Sir Sisu

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Another one for my set:

1893 Hungarian 20 Korona for me; about the size of a nickel and roughly 1/5 ounce of .900 gold.  A beautiful coin to be sure; the picture shows the reverse, which is of two angels holding the crest of Franz Joseph (if I read that correctly)

 

http://i24.ebayimg.com/04/i/05/dd/d5/fe_1.JPG

 

BTW, how do i post a picture direct and have it show up?  thanks!

Doug

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!

That 1995 flying kook of mine is very definitely a proof coin. Heavily frosted devices in  very deep mirror finished fields.  Don't be put off by the occasional flecks. They are marks on the glass of the scanner. 

 

Ian

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.

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Ah well, nothing untowards with the two different types I have for 1995 then.  At least, my 1995 flying Kook is noted as a `proof' with a mintage of only 4,900.

Maybe one day it'll be worth more than the $2 over the 1996 that KM notes . Then again maybe not. Maybe KM will issue a correction that the figure was really 4,900,000. Now THAT would be more in keeping with my luck of late.

 

Ian

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??

I'm having a hard time finding reference to your extra anywhere.

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.

1996 Portugal 1000 Escudos P188 came in the mail today. I really like this series of notes.

 

 

 

 

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!

Hello group,

 

I'm a new member here and am very glad to have found this forum. I have been collecting Swiss shooting medals (schützenfest medals) for 20 years and my father since 1961.

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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.)

Hi,

Here are the pictures

Greets,Marco

Let me know what you decide with these Tiff.

Okay, stop posting these 500 Lire things, otherwise I am going to have to take the plunge and buy one.

Tell me about it!

Now that "horse coin" looks interesting! Is it a commem or a normal circulation piece?

 

Christian

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!

I got ... a 1983 Finland mint set ...

Which mintmaster initial does it have? K or N ?

Should not speak english, ollaan järkytetty muita jo tarpeeksi finnish language kielellä

did my translation attempt make any sense????

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!