banivechi

My anniversary 2 euro coin arrived on Christmas eve, but I forgot to thank you, Harri!

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!

Thanks for bringing this up to the top, Banivechi. I never saw this! I'm in!

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

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?

In this case "kleiner" simply means "small". The term is a little misleading since even this small catalog has almost 600 pages As for the order in which the coins appear, well, the Jaeger (the "Bible" for post-1871 German coins) does the same thing. Makes it easier to see which coins are part of a certain series - but sure, if you want to look a piece up, the order by denomination makes more sense.

 

Fortunately the Schön catalogs have the Jaeger numbers (for German coins) and the KM numbers (for other coins) too. What is also nice, by the way, is that Gerhard Schön is an active member of some German coin forums.

 

Christian

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...

I believe the Chamber of Commerce pieces (50c-2F) are technically tokens, but as it was basically the coinage of the day, it has become accepted as part of the regular coinage series.

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 and the Jeton are the best.

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

USA rules...

Banivechi, if I am not wrong, there are no Spitzbergen set minted in 1992. The only pattern in that particular year that I can think of by Leningrad mint are the coins minted for Armenia, in both nickel-cupro and brass. Still affordable but I haven't bothered to get any of them yet... and I believe I will regret it painfully one day...

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?

I think the runup in prices from demand within Russia has already resulted in many of the best coins returning to the home country.  Unless prices here in the West begin to go even higher, to compete with those being paid in Russia (or else prices paid within Russia begin to fall to Western levels), then I don't think those coins will soon find their way back to the West.

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...

That's right.

Today I found a German 2€ Commemorative Holstentor. Mintmark F

(there is one little mistake, not "Entschüldigung -> Entschuldigung, you're from the Netherlands, right?)

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.

We have more than 150 coinpeeps in here - perhaps we can all hoard it for ourselves

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