Numismatics / Coin Collecting - The coin collecting hub for kiwifarms

[Ravier Xavenblood]

Compared to a lot of the personal websites I've looked at from dealers at local coin shows this looks super nice honestly.

It’s well organized and surprisingly easy to navigate.

Also sometimes I think I have Imperial’s Luck from the Elder Scrolls IRL because you’ll never guess what I found in the Coinstar reject tray at my local supermarket.

Not just any proof quarter, a silver proof quarter. 2008 -S, New Mexico. Always check your coinstar reject trays. Silver US coins don't weigh the same as clad ones and the machine sees them as foreign and spits them out.

 

[Waff]

It’s well organized and surprisingly easy to navigate.

Also sometimes I think I have Imperial’s Luck from the Elder Scrolls IRL because you’ll never guess what I found in the Coinstar reject tray at my local supermarket.
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Not just any proof quarter, a silver proof quarter. 2008 -S, New Mexico. Always check your coinstar reject trays. Silver US coins don't weigh the same as clad ones and the machine sees them as foreign and spits them out.

Are you sure its a silver proof? if so are the edges one color?

 

[Ravier Xavenblood]

Are you sure its a silver proof? if so are the edges one color?

The edges are solid silver which was a dead giveaway.

 

[Waff]

The edges are solid silver which was a dead giveaway.

Wow I wonder what got it into circulation. I always hear they are given to collectors so its hard for me to consider them parting way with one for a soda or some shit like that.

 

[Jimmy Hopkins]

Wow I wonder what got it into circulation. I always hear they are given to collectors so its hard for me to consider them parting way with one for a soda or some shit like that.

From what I've heard usually the way silver/proofs/silver proofs end up in circulation is from either theft or relatives receiving a dead family members collection. The fact it was found in a coinstar reject tray points to this as being the case.

Edit: I was watching a video from Ben the Coin Geek and saw he had a Cuban Peso in AU58 and wanted to look for one on ebay. Thats when I realized ebay doesn't allow Cuban stuff to be sold. Ive known ebay and grading companies don't allow coins from certain countries to be sold or graded. I have a very rare silver North Korean commemorative coin from 2001 I bought from a local coin shop and ran into the same issue when looking for price guides. I think Cuba and North Korea may be the only countries not allowed.

Video

 

[Lone MacReady II]

Muh pennies though.

With pennies going away, how valuable will they become? What should I do with my spare change? (wayback)

Ben Shapiro only eats pre-82 pennies... the ones with actual valuable copper in them. Today's pennies are as worthless as the FED's cotton fiat notes post-1971.

 

[No. 7 cat]

Some gold, mostly British sovereigns, a pair of Kiwicoins, some sort of ancient Indian gold coin (mix of silver and gold) Austro-Hungarian Ducat (modern minting), also a Kawasaki KZ750 slider and diaphgram.

I've lots of ordinary coins of all sorts from pre-decimal British and Irish pennies, French 4th Republic coins which were very low value, but have a quite good design, Eastern Bloc and other stuff I'll try post tomorrow. Also some 1960s Dutch coins which seem to have a degree of silver at a point when British silver coins were long cupro-nickel. Both post war were bankrupt with tottering empire, the Dutch had near famine, but still issued nice coins. Some 1920s silver dollars and so on too.

 

[Ravier Xavenblood]

From what I've heard usually the way silver/proofs/silver proofs end up in circulation is from either theft or relatives receiving a dead family members collection. The fact it was found in a coinstar reject tray points to this as being the case.

Collection dumps are rare but I've heard about and seen coin roll hunters come across them once in a blue moon. It amazes me how people see old coins and just spend them like pocket change with all the resources online that we have now.

It's funny too because a silver proof set literally says it's silver on the holder, and yet someone went through the effort to crack it open and spend the ~$30 worth of silver proof quarters inside it. Or it could've been an individual coin in a flip. You never know with these collection dumps.

 

[No. 7 cat]

Mix of some more ordinary but fascinating coins. It's interest that some bronze / copper coins tarnish, but some retain a part shiny patina for decades like the Metcalfe Irish 1d / penny of 1968.

Hungarian coin if the '30 with Grand Admiral and Regent Horthy whose rule of a by then landlocked country amused FDR.





The below is AI generated:

A one-quarter thaler (1 Ort) issued by Georg Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Prussia in 1623 is a historical coin from the German States. Specifically, it was minted in Königsberg (modern-day Kaliningrad, Russia). The coin features Georg Wilhelm's portrait and represents a piece of the rich numismatic heritage of the region during the early 17th century.

Google Lens got it right with the reverse / shield side, but with the obverse declared it a Polish coin of the era. They are similar looking, but it literally has the name of the ruler if Brandenburg Georg Wilhelm and not the Polish King Sigismund.

 

[beautiful person]

I'm gonna quote a post I made in the Suriname election thread because it's pretty numismaticy

The only reason I know of of Suriname's (and Curacao's) existence is because I have some of these coins:
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And some of these coins:
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The first ones were minted (in Philadelphia, during WWII) for use in the mainland Netherlands. The second ones were minted (also in Philadelphia) for use in Suriname and Curacao. Literally the only difference is the left privy mark on the back, just under the date. The ones meant for the Netherlands have an acorn, and the ones meant for Suriname and Curacao have a palm tree. When I first started stacking silver/collecting coins, I'd often buy mixed foreign silver coin sets from this one Ebay seller, and I'd deliberately look for ones that had the palm tree coins in them, because they fascinated me. I've also got some of these from the Dutch East Indies.

I've learned a lot of random history just from collecting coins.

I like to tell myself I'm "just stacking" because aside from a few exceptions, all my coins are gold and silver... but I've spent way more than melt value on quite a few, just because I thought they were cool. I really like coins from former colonies. Like, I've got one of these:

I think I have one from either Angola or Macau as well, but I'd have to look through my collection to be sure.

 

[Jimmy Hopkins]

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Mix of some more ordinary but fascinating coins. It's interest that some bronze / copper coins tarnish, but some retain a part shiny patina for decades like the Metcalfe Irish 1d / penny of 1968.

Hungarian coin if the '30 with Grand Admiral and Regent Horthy whose rule of a by then landlocked country amused FDR.

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The below is AI generated:

A one-quarter thaler (1 Ort) issued by Georg Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Prussia in 1623 is a historical coin from the German States. Specifically, it was minted in Königsberg (modern-day Kaliningrad, Russia). The coin features Georg Wilhelm's portrait and represents a piece of the rich numismatic heritage of the region during the early 17th century.

Google Lens got it right with the reverse / shield side, but with the obverse declared it a Polish coin of the era. They are similar looking, but it literally has the name of the ruler if Brandenburg Georg Wilhelm and not the Polish King Sigismund.

Love the quarter thaler. Some of my all time favorite designs are Thalers, especially the city scape ones. Been keeping an eye out for a nice AU/MS example thats not too expensive.

One of my favorites, the 3 brothers Thaler

 

[Waff]

From what I've heard usually the way silver/proofs/silver proofs end up in circulation is from either theft or relatives receiving a dead family members collection. The fact it was found in a coinstar reject tray points to this as being the case.

Edit: I was watching a video from Ben the Coin Geek and saw he had a Cuban Peso in AU58 and wanted to look for one on ebay. Thats when I realized ebay doesn't allow Cuban stuff to be sold. Ive known ebay and grading companies don't allow coins from certain countries to be sold or graded. I have a very rare silver North Korean commemorative coin from 2001 I bought from a local coin shop and ran into the same issue when looking for price guides. I think Cuba and North Korea may be the only countries not allowed.

Video

Huh...now that makes me curious about north korean money...hopefully numista doesnt have it blocked.

 

[Jimmy Hopkins]

Huh...now that makes me curious about north korean money...hopefully numista doesnt have it blocked.

They do have North Korean coins listed on Numista. Here's the one I own, .925 silver. I really love the North Korean seal on the reverse. (Stole the photo from Numista since I don't wanna go through the trouble of taking one)

 

[Ravier Xavenblood]

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Mix of some more ordinary but fascinating coins. It's interest that some bronze / copper coins tarnish, but some retain a part shiny patina for decades like the Metcalfe Irish 1d / penny of 1968.

Hungarian coin if the '30 with Grand Admiral and Regent Horthy whose rule of a by then landlocked country amused FDR.

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The below is AI generated:

A one-quarter thaler (1 Ort) issued by Georg Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Prussia in 1623 is a historical coin from the German States. Specifically, it was minted in Königsberg (modern-day Kaliningrad, Russia). The coin features Georg Wilhelm's portrait and represents a piece of the rich numismatic heritage of the region during the early 17th century.

Google Lens got it right with the reverse / shield side, but with the obverse declared it a Polish coin of the era. They are similar looking, but it literally has the name of the ruler if Brandenburg Georg Wilhelm and not the Polish King Sigismund.

Nice find. I've struggled to find WW2 era coins from Hungary or Romania to complete my Axis powers collection.

 

[No. 7 cat]

I'm gonna quote a post I made in the Suriname election thread because it's pretty numismaticy


I like to tell myself I'm "just stacking" because aside from a few exceptions, all my coins are gold and silver... but I've spent way more than melt value on quite a few, just because I thought they were cool. I really like coins from former colonies. Like, I've got one of these:
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I think I have one from either Angola or Macau as well, but I'd have to look through my collection to be sure.

I think I've some Timor Leste when it was Portuguese sold to me with a 1940s Dutch East Indies banknote and a Channel Islands Ha'penny. The first two certainly had an eventful history later or then.

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[No. 7 cat]

I think I've some Timor Leste when it was Portuguese sold to me with a 1940s Dutch East Indies banknote and a Channel Islands Ha'penny. The first two certainly had an eventful history later or then.

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coins of Portuguese Timor now Timor Leste



I called this a ha'penny and that's correct, but the States of Jersey had 13d to the shilling and a ha'penny was therefore denominated one twenty-sixth of a penny.


The one Guilder or Roepiah printed by the American Banknote company under the authority of the Netherland Indies Civil Administration which was founded in 1943 to administer those areas of the Netherland Indies liberated from Japanese occupation. The Japanese occupiers issued bank notes and coins with an increasing local aspect to them as part of their policy of manipulating local nationalists. The Dutch actually managed to push back against the Republican rebels but by 1949 the land became independent as the United States of Indonesia with the Netherlands only West Papua for roughly two decades.

 

[Jimmy Hopkins]

I'm seeing a lot of Netherlands East Indies posts. Did you guys know there was a Netherlands West Indies aka the Dutch Carribean? There were only 3 types of coins minted for the area and they're very hard to come across in good condition.
Netherlands East Indies 3 Gulden


Netherlands East Indies 2 Stuiver

 

[Fig Kommandant]

Netherlands West Indies

I should get one of those, I've got one for the Danish West Indies, if I remember right they were sold off and became the US Virgin Islands eventually.

 

[Ravier Xavenblood]

Another haul arrived today with some foreign silver, WW1 era copper, more stuff for the edgier part of my collection and a Soviet proof. British large Pennies are massive and trying to figure out their pre decimal money system gives me a headache.

 

[Pignat]

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/exonumia379004.html

Numista delisted the Chris Chan round when the drop kiwifarms shit started happening, and now it's back up. Total kiwi victory.