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It's rather funny actually seeing British & European coins being collected, especially interwar & postwar, I must have 2 or 3 kilos of them I practically can't even give away.
Numismatics / Coin Collecting - The coin collecting hub for kiwifarms
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I feel the same way when non Americans get wheat cents and old worn Buffalo nickels. Over here, you can barely give away the common dates in circulated condition.
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I do really like my small US collection, I'll try to scan them this afternoon and add them into this post.
edit - coins!
- 1876 Trade Dollar (probably a repo)
- 1947 Walking Liberty Half
- 1966 & 1968D Kennedy Halves
- 1963 Franklin Half (the toning is a really beautiful gold irl)
- 1907 Indian Head Cent
- 1936 & 1942 Wheat Cents
- 1943 Steel Cent
- 1930(P?) & 1937(P?) Buffalo Nickels
- 1944 Quarter
- 1960D Dime
- 1913 Barber Dime
- 185(8?) 3 Cents
- 1986 Ellis Island Dollar & Half
- A whole roll of War Nickels
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That's a nice little collection you got there and a good amount of silver. You even got a trime which was probably a bitch and a half to find in your country. They didn't make them for very long in the US and they fell out of favor fast because they were so tiny. Can't tell if the trade dollar is real or not from the pics alone, so a magnet and a digital scale would probably be your best bet. Trade dollars seem to be the second most faked US silver dollar after the Morgan.
Speaking of Morgan dollars, by "authenticated", did you mean certified or just confirmed to be real 90% silver with one of those detector machines?
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Trade Dollar is the right size, weight, and isn't magnetic, but it's not exactly rocket science to fake that - it's just in too good nick to be genuine is my thinking. As for Morgans & Peaces, either/or really, only the former will be dearer and the latter would involve me getting off my fat arse, so it's a real struggle as you can see.
On the topic of silver though, I'd like to properly round out my US collection with the old silver coins too really: Barber everything, a Walking Liberty dollar, a Seated Liberty, Columbian half, a Mercury dime, a '64 Kennedy half, and last a trime (great name!) that's in better condition. Anything I'm missing on my wishlist there?
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Honestly, the coin just looks like it was cleaned. And that really sucks because a trade dollar in AU/XF goes for quite a bit of money. Even a common date. If everything else is green across the board, the only way to tell for sure is that precious metal scanner.
That pretty much covers US silver unless you want to go further and collect the really old stuff, like capped bust coins from the early 1800's. Oh, also the mint made 20 cent pieces for a few years in the 1870's. They weren't popular in their time because people kept confusing them with quarters and circulated common dates are a bit expensive, but nothing crazy. They also made a lot of commemorative halves in the early 20th century, notably one commemorating the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain and another one celebrating the black baseball player Booker T. Washington.
Some other stuff you might be interested in are the bicentennial quarters, half dollars and dollar coins from 1976. There's some pretty cool designs and the mint made some silver versions for collectors. And there's some non-silver odd denominations too, like the 3 cent nickel, the 2 cent piece and the half cent. All of these designs are from the 1800's.
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Haven't found any silver in the Coinstar reject trays for over a year now. They're getting good about it, unfortunately my days of finding '64 dimes and using the money to buy snacks are over.
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The last interesting thing I found in a Coinstar tray was a half Franc coin from the 60's a couple months ago. Before that, I found a silver proof quarter. Everything else has just been normal change.
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Went to another LCS on my day off and got a small but good haul. The Japanese banknote is 50 Sen from 1938 and the small coin with the Queen on it is a silver Canadian half dime. I got it for 10 cents.
And with that last 5 Reichsmark coin, my third reich type set is now complete.
And with that last 5 Reichsmark coin, my third reich type set is now complete.
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Medal of Charles X, King of France and Navarre, designed by Jacques-Éduard Desnoyers from 1826 with the church of St-Denis. 1866 1 Lira of the Papal States plus a 2 UAH Ukrainian Libra gold coin of the Zodiac series. These small gold coins, likely a 1/10 Oz are a less expensive way to gather some gold.
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I've lots of ordinary coins from 4th Republic Francs to British and Irish pre decimal.
Speaking of the last two here's a 1964 Irish 3d (like all Irish coins post '22 designed by Percy Metcalfe) and an 1806 Farthing of George III (the mad one who lost America).
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That Farthing is in amazing shape. From that pic alone it’s easily a VF/XF.
Also Im hyped for this months coin show in the next city over. This time around I’ll have enough time to look over every table hopefully. Last year I was in a rush because I had a job interview to go to the same day so all I could do was skim every dealers selection.
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There was a Merc dime in the coinstar reject bin today, making it my second silver find at that location. This is a good omen since the coin show is coming up this weekend.
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Oh baby it’s time for a triple post. The coin show definitely delivered today and I got a most interesting haul. My budget was a little over $100.
Found some Weimar era inflation currency, play money from the third reich and a 5 reichsmark banknote.
I really like the design on this fascist era 1 Lira. Italy was really big on the whole Roman aesthetic for their coins since WW1.
Some Bolshevik silver. It actually says "Workers of the world, unite" on it.
Some interesting pieces from Japan.
I wanted some American odd denominations too and was able to haggle to below sticker price. The large cent was also a great bargain. Also got some silver for the stack too.
Found some Weimar era inflation currency, play money from the third reich and a 5 reichsmark banknote.
I really like the design on this fascist era 1 Lira. Italy was really big on the whole Roman aesthetic for their coins since WW1.
Some Bolshevik silver. It actually says "Workers of the world, unite" on it.
Some interesting pieces from Japan.
I wanted some American odd denominations too and was able to haggle to below sticker price. The large cent was also a great bargain. Also got some silver for the stack too.
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That's an excellent selection for a modest spend. The early Bolshevik coins were silver. I've one somewhere. Perhaps it was meant to reassure the population in the early days. Later when their power was certain the currency could be of a simpler script type.
I like the neo classical style on coins. 4th Republic French coins (see 1 Franc brlow) had that style albeit with the cheapest metal.
A few coins. Perhaps the most notable are the 1816 six pence of George III and below an 1850 one cent. It's startling how large it is. The 1946 French one Franc is also of interest. The one Franc was a very fine silver coin in the 19th century under Charles X or Napoleon III. That said, the bankrupt, malnourished 4th Republic was trying to keep the body and soul of metropolitan France, its army, navy and its vast empire together. Tin or some really bad cupro nickel in that case was understandable. The Canadian 5 cent of 1962, the Austrian 10 Groschen of 1952 and the one half New Shekel (not sure of the year) have their fascination too.
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@No. 7 cat that's a nice example of a Braided Hair large cent. For a damaged coin, it's still in decent shape. Large cents were like the dollar bills of their time and a lot of them got damaged, holed or worn slick from decades of circulation. And that's a really nice sixpence too.
I hit the coin store today and looked through the usual foreign coin discount bin. Didn't find anything too exciting today.
However they had a discount tray and I picked up a silver Trime and a civil war era Indian head cent for half off. But the real fun was in the boxes of 2x2s the shop owner brought out of the safe. I only skimmed through them and they had some RARE stuff. We're talking key date 1877 Indian Head cents and half cents from the 1790's. Most of it was out of my price range naturally but they also had some foreign coins that didn't break the bank. The Portuguese 40 Reis is absolutely HUGE and it reminds me of copper pieces from classic medieval fantasies. And for $10 a mint state Hungarian Corona from the great war was a steal. And it's silver too.
This was an eBay find. Romanian coins from the 40's are kind of hard to find in the US and one dealer at the coin show had them marked for $20 or more. I got this one for $6.
1943 was not a very good year for the Romanian military.
I hit the coin store today and looked through the usual foreign coin discount bin. Didn't find anything too exciting today.
However they had a discount tray and I picked up a silver Trime and a civil war era Indian head cent for half off. But the real fun was in the boxes of 2x2s the shop owner brought out of the safe. I only skimmed through them and they had some RARE stuff. We're talking key date 1877 Indian Head cents and half cents from the 1790's. Most of it was out of my price range naturally but they also had some foreign coins that didn't break the bank. The Portuguese 40 Reis is absolutely HUGE and it reminds me of copper pieces from classic medieval fantasies. And for $10 a mint state Hungarian Corona from the great war was a steal. And it's silver too.
This was an eBay find. Romanian coins from the 40's are kind of hard to find in the US and one dealer at the coin show had them marked for $20 or more. I got this one for $6.
1943 was not a very good year for the Romanian military.
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Yamaha YM2612
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My dad used to be very into it. His prized piece was a $3 princess but he had to sell it one year for Christmas presents
He still does have some stuff. Proof and silver sets from me and my brothers birth years and a few 1800s dollars
He still does have some stuff. Proof and silver sets from me and my brothers birth years and a few 1800s dollars
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Please keep the thread apprised of semiquincentennial coin/round news.
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DeepoxxChokya
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We haven't gone far enough. Make it gold and incuse
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1825 George IV farthing or quarter penny.