Show Me a Sunface

Stella · January 30, 2019 4:07PM

Please share your sunface coins from any country!

I will start:

Abuelo · January 30, 2019 4:52PM

Instead of uploading all my CARs I though these are a bit different:

Stella · January 30, 2019 5:04PM

Very nice, @Abuelo !

Boosibri · January 30, 2019 6:22PM

Stella · January 30, 2019 6:32PM

Gorgeous, @Boosibri !

IVB · January 30, 2019 7:58PM

The Sultanate of Rum (Seljuk) 640 AH.

Iosephus · January 30, 2019 8:11PM

A couple of medals with sun faces:

jgenn · January 30, 2019 8:11PM

rwyarmch · January 31, 2019 7:06AM

George III by J. Colibert (BHM 2, Eimer 923)

EVillageProwler · January 31, 2019 7:55AM

Abuelo · January 31, 2019 8:32AM

OK, I could not resist. One CAR (for now)...

pruebas · January 31, 2019 9:00AM

IVB · January 31, 2019 9:55AM

I will have about -40° C next day (Novosibirsk), and I love Sun faces so much

TwoKopeiki · January 31, 2019 11:41AM

@IVB said:
I will have about -40° C next day (Novosibirsk), and I love Sun faces so much

Nice - i was born in Tomsk and my brothers in Novosibirsk. Stay warm!

carabonnair · January 31, 2019 1:17PM

It's summertime in Uruguay...

MrEureka · January 31, 2019 2:08PM

Picked this one up a few hours ago.

Boosibri · January 31, 2019 2:14PM

@MrEureka said:
Picked this one up a few hours ago.

For your collection?

MrEureka · January 31, 2019 2:35PM

@Boosibri said:

@MrEureka said:
Picked this one up a few hours ago.

For your collection?

Not sure yet. On the one hand, I didn't have one, so it would be good to fill the hole in the collection. On the other hand, there are better 33's out there, so I would rather wait for a better coin to fill that hole in the "album". But on the other other hand, I don't remember seeing one from such a late die state, with an obviously bulged obverse die. So I need to figure out how rare the die state is before I'll know if I should keep the coin.

EVillageProwler · January 31, 2019 3:36PM

@MrEureka said:

@Boosibri said:

@MrEureka said:
Picked this one up a few hours ago.

For your collection?

Not sure yet. On the one hand, I didn't have one, so it would be good to fill the hole in the collection. On the other hand, there are better 33's out there, so I would rather wait for a better coin to fill that hole in the "album". But on the other other hand, I don't remember seeing one from such a late die state, with an obviously bulged obverse die. So I need to figure out how rare the die state is before I'll know if I should keep the coin.

How many hands you got?

YQQ · January 31, 2019 4:24PM

Mr. Eureka...
did you notice the prices Kuenker got?
all I can say is this: some people have a lot of spare cash.....

Stella · January 31, 2019 6:15PM

@rwyarmch Cool medal. I have never seen that one before.
@MrEureka Love the 8 Escudos! It would be hard for me to sell any of those if I had them.

Stella · January 31, 2019 6:15PM

Thanks to everyone for all the variety so far! Keep the pictures coming.

rwyarmch · January 31, 2019 7:26PM

Oxforshire 1 halfpenny in the Conder token series.

pruebas · January 31, 2019 7:52PM

@rwyarmch said:
Oxforshire 1 halfpenny in the Conder token series.

Gorgeous piece of copper!

carabonnair · February 1, 2019 9:35AM

I have a couple in the ol' album:

WildIdea · February 1, 2019 9:49AM

WillieBoyd2 · February 2, 2019 11:54AM

I have posted this coin before:

United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata (Argentina) 8 Reales 1813, Potosi Mint
Silver, 38mm, 26.80gm
Obverse: Sun face and rays / PROVINCIAS DEL LA RIO DELA PLATA
Reverse: Wreath, two hands holding Liberty Cap / EN UNION Y LIBERTAD / 1813

Their pirates attacked California on November 20, 1818.

During the Spanish-American wars of independence, privateers from Argentina attacked California, which was under Spanish control. French sea captain Hipólyte Bouchard led the attack and plundered the central coast town Monterey. It was the only time that California was invaded by an enemy.

Boosibri · February 2, 2019 12:18PM

OGDan · February 2, 2019 1:46PM

A couple from my cabinet:

Both world travelers, of sorts.

BillJones · February 3, 2019 1:10PM

How about a "moon face?" That's what some people call this King John (before he was king) Irish half penny.

WildIdea · February 3, 2019 2:38PM

Stella · February 5, 2019 4:48AM

Fun chop marks, @OriginalDan

And that is a far nicer than average example, @Boosibri

I love seeing all the variety everyone has posted!

MrEureka · February 6, 2019 10:05PM

How about 99 sunfaces? The story I was given, and which seems perfectly credible based on the coins and the holder, is that these coins were given to an official at the Central Bank of Argentina by one of the mints looking for the contract to produce Argentina's newly proposed bimetallic peso. The coins are of "Specimen" or "Prooflike First Strike" quality. They also lack the usual mintmarks found on the circulation strikes. Unfortunately, two pieces were sold from the board before I got my hands on it. Still pretty freaking cool, I think.

Based on the logo on the holder, where were these coins made? Are there any more of these presentation pieces out there? Is the existence of these things generally known by Argentine collectors? Does anyone here know anything more about these?

MrEureka · February 7, 2019 5:26PM

OK, I answered my own questions. The logo is from the South African Mint.

Janson lists a series of patterns for the 1994 pesos struck at various mints in various countries, some in multiple compositions. My coins are probably identical to the one issue listed for South Africa, but I'm not certain of it.

pruebas · February 7, 2019 6:40PM

I was going to say South African Mint, but I thought you knew that.

Are you absolutely certain these are ALL the same?

MrEureka · February 7, 2019 8:05PM

@pruebas said:
I was going to say South African Mint, but I thought you knew that.

Are you absolutely certain these are ALL the same?

Great question! Will have to spend some more time on them.

mt_msla · February 8, 2019 3:31AM

No coin. But I DID sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

https://tvline.com/2014/12/23/teletubbies-sun-baby-grown-up-photo-jess-smith/

PCGSPhoto · February 8, 2019 8:35AM

Here's a recent one from 2017, from the "Celestial Bodies" $5 coin series from "Niue".
Here's the artist's website: https://www.miroslav-hric.com/

carabonnair · February 8, 2019 8:38AM

I see a couple tiny zinc sunfaces

ShadyDave · February 8, 2019 10:44AM

@OriginalDan said:
A couple from my cabinet:

Both world travelers, of sorts.

Cool chopped coin!

mvs7 · February 8, 2019 10:46AM

ShadyDave · February 8, 2019 10:48AM

Here is my 2R

TwoKopeiki · February 8, 2019 11:24AM

mvs7 · February 8, 2019 12:28PM

Forgot this one had a sunface until @carabonnair posted its zinc cousins.

carabonnair · February 8, 2019 12:31PM

🌞︎
Unicode U+1F31E (dec 127774) for the "Sun in splendor" emoticon

jayPem · February 13, 2019 8:48PM

Stella · February 14, 2019 5:27PM

@jayPem Neat overstrike!

Que_sai_je · February 15, 2019 2:04PM

Picked up this very pretty Argentine Gold Military medal recently, though technically not a coin of course. Already seen by Mr Eureka. From roughly the time of the War of the Triple Alliance circa 1871: any more solid info would be appreciated.
About 30mm, 22 Grams total, appears to be high Karat gold and nicer in hand than photo: solid MS62/63 with a cpl of copper spots and sem-PL. Good quality for something of this era, Only other one of these I could dig up info on was a somewhat beat up AU grade in an HA sale a few years ago., they said it was the first one they had seen.

Que_sai_je · February 18, 2019 10:37AM

PCGS MS65. Very pretty. No surface marks of any note at all, 100% fully struck portrait (unusual thus), mottled light toning similar to other coins I've seen from Paramount Heaton mint grouping circa 1970's (my best guess as to provenance).

Que_sai_je · March 15, 2019 7:49AM

Nice wholesome collector grade coin.

Zohar · March 15, 2019 11:01AM

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