The joy of living in New Zealand, its the first time zone in the world (Except possibly Samoa, and I am doubtful if any Samoans are members here).
Let me start off with this Halfcrown (Oh what a surprise) - not just any Halfcrown though!
This is a 1656 Commonwealth of England Halfcrown and heavily clipped, but in decent shape.
Very historic and expensive - it was revolutionary for there being no king or queen and the fact it was in English rather than Latin.
Double strike too on the obverse and it shows the arms of England and Ireland. The sun mintmark is also visible. On the other side is "God with Vs"
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Have a nice day and festive.
My son has now brought me a coin from circulation 2020 CZK 20, will please in the morning . Tridecagonal
,,Denomination, the St. Wenceslas (Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, c. 907 - September 28, 935) monument on Wenceslas Square,,
Translation: Saint Wencelas, do not let us and future ones perish. https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces2148.html
Ahoj
Some nice new romans for my collection:
Emperor Probus - Amazing SOL INVICTO reverse:
Another Sol coin minted under Probus:
Emperor Philippus I - Big provincial bronze coin from Moesia:
Emperor Valerianus - VICTORIA AVGG:
Gallic usurper Victorinus - SALVS AVG:
30 of the 36 Halfcrowns I bought today arrived. Most of these I have not shown.
2 sellers and I will be removing all of them from the packaging and put them in nice mylar flips (I now cut them in half to eliminate snapping)
(1909, 10, 23, 39 and 40 - 42, 46)
Sorry for nasty photos
First photo - 1914, 1970 proof, next row 1933, 35, 20, 53 and bottom row 44, 43, 36, 34
Second photo - Top row 1909, 18, 30 and 25, Next row 1913, 1912, 1926 and 1927
Bottom Row - 1947, 1949, 1917, 1916.
1911, 13, 25 and 30 are scarce dates, 1947, 49 and 53 were freebies, 1916, 1923, 26, 27, 34, 36 and 43, 44 are all EF/VF.
1939 - 42 and 46 are all borderline Uncirculated with Natural Lustre
The 1926 is the earlier type and 1927 is the earlier design.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
1928, 1933, 1939, 1940 - Between aVF and aEF - "original condition"
Some may say they are fairly grubby, but I prefer these to the rage for clean and bleached coins.
They are all in good shape and average in the VF level of preservation.
Irish Halfcrowns interestingly were 75% silver rather than the 50% of British and colonial coins.
All of them were very cheap - under double melt!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Got one new roman emperor for me collection this week: Emperor Magnentius, the Usurper who caused the death of Emperor Constans.
Also I received this magnificent bronze medal showing Louis XIV as rescuer of germany during the turkish wars of 1663/64 (even while his part in this war was pretty small and he most likely symphathised more with the turks than with the Habsburgs):
Last addition for this week is an humble geman Kaisermanöver medal. This one is from 1897 and was mainly interesting for me because it not just shows Emperor Wilhelm II and the bavarian Prince Regent Luitpold but also a much rarer guest on those medals: Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hessen-Darmstadt. Also it is one of my goals to get a medal for every year of this big manouvers
May I be the first to add banknotes.
This is a set of 10 German Notgeld issued by Oldisleben
The set came with the original envelope, which is a first for me.
Have another set, each of which, has exactly the same serial number. Will add the set later
Nice coins guys - Ngdawa - what a beautiful and historic piece!
My latest buys are just strange
10 NZ Halfcrowns VF - EF I need two of these dates for upgrades and can probably ipgrade 3 more of what I have, the rest are spares I will sell or keep as duplicates. I bought as these coins cost between $25 and $50 each in this condition and the price I paid calculated to $12 a coin - not bad as they have $6 worth of silver each and these are well above average (VG).
This was an auction lot that did not sell and whacked onto Trade me as the sellers mostly do stamps and generally don't care much about coins unless they are gold, so their loss is my gain.
I also ventured into the world of a junk silver lot for the first time
This is just under a pound silver weight of 83.3% silver coin and includes a few holey and jewellery bits - but many of these coins are nice. I see 1970s Belgian commems in AU/UNC condition, quite a few Swiss Francs, French Sameuses, a gorgeous pair of old Abdul Hamid II silver coins of Egypt, Greek Commems and a Louis Phillipe 5 Francs of France (1831?) along with some Italian, early Turkish amd Italian pieces. I paid about 15% over spot melt for it.
Some of these coins are keepers (The Abdul Hamid 20 Piastre coin of Egypt is a scarce date and looks decent VG - Fine) and the rest I can sell or add to my silver stockpile.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Today I received two packages. I bought this Falkland-islands and Netherlands Antilles coins from vatera.hu which is a Hungarian webpage similar to ebay.
Aaand after a long waiting, I got this,from the Hungarian Mint Ltd. Circulating commemorrative coin, first day mint, uncirculated- 150 years of organized Hungarian Fire Service.
A friend just sent me this. even though it’s only 100000 marks (not in the billions and trillions like other notes) and in poor condition it’s my first hyperinflation note!
My Junk silver arrived today and I was really happy with it. Here is some of it.
27 Francs worth of Swiss silver including some nice coins, 5 and 2 Francs and no less than 14 Half Francs - One was a near Uncirculated 1958B coin - a scarce date.
Lots of early France as well. Including a 1831T Louis Phillipe 5 Francs, sadly someone made it into a clasp! And a Napoleon Franc with a hole, but it is La Rochelle which is less common.
There was a bit of very worn Louis Napoleon and lots of the La Semeuse era coins.
I know some of you are thinking "What a load of crap" but this was cheap and historic and many of the Semeuse era stuff was VF to AU and the 2 1963 coins were very nice.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Egyptian 20 and 10 piastres (AH 1313 - 1895 and 1303 - 1885) Plus many 1 and 2 piastres and a Turkey 5 Kurus dated 1885. The 20 Piastres is a huge Arabian nights thing, I just envision minarets and the dance of the seven veils while that Arabian music that goes "Dun, dun dun, dun dun dun, dah dah dunna dunna dun" going.
It's not all worn junk though, some nice later European commems and Circulation bits
And that is only half - overall a fun lot of which I will keep half and sell the rest of it I guess.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Quote: "Silversense"
1733 Isle of Man Penny
1936 Canadian Dollar
1817 Russian Rouble
May end up with Algerian Budju as well. Man I love the online auctions lol
Another coin from the junk silver lot - this Greek coin with Kings on it, is just stunning
More interestingly, the dynasty it celebrates would be gone in 4 years.
My last purchase of Halfcrowns also arrived!!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
A bunch of new romans from some different eras are my newest additions:
As - Emperor Trajan - Victory (COS II)
Denarius - Julia Domna (Wife of Emperor Septimius Severus and mother to the Emperors Caracalla and Geta) - VESTAE SANCTAE
Antoninian - Emperor Postumus (Gallic Empire) - VIRTVS AVG
Antoninian - Emperor Probus - ROMAE AETER
And two holy romans:
3 Kreuzer - Emperor Ferdinand II
3 Kreuzer - Emperor Joseph I
Beautiful - alfonz, such interesting and historic pieces!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
3 cheap lots of coins for the world collection - Iceland, Mauritius, Turkey (Modern)
2 More Halfcrowns but South African and Boer
And my latest interest - Ottoman coins of Egypt including a very nice 20 Piastres of Hussain Kami, it completes my set.
Also 1 x 5 Piastres and 10 Piastres of Mehmed V and a 10 Piastres of Abdul Hamid II
To go with my worn early ones - I bought them as they were barely priced over melt.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Not everything I buy has to be big silver or a half crown. A good online trader sells a lot of these nice country sets cheaply.
Iceland, Turkey and Mauritius - they all cost me about $5 each, and the coins are good quality and variety for my world collection. Also the Mauritius had a stunning 5 cent, good 1950 set and a 1960 10 cent coin which has the lowest mintage of type at 50k. The Iceland had a nice range of 1st year types for the new aurar coins too.
My collecting is more wide ranging than just halfcrowns.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Those are beautiful, just realised how huge the two top coins are - 60mm, that is a lot of silver!!
Then realised 30,000 Forint is like nearly €100!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Quote: "Moneytane"Those are beautiful, just realised how huge the two top coins are - 60mm, that is a lot of silver!!
Then realised 30,000 Forint is like nearly €100!
yes, huge coins, I need to buy new coin tray for them :)
it was a bit expensive, but I hope worth it.
Lots of lovely coins posted here fellow Numista collectors. These 2 are part of a multiple note purchase I just recently scanned. New Zealand P-169a & P170b from a package which arrivedfrom Turkey the first week of May. Took 9 weeks to arrive here (Canada -bought on 1st of March & I'm still waiting for my other mid-March/ early April purchases). Trying not to buy anything else until some of my outstanding items arrive.
Remember spending these as a child. In the early 80s where the $1 dated from, that would have been my lunch money for my weekly bought lunch treat. In 1984 I got a $2 as a Christmas present and we thought we were rich (We were a very poor working class family).
In 1990 they were rendered obselete by $1 and $2 coins.
This series of notes were the only ones printed here in New Zealand (We call them Series D) and they were printed at Bradbury and Wilkinson, Whangarei between 1980 and 1990.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
"Nice notes
Remember spending these as a child. In the early 80s where the $1 dated from, that would have been my lunch money for my weekly bought lunch treat. In 1984 I got a $2 as a Christmas present and we thought we were rich (We were a very poor working class family).
In 1990 they were rendered obselete by $1 and $2 coins."
-Thanks "Moneytane."
I started expanding my CDN paper money collection to include World currency in earnest 2-3 years ago & have waited to get examples from NZ b/c they've always been listed for higher prices (which has always been a turn-off for me). The Turkish seller had them for about $1 USD less than SCWPM BV (in 'lots') so I snapped them up.
Your story is similar to mine (& we had a "Bird" series in the 80's but no $1) & I often dipped into my collection of banknotes to pay for things. It was always a struggle to keep a few $1 and $2 notes (let alone $5) but I was glad that I did.
I think the NZ notes are gorgeous & wish to get older & a few higher denominations.
How expensive can I ask. The last 2 series ST Russell (1985 - 1989) and D T Brash (Now still a very racist politician who hates Maoris 1989 - 1991) are virtually face value here. Hardie (1981 - 1985) is very common too, but a bit more $3 in VF, $10 in UNC except for star notes.
Meanwhile, I just can't stop buying weird and different coins. This very worn 20 Kurus of Turkey got me for 2 reasons
1. It was very cheap (Under double melt)
2. It is incredibly old for these coins - Notice its AH 1277 (Abdul Aziz!)
and Year 2 - (1862) - I Have never seen one that old. Most are late Abdul Hamids (1900s) or
Mehmed V (1910s).
And its the 20 Kurus, the near crown sized one (36mm - 24 grams)
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
"How expensive can I ask."
- They were inexpensive- about $8 each for the Ones (UNC Hardie) and about $15 each for the Two Dollars (UNC Brash) since I bought lots (X10 for the Ones & X2 for the $2). Prefer special # or asterisk replacements but don't see them auctioned very often.
"Weird & different coins" sounds good to me. Nice adds.
