Scottishmoney Posted April 15, 2007 Report Share Posted April 15, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 Agreed, a beauty. Funny that this piece has come up in three different coin forums in the past few days. Currently Zelma can be found on the 500 latu note: http://www.bank.lv/images/img_lb/naudas/images/ls500be.gif And maybe in a couple of years (certainly not in 2008) she will be on a €1 coin: http://www.bank.lv/images/img_lb/sapinfo/l...de/1_Euro_s.JPG (both images from the Latvian central bank's website) Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
echizento Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 Beautiful coin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted April 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 The nice thing about the crowns is they are easy to find in good shape, since the Soviets collected them in droves when they rolled in in 1940, so they sat in vaults in the USSR all that time. Then in the 1980's Mezhnumismatika saw a money making opportunity and started selling them at ridiculously high prices in their sales literature. Somewhere I have a price list from them in all my stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banivechi Posted April 16, 2007 Report Share Posted April 16, 2007 Sorry but I don't like it very much. Hungary, Germany, even France had much nicer crown-size (or Ecu) coins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted April 17, 2007 Report Share Posted April 17, 2007 Excellent. After all, if everybody liked that coin, it would be more expensive. Chacun à son goût, as the Latvians say. Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted April 17, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2007 Sorry but I don't like it very much. Hungary, Germany, even France had much nicer crown-size (or Ecu) coins. Don't be sorry, I am glad not everybody likes the coins I do, means more for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
De Orc Posted April 29, 2007 Report Share Posted April 29, 2007 I like it but there again I also like the Hungarian & German of the same period, hell I like em all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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