It's the 1st February over here and I just made my first purchase for the month. It's an upgrade of my George V florin. I would like a better portrait but it's probably VF/VF+ reverse and F+ obverse. The Aussie George V coins often seem to be this way. The reverse looks really good and the obverse is a bit rough.
I just bought these from an online dealer (first time using an online shop other than eBay vendors). Pretty much blew my February coins budget already, but all four of these fill gaps in my 20th century UK predecimal typeset, which is my top collecting priority for 2017. It is still January 31st here but I won't acquire these until February, so...
These are the seller's photos, hopefully they look at least as good in hand:
T. V. in a serrated square seems not to be listed in Brunk, but he has a "W and T V in a serrated square", which makes it unclear whether only the T V or the W as well are in a serrated square. The L. VANDSANDS c/m is attested by Brunk only on two silver half dollars of the 1850s. There is now this British copper ½d.
As I said on the French website, one of the dealers gave me three tokens as a bonus. The most interesting one is this:
I don't normally collect varieties but, hey, if you're giving them to me... This one is the rarer of the two varieties of the 1850 Bank of Upper Canada one penny, with a dot between the tips of the cornucopiae. It is in fact worth about twice as much as the no-dot variety, but my Charlton token catalogue is a little old... If anyone can tell me something of the value in a recent edition, it would be appreciated.¹
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¹ I don't expect it's worth very much given it's in well-circulated condition.
'1797 Halfpenny Token Birmingham - Dr Sam Johnson'
Not seen one before.
'Talbort Fyan 1794 halfpenny token * error edge'
'The edge should read 'Halfpenny payable at Dublin Cork or Derry' but the
words Derry Halfpenny run into one another.'
'Rare 19th Century Token / C.Detouche. Paris. Brass Coin'
I got it as it has a hive and bees design - one of my favourites.
Quote: "Peter M. Graham"I've had these on my collecting desk for over a week and have now just opened the packages. So they count as February.
Somolia, KM#1
Libya, Km#3
Southern Rhodesia, KM#17
British West Africa, KM#3
Uganda, KM#2
Palestine, KM#1
Saar, KM#4
Just love these next two (confirming I am a copper/bronze junkie)........
France, 2nd Republic, KM#754
Egypt, KM#288
That counts 192 countries now!!!!!
Edit: Sorry for the picture quality once again. Santa got me a nice 35mm for Christmas but, I have not delved into that yet.
Hungarian commemorative silver 2 Pengo 1935., with it I completed my Hungarian silver Pengo collection.
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Quote: "ZacUK" Only one addition since the weekend, but it is lovely quality and great design on both sides ...
'Perth, Scotland - Farthing 1798 - D&H 11'
Quite a few items have or will be coming in, but I'll start with these:
This old album contains Canadian silver 10¢ dated 1902-1968 ─ 70 altogether. Some would need to be replaced as they are very worn, but since decimals are not my priority, there is no rush. Purchased at the same time as part of my "Canadian colonial" collection is this Mexican 2 reales:
Does the use of "Ontario" over "Upper Canada" say something about the possible date of the carving? At first sight, it doesn't seem so:
Received today a Nova Scotia token ─ among my favourite types ─ and an Upper Canada "sloop token":
There were two 1979 $2 stamps on the envelope: https://en.numista.com/forum/topic56974.html (if you open the picture in a new window on your desktop, you may see the date at the bottom, towards the middle, in very fine print).
Quote: "Camerinvs"Received today a Nova Scotia token ─ among my favourite types ─ and an Upper Canada "sloop token":
There were two 1979 $2 stamps on the envelope: https://en.numista.com/forum/topic56974.html (if you open the picture in a new window on your desktop, you may see the date at the bottom, towards the middle, in very fine print).
Both really nice!!!
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Received 10 Makuta 1973 from Zaire and (to be added) a Shang Lin San Guan Wu Zhu from Ancient China.
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Thanks! The UC one is an upgrade which I got in an eBay auction at a good price.
I also recently won and received this amazing 2-volume book:
Believe it or not, at CDN $140 (+$20 sh/h) it's a bargain. It's currently on Abebooks for $450. The run was of only 150 copies, this one being #32 and signed by the author, a well know collector of countermarks. The second volume contains only the plates (33 of them) on Kodak photo paper (!). The coins are at a 1:1 scale, and therefore small, but of high definition, so that you can look at them with a magnifier. There are a few that are now in my collection, so I have an excellent pedigree for those coins/tokens with this book.
I didn't know anything about this book until I saw it by chance on eBay. It turns out to be indispensable for some of the research I'm currently doing.
Purchased several coins this month. Too many to post here, but you can always browse through my gallery at FORVM Ancient Coins. Here is one of my gems that I acquired. Prompted me to change my profile pic:
Obv: Diademed head of deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon
Rev: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΛYΣIMAΧOY; Athena seated left, holding Nike and resting elbow on shield at side, spear leaning against far shoulder; in inner left field, eagle standing right
Quote: "Quant.Geek"Purchased several coins this month. Too many to post here, but you can always browse through my gallery at FORVM Ancient Coins. Here is one of my gems that I acquired. Prompted me to change my profile pic:
Thracian Kingdom: Lysimachos (306-281 BCE) AR Tetradrachm, Abydos? (BMFA 839; Müller 342)
Obv: Diademed head of deified Alexander right, with horn of Ammon
Rev: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΛYΣIMAΧOY; Athena seated left, holding Nike and resting elbow on shield at side, spear leaning against far shoulder; in inner left field, eagle standing right
Y'know what's funy? If I'd been offered the same coin, even at a knockdown price I'd probably have passed because it's soooo good. I'll bet that I'm not the only one who would just assume "Shanghai Mint". Grubbing around in the trough of low end numismatics doesn't give you much exposure to gems like this.
Oh, I'm sure it's kosher, our friend here doesn't seem like the kinda guy who'd be fooled by a cheap knock off. I guess what I'm trying to say is that while ignorance may be blissful, the ignorant will surely miss out on some great coins. A fat wallet is no substitute for knowledge.
Well done QG, it might only be February but I reckon that's the pick of 2017.
Non illegitimis carborundum est. Excellent advice for all coins.
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Not much in terms of new coins for me this month. I was down with a nasty cold virus for almost a week (still recovering), didn't even have the energy to check E-Bay, let alone get out of the house and go anywhere. The only additions is 3 new 2017 1oz/30g silver bullion coins, Australian Koala and Kookaburra, and Chinese Panda, which I ordered from MCM.
Picked up a few rolls of quarters when I stopped by the bank the other day, mostly looking for any new releases and missing mint marks from older releases. Found:
- Everglades 2014P
- Cumberland Gap 2016P
- Theodore Roosevelt 2016D
- Ford Moultrie 2016D
Quote: "ZacUK"'Rare 19th Century Token / C.Detouche. Paris. Brass Coin'
I got it as it has a hive and bees design - one of my favourites.
Beautiful token! It looks like yours was made nearer to the end of the dies life than mine. Probably explains the rarity a bit if only one set of dies were made. Could you possibly add some better photos of this coin when you get a chance? I have some photos in the error thread that I would like to compare with yours. Thanks for the tip on the digital microscope for photos, never saw these cracks in 10 plus years of ownership.
Quote: "cncote10"Picked up this coin today... very excited!
The grading looks a bit dodgy, unless it's just the picture, there does seem to be a little wear, so it shouldn't be an MS grade
I don't disagree. I didn't buy it for the case I already removed it. Got it at my local coin shop. It's more the dark toning that makes appear a non ms grade. I actually don't see wear on close examination but 64 seems high to me. I'm no fan of grading services I just wanted a nice example which this is.
The only additions to my collection recently has been this not so great condition gun money halfcrown a new variation to the two I already have and a Gun money crown again not great condition but it's nice :)
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So, a 1936 Canadian dollar and three books. The first two books (actually one work in two volumes) are a collection of French documents (with English translation on opposite page) relevant to coinage during the French regime in Canada. The second book, by Christopher Faulkner, is about the Upper Canada colonial copper tokens and was published by Spink in 2016.
I received today two J. HOOD countermarked pieces:
The previous holders were kept, which is great. The two pieces are also catalogued and photographed in Baker's book (posted above, Feb. 10th). Since they belonged to well known collectors, the pedigree is exceptional. J. HOOD was most probably Canadian (as Rulau believed, though Brunk did not assign him to any country); American businessmen rarely countermarked Canadian coins and we know of at least three Canadian large cents countermarked by him.
Administrateur du catalogue, référent de nombreuses nations antiques et de la Lorraine.
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Thanks for all the compliments on my tet purchase. It is indeed going to be one of my highlights for 2017, maybe even the best of the lot. Here are a few additional tets that were added to my collection this month:
Macedonian Kingdom: Demetrios I Poliorketes (306-283 BCE) AR Tetradrachm, Corinth (Price 691; Noe, Sicyon 29.4 )
Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress
Rev: AΛEΞANΔPOY; Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; aphlaston in left field, ΔO below throne
Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress
Rev: AΛEΞANΔPOY; Zeus Aëtophoros seated left; in left field, Λ above torch; kantharos below throne
Macedonian Kingdom: Alexander III ' the Great' (336-323 BCE) AR Tetradrachm, Babylon (Price 3722)
Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress
Rev: BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΛEΞANΔPOY; Zeus seated left, holding eagle and scepter; in left field, monogram in wreath; below throne, AX monogram