Numismatics / Coin Collecting - The coin collecting hub for kiwifarms

[Agares]

View attachment 8048325
View attachment 8048360

1825 George IV farthing or quarter penny.

I saw one of those at the coin store today. Really interesting seeing the evolution of the design over centuries. Europeans were really into the Romanesque portraits of their monarchs up until WW1.

Anyways here’s some more acquisitions. Found a half cent to add to my odd denomination collection, some imperial German stuff and a huge 2 Sen piece from the Meiji restoration era.

 

[Tezcatlipoca]

A few months ago I snagged this from a Thai ebay gem store when i was looking for carved rocks for gifts. I believe its a Thailand Rama V Baht Essai but i am not sure because a lot of the information bleeds together with the Thai talisman culture its a whole rabbit hole

 

[Schpoots]

Why are injuns on so many old US coins?

 

[beautiful person]

I keep forgetting to post this Philippino piso (peso?) I randomly found in the parking lot of my apartment complex:

Why are injuns on so many old US coins?

They are a uniquely American form of fauna.

 

[Jimmy Hopkins]

Why are injuns on so many old US coins?

You always hear about how there was way more indyuns back before whitey came along and ruined their culture and got them sick through European diseases. My theory has always been that there were a lot more of them back then and white people were fascinated by them. Kinda like how now there's niggers shoved in your face in every commercial/movie/book/even on the new ugly women's quarters.

 

[No. 7 cat]

I saw one of those at the coin store today. Really interesting seeing the evolution of the design over centuries. Europeans were really into the Romanesque portraits of their monarchs up until WW1.
View attachment 8049274View attachment 8049275
Anyways here’s some more acquisitions. Found a half cent to add to my odd denomination collection, some imperial German stuff and a huge 2 Sen piece from the Meiji restoration era.

Until the Gothic Crown designs of the mid nineteenth century, neo classicism was prevalent. I will also say the big boned like George IV lent themselves to magnificent portraiture. Also it was close to a century of milled machine made coins.

The Imperial Japanese and Chinese coinage were very well done designs. It doesn't look much circulated in contrast to the half cent. The Imperial German and German state coins are interesting too.

I keep forgetting to post this Philippino piso (peso?) I randomly found in the parking lot of my apartment complex:
View attachment 8053361View attachment 8053363


They are a uniquely American form of fauna.

The Peao is a good clean design. I'm hoping to see if I can get an Imperial Spanish Peso in good nick for reasonable money.

 

[Tezcatlipoca]

Why are injuns on so many old US coins?

Indian Head cent designed by James B. Longacre was a Liberty Head motif with a native head dress. The buffalo nickle and subsequent coinage that stem from the design ( 24k us mint bullion ) was done by James Earle Fraser a self declared indianboo who had artistic work pertaining to the treatment of America's native American population.
The Sacajawea dollar coins designed by Thomas D. Rogers, Sr. are just fun to take to renaissance fairs .

 

[Shroom King]

I don't know if this is the right topic, but it is about coins, so here goes...

Putting a coin in a cannabis grinder: yay or nay? I heard it disrupts the static electricity buildup that causes kief to cling to the walls and ceiling of the grinder and help with sifting through the kief screen.

 

[No. 7 cat]

1868 Prussian Thaler and 1855 Bavarian double gulder.

 

[Waff]

I don't know if this is the right topic, but it is about coins, so here goes...

Putting a coin in a cannabis grinder: yay or nay? I heard it disrupts the static electricity buildup that causes kief to cling to the walls and ceiling of the grinder and help with sifting through the kief screen.

Im not trying to sound reddit tier but please tell me its one of little to no numismatic value

 

[Agares]

Finally got me a King George III penny. This thing is huge, about 3/4 the size of a silver dollar and just as thick. The story behind this design is interesting too:

Britain had a counterfeiting problem during the early days of the industrial revolution because anyone with a press could make their own copper “coins”. So the British government gave an industrialist named Matthew Boulton 480 tons of copper to make pennies that contained an actual British penny’s worth of copper in them.

 

[Kujo Jotaro]

Forgot I owned this.

 

[No. 7 cat]

View attachment 8070485
Finally got me a King George III penny. This thing is huge, about 3/4 the size of a silver dollar and just as thick. The story behind this design is interesting too:

Britain had a counterfeiting problem during the early days of the industrial revolution because anyone with a press could make their own copper “coins”. So the British government gave an industrialist named Matthew Boulton 480 tons of copper to make pennies that contained an actual British penny’s worth of copper in them.

Would that not be a tuppence? I think I posted one earlier. Regardless, they are massive.



A Spanish Philippines Peso of the then 11 year old Alfonso XIII. Two years later on a pretext, the United States would seize both Cuba and the Philippines. A garrison of 54 Spanish soldiers held out against rebels at a church in Baler for 337 days without knowing that Spain had cedes its great snd venerable Asian possession and so the rebels were to fight the US. The US Peso is in a style similar to the severe neo classical Dollar of the time. I'll try get one.

 

[Agares]

Would that not be a tuppence? I think I posted one earlier. Regardless, they are massive.

View attachment 8101890View attachment 8101893

It was sold to me as a pence as were all the other coins of that type I looked at on eBay.

A Spanish Philippines Peso of the then 11 year old Alfonso XIII. Two years later on a pretext, the United States would seize both Cuba and the Philippines. A garrison of 54 Spanish soldiers held out against rebels at a church in Baler for 337 days without knowing that Spain had cedes its great snd venerable Asian possession and so the rebels were to fight the US. The US Peso is in a style similar to the severe neo classical Dollar of the time. I'll try get one.

Wars before radio and instant communications were crazy like that. That story reminds me of how the US beat the British in New Orleans after the war of 1812 was officially over because no messengers had spread the word of the war's end to Louisiana.

 

[No. 7 cat]

It was sold to me as a pence as were all the other coins of that type I looked at on eBay.

Wars before radio and instant communications were crazy like that. That story reminds me of how the US beat the British in New Orleans after the war of 1812 was officially over because no messengers had spread the word of the war's end to Louisiana.

I think it's a 2d not 1d, but maybe so. It's a big coin.

Indeed. The Filipino rebels actually showed newspapers to the garrison and the telegraph did provide a sort of instant communication (depending on operator skill) but the garrison lacked any (or it was cut) and they disbelieved the newspapers, but regardless your point stands.




Coin of Dom Carlos I 'o Diplomata' of Portugal (shown with his French Queen Amelie of Orléans) who was assassinated along with his heir but not his wife whom I think was in the landau. The King had no escort bar a mounted outrider. I think I thought it was a Portuguese India / Goan coin - tho all I see are low value copper coins - but it's an excellent design.




1913 Prussian 'war of liberation' 3 mark.

 

[Agares]

I think it's a 2d not 1d, but maybe so. It's a big coin.

Indeed. The Filipino rebels actually showed newspapers to the garrison and the telegraph did provide a sort of instant communication (depending on operator skill) but the garrison lacked any (or it was cut) and they disbelieved the newspapers, but regardless your point stands.

View attachment 8171692
View attachment 8171697

Coin of Dom Carlos I 'o Diplomata' of Portugal (shown with his French Queen Amelie of Orléans) who was assassinated along with his heir but not his wife whom I think was in the landau. The King had no escort bar a mounted outrider. I think I thought it was a Portuguese India / Goan coin - tho all I see are low value copper coins - but it's an excellent design.

That German 3 mark coin you posted is such a cool design. Commemorating a war with France a year before another war with France, even though most Germans probably had no idea what was coming.

Speaking of Germany, here’s a couple of my latest acquisitions. The province of Westphalia minted its own currency called notgeld after WW1 as emergency money. From 1921 to 1923, the coins’ denominations went from 50 pfennig to 1 billion Mark. The one I got was from when the hyper inflation really started to pick up and it would have become worthless soon after it was struck.

The Rhodesian coin next to it is denominated as both 20 cents and 2 shillings for some reason. It was struck right before they declared independence from the UK.

 

[PandaChai]

I actually have a cartwheel 1d, 2d, and Isle of Man ½d on the way, so can show the size difference when they arrive.

 

[BohemianBorzoi]

I went to a coin show a while back and managed to find a few cool things.

A Transnistria coin from 2000, 5 kopeek

Spoiler: The back

Indian head pennies (1891, 1906, 1907)

Spoiler: The backs

I have some friends who teach, D.A.R.E. has made a comeback. Scored this sick token from one of them




I found these bills at that show too

Spoiler: Non-coins

South Russia, 250 Rubles, 1918



Germany, 50 Mark, 1919



I also have German Marks from 1914, 1920, 1923, and 1929. They tell a pretty interesting story, especially the 1923 500,000 Mark.

 

[No. 7 cat]

1311-12 Venetian Grosso




2021 Kiwifarms round with the notorious mother loving Chris Chan.





The left is I think a follis of Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine (the heir of the storied Heraclius died of TB), the right I'm not so sure, but it's another typical Byzantine or East Roman coin. I think the right is c 10th century.

 

[gernig]

After the US ended minting of the penny, there is currently thousands of mouth breathing retards buying 2025 penny roll boxes for HUNDREDS or THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS!





I'm in complete shock of what the fuck are these bumbling idiots thinking? Why would anyone want to spend hundreds of dollars on worthless clad coins that you can get at face value at your local bank?