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Even though I'm about to downsize my world collection, I still keep my ancient collection alive. So here's my newest addition:
Attika, Tetradrachm, 454-404 B.C.
Beautiful coin! It does not seem to have more than 2000 years so perfect it is haha. Did you get it from an auction? I'm interested in starting ancient coins collection, but to find this quality is difficult sometimes.
The tetradrachm is just stunning! That is a collectible coin!
Meanwhile I limp into the month with these beauties.
1939 Aussie Florin (Seller's photo), this is the scarce date of the post 1936 series. These coins attract a premium few KGVI florins do. This one is pretty average (High Fine - Low VF - need to see it clearer as photo hazy). It leaves just one more Aussie Florin for me to get and complete my set (Before the joy of upgrading begins) - that is the elusive 1914H.
1831 UK Penny - again another seller's photo. The coin appears to be high VG with light Verdigris, my first William IV penny and first 1831 coin period - so a nice add!
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1574 - MM Elgantine, holed and worn (I honestly got these 2 last night - very cheap)
1794 - Prince of Wales feathers - conder token, Halfpenny, showing King George IV with a Georgian era wig!
Medieval Arab silver dirham - I can't find it on the site, but the date of AH 603 suggests this coin was minted in AD1207 and the style of lettering is Kufic, suggesting its Abbasid or somewhere near Iraq.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Medieval Arab silver dirham - I can't find it on the site, but the date of AH 603 suggests this coin was minted in AD1207 and the style of lettering is Kufic, suggesting its Abbasid or somewhere near Iraq.
Yes, I believe it's Abbasidian as well. I just took the freedom to rotate the pictures for you. 😇
You could to a photo search in the catalogue and see if anything fits your coin.
Thanks didn't know about photo search, but it did not work, some coins from the 700s came close, but I am certain the date says AH 603 - which places it closer to the time the Mongols invaded Bagdad.
Also I can't read Arabic, only their numbers - so no help for me there.
Photo search is great - never knew it existed!
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Advertised as CRUSADERS - Despotate of EPIRUS - Philip I of Taranto (1294-1313) Silver Denier.
The Byzantine argument: Despotate of EPIRUS is a Greek successor state of the Byzantine Empire established during the 4th Crusade. The title of Despot did not imply any specific territorial jurisdiction, nor was it hereditary; it was merely the highest rank in the Byzantine court hierarchy.
The Crusaders argument: Philip I was a son of Charles II of Anjou of the Angevin house. This coin was part of the denier tournois system, as opposed to the denier parisis system (both systems operating in France at the same time).
In short,
Medieval times were a complete “Sh*t Show”. Just “dip your toe” into that part of human history and your head starts spinning.
The term Byzantine Empire is a modern historiographic convention and not the name in use at the time.
I’ll book this coin under the Numista attribution of Byzantine states. Lucky for me, as I needed this country too.
Although my brain hurts, still great fun!!
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure, that just ain't so. Mark Twain
Also I can't read Arabic, only their numbers - so no help for me there.
I doubt the symbols at the top of the central legends are numerals since the coin needs to be turned (hence at the top, not at the bottom). But there maybe is something I don't know about that specific series.
With clear picture, the mint and date should be easy to read. The mint seems to be Madinah and the date should be, as usual, transcribed in full. From what I can see, 603 is too short for the number of letters I can guess where the date should be transcribed. One expects something like «بسم الله ضرب هذا الدرهم بمدينة بسنة» followed on the left by the date. Whenever you can show your own pictures it should be easy to identify…
Diocletian and Probus, both antoninianus and both from the Siscia mint. I'm still not good at taking photos of ancient coins but at least I'm no longer horrible. 😂
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No I can't identify it. Those numerals look a lot like 603 and that is why I did it. Any Arabs know how to translate it.
Is it possible, its much older? Like say the 700s or 800s. That would be cool - otherwise I know that coin is really super old and totally worth the $40 I paid for it.
I also brought this 1962 South African 50 cent piece. Not sure if its Proof (Likely is). Its the most scarce date of the 4 with just 27.7k minted. These bulky half silver coins never caught on and it was replaced by a much smaller nickel 50 cent coin in 1965. These 50 cent pieces retained the size and shape of the old Crowns and some people refer to these later decimal ones still as crowns. It was quite pricey $44 incl postage - but worth it as I already had the 1961 and 1963/64 all which were cheaper around $25 each and I got the 1960 last predecimal one for $19!
Hardly the greatest shots, but these 2 lots were a godsend featuring Australian 3d and 6d coins. The joy was they both cost me in the $120 - $140 barrier each and that was after a bidding war! The pages basically had a complete run of all the dates sans about 5 really rare ones (Like the 1915 3d, 1942 Melbourne and overdates) and the 1917 6d seemed to be missing but many semi keys. I added about 15 dates to my 6ds and 12 to my 3ds leaving only 4 coins for my 3d set (Including the super rare 1921/22 and 1933/34 as ones I need with 1915 and 1942M), and just 2 for the 6ds - 1917 and one other (Some common 1940s one!) The remainders nearly make up the price in silver melt.
This was a GREAT find!
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I would think it's well before 603. Yes $40 (NZ?) is a good price. That coin seems to be generally well struck for this issue. There are often areas of flatness in the legend which makes it barely legible, but in this case the flatness is minimal.
Cool, sounds great as I need a coin for the late 1st millienium AD (501 - 1000).
Anyway its raining Aussie Silver with me at the moment. I won these 2 tonight.
This 1911 Florin is basically VF or damn close - I got it at a VG Price. That is amazing!
This florin group cost $138 or basically about 10% above its melt. I mainly brought it as it had the one coin I am missing - 1914H and it helps that is the best coin in the lot. Again $100+ in that condition (Fine to gFine). The 1939 is a decent coin too, the rest is average, but given my low standards for pre 1938 Florins, most are upgrades.
I mean wow, if Aussie coin collectors want cheap florins, NZ Trade Me is the place to get them!
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Another carboot bargain hunt was successful, buying a small bag of coins for £8, including around £6 worth of Deutschmarks to cash in, a small bag of misc/junk coins also hid some carefully spotted treasures :P
1574 - MM Elgantine, holed and worn (I honestly got these 2 last night - very cheap)
1794 - Prince of Wales feathers - conder token, Halfpenny, showing King George IV with a Georgian era wig!
Medieval Arab silver dirham - I can't find it on the site, but the date of AH 603 suggests this coin was minted in AD1207 and the style of lettering is Kufic, suggesting its Abbasid or somewhere near Iraq.
The 6p you have are still QE I Coinage History and have identifiable images I like them and they are real English Coinage unlike some today just minted to reel in Collectors for Profit.
The 6p you have are still QE I Coinage History and have identifiable images I like them and they are real English Coinage unlike some today just minted to reel in Collectors for Profit.
Thanks, I like them too - your shilling is beautiful. I got lucky with the 1572, its a nice coin and I only paid $50 (£26) for it. Generally I can't afford high grade Tudor, but lower grade (Fine and lower) E1 6d and 1/- are quite cheap and I am obsessed with coins of that era (Her ruffs and over the top fashions appeal to me too).
I am no fan of NCLT coins either, unless they are cheap or circulating like Aussie $2 coloured ring coins. Any day I will spend my money on a heritage coin usually 1800s or early 1900s - but always keen to buy older coins at the right price!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
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Giobruno - those coins are great, so interesting and historic. I really love the 25 Kurus Ottoman gold coin - I can find their silver coins easily enough, but gold seems to elude me.
Makarije - looks like you have really hit the ground running with those banknotes!
One of my favourite traders on Trade Me usually sells just NZ coins, but occasionally do world and every year around now have a half off sale - so I go bananas and this will likely be my last big spend up this year (I say likely as something always shows up that I MUST have!)
1887 was the year of three different sixpences in the UK.
First was the Young Head type which had been used basically since 1838 (The Crown was from the Williamite design of 1831). Although most 1887 coins are Jubilee types, many YH coins were issued with 1887 on them too and these are much more scarce, but not rare. EF ones like this are though.
Next came the Jubilee “Sheild Type”
This coin did not last long as the shield obverse was often gold plated and passed off as a half sovereign (10/-)
Finally the old reverse was resumed later in 1887.
Well almost the same, you may notice that the crown on the coin has changed to a Imperial one, now Victoria was an empress and well as Queen.
The YH and later JH were new purchases and both are EF/gEF with toning. They are more costly and scarce than the shield coin which cost me only $25 back in July. The other Jubilee coin was cheap, but that YH cost a packet!
Also from 1887 a Jubilee Threepence. No such controversies here!
Again EF, but very toned, the only change from the Young Head Threepences of the past 50 years was the new imperial crown as you can see the crown it replaced on this very nice 1873 Threepence I brought below.
This is also EF and a nice piece (Not cheap though). Ironically this earlier crown was a masculine one designed for the big fat heads of King George IV and William IV (The crown appears on the coins of George IV too). Victoria apparently never wore it except at her coronation and had the smaller State Crown and Imperial crowns made. The tiny crown she wears on the Jubilee coins, was her main one - but she apparently was not a fan of crowns anyway (The vain and pompous uncles of hers were though!)
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I also brought my first ever Charles I hammered shilling! It goes with the Halfcrown I brought back in 2020.
A very late one (1646 - 1648) with sceptre mintmark - Seaby 2845 (or 2844)
Tower Mint under Parliament control, near Fine with some portrait, relatively good flan.
Not bad for $60. Coin image has been rotated 270 degrees on obverse.
Much later Victorian Old Head shilling - 1893, good EF and toned, a very nice and ornate piece.
I also brought 4 Egyptian coins - 3 Ottoman and 1 from the Hussain Kamil era. These coins are quite common here as soldiers brought them back as exotic souvenirs from Egypt, where their training camps were. Some must have been rich as the 20 Piastre coins were worth 4/3 - 4/6, which was 1½ - 2 days pay for a private and nearly a days pay for an officer!
Normally you see the 1, 2, 5 Milleme coins worth a penny or less, so these are nice.
5 Piastres (Qirsh) from Year 33 of Abdul Hamid 2's reign (1907 - 1908 - AH1325)
Fairly high grade for his coins, as they wore quickly, a 5 Piastre coin was about the size of a quarter.
As above but Year 6 of Mehmed V's (Reshad) reign, this equates to 1913/14 and seems to be the last year
of this type of coin in Egypt. There are no Year 7's as this is when war started and then the next Egyptian coins are those of Hussain Kamils of 1916/1917 (Ironically both dated AH 1335) - this one equivalates to AH 1332
The eagle eyed of you may notice the tiny H at the bottom of the Toughra side - these were minted by Heaton in the UK (Another reason why a Year 7 coin did not come out, as in Nov 1914 Turkey threw their lot in with evil Germany!)
A huge 20 Qirsh (Piastres) coin of Mehmed V again. This one is Year 3 (AH 1329 - 1911) and is VF
Notice again the coin has the H on it. Apparently the Arabic said “He is Victorious, minted in Egypt”
Another 20 Piastre piece, this time of HK and its 1917 (I already have 1916). These coins retained the same size and weight as the Ottoman pieces and also banned graven images besides plants (Later coins of Fuad and Farouk had their portraits and even latter ones showed pyramids, sphinxes, people you name it). This one is gVF but is cleaned and hence why it was cheap. My 1916 is more “natural” meaning its darkened like the coin above.
Along with medieval Islamic dinars and Palestine - these coins have always fascinated me!
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Lovely coins you have Moneytane, personally I feel Islamic coins aren’t as appreciated and are often looked over by collectors compared to other coins.
Finally I was able to get my hands on the last Charles 50p they had from the post office whilst buying Christmas cards.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
WWC- Exactly my point - their loss is my gain, I sweep in and buy these beauties at knock down prices.
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I got this worn trio of crowns on Friday for a bit above melt.
1822 Mega worn - but very old and do you ever see these George III/IV pieces in nice condition?
1889 - a bit nicer (Fine) but blackened and the most common year of them
1900 - a good piece close to VF and quite clean. This coin is marked Anno LXIV (64)
The latest and newest one issued and quite scarce. No more circulation crowns appeared
until 1935 after this one (1902 was set only, 1927 - 1934/36 were exclusive rarities).
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Nice, it is actually easier and most of times cheaper to pick up Latvian 5 Lati abroad and online than in Latvia. If we take condition out of conversation you can still often find some for $20 (+$10 shipping/customs). Meanwhile in Latvian pawn shops and numismatic places you can rarely find any cheaper than $40. And if you do so they are usually sold the same day. I myself live abroad most of the year but my dad is following local coin prices religiously and was saying that lately they are becoming very rare to come by here. I've heard that during Soviet times of occupation these coins would be often used as gifts so as sold out to foreign collectors so there shouldn't be many left on Latvian soil to begin with.
Nice, it is actually easier and most of times cheaper to pick up Latvian 5 Lati abroad and online than in Latvia. If we take condition out of conversation you can still often find some for $20 (+$10 shipping/customs). Meanwhile in Latvian pawn shops and numismatic places you can rarely find any cheaper than $40. And if you do so they are usually sold the same day. I myself live abroad most of the year but my dad is following local coin prices religiously and was saying that lately they are becoming very rare to come by here. I've heard that during Soviet times of occupation these coins would be often used as gifts so as sold out to foreign collectors so there shouldn't be many left on Latvian soil to begin with.
I've noticed that, too. Outside of Eurogold shops I haven't seen one in Riga in a good while - though I'm not there that regularly. But it seems that the bidding wars on eBay are getting fiercer, too. I still need to get the first Republic Santimi series complete. Luckily that's more a question of when they pop up rather than price :)
Australia 5 and 10 Dollar notes from consecutive batch.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
1941 Fijian Shilling - a scarce date and a nice piece, got very cheaply. This completes my Fijian shillings!
1843 UK ½ Farthing - these dinky little colonial intended coins were legalised for use in the UK between 1842 and 1869.
This one is near VF and looks very cute (Its only 18mm in size). Even more bizarre was ¼ and ⅓ farthings issued as well.
This 1844 is even better, the coin is close to EF and shows much detail. Not surprisingly, these 2 dates are the most
common of the series.
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These were not specific to New France. No coins were issued specifically for New France. Some general colonial issues circulated there, but mostly the standard French coins.
I received this Russian 10 Kopeck 1914 as a Christmas gift from my parents.
Im my opinion it’s medium to high end XF condition because there’s decent detail and traces of mint lustre present but It’s more noticeable on the obverse.
Plus a 2022 Silver Britannia and a 2022 Libertad. Which is a nice gift from my parents especially my dad who is going away from the 29th for nearly a month to attend a relatives wedding in Australia.
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I can agree to that, but it doesn't mean I would try to get those coins, since we all collect differently, so it's mostly a show-off (which is fine as well).
I can agree to that, but it doesn't mean I would try to get those coins, since we all collect differently, so it's mostly a show-off (which is fine as well).
Yeah, that too. But sometimes I see a cool coin and check it op in the catalogue. If it's part of a set I check out the whole set to see if it worth buying.
Also, if you get a cool coin, who else would appreciate it better if not a coin community? 😉
I can agree to that, but it doesn't mean I would try to get those coins, since we all collect differently, so it's mostly a show-off (which is fine as well).
Yeah, that too. But sometimes I see a cool coin and check it op in the catalogue. If it's part of a set I check out the whole set to see if it worth buying.
Also, if you get a cool coin, who else would appreciate it better if not a coin community? 😉
That's so true, but honestly I'm collecting for myself until I don't breathe any longer, and if somebody wants data about my coins, they'll ask through the community (my collection is readable to everyone, I think). I get so many “new” coins into my collection every month, so why spend time boasting about that? I do it my way!
Papua New Guinea 2 Kina coin that I paid 2 Kina for! Not sure if the seller realized they were selling a coin from PNG because otherwise they would just go spend it. But I'm happy for the great deal.
Papua New Guinea 2 Kina coin that I paid 2 Kina for! Not sure if the seller realized they were selling a coin from PNG because otherwise they would just go spend it. But I'm happy for the great deal.
Apparently, this coin is no longer legal tender.
I have got one in my collection - which I added a few years ago.
A recent trip to Whanganui - a provincial town in the lower North Island of New Zealand brought these surprises.
South African 5 Rand note of 1967 - 75, Springbok Watermark. - $5
UK 1807 Halfpenny, basically VF, this cost me only $10
Canada 1944 50 cents - cost just $8, the silver is worth $10
Fiji 1937 6d - cost just $5 and 1937 is one of the very rare dates with just 40k minted.
A great find as many antique shops sell coins, usually overpriced. These are the places that will charge between
$1 and $10 for a beaten up old 1960s or 1940s NZ penny and consider shined up 1920s Britannia pennies that were
used here for like $5 each! So to find real bargains like this was a nice surprise.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
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Papua New Guinea 2 Kina coin that I paid 2 Kina for! Not sure if the seller realized they were selling a coin from PNG because otherwise they would just go spend it. But I'm happy for the great deal.
Apparently, this coin is no longer legal tender.
I have got one in my collection - which I added a few years ago.
Aidan.
That's weird because one of my friends actually got a beat up one in his change at a store. It might not be legal tender, but the government doesn't usually enforce that kind of thing, so people still spend them.
