A few additions to fill the gaps in of missing countries for banknotes, as well as a Gibraltar circulating £5 coin.
Syria new post Assad banknotes with two zeros removed, issued last month.
Fiji new 2026 5 Dollar note
Western African States notes 2024-25
Costa Rica 5 Colones 1990, like the US many Latin American countries that managed to survive most of the 20th century without going through hyperinflation reused older designs for many years with some dates back to the 1920s although in most cases it’s the 50s and 60s.
Paraguay 5000 Guaranies 2011
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.
Put my buying hat back on again and gone for a thing with numismatic value. My first significant purchase of 26!
This finally showed up after years of me looking for one, a 1928 Proof set of Ireland's first modern coinage (Before all the experts come out and talk about 1700s and 1800s coppers) and looking at the Irish coin websites, this one is likely original (1928 or pre 1937) as it says Free State which is pre 1937 (They issued sets of these into the 1960s).
The set is all 8 coins dated 1928 and apparently about 6,000 were made. Its an interesting set and collectible, but not super rare as 1928 saw big numbers issued of all the coins.
The coins themselves are mixed conditions and show signs of extensive handling over the past 97 years. The 3 silver coins look AU to EF and show some bad tone and wear. The Halfcrown is the best and Florin not so hot (But I have a nice 1928 Florin anyway). They almost look like they have been cobbled together from different sources. The 6d and 3d were nickel and they look outstandingly fresh and super uncirculated, they have survived well and avoided the interest of the bigger coins as they are not silver. The Bronze shows some browning, but some lustre remains in the recessed fields. The bronze looks uncirculated but could be AU, will be able to do more when I get them.
Very happy with it as I paid the same in dollars, what catalogue for them in Euros is.
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Nice group, Gothic Florin, like you have the first year set there of 1934 - all the coins are high grade too.
Ben 51,The West African group are very interesting, the brass much more durable than the silver they used in the 1910s.
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A nice San Marino coin, comemmorating one of the most important human achievents in space exploration.
The Pioneer plaques are a pair of gold-anodized aluminium plaques that were placed on board the 1972 Pioneer 10 and 1973 Pioneer 11 spacecraft, featuring a pictorial message, in case either Pioneer 10 or 11 is intercepted by intelligent extraterrestrial life. The plaques show the nude figures of a human male and female along with several symbols that are designed to provide information about the origin of the spacecraft.
The Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft were the first human-built objects to achieve escape velocity from the Solar System. The plaques were attached to the spacecraft's antenna support struts in a position that would shield them from erosion by interstellar dust.
Some very cool coins shown above, as usual. 👍 Some of my arrivals are in some of my favourite categories of ‘what existed first, the chicken or the egg’ (Cambodia), ‘reference to God’ (Uruguay) and ‘multiple errors’ (Groningen en Ommelanden).
A Cambodian egg shaped 2 Pe or 3 Pe coin. It was sold to me as 3 Pe, yet looking like the 2 Pe shown on the catalogue page below. My coin has a weight of 1.6 grams while on the page below lists it as having weights of either 0.8, 1.3 or 1.4 grams. The diameter of my coin varies from 13 to 14 mm. N#297967
According to the Numista page on this Uruguay 1969 1000 Pesos coin, the circle with 3 lines in the middle of the design on the reverse
represents the Face of the Creator. I think that is very cool, regardless of the Creator actually existing and/or having a Face. I'll leave both options in the middle, as for what I believe personally is irrelevant here. N#23255
The 1771 coin below has two cool errors, a planchet error of cutting it out of a copper sheet where clearly at least one other planchet had been cut out before already, as well as what looks like a ‘push through’ error, possibly caused by the obverse die getting damaged by the reverse already present on a planchet during an attempt of minting. Next to ‘EN’ in ‘GRON. EN OMMEL’ there looks to be a partial outline of the weapon on the reverse, see the comparison on the third image. N#32825
I appreciate some of your thoughts, like mentioning the proper numismatic terms in English for the 1771 error types and/or your thoughts of the Cambodian coin being of value 2 Pe or 3 Pe.
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After collecting for over a decade and being bored of watching my savings account do very little I decided to invest in some gold pieces for the first time.
The 2026 sovereign has been on my bucket list since late last year and I like the return to yellow gold and the microtext around the rim. I'm a big fan of the Charles III portrait as well. What better way to mark my introduction to gold stacking than with the year I started. Also my first 2026 coin.
I couldn't say no this Canadian 5 Dollar Coin either and promptly bought it. I've formed a bit of an emotional connection and would find it difficult to let it go which means I won't be tempted to get rid of it for a quick quid.
Then I went for some old gold in the form of this 1803 Half Guinea. It's an expensive mount piece but it hasn't happened the coin much and remains in good condition.
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Nice, you are brave to be buying gold in this overheated market at the moment. Those 2026 Bullion sovereigns are controversial with the writing although I appreciate the more goldy appearance, I was not afan of the rose gold look.
Love the Canadian $5 and the gold half guinea.
Gothic Florin, never knew they did a cardboard case, mine is the standard velvet lined snap case with pin. Also I think the coins are just a standard UNC set, not proofed in anyway.
Here's the other stuff I have bought this year.
In January I bought 6 dates of Japanese 100 yen coins. These are not the standard nickel ones that started in Showa 42 (1967), these are the earlier silver 100 yen coins issued between 1957 and 1966. Before 1957 they had a note.
They used this design for 1957 and 1958 (I have both) This coin is Showa 33 so 1958.
Then they switched to this design in 1959 (Showa 34) I think this is 34 or 35 and I bought 1959, 60, 63 and 66 (Showa 34, 35, 38 and 41). The coins were roughly the same size as modern 100 yen coins, but were 60% silver so 2.88 grams of silver per coin and they were issued in big numbers until 1966 and then in 1967 (Showa 42) switched to the muck metal equivalent that survives to this day (They only changed regnal names in 1989 and 2019 with Showa 63 (1988) becoming Heisei 1 in 1989 and Reiwa 1 in 2019 after Heisei 31 (Also in 2019).
Now for recent purchases as I bought the Silver 100 yens in January.
The only exception to the above was the 100 yen circulating coin for the 1964 Olympics which has the date in Western years and Showa date (39). The coin weighs the same and has same silver as the other 1957 - 66 silver 100 yens and has this different design, last year I also bought a much larger (34mm) and finer (.925) 1,000 yen silver coin for the 1964 Olympics. This one is real shiny too, and brilliant uncirculated, it could have been for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics!
Also this very nice EF 10 cents of Canada, was just $17 NZ and it fills a big gap in my collection.
Camerinvs may find this next lot funny - $45.50 in 50 cents and $1 Canadian coins, but including 25 large nickel dollars.
This was the only photo provided and I hope I would get a good date range, but not really - The large dollars I only got 1968/69, 71 BC, 72. 76. 79 and 3 x 1980, 6 x 1981 (Was that a big year?) and 5 of the 1982 Constitution dollaz. The gold dollaz were better UNC 1987, 88, 89, 90, a 92, 95, 96, 93, 03, 11, and 12. 50 cents were mostly 1968 for some reason. Probably not my wisest buy.
1839 British Farthing in gVF, a nice addition it will compete my farthing run from 1799 to 1843.
Finally a 1942 Palestinian 50 mils, a more scarce date and great gap filler.
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and finally for the 1st time ever, I got a silver coin in change given back to me at a restaurant !
so I got it for 5 cents.
Really sad that 2 Florin is holed, otherwise it would be at least AU or better. It has a beautiful patina and detail. I got it in a personal trade at a local coin show.
Last year June, I told about my collecting focus (Europe and its dependencies between 1900 and 1950) and that I posed myself a lame bucket challenge to have at least 3 coins of each issuer that fits with the definition. This month, I spent some money and once more spilled a fair pour into the bucket.
Four issuers for which I had no coin at all from my focus period (Angola, Cape Verde, Guernsey and Togo, and for Togo right away a second one):
Three issuers for which I had only one coin from my focus period and now adding a second (Lebanon, Pakistan, and Syria and for Syria right away a third one):
Two silver coins which I desperately wanted to have. The Curaçao guilder brings me closer to completing all types of the issuer from the focus period (two to go). The Russian rouble will provide company to its half rouble sibling, which I have had since my youth. I love the designs, early Socialist Realism:
Six coins that just add to the collection or complete type series:
Five coins as upgrades to coins I already had (although the Irish 1942 penny has some dirty spots):
Really like the rouble, I’ve been scouting for one of those for a while now.
Got a fantastic south african 5 shilling today for spot + 20%;
It looks even better in sunlight!
Could it be proof? I’m not the best at identifying them but it looks a lot like it.
You've done well with this one Marc it's a fantastic coin. I picked one up for 20% under spot a couple of weeks ago.
I'm not sure if I could say that yours in proof but it's in magnificent condition nonetheless. These coins tone quite well so hopefully you won't have that blast white finish for too long (unless that's the look you go for of course 😋)
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Honestly, I enjoy silver coins both with and without a tone, it really depends on the coin though. For me if a coin has that beautiful ”fan blade” effect like my 5 shilling I like the coin better without a tone.
Really like the rouble, I’ve been scouting for one of those for a while now.
Got a fantastic south african 5 shilling today for spot + 20%;
It looks even better in sunlight!
Could it be proof? I’m not the best at identifying them but it looks a lot like it.
South Africa started doing Proof sets in the 1920s and ones before 1951 are pretty rare. Yours is a nice corwn, but I don't think its a Proof as the fields are not polished and the coin has a circulation level finish, but that is no disappointment, its a gorgeous coin.
Also for you and Canterbury, you will be pleased to know your crowns are the good 80% silver as they were from 1947 to 1950. In 1951 South Africa switched to 50% silver and also cranked up production.
This coin is a proof, a bit impaired and only 50% but has the polished matt surface on fields that was a proof finish, if a circulation coin, it would have a bright lustre.
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Great additions again, I love SueBeeCoins's 1841 Austrian Empire coin, as well as ArnoV's 1924 Ruble (looking for one of those).
Two Russian Empire coins arrived, I just had to get these because of the interesting edge designs:
2 roubles 1758, with Imperial Monogram of Empress Elizabeth I
5 roubles 1771 (42 mm), with Imperial Monogram of Empress Catherine II (Catherine the Great) This coin is now listed as my heaviest coin with 51.2 grams, though mine only weighs about 42 grams (apparently the weight of these coins varies from 35 to 65 grams), being actually a fraction lighter than my previously listed heaviest coin (Tonga 1968 2 Pa'anga).
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Nice coins, but I am sure you have roubles (Units) confused with kopeks (subunits). I know some 18th century 5 kopeck coins were like 50mm in sze and weighd 40 - 50 grams, but a silver rouble of that era was extremely rare and expensive and weighed at least 20 grams, so a 5 rouble coin if it existed would have weighed at least 100 grams and be 60 or more mm in size.
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Nice coins, but I am sure you have roubles (Units) confused with kopeks (subunits). I know some 18th century 5 kopeck coins were like 50mm in sze and weighd 40 - 50 grams, but a silver rouble of that era was extremely rare and expensive and weighed at least 20 grams, so a 5 rouble coin if it existed would have weighed at least 100 grams and be 60 or more mm in size.
Oops, kopecks of course… In general all of the Russian Empire 5 kopecks are large in size, I just checked, the 1758-1762 seem to be the heaviest 5 kopecks in general as they are the thickest, though some of the later ones may be the heaviest. Hard to tell. To carry such giant coins in ones pocket appears like a challenge! Interestingly, also there were some tiny silver 1 kopecks coins, in my collection a 1703 1 kopeck coin is listed as my lightest coin since January, not to lose them appears like a challenge as well while shopping.
In addition, it is strange going through the 5 kopecks section of the Russian Empire, seeing them go back and forward between silver and copper that many times is remarkable. Seems to be of a different kind of record, never before I observed switching between copper and silver that often.
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So after finding an Isle of Man coin in change last month so early into the year I thought I need to cross Jersey off the list now. Yesterday I got a 1993 Jersey 5 pence in change along with a UK 1997 2 pound, the £2 not being rare but uncommon enough for me to notice when I find them. The Jersey coin takes the highlight though. Into February and I have had 2 overseas finds from change already naturally. Isle of Man and Jersey. Hope to find a Gibraltar next. Good year for my change finds so far. Still no UK commemorative 50ps in change though but not complaining. Overseas stuff always a joy to find without expecting.
So after finding an Isle of Man coin in change last month so early into the year I thought I need to cross Jersey off the list now. Yesterday I got a 1993 Jersey 5 pence in change along with a UK 1997 2 pound, the £2 not being rare but uncommon enough for me to notice when I find them. The Jersey coin takes the highlight though. Into February and I have had 2 overseas finds from change already naturally. Isle of Man and Jersey. Hope to find a Gibraltar next. Good year for my change finds so far. Still no UK commemorative 50ps in change though but not complaining. Overseas stuff always a joy to find without expecting.
I once found a 10p from St Helena in my change in the UK and I think I'll struggle to top that one!
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So after finding an Isle of Man coin in change last month so early into the year I thought I need to cross Jersey off the list now. Yesterday I got a 1993 Jersey 5 pence in change along with a UK 1997 2 pound, the £2 not being rare but uncommon enough for me to notice when I find them. The Jersey coin takes the highlight though. Into February and I have had 2 overseas finds from change already naturally. Isle of Man and Jersey. Hope to find a Gibraltar next. Good year for my change finds so far. Still no UK commemorative 50ps in change though but not complaining. Overseas stuff always a joy to find without expecting.
I once found a 10p from St Helena in my change in the UK and I think I'll struggle to top that one!
Had the St Helena 5p and round pound many years ago from change. Nothing since. Very good finding anything from there. It's hit and miss year to year for me with any overseas/territory finds from change but definitely not complaining that i've covered 2 places this year now and we're only in February.
This medal by Percy Metcalfe was struck to mark the 25th anniversary of the Mond Nickel Company, which mined nickel in Canada and refined it in Wales. Naturally the medal is in nickel, and as such looks much like it did when it was struck 100 years ago. Mond lobbied strongly (but unsuccessfully) for a purely nickel currency when the UK abandoned silver in 1947. The Mond name has disappeared after a series of mergers and acquisitions, but the Clydach nickel refinery in Wales is still going strong.
I actually think he is reacting to Canterbury 17 using words that only the most easily offended, would see as offensive.
The coins are magnificient, gorgeous ancients in incredible condition! 😀
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Stopped in at the local antique shop/come coin dealer on Saturday and picked up these.
It sums up my recent buying, I have all these coins but they were being hawked at below melt value (These are NZ dollar prices which are 59 cents American). The 3 Canadian 80% halves were $30 and one at $35, melt was $42 per coin
The 1964 Kennedy was $40 and has $48 of silver in it (Kennedies are good bulk coins, 64s are good silver but with 400 million minted unless its a rare double die or enhanced hair, they are never worth any more than silver). I think this is my 18 or 19th 1964 Kennedy and this one was a D.
The Rupee only had $46 of silver in it, but a 1907C in uncleaned VF is worth a few dollars more! Plus the 57 and 58 Canadians may be a bit nicer than the ones in main collection. Overall 50 grams of silver for the price of 43.
Also bought a NZ £10 note (Hanna) and a NZ $10 Star note (Hardie Type 2).
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Some great additions so far in this thread — especially the “ancients”. I have one that just came in that is far from being as spectacular, but seems to be relatively scarce:
RIC VII Rome 156 — Constantine II as Caesar 317 –337. Obv.: CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C. Rev.: ROMAE AETERNAE, XV on shield, P | R, mintmark R Q (though the R looks like an Ω). I suppose this is to celebrate Constantine II's 15th anniversary as Caesar. He was appointed within about a year after his birth in 316, so he is shown at the age of 15 or thereabout. The 15th anniversary, or “Quindecennalia”, was celebrated at the start of the 15th year, so after 14 complete years as Caesar (= heir). This type is not in the Numista catalogue.
This coin is R3 in RIC. This was based on holdings in museums back when the volume was being compiled (1960s if I remember correctly). So, rarity levels in RIC should be taken with a grain of salt. Still, the Romae aeternae reverse type is much less common than the Gloria exercitus or Fel. temp. reparatio types, for example.
I bought one more coin, one I really need to fill another sequence, this case 1930s dated Canadian silver dollar coins.
We have a 1936 Dollar in pretty nice shape (EF) with little wear and some recessed lustre. Wasn't cheap (Well $95 in silver).
This completes my 1935 - 1939 dollar set, now those darn 1945 - 48 dollars! They only issued one common dollar in the 1940s - the 1949 Newfoundland “welcome” dollar.
This group of British brass tokens I also thought, some of the usual rubbish (Fake spade guinea, brass tokens (4), but an interesting Barratts sweets 1897 Diamond Jubilee, a marriage of KGV and May of Teck (1893), G4 death token (1830) and a 1902 KE7 Coronation token and also an interesting mid 19th century whist token with Victoria as the “Sovereign of Civilisation” and a 1830s/40s woman “Keep your temper” and a portrait only KGV brass token, the E7½ I have no idea about, still a lot of old exonumia for $16.
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Quote: A more profitable enterprise would be for them to cash in on the popularity of the bicycle, which was taking the United States by storm in the late 19th century. What did every bicycle need? A bell to warn passers-by that you were zipping past, of course! Remember those handlebar-mounted bells some of us used to have on our Schwinns? The folks at New Departure Bell Company helped spread thousands of the accessories across the cycling world, and by 1898 they had started working on other bicycle parts to design & manufacture.
Quote: In the late 1880's, small manufacturing businesses in Bristol, Connecticut capitalized on the region's clock making connections. In that time, Bristol was known as one of the premier clock-making cities in the United States. Springs, gears, and bushings were all part of the horological process, so naturally there was a market for smaller niche manufacturers to feed the larger corporations. That's were Albert and Edward Rockwell came in.
Quote: Albert founded the Yellow Taxicab Company in New York City in 1912. This is notable because Rockwell supplied 1,000 cars and some capital to get things rolling... and soon after the company went into receivership. At the time, Yellow faced a nasty fare war among cabbies, and stiff competition in the New York market. Albert pulled out of the taxi and automobile business entirely but still had dreams of larger ventures.
Quote: At least Albert Rockwell got a park named after him. He should have, he donated the land and a few thousand bucks to develop it. If you're ever in the city of Bristol Connecticut you can stop at Rockwell Park and enjoy a little piece of what his New Departure Manufacturing helped create.
This completes my 1935 - 1939 dollar set, now those darn 1945 - 48 dollars! They only issued one common dollar in the 1940s - the 1949 Newfoundland “welcome” dollar.
The 1946 one is rather common. By far the most difficult to obtain is the 1948. That's the only year I'm missing (circulation issues). I can't believe these are now worth C$72 just in silver content.
The representation of Newfoundland on Canadian coins is pretty pathetic IMHO. They show us ships or rowboats which could represent any land that has a maritime border:
with New Departure being the company that made them.
The New Departure Bell Company, Bristol, Connecticut, U.S.A.
Wow thanks! Thats the only that eluded me, a bicycle bell and American to boot.
Camerinvs - Never seen a 1946 dollar in the flesh yet! One will come though I managed to get all 3 types of 1947 50 cents and a 1948 50 cents last year.
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This completes my 1935 - 1939 dollar set, now those darn 1945 - 48 dollars! They only issued one common dollar in the 1940s - the 1949 Newfoundland “welcome” dollar.
The 1946 one is rather common. By far the most difficult to obtain is the 1948. That's the only year I'm missing (circulation issues). I can't believe these are now worth C$72 just in silver content.
The representation of Newfoundland on Canadian coins is pretty pathetic IMHO. They show us ships or rowboats which could represent any land that has a maritime border:
Tell me about it, $87.67 in Silver, NZ money and about $122 for a British crown and $110 for a US 90% Silver dollar.
My Canadian dollar collecting started in 2022, when I won a lot of 23 silver Canadian dollars for $600 or basically about $26 per coin (And thats NZ dollars not Canadian ones!). That lot also included my very scarce 1938 coin.
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II've slowly been putting together a type set of medieval Florentine grossi. Was able to nab this one recently that doesn't come up so often, as it was struck 1306-1313, With a bit of research, I should be able to narrow the date to a 6 month period based on the mintmaster's mark (a crescent at the beginning of the reverse legend).
Also landed this rather rare Parma teston for much less than I was expecting. Possibly an inept old cleaning obverse but it's the reverse I'm more interested in anyhow.:
My Canadian dollar collecting started in 2022, when I won a lot of 23 silver Canadian dollars for $600 or basically about $26 per coin (And thats NZ dollars not Canadian ones!). That lot also included my very scarce 1938 coin.
That was good timing. I'm happy I completed (except for 2 or 3 rarities) my set of silver dollars and 50 cents well before the current indecent increase in the price of silver. My 1945 is XF but a space filler given that it has bad scratches on both sides. Without the scratches it now goes for about C$300–325 (=NZ$365–395), so it will stay a space filler for now.
I do regret I didn't pay more attention to the Newfoundland gold $2 series. Their current bullion value is C$695 = NZ$847.
I managed to swipe in on this lot, random 3 Canadian silver half dollars. Several people realised one of them is a very scarce coin in any condition.
1934 Half dollar just 39,513 minted, less than 1905 and down there with 1948. There were very few halves minted between 1920 and 1936, and only in 1937 did issues pick up. This one is a solid VG and appears not to be too cleaned. The other two are decent and actually upgrade the ones I have.
In all it cost me $156 and the melt now is a crazy $137, so not that much extra for a scarce coin.
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Closing this month with a Brazil token (N#242429):
YES!!!
May coin collecting be like an anchor to maintain our sanity in this new insane situation.
An anchor has arrived last week: Since this coin arrived, the world map on my laptop now proudly mentions ‘British West Indies: 1 item’ at various Caribbean dots. Thanks to making these pictures I found that there are double strikes 2 and C, probably due to a repair job on a partially clogged die. At the same time, the T in Britanniarum looks like an upside down L, some other letters on the obverse are inclomplete as well, not due to heavy circulation.
The 4 horses of the Apocalypse have arrived:
Well, actually they're 4 horses pulling a quadriga (4 horse chariot) with Italia turrita standing on it, the national personification of Italy.
The edge has 3 knots as decoration, more maritime symbolism. Up close the stars next to these decorations look alike hexagonal flowers.
Also the Mother of God (honorary title of Mother Mary) has arrived together with two angels:
May there be a period of long lasting peace on Earth, very soon!
The edge also has some nice decorations that appear next to the denomination as well, just like on the Italian coin.
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An anchor has arrived last week: Since this coin arrived, the world map on my laptop now proudly mentions ‘British West Indies: 1 item’ at various Caribbean dots. Thanks to making these pictures I found that there are double strikes 2 and C, probably due to a repair job on a partially clogged die. At the same time, the T in Britanniarum looks like an upside down L, some other letters on the obverse are inclomplete as well, not due to heavy circulation.
