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BWRC sent me this today.........very pleased as it is now the center of my Toned Proof IHC set!!!!

 

I usually do NOT like toned coins, a lot of them seem artificially or unevenly toned. However this piece exhibits nice uniform and original toning and is an eye pleasing piece for even a toning descriminator like myself.

When I was little my father brought back a large canvas bag full of coins from Australia, Japan, and Vietnam that he had saved all of during his tour of duty in Asia. This would become the nucleus of my collection. I would sell off or trade off some coins, but I still have one of every type of coin from that bag.

Here's a pic of the Portuguese coin of these series, it was the first Portuguese commemorative Euro coin in "Silver":

 

From INCM's website

 

 

Jose

Isn't kind of difficult to find a Portuguese coin WITHOUT a ship?

Can't we just overprint the Intis and use them for our coinpeople currency?

Do you accept paypal? If so please PM your id.

 

I do accept paypal of course.

In September 2001 while the rest of the world was agonizing over the events in the United States, my wife and I were securely in Ukraine. We came to get our family, our two children whom were born in Ukraine and became a part of our family. Fast forward nearly 4 years later and we feel it is time to return to Ukraine, so we start our paperwork to return to adopt at least one more.

But providence has a funny way of changing our plans, we barely start our process then we are contacted by an agency that is bringing Ukrainian children to America this summer. They need host families urgently, so somehow they find out that we are looking to adopt - and we have to pick up two Ukrainian children here at the airport in the USA on Thursday 23 June

All this is getting pretty costly, so just like last time back in 2001 I am parting with extranneous parts of my coin collection. These dimes are going to be the first of many items I will be selling off over the next few months to fund all of our expenses.

These dimes are all 1944's and there are three D mints and 7 Philly mints here. Postage on this lot is $1.60 to your USA location and additional at cost to your foreign location.

Some of you may not have figured out who I am, but my old userid on the old Coinpeople was Krasnaya_Vityaz, so if that feedback is still available you can appreciate that I am not some fly by night here

Thanks to Art for letting me know I had no starting price, but this starts at face value, but do remember what this is about. Auction ends next Monday 27 June at 19:00 EST in the USA or 7PM.

Less than 1/3 of the price? O_O But the shipping would have killed!!!

No actually it didn't. It was about 6.5$

When I saw the title I thought you might be referring to some of the small gold coins issued by Goznak, with denominations of 10 or 50 Rubles. I actually want some of the Ballet coins.

Nice.

I can proudly state that I got a bigger piece it is about 21 cm or about 8.25" which was common for the earlier ones, and at less than a third of the price on the pieces on that site

The best coin I have lost permanently, from over 6 years ago was a 1670 Bristol Farthing, a 17th century token that was mailed to me by a friend in Scotland. The coin arrived in the mail the very day I got a call from my sister that my Mother was in the hospital and that I needed to travel to Washington DC immediately. In all the confusion and rush of the day, I think I may have accidentally put the coin back in the mailer it was in to put away, and then later in the day I mistakenly threw it away. It was one of the nicest Bristol farthings I had seen, I bought it from a friend for less than he paid for it. I hoped for a long time I would find it, but alas it probably is in some landfill somewhere

And then there was the United Colonies $4 bill from May 1776 that I bought when I was a kid, I liked looking at it, and I had a bad habit then of looking at things and leaving them lying around the house. Somehow eventually it disappeared, of course I blamed my brother but he continued to deny taking it.

About a year later I decided to remove the bottom of our sofa, to dig out the coins I could hear jingling around on the dust cloth underneath. I found several coins, even half dollars, but the best find was my 1776 $4 bill in its holder, no worse for having spent over a year in the sofa.

But where one draws the line is up to the collector, I think. When it comes to German coins, 1871 is also a good starting point. And theoretically you could go back to Charlemagne or rather the Treaty of Verdun 843 

 

Christian

Actually I shy from the post 1918 coinage and go more for Hamburg and Bavaria, but then I have a particular interests in those areas anyway.

I am kind of surprised more of these things did not get melted down by the Belgian colonials when they replaced these with their own coinage. These have a lot of copper.

OH Christian, you must know how upset I was when I was in Germany while I was still a kid.

 

As you know, I went there when there was still marks and pfennigs. And obviously, I tried to collect all the possible 2 marks and 5 marks commemorative coins... little to know that there was at least 6 of them in total I think, and you know, that's fairly a bit of money there.

 

And the funniest thing I remembered was that, I saw a coinshop in Berlin (I think!!!) and saw all the various German coins, that was definately older than 1950s, and I was wondering... why can I not find that 10 mark coins anywhere... And that was the time when I didn't understand that proof coins meant, nor what collectors' coins meant.

 

But yes, if you removed the gold, trial and other "expensive" coins, a Republic German coin collection is perfectly possible.

When I was in Germany I collected up all the silver 5 and 10 marks I could get from banks, exchanges etc. I sold them off gradually many years later, but now again I have a 750th anniversary of Berlin, notable for the "Erwiger" pfennig on it. I like coins on coins.

There were not many of these temporary "kupons" "talons" etc anywhere that were appealing. This is tough, I do have one of each unfortunately. I collected them after these countries came into being.

When Kupons were used in Ukraine, they were quite unpopular, actually there was some preference with some to keep using Rubles. In fact I have heard the new currency, the Hryvnia, referred to as Rubles by older folks.

The uric acid note got my vote.

LOL copper plates and 5 kopeks

 

Too bad the Russians didn't go far enough to make precious metal plates or it would have been too interesting

Imagine if this did circulate

 

http://www.goldbergauctions.com/cgi-bin/vi...ale=31&lot=1868

I think I heard somewhere that the piece went for about $150000. I love that coin, it must have been quite a job to create.

Jesus. You can knock someone off with that O_O

I have several coins that were more suitable as weapons, couple of pieces of plate money from Sweden, a Manilla from Nigeria, AE 46 from the Ptolemy III of Egypt, a couple of the Siberians, and lets not forget that corral of 5 Kopeks.

I need to do a page on huge coins.

Arrived on Friday 17th June.

I have wanted one of these for a long time, finally I found one. This image is very close to the actual size of the piece, it is 21cm in diameter, or about 8.25" The shiney bronze looking thing is a USA cent for comparison of size.

Katanga cross, one of the large primitive african coins. Came today, haven't opened, no time.

hehe, well in those days they were legal circulating tender, worth about $25 and I would get them at the ATM in crisp UNC as many as I wanted (or my account allowed me )

 

And unfolded they wouldn't fit in my wallet....

I really would like one, but it is in line behind the 1945 25 Florin.

The ANA insurance looks like a feelgood policy to me.  I wouldn't bother with it unless I knew someone who had collected on a claim and could tell me how their service is in that department.

 

  My homeowners policy covers some of what I own in the way of coins and collectibles but I'd anticipate a real hassle if I ever had to make a claim.

Safe deposit box.

RCM - 2005 "Three-Masted Ship" commem. $20.00

31.39g, .9999 SILVER

mintage 20,000

US$53.34

 

USM - 2005 "Chief Justice John Marshall" commem. $1.00

26.73g, .900 SILVER

mintage 400,000

US$35.00

larger, heavier coin, higher silver content, and much lower mintage.  I would think the RCM material would be a better deal in the long run than the USM material.

The RCM floods the market with nice commemoratives, if they limited their offering I think they would be a better long term collectible. But if I look in past issues surely I will find something similar they issued two to three years ago.

I have bought very specific items from the RCM, notably the Tulip issues, but as gifts, and not for me.

I even have one from the Marotta Republic. 20 Ducats signed by the designer himself.

heheh...i was running out of modern notes to collect (price/availability-wise), and your post about them is what got me interested in the first place. 

 

then mmarotta posted about local currencies, and aidan posted about private issues (chatams and such), and now i have loads of things to collect!

You don't have one from Saor EireAnn, only Tiffybunny, 16D and the short snorter project do. The rest are either in Russia or in Saor EireAnn.

At one time or another, over several visits to Netherlands, I have used all the notes issued for circulation. My favourite is the sunflower note 50 Florin.