The mold, is it two pieces? or is it the same side of one piece?
It can only make uni-face coins, one at a time, of two designs?
It is quite strange, there are different designs on both sides, here are better pictures of both sides.
My guess is that many of these would be laid in rows and cast at the same time.
To me it looks like they belong together, that when you put them on top of each other there is a small gap through which either molted metal could flow or through which excessive soft clay could be pushed out before baking the coin solid. To identify the coin for which it was intended: this is what the coin should look like after minting, I flipped the image horizontally, just put these images in a good search engine:
Besides coins I love geometry. The avatar consists of each of the 35 hexominoes used precisely once. With the 5 large yellow shapes placed like this, the solution for tiling the remaining 30 hexominoes is unique.
The mold, is it two pieces? or is it the same side of one piece?
It can only make uni-face coins, one at a time, of two designs?
It is quite strange, there are different designs on both sides, here are better pictures of both sides.
My guess is that many of these would be laid in rows and cast at the same time.
To me it looks like they belong together, that when you put them on top of each other there is a small gap through which either molted metal could flow or through which excessive soft clay could be pushed out before baking the coin solid. To identify the coin for which it was intended: this is what the coin should look like after minting, I flipped the image horizontally, just put these images in a good search engine:
Thanks! Any clues on what country or region it is from? My guess is still greek or macedonian.
Could the figure riding the horse be alexander iii? I know that that’s a pretty common motif.
@Mark16 Sounds like a fair guess to me, but I'm not the guy to answer that question! I'm just fairly good at creating images on a computer while collecting mostly 19th, 20th and 21st century coins.
Besides coins I love geometry. The avatar consists of each of the 35 hexominoes used precisely once. With the 5 large yellow shapes placed like this, the solution for tiling the remaining 30 hexominoes is unique.
Some very cool new additions again since my last time showing additions of mine. Congrats everyone!
Now some island hopping:
Some Polynesian silver arrived. New Guinea (now Papua New Guinea), Fiji and New Hebrides (now Vanuatu). The New Hebrides coin looks blue due to the reflection of the sky. No Fiji turtles yet…
The new 2025 Sint Maarten and Curaçao coins, and yes, some with turtles! Sint Maarten still doesn't show on the Numista map… The same Curaçao Guilder shown with daylight falling on it from different angles, making the ‘water’ around the turtles really cool.
My first Danish West Indies coin.
My first coin issued specifically for use on the Faroe Islands (without the Danish heart mint mark).
The Numista map with my collection now shows ‘Saint Christopher and Nevis: 1 coin’ and ‘Anguilla: 0 coins’, though the names of both nations appear on the coin… Oh well, the coin can only be registered once on the catalogue.
My first British North Borneo coin.
On these Japanes coins I circled the ‘upside down flowers’, all in the top 2 rows: N#55953
The coin from @$and€r has them at the bottom 2 rows: N#16403
And then there is a 3rd type with the upside down flowers in the middle 3 rows: N#182974
This monstrosity (according to some circulation coin only collertors) or awesome coin (according to a friend of mine who generally doesn't really care about coins) is my first and last Nauru issue until they issue their own circulation coins, which will likely never happen. The large partial circle is a reflection of my camera. What is really upsetting about obtaining this ‘coin’ is that my Japanese 100 Mon coin is no longer shown as the largest in my collection…
Besides coins I love geometry. The avatar consists of each of the 35 hexominoes used precisely once. With the 5 large yellow shapes placed like this, the solution for tiling the remaining 30 hexominoes is unique.
Ooh, that's a really nice effect. Hope I can find one of these at the next coin fair.
@Marc16 that's a very nice lot overall but that mold steals the spotlight. (Well, the african ring too, it's huge)
About the mystery coin on it, you really should post it on the ID forum. Don't forget the diameter. I would love to see the answer.
@SueBeeCoins your lot is also very nice too. That's a nice medieval silver you got, the condition is near perfect compared to the ones we usually see. And there's that copper oddity, it got my attention as much as the armenian one. For those who are curious, it's N#35066 .
As for me, I have something incoming but it will arrive next week. I mentioned the coin in that “What's your first coin for 2026?” thread. I've made the purchase order wednesday along with other two coins.
@Mr. Midnight Thank you for making that GIF-image using my Curaçao coin pics, that displays the effect much better!
Besides coins I love geometry. The avatar consists of each of the 35 hexominoes used precisely once. With the 5 large yellow shapes placed like this, the solution for tiling the remaining 30 hexominoes is unique.
Those Curacao coins are very nice, but they must be very confusing between the 1 and 5 Guilders, those coins look very similar.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
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Those Curacao coins are very nice, but they must be very confusing between the 1 and 5 Guilders, those coins look very similar.
True. Even worse is the difference in size of the 1, 5 and 10 cent coins. Considering the low value I would have replaced 1 and 5 cent coins by just 2 cent coins the size of the present 1 cent coins. The small Sint Maarten and Curaçao coins all have the same flower design, making recognition even harder. It is nice though that they all can be used on both islands. The 5 Guilders coin being smaller than the 1 Guilder coin also doesn't help, choosing a Reuleaux polygon (with 7 or 9 angles) for one of them would have worked better, such coins still work in coin machines as they have the same diameter everywhere.
Besides coins I love geometry. The avatar consists of each of the 35 hexominoes used precisely once. With the 5 large yellow shapes placed like this, the solution for tiling the remaining 30 hexominoes is unique.
Ooh, that's a really nice effect. Hope I can find one of these at the next coin fair.
@Marc16 that's a very nice lot overall but that mold steals the spotlight. (Well, the african ring too, it's huge)
About the mystery coin on it, you really should post it on the ID forum. Don't forget the diameter. I would love to see the answer.
@SueBeeCoins your lot is also very nice too. That's a nice medieval silver you got, the condition is near perfect compared to the ones we usually see. And there's that copper oddity, it got my attention as much as the armenian one. For those who are curious, it's N#35066 .
As for me, I have something incoming but it will arrive next week. I mentioned the coin in that “What's your first coin for 2026?” thread. I've made the purchase order wednesday along with other two coins.
Thanks, I posted about it this morning and it was solved quite quickly thanks to @ZacUK and @SGreg85 . It turned out to be a mold for an indo-parthian tetradrachm from circa 30-60 ad! ( https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=67570 ) What a lovely piece of history.
If anyone has this coin and is willing to swap it please send me a pm, I’d really love to see them side by side!
Thanks, I posted about it this morning and it was solved quite quickly thanks to @ZacUK and @SGreg85 . It turned out to be a mold for an indo-parthian tetradrachm from circa 30-60 ad! ( https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=67570 ) What a lovely piece of history.
If anyone has this coin and is willing to swap it please send me a pm, I’d really love to see them side by side!
I saw the thread. A lovely piece of history indeed. That's an interesting outcome.
Thanks, I posted about it this morning and it was solved quite quickly thanks to @ZacUK and @SGreg85 . It turned out to be a mold for an indo-parthian tetradrachm from circa 30-60 ad! ( https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=67570 ) What a lovely piece of history.
If anyone has this coin and is willing to swap it please send me a pm, I’d really love to see them side by side!
I saw the thread. A lovely piece of history indeed. That's an interesting outcome.
Yes, I do. Missing just a couple of very recent 20 Euro ones.
Germany and Austria celebrate their composers on coins, unlike most other countries. But then, most of serious classical music comes from these two countries, as well as Italy which has (on coins) only Verdi if I remember well.
A new addition to my Kruger Gray collection, the 1929 cupronickel penny from New Guinea.
I bought the halfpenny at a Heritage sale last year but lost out on the penny which went way over my budget at $660, so I was pleased to get this for less than half that price.
Very nice that they continue these nice big silvers in the euro age.
I suppose you have a 1970 5 mark with Beethoven.
Starting this year, I believe the face value will be 35€ in place of €20 and 50€ in place of €25. They did something similar when they changed the 10€ to 20€ a few years ago due to the price of silver increasing
A new addition to my Kruger Gray collection, the 1929 cupronickel penny from New Guinea.
I bought the halfpenny at a Heritage sale last year but lost out on the penny which went way over my budget at $660, so I was pleased to get this for less than half that price.
Wow, that's incredible! One of my dream coins. Sounds like you got this one for a great deal.
Starting this year, I believe the face value will be 35€ in place of €20 and 50€ in place of €25. They did something similar when they changed the 10€ to 20€ a few years ago due to the price of silver increasing
That's the general idea. Based on this sixbid page it's going to be 25€ instead of 20€ (.925 silver) and 35€ instead of 25€ (.999 silver).
A new addition to my Kruger Gray collection, the 1929 cupronickel penny from New Guinea.
I bought the halfpenny at a Heritage sale last year but lost out on the penny which went way over my budget at $660, so I was pleased to get this for less than half that price.
That is drop dead gorgeous!
Just because you can't see it ... doesn't mean it isn't there - Anon.
A new addition to my Kruger Gray collection, the 1929 cupronickel penny from New Guinea.
I bought the halfpenny at a Heritage sale last year but lost out on the penny which went way over my budget at $660, so I was pleased to get this for less than half that price.
That is drop dead gorgeous!
I agree that the design is wonderful. A hole in the middle of a coin imposes additional design constraints, but Kruger Gray was able to overcome them to great effect. And the fact that the monarch's effigy cannot be used meant that he (unusually) got to design both obverse and reverse.
A new addition to my Kruger Gray collection, the 1929 cupronickel penny from New Guinea.
I bought the halfpenny at a Heritage sale last year but lost out on the penny which went way over my budget at $660, so I was pleased to get this for less than half that price.
And here's the star of the lot, a French coin from the time of the Hundred Years' War.
Minted when Joan of Arc was still alive, or shortly after her death.
I could try to get a more precise date, but that mintmark looks very worn. I'll open a thread on the ID forum.
Update Jan. 30: The mintmark is from Rouen, it's a very worn leopard. Given the time period on the Rouen year line (1422-1449), it's more probable that it was minted after her death than during her lifetime.
On composer coins (@Dejan): today a 1936 silver Hungarian 2 Pengö arrived with Ferenc Liszt (Franz Liszt), who was born in a town that at that time was part of Hungary, but which is part of Austria now. The colours are due to making the pictures using the very latest daylight. It should be mentioned as well that the USSR and Russia have issued several composer issues, these are 5 examples that I found that I don't own, there may be more: 1989: N#5522 1990: N#5521 1991: N#14654 1993: N#64113 2023: N#356028
On the New Guinea beauty (@Gothic Florin): earlier in this chat I shared pictures that besides 3 other coins show a 1936 New Guinea silver Shilling that essentially has the same design. After the sad destruction of most of these 1 penny coins luckily this beautiful design later was used again on the circulating 1 Shilling coins.
Also some silver African beauties arrived, with these two being my favorites:
An Egyptian 1956 20 Qirsh/Piastres from the time of the short lived United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria), politically loosely joined by North Yemen (then the Mutawakkilite Kingdom). These three countries still have very similar flags.
A 1962 Liberian Dollar. Liberia and Ethiopia are the only African countries that never were colonized. The Ethiopian Birr below arrived earlier this month.
Besides coins I love geometry. The avatar consists of each of the 35 hexominoes used precisely once. With the 5 large yellow shapes placed like this, the solution for tiling the remaining 30 hexominoes is unique.
A new addition to my Kruger Gray collection, the 1929 cupronickel penny from New Guinea.
I bought the halfpenny at a Heritage sale last year but lost out on the penny which went way over my budget at $660, so I was pleased to get this for less than half that price.
Wow!
That coin is incredibly rare, I would never be able to get it - great work!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Starting this year, I believe the face value will be 35€ in place of €20 and 50€ in place of €25. They did something similar when they changed the 10€ to 20€ a few years ago due to the price of silver increasing
That's the general idea. Based on this sixbid page it's going to be 25€ instead of 20€ (.925 silver) and 35€ instead of 25€ (.999 silver).
Ah thanks for the clarification. I was informed wrong ;)
Despite being issued in 2004, only 10 fils is dated to that year. The rest of the coins are dated 2002. Also, as you can see, they used PVC containing materials for this set. I ended up carefully taking the coins out, so I don't damage the packaging, to preserve them. These pictures I took before this procedure:
2) Vanuatu Mint Set 2015
Finally got a 2015 set from Vanuatu. It seems to be very rare, because I only saw it on Colnect before. What I find very interesting is that coins are not encapsulated in plastic as it usually happens, and can be just taken out of the holder.
3) Uncirculated world coins:
Cook Islands: 2010full series.
Malawi: 1,2,5 tambala - 1995; 10 tambala - 2003; 20 tambala - 2006; 50 tambala,1 kwacha - 2004; 5,10 kwacha - 2006. I already had 1,5 tambala and 1 kwacha coins, so they are going to my swap list.
Tanzania: 50,100,200,500 shillings. Bought them only for 500 shilling coin, because the other three have been issued in a set. I will leave them in my collection until I find one.
Argentina: 1,5,10 australes - 1989 and a 1990 100 australes.
Lebanon: 10 piastres - 1961, and 500 pounds - 2012
Sudan: 1 pound - 2011
Ghana: 50 cedis - 1999. It is not well visible in the pictures, but the coin has a surface similar to the Canadian specimen coins. What, I guess, makes sense because it was minted by CRM. Why would they make a specimen finish coins for circulation in Ghana remains a mystery to me though.
Honduras: 20 cents - 1973
Canada: 1 cent - 2002, zinc version.
Samoa: 2 sene - 2000. FAO
I also bought few FM “Coin Sets of All Nations”. Here is what I got from them:
Myanmar: I think there were three FM sets for Myanmar. I bought the blue one, because I needed the 1986 25 pya coin, which is very hard to come by in uncirculated condition. I already had the rest, so they are going to my swap list
Turks and Caicos: ¼ and ½ crown - 1981
Paraguay: 1,5,10 guarani - 1984, 50 guarani - 1980. These coins have been issued in a 1980 proof set, but it is rare, so I decided to get them in normal finish until I find one.
Azerbaijan: 5 qapik - 1993, 10-20-50 qapik - 1992. These are quite hard to come buy in uncirculated condition.
Moldova: 1,5,25 bani - 1995; 50 bani - 1993. Bought them only for the 50 bani coin, which again is quite hard to come by in UNC. The rest will stay in my collection until I find a mint set.
Duplicate Burmese coins and stamps from FM sets. I wasn't saving them before…Maybe I should as they are quite interesting sometimes. I like the Paraguay stamp a lot
4) Anco set - Belgium
The 20 franc coin is, unfortunately, not the best quality, so I will be looking for a better one. But I bought this set for few euros below melt, so I think I did good.
There has been a lot of fantastic coins since I last posted here, my favourites has to be the ethiopian birr and the new guinea penny, love the designs on both.
For my final addition this month, I managed to get a really nice cleaned 1903 S philippines peso for melt value.
Happy I got it after the silver crash, otherwise it would have been very expensive. :)
There has been a lot of fantastic coins since I last posted here, my favourites has to be the ethiopian birr and the new guinea penny, love the designs on both.
For my final addition this month, I managed to get a really nice cleaned 1903 S philippines peso for melt value.
Happy I got it after the silver crash, otherwise it would have been very expensive. :)
Very nice! Your one is in awesome condition.
There is some interesting history with these Filipino pesos - many of them were essentially thrown into the sea to avoid capture during WW2.
Although it was mostly the small type, there were still some of the larger types stashed away in the ocean.
This could potentially explain the cleaning on yours.
From the Numista page:
Sea Salvaged US-Philippine Peso Coins
In 1942, over 16 million Pesos in silver were thrown into the sea near Corregidor to avoid being captured by the invading Japanese forces. majority of those thrown where dated 1907 to 1912 Peso (small type).
Since the war, over 10 million Pesos have been salvaged but are typically corroded due to being in saltwater for a long time. As of 2007, an estimated 3.5 million still remains under seawater. It is therefore typical to see listings in ebay anywhere online about “sea salvaged” US-Philippine One Peso coin and might be even underweight.
There has been a lot of fantastic coins since I last posted here, my favourites has to be the ethiopian birr and the new guinea penny, love the designs on both.
For my final addition this month, I managed to get a really nice cleaned 1903 S philippines peso for melt value.
Happy I got it after the silver crash, otherwise it would have been very expensive. :)
Very nice! Your one is in awesome condition.
There is some interesting history with these Filipino pesos - many of them were essentially thrown into the sea to avoid capture during WW2.
Although it was mostly the small type, there were still some of the larger types stashed away in the ocean.
This could potentially explain the cleaning on yours.
From the Numista page:
Sea Salvaged US-Philippine Peso Coins
In 1942, over 16 million Pesos in silver were thrown into the sea near Corregidor to avoid being captured by the invading Japanese forces. majority of those thrown where dated 1907 to 1912 Peso (small type).
Since the war, over 10 million Pesos have been salvaged but are typically corroded due to being in saltwater for a long time. As of 2007, an estimated 3.5 million still remains under seawater. It is therefore typical to see listings in ebay anywhere online about “sea salvaged” US-Philippine One Peso coin and might be even underweight.
Interesting bit of information there that I didn't know about the Philippines Peso. I believe some Hong Kong coinage had a similar fate at sea in WW2 aswell that I remember reading.
There has been a lot of fantastic coins since I last posted here, my favourites has to be the ethiopian birr and the new guinea penny, love the designs on both.
For my final addition this month, I managed to get a really nice cleaned 1903 S philippines peso for melt value.
Happy I got it after the silver crash, otherwise it would have been very expensive. :)
Very nice! Your one is in awesome condition.
There is some interesting history with these Filipino pesos - many of them were essentially thrown into the sea to avoid capture during WW2.
Although it was mostly the small type, there were still some of the larger types stashed away in the ocean.
This could potentially explain the cleaning on yours.
From the Numista page:
Sea Salvaged US-Philippine Peso Coins
In 1942, over 16 million Pesos in silver were thrown into the sea near Corregidor to avoid being captured by the invading Japanese forces. majority of those thrown where dated 1907 to 1912 Peso (small type).
Since the war, over 10 million Pesos have been salvaged but are typically corroded due to being in saltwater for a long time. As of 2007, an estimated 3.5 million still remains under seawater. It is therefore typical to see listings in ebay anywhere online about “sea salvaged” US-Philippine One Peso coin and might be even underweight.
Thank you for the explanation!
Are they uncommon in this grade? Just wondering since you pointed it out.
The peso is beautiful. Uncommon yes due to its condition, despite the cleaning it looks like a fresh coin. Also as it was the larger size coin. For some reason, the Americans decided their colonial coins should be smaller and have less precious metal than the American silver coinage.
I have 2 of those later pesos 1907 and 1908 and one is blackened, the other is very worn. They don't have a shade on yours.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
The peso is beautiful. Uncommon yes due to its condition, despite the cleaning it looks like a fresh coin. Also as it was the larger size coin. For some reason, the Americans decided their colonial coins should be smaller and have less precious metal than the American silver coinage.
I have 2 of those later pesos 1907 and 1908 and one is blackened, the other is very worn. They don't have a shade on yours.
Thanks, I have actually been looking out for one of these a while now, what happened was I visited a seller hoping to get some nice silver for a low price, and there it was.
They seemed to be quite stressed about the silver price crashing, there were also a few more nice large silvers going for melt, but this one caught my eye.
My last coin for the month to show is an Isle of Man 5 pence 2015 found in change today. I went through last year without finding anything from the Isle of Man in circulation but today on the last day of the first month into this year I found this. A magnetic type also that I missed in my collection. Buying that loaf of bread and Sunday roast chicken was worth it!. Small finds like this are some of the best for me.
hello, quite late i want to complete the 4th and last part of my purchase from the katz austion 180.
These are bids without preparation watching the progress of auction. Pictures are taken without daylight, red and brown tones seem more intense than in reality.
Two quite common types in good condition:
and two rupies
Indore 1890, the smiling sun motive should open a thematic thread :-)
