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Nice, but out of my reach. Anyway, the silver coin beats it all hollow for luster and brilliance. Platinum won't take anywhere near the height of shine that silver will.

All sold. Thanks for looking.

Spain 1884 2 pesetas F .835 fine .2655 ASW

British South Africa 1933 2 shillings VF .800 fine .2909 ASW

Venezuela 1910 5 Bolivares F Oval 'O' .900fine .7234 ASW

Cuba 1933 un Peso EF .900fine 26.7295 grams

Cuba 1934 un Peso EF .900fine 26.7295 grams

Great Britain 1888 Florin VF .925 fine .3364 oz. ASW

Looks as though Anthony's lucked into a good buy from some European bullion dealer. I'd like to get that particular group of gold coins.

well,mainly U.S. coinage (key dates) but here lately the dark side has been calling 

"Skywalker, this is your father, eh. Surrender to the darkside of the Force, you knob."

A favorite line of mine from Dave Thomas in "Strange Brew", the comedy film featuring the McKenzie brothers characters.

A '39-D Jeff, in change from yesterday's shopping.

Wow, that coin is the ultimate loser in my book:

1. Struck in beer can material

2. Abe Lincoln on the obverse

Those are two irredeemable demerits, then strike three is:

3. Slabbed

It's outta here. ;-)

Great images. Thanks for posting them.

Ah, Jackson, old boy. I see that the rumors of your demise have been greatly exaggerated, ahaha

Good to know you're still bumping.

For me personally, I see modern coinage as milled coinage and would subdivide the issuance of base coinage (i.e. that of moderate/higher valued coinage away from intrinsic value) as a present era of coinage.

An understandable distinction if one is to view base metal coinage as collectible. For my own purposes, intrinsic value determines collectibility. I may acquire base metal coins which have appealing designs but they are always used for trades sooner or later. In those trades I acquire silver coins as a final goal. ;-)

Ha! You banking guys could really rake it in if you had time to sort coins at work. ;-)

I'd buy some more rolls of 90% instead. Proofs don't get me very excited.

Go ahead and mail it to me. You can trust me for the fiddy-K.

This guy is a total jerk and a dumb crook.

Like a lot of the ebay scamsters....ahaha.

I really don't much like the new buffalo nickel. The buffalo is only ok and I'm not a fan of the Jefferson portrait.

 

Yeah, I'm with you on that one. The design isn't really impressive compared to the original buffalo nickel design.

" From 1938 to 2004, the nickle has not changed"

Ha! Found a misspelling in their article. Every other mention of the coin used the proper spelling.

There's no such thing as a free lunch. Somebody pays for the Yahoo auction service and if it isn't going to be the seller, it will have to be the buyer.

I've never liked the Yahoo formats. There are too many other ways of buying coins for me to waste much time with online auction sites anyway, whether the venue is ebay or yahoo.

You mean Victorian high reliefs? The 1840s and 1850s issues in particular before they started lowering the relief.

 

Looking at SLQ to me they look pretty awful in even EF. They appear to wear real bad. I think SLQ's would have to be UNC minimum for me. So damned expensive though.

Modern coinage in extreme low relief can even be acceptable in F. I think it all depends on the relief.

 

Coins from the 17th/18th century tend to be in very high relief thus why i like them in high grades, 19th/early 20th in high relief (likewise needs the high grades), then by the mid 20th onwards the relief goes downhill faster than a Citreon 2CV with no brakes trying to go up it. So the grades become less of an issue with more modern coinage.

No, I meant the low relief Victorians. they lose a lot of their detail with little wear while the high reliefs have more metal in the same detailed areas which make them more resistant to wear. An early Gothic Florin in VF still has a relatively high level of facial feature remaining even past the point where the loop of the braid is worn off. The low relief young heads lose the facial details with little wear, by comparison with the high relief young head halfcrowns.

Now, SLQ's are very beautiful in XF. It's just that so many people try to claim XF on a VF coin. There's a good example of an XF in the coin grading challenge archives. An XF should have all the toes remaining on the foot of Lady Liberty. The design loses detail with very little wear. XF SLQ's by my standards are sold as AU's by some folks.

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The Owl had a hole going only half way into the coin, it didn't go the whole way through.

In the case of modern precious metal coins, a divot like that is usually the result of a metalsmith robbing a little metal from a coin to use as solder in a brazing operation before returning the coin to circulation. Solder gained that way at no expense to the smith adds to the profit margin.

Maybe the practice wasn't limited to modern coins or to modern times.

What's the metal?

10 years ago existed in Camel cigarettes packs Camel Cash, nice design, valuable in Camel Shops. Doesn't exist anymore?

The cigarette premium promotions fell victim to the "war on tobacco". Maybe the Camel stuff will become collectible as a result.

According to the commentary added by Rulf Fleischmieder, there are only four attested copies of this coin. The Oxford Ashmolean is the only one still known.  The St. Petersburg Hermitage disappeared during the Revolution or Civil War.  The Farouk specimen was never catalogued, but was rumored to have sold to a private collector.  The fourth one appeared in five auctions from 1920 to 1921 and then was never heard from until 1999 when it was found amid the rubble of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.  Then, it disappeared again.

Hah! A vicious rumor, I assure you. "disappeared again", indeed.

ahaha

Yeah, I'd still agree that it would go VF as a net grade. If I had it for sale, any buyer would pay VF price or I would keep it.

That's just the kinda guy I am. ;-)

I sell coin jewelry such as mercury dime earrings, SLQ pendants and fobs, rings made with Kaiserreich 1/2mark coins as the boss, etc. Some of it qualifies for the disclaimer: "No coin was harmed in the making of this jewelry" while some are made from coins which have already been damaged.

Stamps are OK, I guess but coins, pocketknives and Luddite truncheons are more fascinating to me. If anyone has any cool Luddite truncheons I hope they give me a shot at them.

I just got two of the 5p silvers. You can get them cheap if you want them instead of the odd shaped brass one.