Sir Sisu

Lovely medals!

Cool! Those Hungarian gold pieces are nice, especially the reverse. I finally picked up one myself at auction a couple of months ago.

Ahh, well that would explain it. I had just assumed that the frosted versions had the mirrored fields on the outher ring.

A 2003 Finland €0.20, Luxembourg 2002 €0.50 with a small die break (will try to post a pic), and a new 2005 Spain €0.05 among others!

I figured it was a proof. I was just hoping to explain away why one has mirror-like fields and is proof, and the other has a frosted field yet is still a proof.

I am not familiar with this series at all so I am merely hypothesizing here, but comparing the field and devices of your 1995 "Kookaburra in flight" with Tiff's 1996, I am tempted to say that yours would be the BU version and her's the proof. (Thus my reason for thinking there is a mistake in the Krause.) My Krause also lists a KM#701 dollar in this series but shows no photo. I wonder if that is the coin that Tiff has??

Not sure if you mean the Krause, but in the 2006 ths 1st is KM#260 and the second is KM#289.1 Interestingly the top one is listed as a proof only with the date 1994. Could be that Krause has mistakenly reversed the placement listing of proof and unc for the year 1995. (The 1995 proof listing should be for KM#260 and the 1995 Unc should be for KM289.1) Not sure though.

Some nice silver coins. Here are a couple: One for the "moral" debate Australia : George VI 50 year jubilee Hungary 1 pengo

Some decent finds yesterday: Finland 2004!!! and 2005 €0.50, Luxembourg 2003 €0.05, and Belgium 2004 €0.02.

2 more coins towards my crown-like set, and 2 Australian silver florins.

Just when I have been able to focus myself on coins,.......a cool note pops up! I hope that was real expensive so I will be able to resist going after one!

Oh my, what a lovely medal!

From the past week: My coin prize from akdrv, with a few cool (and needed) bonuses!! Thanks! A box of boxes from the Bunny with some €uro "notes" and some tv entertainment! Thank you, thank you! A big package from Blackhawk with a bunch of Mexican silvers. A few individual packages with coins towards my silver coin collection! (Need to update my list this weekend.)

Let me know what you decide with these Tiff.

Tell me about it!

It is a normal circulation piece. It is one of the many coins that I have first seen posted here and have subsequently purchased for myself. There is a commem version with a different reverse issued in 2002.

A silver 20 kopek A bi-met 100 dinar And a silver Ike dollar!

A beautiful Christmas card and cool coin from ccg. Thank you!

Purchased a coin from Jeff. Smooth transaction. Thanks!

Which mintmaster initial does it have? K or N ?

But now let's return to english... Nice try.

I did not find these myself, but my co-worker did. His band had a gig in Luxembourg over the weekend, so I asked him to pick me up whatever he comes across.

Got these lovely coins in the mail today in addition to a Portuguese 1 Escudo. Sorry D, I like them too!

Ole hyvä! Mukava että kelpasivat. Muuten, sen takia kortti oli lähetetty ettei tarvitse tuntee orvoksi.

A cool card & coin from the Doc! (I like the theme of the card! ) A nice piece of silver from jtryka (many thanks ) , and a slip to pick up a registered package that I will try and get today. (I am expecting something from Jose )