Happy New Years to everyone! Here is the start of the first ‘additions’ thread for the year 2026!
New Zealand 1934 Shilling
Not a super scarce coin, but this one is in above-average condition and close to the VF mark. These coins are all from the same bulk lot as the non-silver ones shown in last month's thread.
Australia 1927 Parliament House Florin
One of my favourites, this one was issued to commemorate the opening of (old) Parliament House in Canberra. This one is in the average condition these are often found in, which is actually surprisingly high compared to other Australian silver coins from the same era. This is due to these coins being kept aside and not spent by many, meaning they saw less circulation. In fact, a decent UNC example can be bought for around the $200 mark.
United States 1941D 25 Cents
This one is quite obviously worse for wear on the reverse, but the obverse is still nice. These quarters and even just US coins in general are a bit harder to find in my corner of the world.
I look forward to seeing what new additions everyone has for the month of January 2026!!
Amazing how he have coins already when its a public holiday I assume in most countries (Maybe some non western ones don't celebrate today as a New Year).
Agree about the Canberra Florins, average grade of preservation is VF to gVF and your one is at that level where crown and the temple of the kings head connect. That contrasts sharply for usual Australian florins of George V which are Fair to VG on average with near Fine being approached for the common years of 1931, 34 and 36. In 2021 I bought 30 florins as a bulk lot, all 1912 to 1936 and it had 10 canberras which varied from high VF down to Fine.
The first lot cost me around $12 per coin, the 2nd group of 8 cost me $100 in total in 2022, now they are at least $30 each.
This was the worst one I found in a bulk lot
I would still grade it fine, although now it may dig down into the High Very Goods.
The best was this, that cost $20 in early 2024
I graded it high AU - 99% of all circulated Canberra florins, land between these 2. I have had as many as 30 at once, lately I am quite low down to about 11 coins (I gave one out as a Xmas gift).
The 1934 shilling is above average, most NZ 1930s silver is in Good to high VG condition and Fine and VF are not too rare, overheated silver prices means the VF price has been absorbed into melt value for common years like 1933 and 1934. Your coin is a solid VG example and a nice piece.
Finally - Happy new year everyone!!!!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
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A group of well circulated coppers, just imagine life in Tunisia in the teens of the last century, makes me think of a Tintin story.
Next an interesting silver piece from 1939 -
This is somewhat rare, I am glad to have it. The corresponding 1939 20 Franc piece of cosmopolitan France struck on the same planchets is likewise a low mintage key date.
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
Although I despised their colonisation of the Magreb, the French had some very imaginative and artistic coin designs for their colonies.
Haven't got themyet, but bought 3 Fijian coins I really need (1935 and 1938 6d and a 1937 Florin) today on Trade Me, but public holidays will not ensure I see these babies before the 6th or 7th.
For all you people in the Northern Hemisphere, New Zealand really shuts down over Christmas/New Year and although most places nominally open on the first business day after January 2nd (Day after new years public holiday). Most places take extended holidays and time off and some d not start back up until the end of January.
Most of the North Island has its anniversary day on the last Monday in January and we have national Waitangi day on February 6 and this is when most schools go back too. Only then does life fully resume. Not sure about Europe/USA but if a secular (Non religious) public holiday falls in the weekend, it is “Mondayised”, meaning it is rolled forward to a weekday and thus a 3 day weekend is offered.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Received a very nice proof coin from the hyderabad mint commemorating the 550th anniversary of a major temple in Goa important to the Gaud Saraswati Brahmin sect (GSB). The GSB are said to have originated from the Himalayas (present day Kashmir-ladakh) and migrated south & westwards along the (mythical) Saraswati River till they ended up in the present day Konkan Region of western India (along the coast of southern maharashtra, Goa and northern Karnataka). The GSB consider themselves children of goddess Saraswati in her river form who in turn is the daughter of Lord Shiva. it is said that she sprouted from his head. The GSB are unique in that they are the only Brahmin Class who eat Fish. the story goes that Goddess Saraswati in her rage flooded the plains and destroyed the crop. After realizing her children suffered as a result, she granted them the bounty of the river’s Fish. I can trace my family’s pre-catholic roots going back hundreds of years that place me as part of the GSB. In that sense, this coin takes on additional symbolic meaning for me :)
Although I despised their colonisation of the Magreb, the French had some very imaginative and artistic coin designs for their colonies.
Haven't got themyet, but bought 3 Fijian coins I really need (1935 and 1938 6d and a 1937 Florin) today on Trade Me, but public holidays will not ensure I see these babies before the 6th or 7th.
For all you people in the Northern Hemisphere, New Zealand really shuts down over Christmas/New Year and although most places nominally open on the first business day after January 2nd (Day after new years public holiday). Most places take extended holidays and time off and some d not start back up until the end of January.
Most of the North Island has its anniversary day on the last Monday in January and we have national Waitangi day on February 6 and this is when most schools go back too. Only then does life fully resume. Not sure about Europe/USA but if a secular (Non religious) public holiday falls in the weekend, it is “Mondayised”, meaning it is rolled forward to a weekday and thus a 3 day weekend is offered.
I agree with both statements. One on the colonisation and the other on the coins of the era. Love the Algerian, Tunisian and Moroccan pieces of the time. The Algerian francs can still be found for cheap here mainly. The Algerian 100 francs is my favourite.
I have lived here in South Canada for 60 years, Canadian coins circulate interchangeably here, I have always had a Canadian coin collection. My father had a jar to hold Canadian coins, and whenever we went on a trip north of the border we would fill our pockets with change from the jar. I also have such a jar, though its been years since I've gone anywhere. So I am abashed to say I have never seen one of these before, never knew it existed!
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
I have lived here in South Canada for 60 years, Canadian coins circulate interchangeably here, I have always had a Canadian coin collection. My father had a jar to hold Canadian coins, and whenever we went on a trip north of the border we would fill our pockets with change from the jar. I also have such a jar, though its been years since I've gone anywhere. So I am abashed to say I have never seen one of these before, never knew it existed!
The centennial set is nice, though I’m not a fan personally of the large empty spaces. The RCMP is extremely common and you’re likely to find it in change here in Canada even until this day.
I initally thought you made a typo and perhaps meant South Carolina… but Now I do see you indeed live in south Canada lol !
One more proof coin received in the post before I head back to Canada.
this one is dedicated to Guru Gobind singh’s death. He is particularly revered by Hindus as well as he was sentenced to death under the orders of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb; who unlike his forefathers, was quite fanatical in his Islamic leanings. The Guru fought on behalf of the Hindu population in present day Punjab; the Mughal emperor offered him amnesty if he would not interfere, but he still kept on.
the gurudwara you see here is located in Nanded, present day Maharashtra state, on the site where Guru gobind Singh was executed
Although I despised their colonisation of the Magreb, the French had some very imaginative and artistic coin designs for their colonies.
Haven't got themyet, but bought 3 Fijian coins I really need (1935 and 1938 6d and a 1937 Florin) today on Trade Me, but public holidays will not ensure I see these babies before the 6th or 7th.
For all you people in the Northern Hemisphere, New Zealand really shuts down over Christmas/New Year and although most places nominally open on the first business day after January 2nd (Day after new years public holiday). Most places take extended holidays and time off and some d not start back up until the end of January.
Most of the North Island has its anniversary day on the last Monday in January and we have national Waitangi day on February 6 and this is when most schools go back too. Only then does life fully resume. Not sure about Europe/USA but if a secular (Non religious) public holiday falls in the weekend, it is “Mondayised”, meaning it is rolled forward to a weekday and thus a 3 day weekend is offered.
I agree with both statements. One on the colonisation and the other on the coins of the era. Love the Algerian, Tunisian and Moroccan pieces of the time. The Algerian francs can still be found for cheap here mainly. The Algerian 100 francs is my favourite.
Thanks Bruno, this Moroccan coin (50 Francs, although the 10 is a beauty too), is one of my favourites, a high point of French Arabesque Art Deco!
Of course it would look better in even better condition. Just so much design elements and detail.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
I have lived here in South Canada for 60 years, Canadian coins circulate interchangeably here, I have always had a Canadian coin collection. My father had a jar to hold Canadian coins, and whenever we went on a trip north of the border we would fill our pockets with change from the jar. I also have such a jar, though its been years since I've gone anywhere. So I am abashed to say I have never seen one of these before, never knew it existed!
All of those 1967 coins work except the dime, the fish looks too small and miserable next to the big designs on other coins. Note how the other coins, the animal fills the coin space, or is striking (cent)
Not forgetting the other coin in that set! Unfortunately all the coin sets were prooflike and not proof hence mixed conditions!
Always a nice coin, when you get a real "blazer like this one.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
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I agree, first time I've ever seen the 6 øre as well - what an amazing coin! Low mintage too, only a 2-year type with both years having mintages around the 145k mark.
Dejan - Those Newton coins are incredible too! Amazing the condition they are in considering their age.
Thanks! Even though all of the koppar bergsl pollet have a relatively low mintage you do see them sometimes here in sweden, I always make sure to buy them, is my third one!
A nice Chilean 1915 1 Peso in the post today. Simple but lovely design. 🇨🇱
Hi Bruno, You posted this the 3rd. Oddly, today such a 1915 peso arrived also at my place, which would have arrived on the 3rd as well had there been no snow over here. A lot of mail is getting delayed due to this snow…
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 nice Chilean 1915 1 Peso in the post today. Simple but lovely design. 🇨🇱
Hi Bruno, You posted this the 3rd. Oddly, today such a 1915 peso arrived also at my place, which would have arrived on the 3rd as well had there been no snow over here. A lot of mail is getting delayed due to this snow…
Hello mate, thats a cool coincidence. Small world. Your coin is in better condition than mine, particularly the numbers of the year. Glad to see other collectors getting what silver they can at the moment before the prices get ridiculous . We've had snow here for a couple of days now. But still seeing the royal mail vans around though this was late for me also over the Christmas period.
Lots of very cool coins on display in this thread already! 😍
Today three parcels arrived (which is exceptional for me, I spent part my free days at the end of the year ordering coins. Quite some silver as well before the price really explodes, like BrunoCoins just mentioned! 😁
Some of the coolest beauties that arrived:
I'll start with an iron coin, one of the three issues of Ober Ost occupation coins, for German occupied parts of Latvia and Lithuania. As an other major hobby of mine is geometry, I like the German cross on this coin.
The smallest coin I'll share here now is a pentagonal silver coin from the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen. This is a 1/8 riyal, there is also a pentagonal 1/16 riyal. Those are the only pentagonal metal coins ever issued anywhere, that I'm aware of. Besides geometry I'm also very interested in religion and spirituality. So I like it that within the circle there is a reference to God: ‘there is no god but God’.
Another silver coin with a clear reference to religion, an image of a statue of Mary in the tiny Austrian city (since 1948) Mariazell, a place of pelgrimage as well. A city with less than 4000 inhabitants. (it was dark outside when I took the picture, hence the poor light conditions)
Some paper German notgeld, from the Saxony city Benneckenstein. I just love the German texts in Gothic style lettering. There is no translation available yet on Numista, when I find some time I'll take care of that. They're cute little stories.
A Cuban ABC-peso. In case this coin is new to you then you should read about the unusual history: N#13902 To me it appears like the date number design is Art Nouveau, design of the lady looks Art Nouveau as well. A very modern coin for that era.
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.
Cuba is one of my pet countries, particularly the Philadelphia minted silver. The Cuban peso was the same as a US dollar. Not many people have those ABC pesos in their collection. 😎
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
I have lived here in South Canada for 60 years, Canadian coins circulate interchangeably here, I have always had a Canadian coin collection. My father had a jar to hold Canadian coins, and whenever we went on a trip north of the border we would fill our pockets with change from the jar. I also have such a jar, though its been years since I've gone anywhere. So I am abashed to say I have never seen one of these before, never knew it existed!
All of those 1967 coins work except the dime, the fish looks too small and miserable next to the big designs on other coins. Note how the other coins, the animal fills the coin space, or is striking (cent)
Not forgetting the other coin in that set! Unfortunately all the coin sets were prooflike and not proof hence mixed conditions!
Always a nice coin, when you get a real "blazer like this one.
My first one, still in its c.1975 2x2.
80 cents was real money for a kid at that time.
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
Cuba is one of my pet countries, particularly the Philadelphia minted silver. The Cuban peso was the same as a US dollar. Not many people have those ABC pesos in their collection. 😎
Amazing and probably very hard to find 1934 U.S.A./Cuba/Panama triple in your link! As I don't collect years I'll most likely end up owning just the 1935 coin, though in this specific case a 1934 coin is exceptional with the intertwined digits design! You wrote there it's Art Deco, interesting, that should be mentioned on the pages of these coins in the comments.
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.
Lots of very cool coins on display in this thread already! 😍
Today three parcels arrived (which is exceptional for me, I spent part my free days at the end of the year ordering coins. Quite some silver as well before the price really explodes, like BrunoCoins just mentioned! 😁
Some of the coolest beauties that arrived:
I'll start with an iron coin, one of the three issues of Ober Ost occupation coins, for German occupied parts of Latvia and Lithuania. As an other major hobby of mine is geometry, I like the German cross on this coin.
The smallest coin I'll share here now is a pentagonal silver coin from the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen. This is a 1/8 riyal, there is also a pentagonal 1/16 riyal. Those are the only pentagonal metal coins ever issued anywhere, that I'm aware of. Besides geometry I'm also very interested in religion and spirituality. So I like it that within the circle there is a reference to God: ‘there is no god but God’.
Another silver coin with a clear reference to religion, an image of a statue of Mary in the tiny Austrian city (since 1948) Mariazell, a place of pelgrimage as well. A city with less than 4000 inhabitants. (it was dark outside when I took the picture, hence the poor light conditions)
Some paper German notgeld, from the Saxony city Benneckenstein. I just love the German texts in Gothic style lettering. There is no translation available yet on Numista, when I find some time I'll take care of that. They're cute little stories.
A Cuban ABC-peso. In case this coin is new to you then you should read about the unusual history: N#13902 To me it appears like the date number design is Art Nouveau, design of the lady looks Art Nouveau as well. A very modern coin for that era.
The occupation Kopecks series are really cool! Circulated in the Baltic states mainly if I am correct?. Also Timmermans, I paid £3.84 with free postage for some coins from your home country. English my age have got used to saying “The Netherlands” thesedays but people around my fathers age still use Holland and me myself too sometimes. Anyhow, got around 24 Gulden/Guilder in pre Euro common Dutch coins, Queen Juliana and Beatrix ones. Not worth much but some nice album fillers and types. 5 Gulden, 2 ½ Gulden, 1 Gulden, 25c,10c,5c. The seller didn't have any other coins for sale so I am guessing these were left over from a trip many years ago. As the years go by I am seeing less and less lots like this on Ebay from people trying to get rid of pre euro currency they have left from vacations before 2002.
Lots of very cool coins on display in this thread already! 😍
Today three parcels arrived (which is exceptional for me, I spent part my free days at the end of the year ordering coins. Quite some silver as well before the price really explodes, like BrunoCoins just mentioned! 😁
Some of the coolest beauties that arrived:
I'll start with an iron coin, one of the three issues of Ober Ost occupation coins, for German occupied parts of Latvia and Lithuania. As an other major hobby of mine is geometry, I like the German cross on this coin.
The smallest coin I'll share here now is a pentagonal silver coin from the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen. This is a 1/8 riyal, there is also a pentagonal 1/16 riyal. Those are the only pentagonal metal coins ever issued anywhere, that I'm aware of. Besides geometry I'm also very interested in religion and spirituality. So I like it that within the circle there is a reference to God: ‘there is no god but God’.
Another silver coin with a clear reference to religion, an image of a statue of Mary in the tiny Austrian city (since 1948) Mariazell, a place of pelgrimage as well. A city with less than 4000 inhabitants. (it was dark outside when I took the picture, hence the poor light conditions)
Some paper German notgeld, from the Saxony city Benneckenstein. I just love the German texts in Gothic style lettering. There is no translation available yet on Numista, when I find some time I'll take care of that. They're cute little stories.
A Cuban ABC-peso. In case this coin is new to you then you should read about the unusual history: N#13902 To me it appears like the date number design is Art Nouveau, design of the lady looks Art Nouveau as well. A very modern coin for that era.
Lots of very cool coins on display in this thread already! 😍
Today three parcels arrived (which is exceptional for me, I spent part my free days at the end of the year ordering coins. Quite some silver as well before the price really explodes, like BrunoCoins just mentioned! 😁
Some of the coolest beauties that arrived:
I'll start with an iron coin, one of the three issues of Ober Ost occupation coins, for German occupied parts of Latvia and Lithuania. As an other major hobby of mine is geometry, I like the German cross on this coin.
The smallest coin I'll share here now is a pentagonal silver coin from the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen. This is a 1/8 riyal, there is also a pentagonal 1/16 riyal. Those are the only pentagonal metal coins ever issued anywhere, that I'm aware of. Besides geometry I'm also very interested in religion and spirituality. So I like it that within the circle there is a reference to God: ‘there is no god but God’.
Another silver coin with a clear reference to religion, an image of a statue of Mary in the tiny Austrian city (since 1948) Mariazell, a place of pelgrimage as well. A city with less than 4000 inhabitants. (it was dark outside when I took the picture, hence the poor light conditions)
Some paper German notgeld, from the Saxony city Benneckenstein. I just love the German texts in Gothic style lettering. There is no translation available yet on Numista, when I find some time I'll take care of that. They're cute little stories.
A Cuban ABC-peso. In case this coin is new to you then you should read about the unusual history: N#13902 To me it appears like the date number design is Art Nouveau, design of the lady looks Art Nouveau as well. A very modern coin for that era.
The occupation Kopecks series are really cool! Circulated in the Baltic states mainly if I am correct?. Also Timmermans, I paid £3.84 with free postage for some coins from your home country. English my age have got used to saying “The Netherlands” thesedays but people around my fathers age still use Holland and me myself too sometimes. Anyhow, got around 24 Gulden/Guilder in pre Euro common Dutch coins, Queen Juliana and Beatrix ones. Not worth much but some nice album fillers and types. 5 Gulden, 2 ½ Gulden, 1 Gulden, 25c,10c,5c. The seller didn't have any other coins for sale so I am guessing these were left over from a trip many years ago. As the years go by I am seeing less and less lots like this on Ebay from people trying to get rid of pre euro currency they have left from vacations before 2002.
Indeed these Kopecks circulated in the parts of present Baltic states that were occupied, yet according to the Numista page also in parts of present Poland and Belarus, see: N#7070
The use of ‘Holland’ for a part is due to Dutch traders being very practical. They would put ‘Holland’ on their trucks, as internationally that name is nearly the same in most languages, while ‘the Netherlands’ in other languages often looks very different, like e.g. ‘Pays-Bas’ in French. Strictly, Holland only refers to two out of the 12 provinces, being North Holland and South Holland, yet a vast amount of Dutch trade takes place there, with Rotterdam and its harbour being in South Holland and Amsterdam and the national airport Schiphol being in North Holland. The old guilder coins only could be exchanged for Euros for just a few years at the National Bank, after that they pretty much became scrap metal. Even UNC sets went for just about 2 Euros or so at that time. The 1948 Queen Wilhelmina 1, 5, 10 and 25 cent(s) and Queen Juliana 1 cent coins are also part of the post-war guilder issues that are of low value and nice album fillers indeed. On the Last Dodo website the last one cent coin (1980) at present is sold in UNC condition for just 10 Euro cents + combined postage. It has the single year mint mark ‘rooster with star’, the final year for Queen Juliana coins as well. In the eighties these UNC coins sold for about 10 guilders each, partly due to some hoarders keeping entire bags straight from the bank as an investment. A poor investment it turns out, as in general coin collectors only need one in their 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.
I have piles of those old Dutch guilder coins and lots of the 1 cents and 10 cents of Wilhelmina dated 1948 and then 1950 for Juliana. I also have a total of 112 Guilders in old base metal coins, including 6 x 5 guilders all dated 1988 and 1989 - now all worthless like the 124DM of old German coins I have too.
These are 3 Fijian coins I bought on January 2, so verifiable 2026 purchases finally arrived after 3 public holidays and a letter from post office saying new staffing cuts have made some services slightly slower.
2 sixpences 1935 and 1938, both average examples, but better dates. I now just need 1936 and 1967 (Weirdly as its common). Both were $14 each and surprisingly they are only 50% silver with 1.41 grams of silver in them, yet that is over $6 in silver now!
1937 Florin, a rare date with just 30k issued (Then again 6 figure mintages were high by Fijian standards). It was year 4 of their coinage and coins had come out every year, so by now with almost 1 million florins in use, they had cut back the mintages to a even more mean 20k in 1938 and 1941. The 1937 is interesting as the word “KING” is in front of the King's face, designers did not like this and moved it behind the King's head in 1938 where it sat until 1947.
These coins have the colonial portrait of KGVI in which he was crowned and it was the work of Percy Metcalfe not Humphrey Paget.
I just need 2 sixpences and a threepence and I will have completed predecimal Fiji!
PS Just noticed these coins also feed into the Art Deco theme we have running here as they were designed in 1933/34 and Percy Metcalfe was a big fan of Deco and 1930s streamline/moderne designs.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
I have piles of those old Dutch guilder coins and lots of the 1 cents and 10 cents of Wilhelmina dated 1948 and then 1950 for Juliana. I also have a total of 112 Guilders in old base metal coins, including 6 x 5 guilders all dated 1988 and 1989 - now all worthless like the 124DM of old German coins I have too.
These are 3 Fijian coins I bought on January 2, so verifiable 2026 purchases finally arrived after 3 public holidays and a letter from post office saying new staffing cuts have made some services slightly slower.
2 sixpences 1935 and 1938, both average examples, but better dates. I now just need 1936 and 1967 (Weirdly as its common). Both were $14 each and surprisingly they are only 50% silver with 1.41 grams of silver in them, yet that is over $6 in silver now!
1937 Florin, a rare date with just 30k issued (Then again 6 figure mintages were high by Fijian standards). It was year 4 of their coinage and coins had come out every year, so by now with almost 1 million florins in use, they had cut back the mintages to a even more mean 20k in 1938 and 1941. The 1937 is interesting as the word “KING” is in front of the King's face, designers did not like this and moved it behind the King's head in 1938 where it sat until 1947.
These coins have the colonial portrait of KGVI in which he was crowned and it was the work of Percy Metcalfe not Humphrey Paget.
I just need 2 sixpences and a threepence and I will have completed predecimal Fiji!
PS Just noticed these coins also feed into the Art Deco theme we have running here as they were designed in 1933/34 and Percy Metcalfe was a big fan of Deco and 1930s streamline/moderne designs.
Nice turtles. Moneytane! I just have a later copper-nickel turtle… I had a look on Numista and it sais currently that the first 3 silver turtle types are .500 silver, while the 4th has .900 silver with the same weight. That does not seem to make sense. Could it be that it is .900 silver as those were minted in San Fransisco?
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 two W mintmarked $2 coins and the Christmas 25 cents all show evidence of circulation wear even though they were “not intended for circulation”. Once the sets are broken, they have exactly the same specs as the regular circulating coins: size, weight, composition, colour. So, it's not surprising that some find their way into circulation. I myself got the 2000 W $1 in my change in 2019.
I have piles of those old Dutch guilder coins and lots of the 1 cents and 10 cents of Wilhelmina dated 1948 and then 1950 for Juliana. I also have a total of 112 Guilders in old base metal coins, including 6 x 5 guilders all dated 1988 and 1989 - now all worthless like the 124DM of old German coins I have too.
These are 3 Fijian coins I bought on January 2, so verifiable 2026 purchases finally arrived after 3 public holidays and a letter from post office saying new staffing cuts have made some services slightly slower.
2 sixpences 1935 and 1938, both average examples, but better dates. I now just need 1936 and 1967 (Weirdly as its common). Both were $14 each and surprisingly they are only 50% silver with 1.41 grams of silver in them, yet that is over $6 in silver now!
1937 Florin, a rare date with just 30k issued (Then again 6 figure mintages were high by Fijian standards). It was year 4 of their coinage and coins had come out every year, so by now with almost 1 million florins in use, they had cut back the mintages to a even more mean 20k in 1938 and 1941. The 1937 is interesting as the word “KING” is in front of the King's face, designers did not like this and moved it behind the King's head in 1938 where it sat until 1947.
These coins have the colonial portrait of KGVI in which he was crowned and it was the work of Percy Metcalfe not Humphrey Paget.
I just need 2 sixpences and a threepence and I will have completed predecimal Fiji!
PS Just noticed these coins also feed into the Art Deco theme we have running here as they were designed in 1933/34 and Percy Metcalfe was a big fan of Deco and 1930s streamline/moderne designs.
Nice turtles. Moneytane! I just have a later copper-nickel turtle… I had a look on Numista and it sais currently that the first 3 silver turtle types are .500 silver, while the 4th has .900 silver with the same weight. That does not seem to make sense. Could it be that it is .900 silver as those were minted in San Fransisco?
Its because during WW2, the silver coins of Fiji (6d, 1/-, 2/-) were minted in San Francisco and they could only use 90% silver, as they could not do 50%. Nazi U boats and the Japanese aggressors stopped supply of coins coming from the UK, as Fiji like New Zealand could not mint its own coins. The Americans also minted brass ½d and 1d coins too (Nickel was needed for the war effort).
This happened in 1942 and 1943 and they minted huge numbers of each coin, meaning 1942 and 1943 coins, despite their high purity are amongst the easiest of all the silver coins of Fiji to get. Now its just crazy silver prices stopping them being truly affordable.
Australia also used the Americans to mint their silver in 1942, 43 and 44 - although as back up as Australia could mint their own coins. Australia did not mint coins for NZ and Fiji as their currencies used the stingy 50% silver mix and Aussie coins were sterling until 1945.
To make it more bizarre, UK minted NZ coins through the war and had no issues getting them here (Mainly as the Japanese and Nazis were more interested in the tropical waters of the Pacific, rather than the southern ocean routes taken to NZ).
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Czechoslovakia 10 Korun 1930. Nice silver from a non existent country today and 96 years old.
I like the condition of your coin, beaten by circulation, yet the details are still mostly there, like a tough soldier that has survived a brutal war.
A Hungarian 10 Forint coin arrived at my door a couple of days ago as well. István Széchenyi is known as the greatest Hungarian. Quote from the Wikipedia page about him: 'He fought with distinction at the battle of Raab (14 June 1809) and on 19 July brought about the subsequent junction of the two Austrian armies by conveying a message across the Danube to General Chasteler at the risk of his life.
Equally memorable was his famous ride, through the enemy's lines on the night of 16–17 October 1813, to convey to Blücher and Bernadotte the wishes of the two emperors that they should participate in the battle of Leipzig on the following day, at a given time and place.' The coin commemorates the 1848 revolution.
I just love the visual aspect of written East European languages, while Hungarian has these supurp pronounciations of impossible words.
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.
And Moneytane, thank you for your cool explanation of the Fiji silver discrepancy! I hope you'll add it to the Fiji 1942-1943 .900 silver pages, so that others may understand it as well!
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.
And Moneytane, thank you for your cool explanation of the Fiji silver discrepancy! I hope you'll add it to the Fiji 1942-1943 .900 silver pages, so that others may understand it as well!
Its there on the Fiji page, 3rd post down I discuss it.
I also have a chart of dates and mintages which shows colour coding for metals.
There are some other comments about modern Niue style NCLT Fiji has down and contributions by others, but I am all over that page. Fiji is a rewarding country to collect and their predecimal and CIRCULATING coins are cheap and easy to get, plus have low mintages.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Czechoslovakia 10 Korun 1930. Nice silver from a non existent country today and 96 years old.
I like the condition of your coin, beaten by circulation, yet the details are still mostly there, like a tough soldier that has survived a brutal war.
A Hungarian 10 Forint coin arrived at my door a couple of days ago as well. István Széchenyi is known as the greatest Hungarian. Quote from the Wikipedia page about him: 'He fought with distinction at the battle of Raab (14 June 1809) and on 19 July brought about the subsequent junction of the two Austrian armies by conveying a message across the Danube to General Chasteler at the risk of his life.
Equally memorable was his famous ride, through the enemy's lines on the night of 16–17 October 1813, to convey to Blücher and Bernadotte the wishes of the two emperors that they should participate in the battle of Leipzig on the following day, at a given time and place.' The coin commemorates the 1848 revolution.
I just love the visual aspect of written East European languages, while Hungarian has these supurp pronounciations of impossible words.
Thankyou. Yes , it does not bother me with such pieces as it makes them more “authentic” for me. This was normal currency and used in every day life though I have no idea what this coin could've bought in 1930 communist Czechoslovakia back then. I feel the same about written eastern European languages too. The Hungarian coin is beautiful. A coin I have never seen actually. At one time Czechoslovakia and Hungary would've been within the same borders if i'm not mistaken. Our European history gets so confusing even for us history fans.
And Moneytane, thank you for your cool explanation of the Fiji silver discrepancy! I hope you'll add it to the Fiji 1942-1943 .900 silver pages, so that others may understand it as well!
Its there on the Fiji page, 3rd post down I discuss it.
I also have a chart of dates and mintages which shows colour coding for metals.
There are some other comments about modern Niue style NCLT Fiji has down and contributions by others, but I am all over that page. Fiji is a rewarding country to collect and their predecimal and CIRCULATING coins are cheap and easy to get, plus have low mintages.
I already have about 30 types of coins from Fiji, they mostly are decimal coinage though. Apparently in New Zealand they're easy to get, in the Netherlands it's harder though, except for the overpriced ones on eBay. If I remember correctly I got some from U.S. sellers before shipping from the U.S. became so expensive.
About the information on .900 silver I meant to add it as comments to N#18185 , N#18184 and N#12573 . That is the most likely place where people will find this information. I didn't think of searching the forum for such information. At the moment there are no comments on these coin types.
I'll certainly look to buy some of the Fiji silver coin types!
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.
Czechoslovakia 10 Korun 1930. Nice silver from a non existent country today and 96 years old.
I like the condition of your coin, beaten by circulation, yet the details are still mostly there, like a tough soldier that has survived a brutal war.
A Hungarian 10 Forint coin arrived at my door a couple of days ago as well. István Széchenyi is known as the greatest Hungarian. Quote from the Wikipedia page about him: 'He fought with distinction at the battle of Raab (14 June 1809) and on 19 July brought about the subsequent junction of the two Austrian armies by conveying a message across the Danube to General Chasteler at the risk of his life.
Equally memorable was his famous ride, through the enemy's lines on the night of 16–17 October 1813, to convey to Blücher and Bernadotte the wishes of the two emperors that they should participate in the battle of Leipzig on the following day, at a given time and place.' The coin commemorates the 1848 revolution.
I just love the visual aspect of written East European languages, while Hungarian has these supurp pronounciations of impossible words.
Thankyou. Yes , it does not bother me with such pieces as it makes them more “authentic” for me. This was normal currency and used in every day life though I have no idea what this coin could've bought in 1930 communist Czechoslovakia back then. I feel the same about written eastern European languages too. The Hungarian coin is beautiful. A coin I have never seen actually. At one time Czechoslovakia and Hungary would've been within the same borders if i'm not mistaken. Our European history gets so confusing even for us history fans.
You're welcome and you're right about Czechoslovakia and Hungary having been within the same borders indeed. The following video shows the many changes of the map of Europe from the year 1000 to the year 2000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjWVFZ5e_vo (there are definitely many errors in that video, but it gives a good impression)
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.
Mr Timmermans, the Dutch lot arrived today. Looks like I was right about them being left over holiday money from a holiday years ago as the coins came in a travel money bag. The notes given by the post office or holiday companies were often given in these at exchange offices but thesedays they use envelopes. The bag is from the now obsolete company Thomas Cook. I remember my mother getting Spanish pesetas notes for our holidays in such bags hahaha. A nice bit of British social history for you. Also I remember before the Euro the post offices would have a chart in the window with european flags and exchange rates for the day of each of their currency. In Tunisia 6 years ago my hotel exchange office still had a manual one of these in the background with Finnish Markkaa still listed as an option to exchange and everything else you will remember.
For now this is my only addition to my collection outside of swaps (which I don’t post here).
England 1990 “Gill” £5 note the 558,907th example printed from the first ever prefix of this type.
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.
And Moneytane, thank you for your cool explanation of the Fiji silver discrepancy! I hope you'll add it to the Fiji 1942-1943 .900 silver pages, so that others may understand it as well!
Its there on the Fiji page, 3rd post down I discuss it.
I also have a chart of dates and mintages which shows colour coding for metals.
There are some other comments about modern Niue style NCLT Fiji has down and contributions by others, but I am all over that page. Fiji is a rewarding country to collect and their predecimal and CIRCULATING coins are cheap and easy to get, plus have low mintages.
I already have about 30 types of coins from Fiji, they mostly are decimal coinage though. Apparently in New Zealand they're easy to get, in the Netherlands it's harder though, except for the overpriced ones on eBay. If I remember correctly I got some from U.S. sellers before shipping from the U.S. became so expensive.
About the information on .900 silver I meant to add it as comments to N#18185 , N#18184 and N#12573 . That is the most likely place where people will find this information. I didn't think of searching the forum for such information. At the moment there are no comments on these coin types.
I'll certainly look to buy some of the Fiji silver coin types!
All good sir, they are great coins to collect, because they are cheap given low mintage numbers and the silver content. However they are getting hard to find now and the silver price has also made them less cheap. On the plus side the non precious metal coins (up to 3d and post 1945 coins) ar easy and cheap to find.
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@BrunoCoins Your bunch of Dutch holiday coin leftovers inspired me to create an image with the UNC 2½ Guilders coins I bought a few weeks ago (close enough to January I hope to be shown here), straight from a 1969 coin bag. These were the last coins minted with a ‘fish’ mint master mark, while being the first non-silver ones as well. Early that year, a new mint master was chosen. This caused a low mintage for the ‘fish’-version. Several people expected these coins to become very valuable, so they got entire bags with them from the bank. At some point the price rose to about 25 guilders or more a piece, even for VF ones. Then someone released a lot of them from a coin bag on the market, not long after that the price fell. Nowadays, even UNC-coins can be found for about 5 or 6 euros, I got 10 for 25 euros. The image: 4 of these coins from the same coin bag. The edge inscription reads ‘GOD ZIJ MET ONS’ (with stars inbetween), meaning 'God be with us'. These coins clearly show that the edge inscription is created first, afterwards the obverse and reverse are minted. This means that roughly 50% of the coins has the text standing upward towards the reverse, while the other half has it standing downward.
@Moneytane Over here it's really quite a bit harder finding any of the old ones as compared to New Zealand! I did find some affordable silver shillings though of 2 different types (close enough to spot), as a type collector I intend to order one of each type. The few silver turtles I found for sale so far are starting at roughly 20 euros a piece, that seems to be too much for these little ones.
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.
@BrunoCoins Your bunch of Dutch holiday coin leftovers inspired me to create an image with the UNC 2½ Guilders coins I bought a few weeks ago (close enough to January I hope to be shown here), straight from a 1969 coin bag. These were the last coins minted with a ‘fish’ mint master mark, while being the first non-silver ones as well. Early that year, a new mint master was chosen. This caused a low mintage for the ‘fish’-version. Several people expected these coins to become very valuable, so they got entire bags with them from the bank. At some point the price rose to about 25 guilders or more a piece, even for VF ones. Then someone released a lot of them from a coin bag on the market, not long after that the price fell. Nowadays, even UNC-coins can be found for about 5 or 6 euros, I got 10 for 25 euros. The image: 4 of these coins from the same coin bag. The edge inscription reads ‘GOD ZIJ MET ONS’ (with stars inbetween), meaning 'God be with us'. These coins clearly show that the edge inscription is created first, afterwards the obverse and reverse are minted. This means that roughly 50% of the coins has the text standing upward towards the reverse, while the other half has it standing downward.
@Moneytane Over here it's really quite a bit harder finding any of the old ones as compared to New Zealand! I did find some affordable silver shillings though of 2 different types (close enough to spot), as a type collector I intend to order one of each type. The few silver turtles I found for sale so far are starting at roughly 20 euros a piece, that seems to be too much for these little ones.
Thanks for sharing Mr Timmermans. I remember around 15 years back swapping with a collector from Luxembourg and he asked for UK pound coins with each type upwards or downwards edge lettering like with the Dutch coins mentioned. Wasn't easy to assemble actually trying to collect their missing ones through this type of collecting. Your statement shows how 1 detail on what should've been a common coin can cause it to become rare really fast when mass hoarding is involved mintage figures mean nothing.
Very nice pieces. I visited Pondicherry (Puducherry in tamil) back in Jan 2020 as a side trip to my annual visits to Bombay just before Covid shut everything down a couple months later.
The old Town/ French quarters are very ideallic for a weekend stay. There is also Mahabalipuram an hour away with its amazing sea side rock cut temples. An hour Further North takes you to the capital, Chennai. Highly recommend to visit the south of India if you ever find yourself on that side of the world
pic 1: notre damme cathedrale
pic 2: a local house entrance (see the name plate)
pic 3: the chamber of commerce
there are still several thousands of People of Tamil descent who opted for French citizenship in the 1950s when the territory transferred to India, who still live there under special dispensation wtih the same rights as other Indians (else typically you must surrender your Indian passport when you take another nationality)
Yesterday I filled another gap on the Numista map where it said ‘<name country>: 0 items’. A few Caribbean dots like that are still remaining, as well as American Samoa and Faroe Islands. It's also my first titanium coin, as well as my first blue coin. Titanium coins are given funky vibrant colours by using an electrochemical process called anodization, without the use of paints, dyes, or pigments. Thank you, A.I.! ;) The coin celebrates the Sapphire Jubilee, so the colour makes sense. Almost certainly the designer of the coin, the people involved minting it and the coin itself have never been to the Brittish Indian Ocean Territory, as it is a very restricted secretive place with a military airbase on Diego Garcia and a bunch of mostly uninhabited tiny islands in the middle of nowhere.
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.
Yesterday I filled another gap on the Numista map where it said ‘: 0 items’. A few Caribbean dots like that are still remaining, as well as American Samoa and Faroe Islands. It's also my first titanium coin, as well as my first blue coin. Titanium coins are given funky vibrant colours by using an electrochemical process called anodization, without the use of paints, dyes, or pigments. Thank you, A.I.! ;) The coin celebrates the Sapphire Jubilee, so the colour makes sense. Almost certainly the designer of the coin, the people involved minting it and the coin itself have never been to the Brittish Indian Ocean Territory, as it is a very restricted secretive place with a military airbase on Diego Garcia and a bunch of mostly uninhabited tiny islands in the middle of nowhere.
Very nice pieces. I visited Pondicherry (Puducherry in tamil) back in Jan 2020 as a side trip to my annual visits to Bombay just before Covid shut everything down a couple months later.
The old Town/ French quarters are very ideallic for a weekend stay. There is also Mahabalipuram an hour away with its amazing sea side rock cut temples. An hour Further North takes you to the capital, Chennai. Highly recommend to visit the south of India if you ever find yourself on that side of the world
pic 1: notre damme cathedrale
pic 2: a local house entrance (see the name plate)
pic 3: the chamber of commerce
there are still several thousands of People of Tamil descent who opted for French citizenship in the 1950s when the territory transferred to India, who still live there under special dispensation wtih the same rights as other Indians (else typically you must surrender your Indian passport when you take another nationality)
Next item is this set of Vanuatu banknotes, in pretty poor shape for modern Polymer (2 x Fine and near VF 2,000 vatu). They were sold to me below face value including shipping.
Likely bought off a Vanuatu seasonal worker, as we have programmes that allow them to come here and pick seasonal fruit like apples, grapes, kiwis etc and then go home (Our local unemployed can't as they go off the dole and have to wait 13 weeks stand down to get back on and plus they need accommodation - and the orchard owners find these Pacific “Braceros” easier to manage and exploit).
We have a 500, 1,000, and 2,000 vatu of the newer series, which will complete my older notes and the coins. The set also has a 200 and 5,000 vatu note (10,000 was a one off apparently). I like these notes as they are trilingual (English, French and Bislama - local pidgin).
Very interesting scenes too. They look better in the flesh.
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Nice pair - especially the shilling, meanwhile if you have a Wood's halfpenny or farthing, Silvergeek can tell you what type it is!
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
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Saarland/Saar Protectorate 100 Franken 1955. Always buy these if I see them cheap. I class it as a small lived microstate in some regards when forgetting the politics around it and why it existed in the first place. These circulated alongside French Francs of the same denomination ,sizes and composition as far as I know. An interesting issuer born from postwar Europe that was short lived .
Always my favourites those chunky crowns. I just need 2 and the Gothic to complete my Victorians, one from 1895 and one from 1898 (Remember there are 2 each for 1893 to 1900 with Regnal years).
I am interested in the mount you have the coin on. Is that plaster?
Bruno - that may be the last year of that type as Saar was given back to West Germany in 1955 or 56. The coin is similar in size to a 100 old Francs of France at that time, or larger? Saar was under French control from 1945 to 1955, yet they spoke German and France did not force Gallisation on them, althought the coin says Franken, which is Francs, rather than Marks.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
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Always my favourites those chunky crowns. I just need 2 and the Gothic to complete my Victorians, one from 1895 and one from 1898 (Remember there are 2 each for 1893 to 1900 with Regnal years).
I am interested in the mount you have the coin on. Is that plaster?
Bruno - that may be the last year of that type as Saar was given back to West Germany in 1955 or 56. The coin is similar in size to a 100 old Francs of France at that time, or larger? Saar was under French control from 1945 to 1955, yet they spoke German and France did not force Gallisation on them, althought the coin says Franken, which is Francs, rather than Marks.
These are little 3D printed Roman columns that I bought to display some coins when I want them outside of the case.
They're quite a novelty but I've grown to like them
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Saarland/Saar Protectorate 100 Franken 1955. Always buy these if I see them cheap. I class it as a small lived microstate in some regards when forgetting the politics around it and why it existed in the first place. These circulated alongside French Francs of the same denomination ,sizes and composition as far as I know. An interesting issuer born from postwar Europe that was short lived .
Yesterday I filled another gap on the Numista map where it said ‘: 0 items’. A few Caribbean dots like that are still remaining, as well as American Samoa and Faroe Islands. It's also my first titanium coin, as well as my first blue coin. Titanium coins are given funky vibrant colours by using an electrochemical process called anodization, without the use of paints, dyes, or pigments. Thank you, A.I.! ;) The coin celebrates the Sapphire Jubilee, so the colour makes sense. Almost certainly the designer of the coin, the people involved minting it and the coin itself have never been to the Brittish Indian Ocean Territory, as it is a very restricted secretive place with a military airbase on Diego Garcia and a bunch of mostly uninhabited tiny islands in the middle of nowhere.
I have another British Indian Ocean Territory £2 from 2011 if you were looking to do any trades or swaps :)
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Yesterday I filled another gap on the Numista map where it said ‘: 0 items’. A few Caribbean dots like that are still remaining, as well as American Samoa and Faroe Islands. It's also my first titanium coin, as well as my first blue coin. Titanium coins are given funky vibrant colours by using an electrochemical process called anodization, without the use of paints, dyes, or pigments. Thank you, A.I.! ;) The coin celebrates the Sapphire Jubilee, so the colour makes sense. Almost certainly the designer of the coin, the people involved minting it and the coin itself have never been to the Brittish Indian Ocean Territory, as it is a very restricted secretive place with a military airbase on Diego Garcia and a bunch of mostly uninhabited tiny islands in the middle of nowhere.
I have another British Indian Ocean Territory £2 from 2011 if you were looking to do any trades or swaps :)
Thanks for the offer, Canterbury, but I just got that coin to fill a gap on the map. My main interest of collecting is circulation coins, generally I just want one non-circulation coin from countries and dependencies that have not issued any circulation coins themselves.
Your crown is very cool! I just got my first silver Australian crown a few days ago myself. Also a Yemen coin I'ld like to mention, as the Numista page just mentions ‘Arabic writing’ for each side, without indicating even where to find the value and the origin of the coin. I'm forced to study the Arabic alphabet now. 😉N#21726
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.
Saarland/Saar Protectorate 100 Franken 1955. Always buy these if I see them cheap. I class it as a small lived microstate in some regards when forgetting the politics around it and why it existed in the first place. These circulated alongside French Francs of the same denomination ,sizes and composition as far as I know. An interesting issuer born from postwar Europe that was short lived .
Theoretically these could've snuck into circulation in France or Monaco too I guess. A pity there's not much information about these coins online. By information I mean, any West German of the Saar old enough to have spent these and tell us which was more frequent in change in the Saar protectorate, the Saar Franken or French Francs though I imagine it was a fair mix with it being a small place.
I'm quit happy with my Japanese 1 Bu “Tenpō Ichibugin”, received today.. Got a lovely tone, which is not showing well on the photo..
Just wondering if the upside down blossom, some sort of date code.. ? (photo 1: most left bottom blossom & photo 2 the middle one on the bottom row)
Though it is normal for one blossom to be upsidedown on each side, this is an interesting variety with what seems to be an error. It looks like the variety ‘Ac’ or ‘Ec’ is intended, but at the bottom instead of on top on the coin. For a better understanding of these varieties, it is good to check out the example pictures. N#55953
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 few more new additions I picked up today. All Australian silver stuff for today's purchase.
Australia 1960 QEII Florin
Not a rare coin by any means, but a nice lustrous uncirculated example.
Australia 1954 QEII Sixpences
Two more uncirculated Lizzies - both 1954 sixpences. If you think the one on the left looks like a proof, you would be mistaken. This is actually a regular business strike, but has been struck with chrome dies. This often causes a bit of confusion, but there are definitive ways to differentiate proofs. (Especially on this one being a 1954, as proofs were not struck on a regular basis for collectors until the following year).
Australia 1925 KGV Shilling
You may notice this one looks a tad funny, and that is because it is actually a cast lead contemporary counterfeit. These pop up from time-to-time and aren't too pricey. You will notice the air bubbles on the surface and the fuzzy details (look at the date!) which are signs of this.
A few more new additions I picked up today. All Australian silver stuff for today's purchase.
Australia 1960 QEII Florin
Not a rare coin by any means, but a nice lustrous uncirculated example.
Australia 1954 QEII Sixpences
Two more uncirculated Lizzies - both 1954 sixpences. If you think the one on the left looks like a proof, you would be mistaken. This is actually a regular business strike, but has been struck with chrome dies. This often causes a bit of confusion, but there are definitive ways to differentiate proofs. (Especially on this one being a 1954, as proofs were not struck on a regular basis for collectors until the following year).
Australia 1925 KGV Shilling
You may notice this one looks a tad funny, and that is because it is actually a cast lead contemporary counterfeit. These pop up from time-to-time and aren't too pricey. You will notice the air bubbles on the surface and the fuzzy details (look at the date!) which are signs of this.
Nice group, interesting counterfeit, wonder if it fooled anyone?
The 1960 Florin's a little beauty and always nice to have UNC sixpences.
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Nice group, interesting counterfeit, wonder if it fooled anyone?
The 1960 Florin's a little beauty and always nice to have UNC sixpences.
Thanks! Yeah, I suppose it is fairly likely it did spend some time in circulation. The idea behind these was that they were the same size and design and approximately the same weight and feel, so could be passed off in a handful of change or in a rush - provided they were not inspected too closely. Didn't get past me though!!
The bullion value has practically absorbed any numismatic value on the later Australian silvers (1960s) so these sixpences and florin were purchased for only a couple bucks over melt.
This weeks goodies so far. A few scrap sixpences and threepences also not shown here. A nice interesting bunch of Ober Ost, New Zealand, Germany, UK,Netherlands, Aruba and South Africa. The Aruban square shaped 5 Florins are very cool!
You know you can arrange your photos horizontally, so we don't have to scroll so much.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
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This weeks goodies so far. A few scrap sixpences and threepences also not shown here. A nice interesting bunch of Ober Ost, New Zealand, Germany, UK,Netherlands, Aruba and South Africa. The Aruban square shaped 5 Florins are very cool!
‘You know you can arrange your photos horizontally’. Agreed - like the above …
On a laptop or pc it is quite easy to cut a lot of junk from pictures and to turn them into squares with a program like Paint, which is available for free, generally it is installed as a standard program on Windows. I like the Windows 10 version best. Also, it is possible to edit messages in order to rearrange images.
Some German 3 Reichsmark interbellum political messages arrived. The 1929 coin says: ‘faithful to the constitution’:
The 1930 coin says: The Rhine is a river of Germany, not the border of Germany:
Also, my first tetradecagonal coin arrived, in 1976 Malaysia issued the first two such coins ever. I found it for about the current silver price. Unfortunately there are no 14-sided coins intended for circulation. The Ethiopian N#4391 has the same geometry as a 14-sided polygon though, meaning it has the same axes of symmetry. Malaysia has 14 stripes on its flag, sort of ‘1 for each of the 13 states and 1 for the 3 federal territories together’. In this case ‘1 coin edge for each of the flags of the 13 states and 1 coin edge for the Malaysian flag’
The next tiny coin is my new lightest (0,28 grams), also the smallest, though my previous smallest is still listed as being my smallest (10,8 mm.), as on the page for this 1703 Russian Empire coin there is no size mentioned. I'm not really sure if I chose the right coin in the catalogue, as there are lots of similar coins listed, but it looks close enough. The length is about 10 mm., while it is about 5 mm. wide. N#318043
On one side there is a section of a knight on a horse (see the drawing of the complete horse and knight in the comments of the link). I did not take the coin out of its coin holder yet. The lettering matches the other drawing in those comments.
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.
On a laptop or pc it is quite easy to cut a lot of junk from pictures and to turn them into squares with a program like Paint, which is available for free, generally it is installed as a standard program on Windows. I like the Windows 10 version best. Also, it is possible to edit messages in order to rearrange images.
Some German 3 Reichsmark interbellum political messages arrived. The 1929 coin says: ‘faithful to the constitution’:
The 1930 coin says: The Rhine is a river of Germany, not the border of Germany:
Also, my first tetradecagonal coin arrived, in 1976 Malaysia issued the first two such coins ever. I found it for about the current silver price. Unfortunately there are no 14-sided coins intended for circulation. The Ethiopian N#4391 has the same geometry as a 14-sided polygon though, meaning it has the same axes of symmetry. Malaysia has 14 stripes on its flag, sort of ‘1 for each of the 13 states and 1 for the 3 federal territories together’. In this case ‘1 coin edge for each of the flags of the 13 states and 1 coin edge for the Malaysian flag’
The next tiny coin is my new lightest (0,28 grams), also the smallest, though my previous smallest is still listed as being my smallest (10,8 mm.), as on the page for this 1703 Russian Empire coin there is no size mentioned. I'm not really sure if I chose the right coin in the catalogue, as there are lots of similar coins listed, but it looks close enough. The length is about 10 mm., while it is about 5 mm. wide. N#318043
On one side there is a section of a knight on a horse (see the drawing of the complete horse and knight in the comments of the link). I did not take the coin out of its coin holder yet. The lettering matches the other drawing in those comments.
Great coins mate. The Weimar German silvers are amazing! .
Love the 3 reichsmarks, would really like getting one for myself sometime!
A late christmas present arrived 2 days ago, this very neat alexandrian tetradrachm from the reign of Nero dated 66/67 ad. It’s very interesting since it has two emperors on it, and one of them was a very (if not the most) evil emperor! Sadly not on numista yet so I’ll just add the link to RPC here. https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/5295
None of those I would consider “Rubbish” they are fantastic coins and all very historic. The Gros of Thierry is a magical piece, so well made and so old. The Scotch coins are interesting as by then, the value of a Scots pound was 1/12 that of an English pound, so a half merk was barely a sixpence English and 10 shilling coin was 10 pence English and less than one shilling!
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 lovely gift indeed, and a nice big piece of silver. I like to see how different artists render a subject.
La Semeuse is one of my favorite motifs. They often jump out at me at coins shows.
I went to a coin show and spent my allowance. Mostly LMU silver.
The Swiss half franc has a lovely rainbow coloring I can't resist.
An old franc and a very old lira. The lira is pre-LMU, same module, but .900 silver
Also LMU standard, some very well circulated copper 10c. pieces from Tunisia. Makes me think of Tintin.😇
This is the best thing I got. I never thought I would own one. Liechtenstein issued LMU standard coins called Kronen 1900-1915. but after the end of the LMU, they adopted the Swiss Franc, and issued silver francs ½-5, for one year only, in small numbers. There were 30 000 of these struck. Numista comments says most of them, and most all the Liechtenstein coins, were melted.
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
A lovely gift indeed, and a nice big piece of silver. I like to see how different artists render a subject.
La Semeuse is one of my favorite motifs. They often jump out at me at coins shows.
I went to a coin show and spent my allowance. Mostly LMU silver.
The Swiss half franc has a lovely rainbow coloring I can't resist.
An old franc and a very old lira. The lira is pre-LMU, same module, but .900 silver
Also LMU standard, some very well circulated copper 10c. pieces from Tunisia. Makes me think of Tintin.😇
This is the best thing I got. I never thought I would own one. Liechtenstein issued LMU standard coins called Kronen 1900-1915. but after the end of the LMU, they adopted the Swiss Franc, and issued silver francs ½-5, for one year only, in small numbers. There were 30 000 of these struck. Numista comments says most of them, and most all the Liechtenstein coins, were melted.
Amazing coins. Especially the Swiss and Liechtenstein issues. Lovely way of displaying them vertically too. 😎
None of those I would consider “Rubbish” they are fantastic coins and all very historic. The Gros of Thierry is a magical piece, so well made and so old. The Scotch coins are interesting as by then, the value of a Scots pound was 1/12 that of an English pound, so a half merk was barely a sixpence English and 10 shilling coin was 10 pence English and less than one shilling!
I was joking, of course 😄 Although a sixpence back then was a much bigger “small change” than six pence now 😉
Amazing coins. Especially the Swiss and Liechtenstein issues. Lovely way of displaying them vertically too. 😎
Most all my photos are at the same camera stand, and 1400x1400 pixels. So the coins are all shown in the same scale. the comparative diameters are correct, like the pictures in Krause. I try to fill the frame with groups when possible, but some coins deserve a frame to themselves.
Another word about the Liechtenstein coins, In 1924 they adopted the Swiss Franc and issued four silver denominations, but Switzerland only issued a 5 franc coin in 1924, plus 1,10 and 20 rappen coins.
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
Amazing coins. Especially the Swiss and Liechtenstein issues. Lovely way of displaying them vertically too. 😎
Most all my photos are at the same camera stand, and 1400x1400 pixels. So the coins are all shown in the same scale. the comparative diameters are correct, like the pictures in Krause. I try to fill the frame with groups when possible, but some coins deserve a frame to themselves.
Another word about the Liechtenstein coins, In 1924 they adopted the Swiss Franc and issued four silver denominations, but Switzerland only issued a 5 franc coin in 1924, plus 1,10 and 20 rappen coins.
Never seen the Liechtenstein ½ before but I did cover Liechtenstein with a 1 Krone 1904 around 4 years ago. Paid £40 at the time but a good price when considering tbe numismatic rarity. The Swiss coinage is also great. Did get 2 Liechtenstein exonumia pieces last month too but non official pieces.
again it's enjoying and interesting to see all these additions, it's impossible to resume the good coins, my personal favourite is cuba, peso 1935.
My way of collecting changed: During the last 4 weeks i sold a quantity of simple/junk silver coins (too early) and tried to get some coins with a better value for a collection. 3 coins from catawiki auctions arreived:
I'm really satisfied with the 100 reis 1893 because of its condition, but i'm unsure about the older types because i don't know the average and distribution of condition there.
More coins are on the way, especially an intense participation in the katz aution 180.
I just got home from the coin show in märsta and I have some extremely diverse coins this time, not just countries, size and types of currency too!
I’ll start with the chinese ones, (the ones furthest to the left) a beautiful ming knife (I believe) and an ant nose coin. Both are from circa 400-200 BC, absolutely lovely ”coins”.
Next I’ll go with the rings, the one on the top is a manilla ring from western africa, circa 19th century weighing in at a whopping 106 grams, the ones on the bottom are celtic bronze rings, 800-50 BC, my new oldest ”coins”!
Now for the rest, one of if not the smallest coin in history, a nepalese dam! (I’m sure you can guess which one it is) not weighing in at anything because my scale doesn’t go that low.
to the right an indo-scythian drachm from the reign of dāmasena, 222-236 ad ( N#53170 ), quite a beautiful coin only costing 250 sek (~25€).
Finally something very interesting, a coin mold for casting coins in! A wonderful piece of history to be in my collection, looks to be greek. Props to anyone who can actually identify the coin that was made in it, the diameter is around 22,5 mm.
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.
