Pence 1945 XF Belgium superb XF 50 Centimes 1901 "der Belgen" Turkey 50 Kurus 1936 VF Turkey 20 Para 1917 XF Turkey 40 para 1919 XF Palestine 50 Mils 1927 F Canada 25 Cents 1964 F Russia 20 Kopeks 1863 AB aUNC (!!!) By far the Gothic Florin is my favourite design so you can imagine how happy I am!

Voted!

Better later than never!

And I want one CP mail address

I am the happy winner of one of Sandra's auctions. Nice coins (plus 2 extra) well packed and fast delivered. A pleasure to deal with!

5 Piastres 1925 Lebanon

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You must go in Hungary... I can assure that there are some of the most beautiful women in Europe!

Hmmm! Nice Transylvanian coin gpnyc! Gabriel Bethlen breiter groschen?

I am proud to own the "Deutscher Muenzkatalog 18. Jahrhundert" 1984 by Gerhard Schoen with autograph (not for me ), found on an old book store in Munchen

I like the TV screen of Besancon!

I didn't know that they used 110V sockets...

In fact these were coins, but like an Belgian ones an Romanians it was written "Bon Pour" or "Bun Pentru" in Romanian coins because earlier coins were made from silver. The new ones, made from non precious alloys teoretically had the same value like the silver ones wich legally were still legal tender.

These are not notgelds, are regular coins.

Libson... sounds like Lib(erty) (Jeffer)son USA rules...

You're right: Spitzbergen coins are form 1993... but these was an official issue? I did not find nothing about in Krause...Spitzbergen coin set Maybe exist some semi-official issues, or simply, not all issues are known yet (?)

Maybe off topic, but I have also a question: the Spitzbergen coin set 1992 was an official issue?

The same situation is today about good Romanian coins. The prices in West are more affordable than in Romania. The only problem is that Paypal doesn't work here...

I've found only D's until now...

I've found today the first 2006 Romanian coins: 10 Bani and 50 Bani. I am curious that this year it is emmited and the 1 Ban coin. Still looking for it!

Yesterday I've received in one Austrian gas station one 2 euro Luxemburg 2004, one 5 eurocent 2002 Finland and one Austrian commem 2 euro 2005. Nice coins!

Partially. The mintage of gold coins was low at all times, due to the lack of this metal in Romania. The biggest issue before WWII was 196.000 (20 Lei 1890) and the lowest 3000 ex (100 Lei 1906). After WWII it was one massive emission (20 Lei 1944) - 1.000.000 pieces due to massive increasing of gold reserves of National Bank (german gold, as payment for romanian oil), coins sold at bullion value to the tax payers.

No chance... as I know only 30 pieces were sold at free market... the rest just "dissapeared"...

Until now, 250 pieces for gold coins was a "normal" mintage, and for silver 500 or 1000 pieces. But with this last coin, the National Bank of Romania offensed the Romanian collectors. Numismatics in Romania is not an developped hobby, here does not exist any specialized magazine, even the law is yet against the colectors (practically the international swaps are forbidden without a expertise of coins supposed to be exported, expertise who in 99% of cases says that the coins are subject of national treasure, even they are 20-30 years old) and teoretically every coin must be expertized and registered at the museum... I know a Romanian collector who received a letter fron customs authorities who explained him that the ROMANIAN gold coin purchased by him from ebay is by law forbidden to import without special authorisation, and in consequance the coin was returned to the foreign seller... The good part of this situation is that here with some money and patience you can find good coins, because in many cases (it's about copper and silver coins) the uneducated people simply don't know the real value of coins. In the case of gold coins (as a paranthese the Romanian old gold coins are virtually inexistents on the market) the owners tends to ask enormous prices for hanged or holed coins (by default french 20 Fr and Austro-Hungarian 1, 4 Ducats and Krone).The Romanian gold coins are inexistent because of Romanian immigrants in '40's-80's who being in imposibility to buy dollars from banks, took with them the only universal value available: gold coin and jewelries. Today the rich numismatists from Romania (I am not one of them...) buy many of Romanian gold coins available on ebay...