Most wanted additions to your collection

For about the last month I have been desperately searching for a 1797 cartwheel penny within my budget. And yesterday I came across this at a coin fair for $10AUD.



It isn't in the best of condition but I didn't expect it to be for that price. So I bought it anyway and it is now happily sitting on my desk for now until I find somewhere to put it.

What coin have you been wanting the most that has somehow snuck into you collecting?

Congratulations, now get out there and get yourself the matching twopence.

It took me a while, but I finally have my 1914 commemorative escudo since three days ago; I've been looking for it since I got the regular escudo nearly two years ago.


Now my quest is over, and time to start looking for an affordable 1928 "Cappellone" 20 lire instead.

Mine would be a GB 5 Guinea coin as it is the only GB face value coin I do not have.
Had a catalogue a few months ago with one for sale. It's price was £57,500. Yes that was the price, not a typing error. £57,500
Think I need to go and lie down

Gee, If I'd known you were looking for one I could have given you some of them that were better than that. I've been picking a few of the cartwheel pennies and twopennies out of bulk lots recently but they've all been sold.

Neil,
You have me extremely excited for a few seconds, when I started reading you message after mine. Then I read the next line at you were talking about the Cartwheel coins.
My heart is now beating normally again.
Geoff

I have many coins I'd like to add in my collection, but well, a lot of them are too expensive for me at the moment, or just too expensive.
Speaking of the main coins I'm looking for and that I can afford or hope I will be able to afford in next months or year(s) :

- a double mite, a 1/4 groat and a 1/2 groat from Flanders, under Charles the Bold or Philip the Good, to complete a Flanders series I'm trying to build
- a liard from the United States of Belgium in VF
- a coin from the Taiping rebellion
- a gold 20 francs from Belgium
- and maybe one or two nice republican denarius...

Some of these are easy to find, but I'm waiting to find them at a fair price, others are just hard to find in good condition.
About common coins, I hope I will be able to complete my Iceland type collection, as well as to fill as many gaps as possible in my Belgium type collection and in my Northern Song one

Quote: "Choucas"​About common coins, I hope I will be able to complete my Iceland type collection, as well as to fill as many gaps as possible in my Belgium type collection and in my Northern Song one

​There are currently two small lots of Icelandic coins up for auction on the Goodwill website. First, a small type lot of 1946 to 1981.
https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/62510147
Second, a bunch of more modern looking fractional coins.
https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/62571866
I don't know if anything there would fill in the gaps in your collection.

I have about three or four cartwheel pennies, all in terrible condition (similar to or worse than the OP's example), all bought for 50 rubles (per coin) or less.
Still looking for an affordable cartwheel twopence; unfortunately, high-grade examples are out of my budget, and low-grade ones are few and far between (the twopences had a much lower mintage than the pennies, and circulated much less).

Iceland is one of the countries I'm on-and-off working on a type set for; Romania and Mongolia are two other major ones.
(According to Numista, I have 48 types for Romania and 20 for Mongolia; the latter figure is missing a bunch of misplaced pre-Numista purchases. Only 9 for Iceland, apparently.)

USSR has under a dozen types left, most of them common, except for the 1921 ruble (I'm ignoring the commemoratives and the gold); same for Israel, though their remaining types are scarcer.

Not really trying for Belgium, but it's an interesting one for checking what I have left.
Northern Song is an interesting idea - I do have about half a dozen coins from there...

Quote: "COINMAN1"​Mine would be a GB 5 Guinea coin as it is the only GB face value coin I do not have.
​Had a catalogue a few months ago with one for sale. It's price was £57,500. Yes that was the price, not a typing error. £57,500
​Think I need to go and lie down

​was it R ingram's catalogue? He has some absolute belters if you are prepared to pay the prices!

For me any 19th century English coin, Florin or larger in AU or BU condition with full natural lustre (Other than that common year of 1887). Most of my silver pieces I have now are VG and F, to have them in EF or better would be great.

But one coin - It would have to be a Godless Florin (1848) https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces12805.html

or a Gothic Crown (1847) https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces23740.html

Victoria is an obsession of mine along with 19th century Gothic revival and these coins to me are perfection. Of course they would have to be defect free and preferably UNC with full natural lustre (I may settle for a AU/EF piece).

This is realistic, I could request gold and platinum pieces (A set of Nicholas I Platinum coins), but nice Silver coins are better (Figure $1k each here).

jimpop,
Yes, it was listed in their catalogue. Never getting a 5 Guinea coin at that price.
Geoff

Quote: "Moneytane"​or a Gothic Crown (1847) https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces23740.html
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​You, too, have exquisite taste as a connoisseur of the little metal discs, I see!

I've seen a slabbed Gothic Crown for sale at £2000, and at one point I even seriously considered selling some of my best coins (incl. gold, and some of my rare colonial issues) to scrape together the money to buy it, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. Maybe someday.

This is my Cartwheel 2d.
It was bought back in the 1990's and cost £27.00

I have a Cartwheel 1d to go with it in similar condition

Quote: "Choucas"​- a coin from the Taiping rebellion

I was at the local coin shop today and I overheard a customer telling the shopkeeper that there were loads of coins from the Taiping rebellion.

May I help you?