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Anyway...
241. Katanga
242. French Equatorial Africa
243. Saint Helena and Ascension
244. Belgian Congo
245. Western Sahara
246. Comoro Islands
247. Central African Republic
248. Zaire
249. Tatarstan (yes, I know those darn tokens aren't really coins, but still, extra Numista country)
Was getting really desperate about my country count, and apparently the coin shop that promised they'd be getting a new collection today (which is why I decided to visit them) didn't actually get anything yet. So I went into another nearby shop and checked their entire Africa and Oceania sections (12 albums) for anything cool that I wanted.
I paid a total of $30-ish for all the stuff I bought from them (~20 coins), but that's including a few coins that weren't actually new countries for me (the Tatarstan token was the most expensive at $4).
Passed on some more exotic stuff with $7-8 prices (Gabon, Congo - Republic, Marshall Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands - in retrospect I should have bought at least one of those).
One more to go until 250 (I thought I'd make it, but not quite).
Number 250 will probably be Georgia or Livonia as I try to take care of my existing pre-Numista collection (not all of which had been entered yet - though some of the older coins just plain aren't listed).
Really hopeful for 300, but I think I've mostly ran out of the easy stuff already. (I'll check the 300 club's "common" list - I think I should only have a dozen countries or so left from there, and it should make a good stepping point to the full 300.)
Western Sahara completes my African continental map (finally).
Only two more countries to go (I think) until I complete all the continents (but one of them is the ultra-rare Liechtenstein; the other, in case you're wondering, is Qatar).
As expected, country 250 is Livonia (though the particular coin I added is in really poor condition, and is basically a placeholder until I find my half-decent Livonian coins).
#282: Zaire
#283: China (ancient) (issue to be sold as referee)
Administrateur du catalogue, référent de nombreuses nations antiques et de la Lorraine.
Catalogue administrator, numerous Antique nations and Lorraine referee.
251. India - British
252. Indian states and kingdoms [Hyderabad]
253. British Honduras
254. Newfoundland
255. Belarus
256. British Virgin Islands
Between the diminishing returns and the dwindling budget, I do not expect this number to grow much more in the next few weeks. This was a really lucky break (in celebration of me finally passing my last midterm exam... which, if things go as planned, might well generally be my very last exam this year).
British Honduras, Indian states (and kingdoms), and Newfoundland are all countries I was actively trying to find for much of the last few months (in the latter two cases, the last few years). I paid a total for $8 or so for those three coins ($2.5, $2.5, ~$3).
I thought I already had the Indian states with the Suri coin a few weeks ago, but it turned out to be yet another variety that isn't listed on Numista, and I wasn't able to figure out which one it was specifically.
As for the others, india - British was a nice bargain bin find (~$1) but really more of a reaffirmation of a country I had already, Belarus was part of the new circulation set bought for a silly low price (~$0.5), and British Virgin Islands was an impulse buy (~$1.5) after I fell in love with the design due to seeing it on CCF recently.
Still looking for those darn New Hebrides and French Afars and Issas, as well as Gabon/Chad/etcetera (nothing below $5 yet).
Quote: "January First-of-May"251. India - British
252. Indian states and kingdoms [Hyderabad]
253. British Honduras
254. Newfoundland
255. Belarus
256. British Virgin Islands
Between the diminishing returns and the dwindling budget, I do not expect this number to grow much more in the next few weeks. This was a really lucky break (in celebration of me finally passing my last midterm exam... which, if things go as planned, might well generally be my very last exam this year).
British Honduras, Indian states (and kingdoms), and Newfoundland are all countries I was actively trying to find for much of the last few months (in the latter two cases, the last few years). I paid a total for $8 or so for those three coins ($2.5, $2.5, ~$3).
I thought I already had the Indian states with the Suri coin a few weeks ago, but it turned out to be yet another variety that isn't listed on Numista, and I wasn't able to figure out which one it was specifically.
As for the others, india - British was a nice bargain bin find (~$1) but really more of a reaffirmation of a country I had already, Belarus was part of the new circulation set bought for a silly low price (~$0.5), and British Virgin Islands was an impulse buy (~$1.5) after I fell in love with the design due to seeing it on CCF recently.
Still looking for those darn New Hebrides and French Afars and Issas, as well as Gabon/Chad/etcetera (nothing below $5 yet).
why don't you post pictures of your ancient coins on the coin indentification part of the forum. There are a lot of members that might be able to help you.
Quote: "January First-of-May"251. India - British
252. Indian states and kingdoms [Hyderabad]
253. British Honduras
254. Newfoundland
255. Belarus
256. British Virgin Islands
Between the diminishing returns and the dwindling budget, I do not expect this number to grow much more in the next few weeks. This was a really lucky break (in celebration of me finally passing my last midterm exam... which, if things go as planned, might well generally be my very last exam this year).
British Honduras, Indian states (and kingdoms), and Newfoundland are all countries I was actively trying to find for much of the last few months (in the latter two cases, the last few years). I paid a total for $8 or so for those three coins ($2.5, $2.5, ~$3).
I thought I already had the Indian states with the Suri coin a few weeks ago, but it turned out to be yet another variety that isn't listed on Numista, and I wasn't able to figure out which one it was specifically.
As for the others, india - British was a nice bargain bin find (~$1) but really more of a reaffirmation of a country I had already, Belarus was part of the new circulation set bought for a silly low price (~$0.5), and British Virgin Islands was an impulse buy (~$1.5) after I fell in love with the design due to seeing it on CCF recently.
Still looking for those darn New Hebrides and French Afars and Issas, as well as Gabon/Chad/etcetera (nothing below $5 yet).
why don't you post pictures of your ancient coins on the coin indentification part of the forum. There are a lot of members that might be able to help you.
Sounds like a nice suggestion!
As an experiment, I've posted my Phoenician cities coin to the identification forum. I wonder what would the answer be...
If this goes well, next will likely be either my probable Roman provincial, or one of my Nabataean Kingdom coins - whichever I find (and manage to properly photograph) earlier.
I'm also hopeful for Bohemia (I've heard that its referee is very nice), but that one shouldn't involve any identification (I already know what my coin is) - just looking for some nice auction examples, and posting the page. (Actually I'm somewhat surprised that it's not there already.)
Which reminds me of the other reason I'm posting in this thread now - on a whim, I've taken another glance on my Arab-Byzantine fals, and checked out Numista's entries on the series.
Turned out that it's a lot less fine-grained than I thought it was, and with some minor googling I was able to find my type already listed on Numista (this one, for the record). So that's a new country for me: 257. Islamic states only 43 to go until the big 300 (but it's getting ever harder).
Incidentally, I checked the "common" list of the 300 club again, and I have 229 out of 248 (plus two, Georgia and Macedonia, which I'm 100% sure I have in my physical collection, but somehow they missed getting entered into my Numista collection; might end up buying a Macedonia coin if I find one cheaply, Georgia is sadly too common to bother).
(Also still looking for my England coin, but I think that's it for the freebies, unfortunately. To get past 264 or so, I'd have to buy.)
EDIT: entered the Bohemian coin - waiting for verification now!
#345: United States - Pre-Federal
I was unbelievably lucky - 16 cents for a 1773 Virginia half-penny from a bargain bin!
(I had mentally already moved that country into the "out of reach for now category"!) I assume the dealer didn't think anyone would be interested in something so worn.
re: " "Pott"# 343: England
Edward I, one penny
That's a very nice coin! Was it hugely expensive? Or was it only mildly expensive, which means it was too cheap? ;-)
Because if there's one thing everybody should know, it's that when things look cheap they are usually too expensive."
[sorry - I haven't figured out how to quote things properly Jokinen, but I figured this would work.]
It was far more expensive than many of my coins since most of my coins are from various dealer's bargain bins. I have had to pay more for some of the less common countries, but those bins sure have given me a wonderful start.
I picked up the England one from a dealer I trust so I was ok with paying a bit more than my usual. We looked online to see what similar coins had sold for, and then he took off another 20%. So I guess the answer is that it was only mildly expensive?
Quote: "Pott"#345: United States - Pre-Federal
I was unbelievably lucky - 16 cents for a 1773 Virginia half-penny from a bargain bin!
(I had mentally already moved that country into the "out of reach for now category"!) I assume the dealer didn't think anyone would be interested in something so worn.
Wow, you're lucky!
I regularly find worn old coppers in low-end bargain bins, and for 16 cents (10 rubles) I would have even taken a regular George III.
A few months ago this bin-hunting got me a dump farthing, which is apparently nearly as rare as your Virginia half penny.
Still hoping to get England that way (I do have a regular England coin, but I haven't seen it since 2015, and thus it's not listed in my Numista collection). Did get France - Feudal that way (again, I had a few other coins from there, but lost them, and in any case the one I found was better).
Incidentally, my Bohemia 1/4 kreuzer (also originally from a bargain bin, back in 2011, but for $1.60, not 16 cents) had been successfully validated, which makes Bohemia my 258th country.
I was actually looking for Qatar and New Hebrides (again), but since I pretty much sneaked (snuck?) out and didn't actually plan to buy any coins that day in the first place, I didn't have a lot of spare money.
So, no New Hebrides (the shop didn't have any of those anyway), and no Qatar (I thought that I'd probably be able to find that one cheaper). Still looking for the "and Dubai" variety.
Yemen was a consolation prize; I realized a few weeks ago that I have coins from North Yemen, South Yemen, and South Arabia, but don't actually have anything from plain regular Yemen, and this was pretty much the first Yemen coin I've seen since then.
As for Pitcairn Islands - that was well into my "haha no" territory.
I actually just happened to look up their coins a few days ago, checked the eBay prices (something like $45 per set, and I couldn't find any non-set listings) and decided that I probably wasn't getting any of those anytime soon.
So when I actually saw one of their coins being offered for only $3, I remembered enough to recognize it as not being a fantasy issue, and bought it immediately.
Incidentally, with a mintage of only 20 thousand, it is now the lowest mintage coin in my collection (that I know the mintage of, anyway) - breaking a record that stood since 2011 (though I expect that I'd probably break it again before that long).
And... wow, 260 countries. And I started the year with 229. If this continues (which is admittedly somewhat unlikely), I'd probably get to 300 before the summer.
(Might still get there this year even with the diminishing returns, especially if I manage to earn some more money - though the big reorganization is probably going to hit earlier.)
Also, yesterday was the first time I've ever seen a Liechtenstein coin for sale. The price was actually about an order of magnitude lower than I expected - converted, it came out to $44 or so (still loads of money, mind you, but manageable loads of money).
Now I know what I'm looking forward to when my November paycheck finally clears (...after some more negotiations, it was finally supposed to arrive in mid-January or so, but the bank randomly decided to change my account number for no apparent reason - even they seem to be confused how the triangulat heck this happened - and the money was sent to the old number).
Finally. (On both.)
The coins were from a new purchase (consisting of about a dozen assorted ancients and medievals), but of course I did have a few ancient Greek coins already (and this one was Seleukid, which shouldn't really count as Greece anyway), and at least one Roman provincial (though I'm still not quite sure what it is).
Also from the same purchase, I'm hoping for India (ancient) and Central Asia (pending precise identification, but both varieties might already be listed), and already entered a rare German states coin from the 16th century (I already had a lot of other German states coins, but this was the only one I had - and indeed the only type listed here - for that particular state).
Got a few new countries in a swap after a bit of a lull: Burundi, Falkland Islands, Papua New Guinea, Tuvalu, and Uzbekistan, bringing me up to 241 once I enter them all.
Quote: "Eerovisser"Zaire, country 265 for me right now. Only 35 to go to get to 300 countries.
That last part is the hardest though! I'm around the same place as you right now, and I'm not sure I'd even be able to actually get there.
263. Qatar
264. Yemenite states [Kingdom of Yemen]
The Yemenite coin was the 1/8 riyal, obviously - I could hardly pass on a rare chance to get a five-sided coin. Cost me $8 too, which is an awful lot of money, but I really wanted that one.
I was torn between that one and a huge 1/2 riyal (which was also selling for $8), and ended up asking the dealer to hold the big one for me later. Hope I do manage to grab that one too eventually.
The Qatar coin... over the last month or two, I checked like a dozen places, and they either didn't have any Qatar, or only had a handful of very expensive coins. Then I finally got back to my favorite place, and they had a page full of Qatar coins, the cheapest of them for only a dollar.
As far as I can tell, Qatar was the second-to-last piece of the map I needed to complete all the continents; now I have complete map coverage of (continental) North America, South America, Africa, Australia, and Asia.
Only one little dot, Liechtenstein, remains in Europe; that would be obviously quite hard though (the cheapest - and only - Liechtenstein coin I've seen for sale so far cost $40).
I'm still missing a bunch of assorted islands though (including Greenland).
Quote: "Jesse11"Got a few new countries in a swap after a bit of a lull: Burundi, Falkland Islands, Papua New Guinea, Tuvalu, and Uzbekistan, bringing me up to 241 once I enter them all.
Uzbekistan didn't turn up, so I'm holding at 240 for a moment...
Attended a coin show today - It's been a while since the last one (Nov?). Spent over 5 hours there and picked up close to 100 coins and some new countries:
246. Ruanda-Urundi
247. Bohemia-Moravia
248. Qatar and Dubai - bargain bin find, $.30 for an unc dirhem
Going to take a while to put them all into 2x2s and add to Numista and Colnect...
332. Tatarstan
333. Spanish States
334. England
335. Nabataean Kingdom
336. Hungarian States
337. Mongol Empire
338. Judea
339. Numidia
340. Venezuelan Provinces
341. Ancient India
I did have some Macedonian coins before, but this one was a new purchase (brass 2 denari 1995 with the FAO oval - I apparently really like the FAO oval series of 1995; I bought two more of those today, but none were new countries).
Only 35 to go until the big 300 (actually less, because Georgia, England, and, IIRC, a few others - Macedonia used to be in that list - are pretty much just waiting until I find the darn coin; but still a lot).
I also managed to get a coin from the Burgundian Netherlands, or perhaps the Spanish Netherlands; I'm working on the identification (it's very worn, so not a lot is visible), but once I manage to identify it (and assuming it's a listed type), it will probably be a new country - I don't have either.
EDIT: 266. Spanish Netherlands
(after some false leads, I did identify the type, and fortunately it was, in fact, listed on Numista - it is this type, and incidentally my second coin that used to be rarity 100 before I added it)
267. Dutch Republic
268. China - Republic (preliminary)
I actually shouldn't have entered this particular Dutch Republic coin either, but I now have something like 4 coins from there, and not a single one has a readable date.
After buying this one, where I could read just about everything except (the last digit of) the date, I decided to take a wild guess and enter it anyway.
As for China - Republic, it's a weird case - my coin matches the page picture, but probably doesn't match the actual type. I decided to temporarily add it at the page with the right picture, to be possibly reconsidered later.
Both coins were bargain bin finds; each of them cost about a dollar.
Incidentally, since the last check (when I had 229/248), I added four countries from the 300 club's "common" list: Yemen, Qatar, Macedonia, and now China - Republic. This means current progress is 233/248.
In other words, I have only 15 countries left on that list: Chad, French Somaliland, Gabon, Georgia, German East Africa, Greenland, India - Portuguese, New Guinea, New Hebrides, Sarawak, South Vietnam, Tibet, Togo, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu.
Many of them are just a case of sucking up and paying $5-10 for a coin (widely available at this range, almost never come up any lower).
Some are harder (especially Greenland); some are easier (I'll probably suck up and buy the South Vietnam coin in a few days - it's only $2).
I already have a coin from Georgia, just lost it (and I'm not willing to buy a new one for anything over a few cents).
It was a bargain bin find that was obviously clipped (no idea why), but with the help of some nice pictures I was able to identify the variety.
(If anyone else ever finds themselves with this problem, here's a nice way to tell them apart: in the small letters, the serifs of A are the same size, while in the medium letters, the right serif is several times larger. And large letters of course don't have any.)
270. Central Asia [Bukhara "Asbar" fals]
271. French Somaliland
Probably overpaid ($5) for the latter, definitely underpaid ($3.5) for the former.
Total money spent on coins today - about $17 (also bought a Gallienus billon antoninianus, a nice Nepalese coin from 1953, a very worn Ottoman 19th century silver, and some 17th or 18th century European coin that I hadn't identified yet).
14 countries left on the "common" list. South Vietnam will probably be the easiest (aside from Georgia).
I've also found a nice (if worn) coin of Togo - will buy at next opportunity if it doesn't sell earlier.
Tibet was a truly new purchase - can't recall ever seeing any of their coins offered before.
Also, with it, the number of "common" countries I don't have shrunk down to 13 (effectively 12, because of Georgia).
Nabataean Kingdom was less about general availability (their coins appear surprisingly often) and more about having the exact right variety. Today I finally got a coin that appears to be a listed variety.
Also bought a coin from Judea (pending identification), some nice LRBs (Aelia Flaccilla, Leo I) and some other interesting-looking stuff... will probably buy some more from that seller on next opportunity.
(Come on, I would definitely take two interesting ancients over a worn 20th century Togo coin any day.)
Just wanted to note that one of the "interesting looking stuff" also turned out to be Judea.
I've managed to attribute it, but it's a type that doesn't seem to be listed yet, so I'll try for yet another addition attempt (at least this time the type seems to be fairly popular, so I shouldn't have any trouble sourcing decent photos... hopefully).
If it goes through, Judea will be my 274th country.
I decided that I was tired of still not having anything from Georgia, and that I might as well buy a cheap coin from there. (I didn't realize that today was the anniversary of my Numista account, but in retrospect that was a good justification - if I couldn't find any Georgian coins at my home for a year, I might as well buy one.)
South Vietnam was a new purchase, but one that I have considered for weeks (as in, that one specific coin had been on that dealer's tray for several weeks before I bought it).
And of course I already mentioned Judea earlier.
Only 11 "common" countries still to go - Chad, Gabon, German East Africa, Greenland, India - Portuguese, New Guinea, New Hebrides, Sarawak, Togo, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu.
None of those will be cheap; some are likely to be quite tricky. I might end up reaching 300 before I get all the way.
277. British Indian Ocean Territory [not the first one, which I'm still looking for, but the 2012 Queen Mother]
278. Ascension Island [the one with the baby Prince Charles]
The latter coin apparently had a rarity rating of 100 before I got it, which doesn't sound right. Nice coin though!
Also accidentally convinced a dealer that a rare silver coin was aluminium (when it was actually just that well looking). But that's another unrelated story.
All three of those are in the "common" list, so now I only have 8 of those left (Gabon, German East Africa, Greenland, India - Portuguese, New Guinea, New Hebrides, Sarawak, Turks and Caicos Islands).
It remains an open question whether I manage to make it to 300 before completing that list (though by now it looks like I won't do either).
That said, unless I get lucky this Saturday (or find that one England coin I lost), I don't expect to get any new countries in my collection until a few weeks later.
Up to 298 Numista countries after a supposedly French and ex-French lot. Found French cities, France -Kingdom, and France Feudal as well as Liechtenstein and Livonia. I expect Fujairah in a lot being shipped, giving me 299 countries. I can add USA then as country 300 (I don't really collect it but I do have state quarters complete).
Liechtenstein was a long-planned purchase, which just happened to have a 40% sale tag on it the day I finally took the plunge, freeing me $15 to spend on other stuff.
(Also, all continents fully colored on the map, finally! Greenland is still gray, though.)
Zanzibar, on the other hand, was entirely unexpected; still a nice find for just $5 (those tend to only come up for far more, but that particular dealer really didn't seem to know much about coins).
Neither of those were on the 300 club's "common" list (so still 8 to go on that one).
Will probably be looking for Gabon etc. next Saturday.
Quote: "Giobruno"Added Bahamas and Latvia and reached 100 countries. Not great for the veterans that have passed the 300 mark but a great mark for a novice.
I reckon it's a big deal to reach 100. It's an important first milestone. So let me be the first to congratulate you, mate!
Quote: "Giobruno"Added Bahamas and Latvia and reached 100 countries. Not great for the veterans that have passed the 300 mark but a great mark for a novice.
I reckon it's a big deal to reach 100. It's an important first milestone. So let me be the first to congratulate you, mate!
Very fortunate find in a $3 bargain bin. Definitely didn't expect to get a new country that way.
(Still looking for Timor-Leste, by the way; I ignored their coins for a while because they looked far too much like fantasies, and in the several months after I finally realized they were not I hadn't seem them anywhere for an affordable price.)
Also, I have acquired a coin from South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands a few weeks ago, but the type wasn't listed on Numista yet, and I didn't try to add it until last Sunday (May 28th).
Still pending, six days later, but if/when it does get validated it would be yet another new country.
Neither of those, of course, is on the "common" list, which remains at 8 countries left.
Still an open question whether I would get to all of those or to 300 first (if either).
Timor was one of the last few gaps of any kind on my map, incidentally - and perhaps the last one that wasn't its own island.
Obviously I'm still missing Greenland, which is kind of a big spot, but as far as I can tell everything else I don't yet have is an island represented by a circle (most of them in the Pacific).
This is my last country added under the "Your coins" tab, not necessarily the last one purchased. I was mainly curious as to how many different countries I had, according to Numista.
Anyway, it looks like my assault on the 300 mark starts from 197. With any luck, Puerto Rico (Spanish administration) will be next.
The request was apparently finally validated by the master referee this morning.
I guess the official country referee wasn't very active, and the master referee happened to notice the request (perhaps because of my post here) and decided to do something. Thanks, druzhynets!
Either way, new country.
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Quote: "phfoticus"197. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
This is my last country added under the "Your coins" tab, not necessarily the last one purchased. I was mainly curious as to how many different countries I had, according to Numista.
Anyway, it looks like my assault on the 300 mark starts from 197. With any luck, Puerto Rico (Spanish administration) will be next.
I've been counting my new countries as "last added to the tab" pretty much since I started participating in this thread; many of those were, in fact, coins I've had for a long time (but misplaced).
There are still some coins I have that don't actually feature in my collection because I haven't seen them since before April 2016 (though, aside from possible addition requests, probably only one more extra country - England).
198, 199, 200. -- appeared due to Baltic states reorg -- countries like "Swedish Livonia", "Duchy of Livonia", "Free City of Riga", "Livonian Confederation", etc.
The attempt at 300 now starts from 201 rather than 197.
Quote: "phfoticus"
198, 199, 200. -- appeared due to Baltic states reorg -- countries like "Swedish Livonia", "Duchy of Livonia", "Free City of Riga", "Livonian Confederation", etc.
The attempt at 300 now starts from 201 rather than 197.
You lucky guy!
I thought I might have gained some countries in that particular split as well, but apparently I only had one Livonian coin entered - a Swedish issue one, which is predictably now in Swedish Livonia.
(I do have a coin from Polish Riga - that's Duchy of Livonia now, for some reason - which I hadn't entered yet because I hadn't actually seen it for years, much like my England coin. That's now two countries I'm missing out on that way.)
That said, depending on how the reorganization goes, I might gain Rus Principalities soon - I have a 15th century coin from Moscow and a 16th century coin from Tver.
Also looking forward to Mongol Empire (um, Golden Horde now), assuming no other guy snags the coin earlier. (Though, now that I know what the type is, it's a lot easier to recognize it elsewhere...)
...Ever since I've heard about the reorganization, my goal had been to reach 300 before the big reorganization hits, and the dozen or so German states I have [actually 11 at the moment] become separate countries and take me over the line automatically.
The recent Livonia reorganization pushed it pretty close - looking more and more like a race against time (which I'm not very likely to win).
<<...Ever since I've heard about the reorganization, my goal had been to reach 300 before the big reorganization hits, and the dozen or so German states I have [actually 11 at the moment] become separate countries and take me over the line automatically.>>
It looks like I currently have about 59 German states and cities, although I can't find some of them (like Schweidnitz and Barby) in the Numista catalog. According to the Krause catalog, around 500+ "German States" issued coins since 1500. If they add all these to the catalog, I suppose the 300 country standard would have to be raised to 500-800, to avoid being too easy?
I wonder if they will eventually add in all the separate cities/states/provinces in Italy, Austria, China, Ancient "Greece", or even pre-federal US?
201. Puerto Rico
202. German Notgeld
203. Martinique
204. Tibet
205. Danzig
206. China - Japanese puppet states
207. Saarland
208. China - empire
209. South Africa -- pre-union
210. French Cochin China
Neither is on the "common" list (rather obviously for the latter, but its predecessor Mongol Empire wasn't there either).
I paid a somewhat ridiculous $8 for the pre-union South African coin (6 pence 1896), and got the Golden Horde coin fairly cheaply (I kept finding examples of that one rosette type and not buying because I had no idea what it was - after I did find out, I bought the first one I could afford).
Also bought a ridiculous amount of random small medievals for $3 or so each that I couldn't identify. (Likely attributions: Pomerania, Riga?, Genoa?, Poland?, another Poland, France.)
Will try to post them on CCF.
only 43 to go until the big 300 (but it's getting ever harder).
