Numismatics / Coin Collecting - The coin collecting hub for kiwifarms

[No. 7 cat]

1887 Queen Victoria shilling.




It looks like two black boxes but click on them and you'll see. It's weird.

 

[Jimmy Hopkins]

I was going through my silver and took some pics of my favorite silver coins.
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I know its a pain in the ass but it really pays off to find capsules that fit coins properly. If the capsule is too big they'll slide around and get scratched.

 

[No. 7 cat]

1672 Brandenburg 1/3 thaler.

 

[beautiful person]

I know its a pain in the ass but it really pays off to find capsules that fit coins properly. If the capsule is too big they'll slide around and get scratched.

I might just put them back in flips the next time I dig my stash out.

 

[Agares]

I want to get some BU rolls of the semi quincentennial coins from my bank but I have no idea if the new designs have officially come out yet.

The LCS was still closed today. They've been really autistic about their schedule lately but their owner is also in his 80's so I get it. Went to one of the local pawn shops instead and found this blessed Kiwi silver Florin for below melt value. Lots of places don't update their prices on foreign silver so you can still find deals if you know where to look.

 

[No. 7 cat]

1961 Rhodesia £1



2008 Zimbabwe $50 billion



50 Reichsmarks, 1930s.




1964 Irish IR£1




1922 10,000 Reichsmark

I hope you all don't mind the paper money.

Coin tax:




1977 UK Silver Jubilee Crown




1967 UK Half Crown.

 

[No. 7 cat]

Islamic Republic of Iran banknotes.

Coin tax:

Tongan coins, 1967




Three coins of Emperor Probus (276-282AD)

 

[No. 7 cat]

1887 Double Florin, obviously 4 shillings. The Double Florin was only minted between 1887 and 1880. The small crown on Vicky was mocked and it came to be called 'barmaids ruin' as apparently many were accepted wrongly as Crowns or 5 s. It was considered a half hearted concession to possible decimalisation with the Florin intended to be 10 new pence, as later happened. The reverse cruciform design also on the Florin was considered lucky as a wedding gift.

The 1762 quarter Guinea, 1s 3d was issued between 1718 and 1762 on an irregular basis. It was considered too small to use and most disappeared into private storage as keepsakes. It has a long array of abbreviated titles from King of Great Britain and France (they still have the Channel Islands), Defender of the Faith, plus the title of Duke of Brunswick & Lünberg, Arch Treasurer, Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire. It was to plug the gap between relatively low value silver coins and gold.

 

[No. 7 cat]

4th century follis of Constantine with Romulus and Remus suckling the she-wolf that represents Rome. Ironically given their Roman symbolism, these 330-346 coins commemorate the founding of Constantinople.



Scyphate or cup shaped Byzantine coin. The label says 1000 AD. These were issued from around 1100 to the end in gold, silver of varying purity, plus copper, as here.

 

[No. 7 cat]

Denarius of Domitian c. 81-96 AD, commemorative £5 proof coin for the coronation of Charles III and the second coin is labelled as a billon (low silver alloy) Antoninianus of Gallienus, 3rd century.

 

[beautiful person]

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Denarius of Domitian c. 81-96 AD, commemorative £5 proof coin for the coronation of Charles III and the second coin is labelled as a billon (low silver alloy) Antoninianus of Gallienus, 3rd century.

I have a couple of those coronation Chucks.

 

[Jewish Man]

Collected bills and coins including uncirculated stacks of Syrian dollars and NIS. I have some commoner coins from the Judea province of Roman (of course). Only U.S thing I have is a 5 dollar bill that's still redeemable for gold! Not really, thanks Nixon.

 

[No. 7 cat]

Fairly recent Vatican City commemorative coin.




Portuguese Mozambique banknote



Early Bolshevik banknote (Civil War era banknotes and coins were sometimes given a generic double headed eagle Russian look perhaps to ensure trust)






Republic of China banknote plus British West Africa colonial coin.

 

[Agares]

Here's some more of my ancients, including one that I posted earlier (top left). Cleaned it up a bit more and was able to identify the emperor: Licinius I, who ruled from AD 308 to 324. It's a follis, which is a very common late Roman bronze piece. The reverse depicts Jupiter, the Roman version of Zeus. The top right coin was made for Crispus, who was never an actual emperor but he was a Caesar, which I guess was an important enough title to end up on a bronze coin in the late Roman empire. He was the son of Constantine I and ironically, fought a war against Licinius I. Crispus was ultimately executed before he could become an actual emperor. The VOT X on the reverse means votive 10, which is a vow to the gods made after 10 years as a Caesar. I had no idea these 2 follis were made for 2 rulers that fought each other during the same time period until I did a little more research. Rome in the AD 300's was such a politically stable place.

I think the coin on the bottom might be Greek, but it could also be a Roman quadrans. You can kind of make out the helmeted horseman on the obverse.

This is an As of Faustina, one of the few Roman empresses from the AD 100's during the height of the empire. It's scuffed and worn but you can make out the Senate's approval on the reverse, which was basically the Roman version of the treasury secretary's signature on modern US currency. Roman bronzes were the OG fiat money.

 

[PandaChai]

1922 10,000 Reichsmark

I'm rather wary of the amount of practically pristine notes & notgeld available on ebay, especially if they have low (starting) prices. I recently got some pretty beat up interwar notes from around Europe, and there's something enigmatic about them. Even if I really would like some of the more colourful German city notgeld.

 

[No. 7 cat]

I'm rather wary of the amount of practically pristine notes & notgeld available on ebay, especially if they have low (starting) prices. I recently got some pretty beat up interwar notes from around Europe, and there's something enigmatic about them. Even if I really would like some of the more colourful German city notgeld.

I got that years ago, twenty years ago from a time when a Sovereign could be got for 250 Euro or Dollars.




1921 25 Pfennig of Stadt Bitterfield (since 2007 it's merged with Wolfen, NE of Halle, south of Dessau). It was a sort of resort town that the DDR made into a coal and chemical horror.

 

[Markka maniac]

Here is some imperial markkas.

 

[Markka maniac]

Here is some USA money i have found. Farms i also have question, is that 2½ indian head real? Most counterfited tyoe of coins.

 

[ChampFantana]

Somewhere in my house, I have an old Hobo Quarter.

I don't have a photo, but basically someone engraved George into a skull.

It's pretty cool.

I also have a small number of old Wheaties that I've found in change over the years.

 

[PandaChai]

Here is some USA money i have found. Farms i also have question, is that 2½ indian head real? Most counterfited tyoe of coins.

The checklist is usually
- Is the price too good?
- Is it marked (however small) with "copy" or similar, or have any noticeable deviations from the design?
- Is it magnetic?
- Was this design minted in this year (in this metal)?
- Is it the right diametre? (±0.1mm)
- Is it the right weight? (±0.05g)
- Does it have the Jersh approved tink-tink-tink?
Then I'd recommend getting to know your local coin dealer, see if they'll give things a cheap/free look over or have an XRF machine they're willing to test things on. Sadly my own local only XRF tests if you pre-agree to sell the hook nosed bastard