A cheap Chinese exonumia medal from Temu featuring the Great Wall of China and the Temple of Heaven tourist attractions. I liked the detail and design so thought why not for less than £2. The Great Wall of China design reminded me of the first mission in the Tomb Raider II game too.
A pair of souvenir coins from Córdoba, Spain received from a swap with a Spanish collector here in Numista. One coin features the Cathedral/Mosque of the city built by the Moors and the other coin features the Roman bridge in the city. @Juveba14 kindly went to look for something like this in the souvenir shops on request when I asked if there is any such souvenir coins of his city . Thankyou very much! They are great.
Only the second Chilean medal in my collection, This being a silver variant of the bronze first one!
Issued to commemorate Edward, Prince of Wales' visit to Chile in 1925.
Giordano (the main catalogue for such medals) only lists bronze and silvered bronze, but the seller I bought it from said it tested for .925 Silver. There is at least one edge knock which would have shown bronze if it was silvered bronze, so I think this is a new unrecorded variant.
Onchan Internment Camp 1D (1 Penny) token from the Isle of Man. The camp was used to house “enemy aliens” during WW2 from Germany and Austria and later Italian prisoners of war. A part of the Isle of Mans history. Possibly one of the only forms of Isle of Man currency from the 20th century featuring the Isle of Man symbol before they later got their own Manx coins and banknotes in the 70s if i'm correct. Before this only British coins circulated on the island and I dare say the odd Irish coin slipped in now and again.
Johann Jacob Dietzel was the son of a day laborer, and had no connection to any of the prominent Nuremberg die makers that I can find.
ZacUK, the French link you provided indicates he had a son, Johann Adam Dietzel, also a die maker. Someday I hope to come up with something like your spreadsheet!
First of three nice additions Sunday evening, from same seller so saving postage
‘1681 Jeton, Netherlands, Copper, 30 mm, 6.16 g (Dugn. 4464)’
[IPSIS AVGETVR AB VNDIS 16-81]
Not currently on Numista
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Description Reverse: A mermaid places a coral in an open treasure chest on the shore, therefore:
.IPSIS. AVGETVR. AB. VNDIS. 16 (heads) 81
Obverse: Helmeted coat of arms of Pieter Ferdinand Roose. No lettering. Literature Dugniolle, Jean François: Le jeton historique des dix-sept provinces
des Pays-Bas, Brussels 1876, No. 4464. Neumann, Josef: Description of the most famous copper coins, Vol. 6, 1872, No. 35165.
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Title - Spanish Netherlands, Charles II (1665-1700), Brussels, Blessing of the Seas 1681 General term - Counting penny
Classification - Raktpfennig
Place of manufacture - Brussels
Mass - 30.5 mm; 5.89 g Stamp position - 2 h Material and technology - Copper
Type : Van Der Haege Date: 1682 Mint name / Town : Bruxelles Metal : Copper Diameter : 32 mm Orientation dies : 3 h. Weight : 5,94 g. Edge : Lisse Rarity : R1
OBVERSE Obverse legend : VIRTVS . EST . OPTIMA . SEPES. Obverse description : The Vanderhaege shield. REVERSE Reverse legend : PRESCINDIT ET AVGET 16 82. Reverse description : A gardener training trees.
Some replicas of a trial strike/pattern of the Polish 10 and 20 Zlotych 1964 20 years anniversary of the Polish peoples republic. Cold war era designs for Eastern Bloc countries are so simple yet aesthetically pleasing. Only a handful of the originals produced so I am happy with a replica. I guess these come under the exonumia label as they are replicas of a coin that wasn't given the go ahead for circulation anyway and might aswell be fantasy coins.
Type: Alliance of Austria and Spain for the Maintenance of the Peace of Nijmegen Date: 1683 Mint name / Town: Bruxelles Metal: Copper Diameter: 32 mm Orientation dies: 7 h. Weight: 5,83 g.
OBVERSE Obverse legend: SORS. OMNIS. BENE. CREDITA. FORTI. EST.. Obverse description: The shield of Guillaume Van Elshoute. REVERSE Reverse legend: AVRI. VIGILANTIA. CVSTOS. 16-83. Reverse description: A griffin, holding in its right claw the jewel of
I have no idea, but remember seeing a couple of jetons with Hebrew inscriptions.
These haven't yet been catalogued. I have built up a backlog of stuff for the Numista catalogue and am still trying to figure out how to do fully cropped images. I believe the date for the right item is 1591.
I have no idea, but remember seeing a couple of jetons with Hebrew inscriptions.
These haven't yet been catalogued. I have built up a backlog of stuff for the Numista catalogue and am still trying to figure out how to do fully cropped images. I believe the date for the right item is 1591.
Hi, I use this application for circular cropping which is free to download: http://x.photoscape.org/
For images that are not round, I use: https://pixlr.com/remove-background/ but I seem to be limited to 3 images a day on my laptop, but on my phone I can do unlimited crops!
Thanks Simon, I appreciate the help. I've tried Pixlr which works well, except the images won't download back to my antiquated phone. I get what I (fondly) refer to as the “endlessly spinning circle of death”.
My latest strategy is use the phone for the initial crop and email it myself. I then use the phone as a hotspot for the computer. Then download into ‘paint’ to remove the corners. This was successful. I haven't tried uploading back to the phone yet, as I'm out of data.
Using just the computer would probably work with Pixlr, but it uses up an extraordinary amount of data. All you folks out there with WiFi, please don't take it for granite! (spelling ok).
Alas, I can't access the three links. I usually have no trouble with forum links but these might be on a cloud? At any rate all I get is the familiar ‘escod’.
I'm slowly coming to realize I need to do all this on the computer, regardless of data usage. If I can only do 4-6 updates a month, so be it.
Again, thanks for the help, and I will try the suggestions.
Some kind of brass token with the same design on both side…..
925 silver hallmarked National Trust Long Service Award Medal made by The Royal Mint … well two of those but was having a bit of a brain blitz saw it thought ooo like that bought it … saw it later on thought I could have sworn I bought that perhaps I didn't …. and ended up with a second one as I had bought the first one… DUH
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Wow! Simply stunning!. that is an amazing addition.
I figured I would share these here since you guys are probably the only people in my life who might appreciate that my employer sends out medal's to commemorate acusitions and mergers. These two came in the mail today for a couple of recent corporate acquisitions. I also have one in storage from when my company was acquired a few years ago. I have not added them to the catalog, but I guess I probably should in the near future.
I also went a little crazy at the coin/bullion shop this month and got some new gold/silver embedded notes.
I also have a thing for owls so when I saw this round I had to have it.
Here are a couple of medals I recently added to my collection as well, the 2nd coin was a gift given out to those who donated to the Commemorative Air Force's Red Tail Squadron program in 2020. I have a couple from different years still in storage I need to find.
I also picked up a round that is made from the silver recovered from the SS TILAWA shipwreck. It's not my favorite design, but I like the fact that it has that physical connection to the sinking.
I also picked up a round that is made from the silver recovered from the SS TILAWA shipwreck. It's not my favorite design, but I like the fact that it has that physical connection to the sinking.
Lastly, I managed to check 2017 off my list for both the Koala and Kookaburra. :). I think the 2017 is tied with the 2009 for my favorite Kookaburra coin.
When it comes to cropping and removing backgrounds, I use Lightroom/Photoshop since I'm also a photographer and already have the subscription. But I did see some good news for those of us who use apple products. The new mac os that is in beta has a background removal tool built into the preview. So soon you will be able to just press one button on your computer and remove the backgrounds. (https://youtu.be/tCH46SOpCwk?si=lMA77J9j8IqXWerH&t=410)
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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‘Netherlands Willem I, Prince of Orange (1533-1584) token 1582’
[PRODITIONE NON ARMIS AGITVR // PRODITOR TANDEM LVET / 1582]
Seller's description - Niederlande / Willem I. Prinz von Oranien der Schweiger 1533-1584 Jeton (Historiepenning) 1582 (o. Sign., Mzst. Dordrecht) Anlass: a.d. missglückten Anschlag auf Wilhelm I. von Oranien-Nassau, den Schweiger 1533-1584 Vs: Szene des Anschlags Rs: Philipp II. mit 2 Leibwächtern n.l. unter Regen- und Hagelschauert Kupfer / 3.36g / 30,2mm / Dugn. 2890; v. Loon I, 309.
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A better condition example -
Low Countries, Dordrecht 1582, attempted assassination of William of Orange: Obverse: (rosette) .PRODITION.NON.ARMIS.AGITVR , around Juan Jaureguy drawing
a pistol to fire at William of Orange.Lightening and hailstones falling from heaven upon
the King of Spain who is accompanied by a councilor and a guard, 1582 in exergue. Composition: Copper. Diameter: 29.5 mm. M Mitchiner, vol. II, 2436.
ZacUK, you are truly a master at finding these! I find this period among the the most fascinating in European history. Prince of Orange, or Spanish? Sometimes it's fairly easy to tell, like this one. Other times, not so much. From what I can descern, this one is by far the scarcest. I'd like your opinion, if willing to share!
One for me at least amazing new addition, cost me a pretty penny
1667 Amsterdam medal on the Peace of Breda
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