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jimhopkins1919

Here are my three for the year.

TwoKopeiki

Those are pretty cool @KingOfMorganDollar One of these days I'll have to add some escudos to the collection, too.

@jimhopkins1919 nice coins! Do you have any info on the Habsburg Collection?

jimhopkins1919

Thanks!, I won that in a Stacks Bowers auction back in August. Here is a write up from them about it.

http://www.stacksbowers.com/News/Pages/Blogs.aspx?ArticleID=Habsburgs-Unending-Empire

Got the one I wanted the most but wish I had bid higher on a couple more.

TwoKopeiki

Favorite addition would have to be this freshly minted little guy:

Coins wise, while my focus continues to be directed towards new and some previously undocumented varieties in Mexico portrait 8 Reales series, here are 3 additions that give me that warm and fuzzy feeling:

First one was an eBay gamble based on poor seller's photos that paid off and an over-assayer variety to boot!

1801 Mexico 8R FT/M P63 ex:N63

Second is an ex-Huntington sale 1808 Ferdinand VII from @Senator32 in P58

And the most recent addition from @Boosibri of a nice toned 1779 8R in P63

Yorkshireman

These are mine:

neildrobertson

I had been wanting a proof of this type for a while. I'm glad I got the opportunity to get this one.

Oh, and this one too.

I'm hoping next year I'll have a couple more small eagle German Empire types.

Abuelo

Favourite coins for 2020? Too early to say...

mvs7

@Abuelo said:
Favourite coins for 2020? Too early to say...

Normally I'd agree with that, but with no shows and having already searched through upcoming auction listings, I'm going to go ahead and award my favorite purchase of the year to this 1926 Guatemala 10 Quetzales, purchased as NGC MS63, now PCGS MS63+, ex. Clapp/Eliasberg. I will be pleasantly surprised if I find something better in the next 6 weeks.

harasha

My favorite acquisition of this year was a Dutch sharpshooters medal struck during the art nouveau period.
All my other favorites probably have been posted, already. However, this Bayreuth taler only shared the spotlight with two other sister coins. The coin is heavily graffitied, but its engraver, Peter Paul Werner, is of note.

Boosibri

Like @TwoKopeiki, my best new addition is a new family addition!

For coins, and in no order:

A Coquimbo Peso

A unique 4 escudos from the Medina and Norweb collections.

Finest extant of rarest dated Guatemalan 8 Reales

Abuelo

Congratulations to @Boosibri and @TwoKopeiki on the new babies.

@mvs7 I do not know, the last week has been full of interesting additions to my collection, and there still few weeks to improve on those

Abuelo

This is like asking me to select a favourite within my children but so far (as I have a couple of coins on the way) these are my 2020 coins (in no particular order):

I would say that the Iturbide 2 reales is the most important as it is very rare, nearly impossible in MS, and I was looking for one for decades. But all of these have a special reason to be on the list and I could not eliminate any of them. And as I said, likely will add to the list as the year is not over.

I bought other coins that I like a lot (I only recall ever buying and keeping one coin that I did not like as I needed it to complete a series) but there were not rare enough or historically significant enough to make it to the list.

Abuelo

The picture on the Carlos Juana real is not that great, but the coin is incredible on hand.

TwoKopeiki

@Abuelo I'm just happy you're not collecting portraits

Abuelo

Soon enough @TwoKopeiki soon enough @Boosibri has been tempting me. Maybe he will succeed?

Bob13

Got a couple nice Wildman Talers from NYINC auctions last year. Here is one I really like:

And no idea why I have this coin except it is beautiful!

And then this coin which needs better pics - currently out for grading and TV.

tbishopric

It's difficult to pick one coin or token from 2020. Here's a top candidate, however. I am drawn to the more remote reaches of world numismatics.

30 Sous Mallorca emergency issue during Yellow Fever epidemic.

ChopmarkedTrades

Really nice example of a Japanese Trade Dollar for the world chopmarked crowns type set. Nearly PL reverse:

Beautiful example of a chopmarked Pillar 8 Reales:

A previously untracked example of a Cap & Rays 8 Reales with a 'Wedding Chop', plated in the first reference work on the subject in English, F.M. Rose's 'Chopmarks':

ɹoʇɔǝlloɔ

hopefully I be posting in this thread once I acquire the next great engravers release from royal mint 🤞🤞🤞

bosox

1930 Canada cent in PCGS SP66 Red. Ex. Cornerstone Collection. Only five examples graded by PCGS. ICCS graded it as SP-67 Red in an old embossed holder. Solo finest graded by both services.

PillarDollarCollector

@bosox said:
1930 Canada cent in PCGS SP66 Red. Ex. Cornerstone Collection. Only five examples graded by PCGS. ICCS graded it as SP-67 Red in an old embossed holder. Solo finest graded by both services.

As a Canadian the red large and small cents are things of beauty. I also like very much the 50 cent series from 1921 and earlier.

worldcoinguy

Two purchases which were well beyond my wildest expectations 12 months ago.

pruebas

@TwoKopeiki said:
@Abuelo I'm just happy you're not collecting portraits

Nor patterns!

pruebas

Most of my pickups this year (for my core collections) are modern and probably would not interest most of you, so I won't post them. (But modern patterns are generally rarer than some of the old ones because of tighter security.)

Here is probably the most historic item I purchased this year. You may recognize it's sister from the Buttrey-Hubbard catalog. This one was unknown to the Mexican numismatic community until recently.

Here's the Heritage catalog description:

Republic Presentation Coin Case 1879, An amazing custom case with golden central plaque detailing the gift of the case from J.A. de Mendizabal to Francisca Temple de Ajuria to in 1879. At this time Francisca, and Jonathan Temple's widow, controlled the lease of the Mexico City mint, previously held by her father, Jonathan Temple de Ajuria, until his death in 1866. During the time of her lease (in 1879) Francisca was given this case by the Director of the Mint, Jose Antonio de Mendizabal, the case presumably containing silver and copper coins dated 1879 and gold coins dated 1872-75. Extremely rare.

One other case is known and is pictured on page 250 of A Guide Book of Mexican Coins, issued by Whitman Publishing Company in 1971. The pictured case, however, is somewhat different from the one we offer, in particular in the style of the flowers on the lid and the round shape of the gold plaque in the center of the outside cover. The other case was also awarded to a different individual than Francisca Temple de Ajuria.

While our case does not contain the coins that it originally held, it remains, with the other similar case, a fantastic historical item of Mexican numismatics, and comes housed in the original velvet case that protects its fabulous detailing, replete with delicate flowers, small stars, and an overall floral pattern.

Edited to add: there were no coins inside. A nice project would be to add toned UNC specimens of each of them, including the gold.

Abuelo

@pruebas as always, this is fantastic!

brg5658

Almost embarrassed to post my favorites after seeing all of the amazing eye candy posted before me. But, here goes...

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TwoKopeiki

@brg5658 said:
Almost embarrassed to post my favorites after seeing all of the amazing eye candy posted before me. But, here goes...

I think your coins fit right in!

Bob13

@brg5658 said:
Almost embarrassed to post my favorites after seeing all of the amazing eye candy posted before me. But, here goes...

They look fantastic. Glad those coins found the right home!

Zohar

Had a great year in pruning yet adding some nice pieces. Here are a few

Two types

rwyarmch

My favorite coin purchase for the year.

PhilLynott

1226-1293 Modena Grosso NGC MS62:

Not the swiss coin type I've been targeting forever but a great coin still. 1811 Bern Frank PCGS MS66.

brg5658

@rwyarmch said:
My favorite coin purchase for the year.

asheland

This is a nice one. Definitely my favorite Darkside pickup this year.

Clio

Bought raw off eBay March and submitted to PCGS shortly after.

mkman123

amazing stuff everyone!!!

Ukpaul

Not my best purchase of the year, but one I had a picture of.

neildrobertson

@Ukpaul said:
Not my best purchase of the year, but one I had a picture of.

Cool coin. The 58 on that thing is certainly...interesting.

jgenn

A major one for the core collection

And a nice design for my eclectic world crown set

PillarDollarCollector

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7Jaguars

Not a beauty, but not bad either and EXCESSIVELY rare - unknown until recent discovery:

Also not confirmed until this last year and extremely rare in Circulation or currency format:

Top Pop, but a beauty IMO:

Tibor

From Liege Bishopric. 1438 A.D. Double Gros Lev. II-8
IOh EPS LEODIEH DX BULLO Z COM LOS
AHNO DOMINI MILLESIO CCCCXXXVIII

From Brabant, Malines mint. 1488 A.D. Demi Noble d'or Lev. II-101b
MO RO RE Z Phl ARDVC AVS BVRGOEN BRA
REFORMATIO GVERRE PAX EST ANNO 1&88

From Brabant, Malines mint. !488 A.D. Demi Noble d'or Lev. II-101a
MO RO RE Z Phl ARDVC AVS BG BRA Z LIM
REFORMATIO GVERRE PAX EST ANNO 1&88

These are recent auction wins. I hope the forum enjoys them.
Merry Christmas!! Stay Safe!

SDSportsFan

This is the only coin I bought in 2020, so I guess it's my favorite buy of the year:

Ivan the Terrible Kopeck (1547-1584), Novgorod mint.

Steve

islemangu

JohnnyCache

I'm seeing a pattern here...

YQQ

1966 small beads Canada Dollar
is wrongly described in the NGC holder as Large beads!!

Boosibri

@JohnnyCache said:
I'm seeing a pattern here...

Some great looking coins you have there!

neildrobertson

@JohnnyCache said:
I'm seeing a pattern here...

I don't see a single one.

TwoKopeiki

@neildrobertson said:

@JohnnyCache said:
I'm seeing a pattern here...

I don't see a single one.

Yorkshireman

@bosox said:
1930 Canada cent in PCGS SP66 Red. Ex. Cornerstone Collection. Only five examples graded by PCGS. ICCS graded it as SP-67 Red in an old embossed holder. Solo finest graded by both services.

Amazing piece!