Show Me a Sunface

carabonnair

I just upgraded from a 10 cent. to a 25 and notice that there is a little sun face rising in the Caribbean and peering over to the Pacific.

Bob13

Big sun but no faces on US coins!

Boosibri

carabonnair

Not mine, but stumbled upon a sunface from Quedlinburg abbey

Stella

@carabonnair said:
Not mine, but stumbled upon a sunface from Quedlinburg abbey

I like that! Cool piece.

Euclid

Bringing back this thread with a new addition to my small but growing sunface collection.

bidask

@Euclid said:
Bringing back this thread with a new addition to my small but growing sunface collection.

I like it

Boosibri

Abuelo

This is one of my favourite coins. One of the best CAR coins that I have ever seen as far as preservation, the coin is bright like the sun!

TwoKopeiki

Am I doing this right?

Zohar

JohnnyCache

scubafuel

ACop

ACop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHjtI35YZls&feature=emb_title

ACop

Stella

It is great to see all these additions! Thanks for chiming in, everyone.

atom

TwoKopeiki

@atom said:

Took me a while to see it! Way cool!

atom

@TwoKopeiki said:

@atom said:

Took me a while to see it! Way cool!

But of course it’s at high noon!

brg5658

coinsarefun

mvs7

Euclid

My fellow sunface enthusiasts will enjoy browsing part D of the January 2021 auction at Stacks. There are a lot of great looking coins, so best of luck to anyone bidding. Please post some pics if you win

Boosibri

Finest extant Rebel 8 reales

carabonnair

An interesting 17th century London token (not mine - just appeared on the bay)

Euclid

Here's a favorite coin of mine. Pics by a friend.

scubafuel

Love the toning on that one @Euclid

bidask

https://www.kuenker.de/en/auktionen/stueck/290687

New world record !

Stella

It is good to see this thread back!

And yes @bidask Kunker did very well! I unfortunately got outbid on the piece I wanted.

tcollects

@bidask said:
https://www.kuenker.de/en/auktionen/stueck/290687

New world record !

that auction was nuts - anyone here get the Quito 8E?

Boosibri

@bidask said:
https://www.kuenker.de/en/auktionen/stueck/290687

New world record !

I tried at 15,000 hammer, went 17,000. You buy it? Price isn’t nuts if it is a nice coin for that grade but who knows from those pictures.

ELuis

I do not own any of these, oops... wrong coin, the one i was trying to post is 8 Soles... doh.

bidask

@Boosibri said:

@bidask said:
https://www.kuenker.de/en/auktionen/stueck/290687

New world record !

I tried at 15,000 hammer, went 17,000. You buy it? Price isn’t nuts if it is a nice coin for that grade but who knows from those pictures.

I bid but did not but it

Achori

my South Peru surface escudos

Achori

1864/3 surface medal PCGS MS63

Abuelo

@Achori nice medal, but those half escudos are awesome!

Achori

@Abuelo said:
@Achori nice medal, but those half escudos are awesome!

thank you @Abuelo !!

1984worldcoins

lordmarcovan

John Conduitt

I have a couple of Mongol sunface coins.

One from the Golden Horde:

Tokhta Khan Pulo, 1296-1297

Qrim (Crimea). Bronze, 0.97g. Sun face. Tokhta’s tamga (Lebedev M8).

Another from the Ilkhanate in Persia:

Öljeitü ibn Arghun Fals, 1303-1318

Bronze, 23mm, 2.55g. Sun-face with eight rays within square. Three-lined and marginal legends citing Muhammad Khudabanda and title al-Sultan al-Aza (Album 2190).

Cocoinut

I haven't seen one of these yet, although the sun is similar to that on the Central American Republic coins of the 1830's & 1840's.

Stella

It is great to see more coins and types! Keep them coming if you have them.

carabonnair

Saw this in the DNW auction.

carabonnair

WillieBoyd2

A sunface from Turkey:

Seljuks of Rum Sultanate, Dirham, Kaykhusraw II, Konya, AH 639 (AD 1241)
Silver, 24 mm, 3.00 gm, struck at Konya mint

Obverse:
Ring outer: Iman al-Mustansir Billah Lord and Commander of the Faithful
(Al-Mustansir Billah was the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad and officially Kaykhusraw's lord)
Ring inner: Struck at Qunyat (Konya)
Field: Sunface and lion (supposedly the astrological sign of Leo)

Reverse:
Field: Five lines
Nine and thirty (39) (one line)
The very great Sultan, help of the world, Kai-Khusru son of Kai-Qubad (three lines)
Six hundred (one line)

The Mongols effectively ended Kaykrusraw's reign in AD 1243 when he became their vassal.

RaraAvis

Stella

Thanks to @CoinRaritiesOnline for this recent addition!

Boosibri

Euclid

Couldn't pass this one up even though I already own the type.