Collecting for under $100. Show yours!

WildIdea

Copied the thread title from @coinsarefun on US coin forum. I didn’t see one for world coins searching so why not have one?!

Here goes. So while searching my foreign contacts for new and interesting pieces I decided to try typing in VW in some of the search bars. Volkswagen is another one of my passionate collecting interests. I came across this neat VW bus three generations medal for 35 euros 55 dollars total with shipping from Germany. Now I’m into all air cooled VW but mainly buses. I snatched it right up! I currently have two if the three vehicles depicted at the moment, a 65 Splitsindow and a 77 Westfalia Campmobile. Maybe I’ll use the medal as an excuse to get a Vanagon Westy, haha. Anyway, I dig this copper medal and it’s always super fun to have a crossover interest piece in my coin collection.

So what do you have that’s meaningful for under $100. For that matter, any crossover interest pieces? Would love to see them.

spoon

Outside of gold, not much in my collection cost more than $100. Heck, probably 90% of it cost less than $30!

Here's something 260 years old in frosty BU - Holland, 1 stuiver, 1760

Nice color on Vatican minors - Vatican, 10 centesimi, 1939

Proof - Ireland, 10 shillings, 1966

coinsarefun

Kool idea. This is French and the best depiction of a train I have. Found to be reasonable price.
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WildIdea

Small cent sized shooting medal, picked it basically because it small size makes the miniature detail all the more neat and interesting to me. I was considering shooting medals as a collecting focus at the time. Translates to Protection Society, Solothurn, a town in Switzerland.

Abuelo

Here I have one, of many:

JohnnyCache

Bob13

53 Euros (at the time I think About $60)

Right at a hundred.

$79

Kliao

rwyarmch

Urban VIII, Quirinal Palace
http://palazzo.quirinale.it/storia/storia_en.html

SaorAlba

Here is my $12 purchase from my Wednesday business trip to Indianapolis:

Melt on that big bad Cuauhtemoc 5 Peso coin is $15.64 - a pretty attractive coin at under melt.

This nearly slick coin came in with a junk foreign silver purchase whilst I was there, nobody in the shop could ID it - so I asked if I could give it a try and voila I identified it as a William III English halfcrown from 1696:

While I was trying to photograph these coins I had a couple of my helpers assisting me and giving me unsolicited advise:

Because they need to be involved in everything. The one on the left actually pilfered a silver quarter that I had found in a coin machine and was photographing one time.

Kliao

What advise did your cute little helpers give you

WildIdea

I thought this thread was gonna have a quick death but it look likes some want to keep it alive! I'm all for it. Thanks for posting people. Some really interesting pieces so far. Although I like to get an undervalued bargain when I can, I still like knowing I can get excited about coin collecting without feeling like I have to drop 3-5 figures.

This piece was around 40 dollars in 2010 Colorado Springs at the coin show held between the Summer Seminar weeks. I believe this was the only piece I bought at the show! Housed in a non prong NGC holder.

Was at the height of my elegant French and Art Nouveau interest and totally enamored by anything from that arts movement, still am, but just not chasing it. Now, I have the whole denomination set of this design in full red but something about dark copper really nails me to the wall.

MattTheRiley

Bought raw for $75 on a trip to the beach a few years ago!

U1chicago

Very modern:

Less modern:

SaorAlba

@Kliao said:
What advise did your cute little helpers give you

"Buy more shiny disks, we might purrloin them"

SaorAlba

@WildIdea said:

This piece was around 40 dollars in 2010 Colorado Springs at the coin show held between the Summer Seminar weeks. I believe this was the only piece I bought at the show! Housed in a non prong NGC holder.

Was at the height of my elegant French and Art Nouveau interest and totally enamored by anything from that arts movement, still am, but just not chasing it. Now, I have the whole denomination set of this design in full red but something about dark copper really nails me to the wall.

That whole era in the Latin Monetary Union saw some awesome coins being issued in France, Italy, Romania. And they minted enough of them before the war that they got hoarded when WWI began so they never circulated again and got saved from wear and tear.

Purchased from a friend that lives near Transyvania no less.

SaorAlba

A just a few dollar purchase, I own more than a few of these and actually found one roll searching in nickels a few years ago.

7Jaguars

That is a very nice example of a beautiful design on a coin - IMO much better than the platinum Eagle ripoff of this design.

coinsarefun

$32 delivered from New Zeland.
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coinsarefun

Forgot this one. $95 silver Whist marker. Before bridge this is what they were playing.
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jimhopkins1919

This was exactly $100.00. Really liked the toning.

rwyarmch

johnny9434

nice coin all

WildIdea

Large, copper, mint state, color and under a hundie

thisistheshow

Bought yesterday, at my LCS. I spent a pleasant couple of hours perusing junk bins, both US and world, and talking about all sorts of topics with the owner and an eclectic assortment of customers. It's a great way to spend an afternoon playing in the shallow end of our great hobby. Only bought two coins. Here's one.

1916 10 Kopeks Russia.

Wish it was a 1917, but I can't complain for $1.50.

PS Maybe someone will appreciate this....I then spent an hour digging through hand wrenches at a pawn shop. I found a nice Williams Superrench for a dollar.

neildrobertson

This was a good value buy at $67. Looks better than many higher grade and over $100 examples.

thisistheshow

1911 half crown.

Paid $1.50 over bullion value. Not a gem but I like it.

Edited for spelling.

jgenn

My little tribute to a fabulous period detective show that, sadly, only ran for one season.

Weiss

Vienna Mint: World's First Silver Dollar 500th Anniversary (1486-1986)
KM X# MB1 (5 Unzen / 5 Troy Ounces). .999 Silver. Mintage 1,050
In original case with paperwork
$86 03-26-19:

Kliao

1887 shilling. Paid melt.

thisistheshow

@Kliao said:
1887 shilling. Paid melt.

Great buy!

thisistheshow

@Weiss said:
Vienna Mint: World's First Silver Dollar 500th Anniversary (1486-1986)
KM X# MB1 (5 Unzen / 5 Troy Ounces). .999 Silver. Mintage 1,050
In original case with paperwork
$86 03-26-19:

Wow!!

IVB

Nice 10 rubles with zircons from Belarus (Warsaw mint)

bidask

I am a BIG coin nerd .

GotTheBug

Some nice, and interesting coins posted so far. Here's my contribution.

SamByrd

Swampboy

$15.00

edit to mention the $20.00 eBay purchase which won me this award

WildIdea

Just checked in and saw 11 new additions to this thread! Pretty cool, some really neat stuff out there for under $100.

WillieBoyd2

The Crusades, Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, the Leper King...

Crusader State of Antioch, Bohemond III, AD 1163-1201
Billon silver, 17 mm, 0.59 gm
US $40

Weiss

• The least expensive item in my box of 20.
  $33 11-23-14:
  

mamieopa

I like this discussion and all these different items.

spoon

Similar to @Swampboy's, this cost less than $50 with red lustre remaining! There was a small hoard of this year released in UNC about 10 years ago.

SYRACUSIAN

WildIdea

Looks like the thread lives again!

I’ll add this medal I found on eBay last year for about 40 dollars. Translates to honor technical college Berlin. 55mm. Looks like it was possibly glued to a ribbon as well as had a mounting stud ground off.

I wasn’t terribly interested when I made an offer and overjoyed when I saw it in hand. I have a few Great War grenadier medals and this piece really sets off the variety with the lanky pin head design of the soldier.

Thanks for looking and adding to this thread! Lots of great pieces out there without writing monster checks.

WildIdea

bigmarty58

Nice Calm Sea Variety!

CollectorBonEZ

Just had these graded before current events.

Zwiggy

Got this with a bit of nice color for well under $100. 1917-1919 rupees toned well and are relatively cheap. This is a bit nicer in hand, so maybe I’ll look to retake the photo...

Stella

This Lundy Half Puffin is for my bird-themed collection and was under $100.

Timbuk3

Very nice, thank you all for sharing !!!

harasha

I am posting this because I am happy with the image that I was able to capture. Only in about Good condition, I normally do not purchase cash like this. However, the provenance was decent, so I took a chance. And how can you go wrong for $8, which is quite low for a relatively rare cash piece like this.
Anyway, this is from the reign of the the Qing emperor, Shun Zhi 1644 - 1661; Miyun Garrison; Zhili Province; H22.49; aG. yun at right on reverse . 25.7 mm, 3.9 grams

Clio

Shipping put it over the mark but I think it still qualifies. PCGS AU58