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The FUN is on the DARKSIDE !!

FrankHFrankH Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭✭
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I'm still keeping the US that speaks to me, but have been switching pretty steadily to the darker side of coins. :)
And I see no reason to stop.
Other than the pretty obvious thing that they are becoming harder and harder to find.

Nuff for now. Off to more searches. B)

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  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like what you have so far 😊

    I manage money. I earn money. I save money .
    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,259 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 1, 2022 1:30PM

    Agreed...Thanks for sharing

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  • bigmarty58bigmarty58 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like the lion-man!

    Enthusiastic collector of British pre-decimal and Canadian decimal circulation coins.
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,582 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2, 2022 3:24AM

    You've got an eye for this!

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,257 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Indeed the darkside can be addictive!

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  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,056 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The '88 4E is magnificent.

  • FrankHFrankH Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just added a horsie. :)

  • bigmarty58bigmarty58 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yup!

    Enthusiastic collector of British pre-decimal and Canadian decimal circulation coins.
  • FrankHFrankH Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @bigmarty58 He got kinda grumpy looking on his half crown.

    :)

  • bigmarty58bigmarty58 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @FrankH said:
    @bigmarty58 He got kinda grumpy looking on his half crown.

    :)

    He did indeed!

    Enthusiastic collector of British pre-decimal and Canadian decimal circulation coins.
  • FrankHFrankH Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭✭

    More horsies.

    I have the pound and half pound also. Someday I should get them slabbed.
    :)

  • FrankHFrankH Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭✭

    OH yeah. Like the complexity of the European designs. For some reason, I gravitate to the Americas.

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,113 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @FrankH said:
    @bigmarty58 He got kinda grumpy looking on his half crown.

    :)

    You might be grumpy too if you had lost your mind. Poor George suffered from porphyria and was pretty much out of it over last decade of his life.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • FrankHFrankH Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @atom said:
    My favorite horse
    Silver rider
    Netherlands Holland 1758 Ducaton

    Your horsie is younger than mine.

    ;)

  • FrankHFrankH Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BillJones said:
    Yes, the dark side can include some very beautiful coins, like this 1937 King George VI coronation gold set.

    The coins are all slabbed. I created this view on my computer.

    DANG! Made me look! Found a 5 pound. A PR63.

    What are your grades? That's a gorgeous set.
    drool. :)

  • atomatom Posts: 438 ✭✭✭✭

    @FrankH said:

    @atom said:
    My favorite horse
    Silver rider
    Netherlands Holland 1758 Ducaton

    Your horsie is younger than mine.

    ;)

    That’s true
    And you can tell from their portrayal!

  • FrankHFrankH Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BillJones said:

    The five pound piece is larger and heavier than a U.S. $20 gold.

    Well sure. It's FIVE POUNDS !!! :D

  • deepblue30deepblue30 Posts: 70 ✭✭✭

    @BillJones said:

    @FrankH said:

    @BillJones said:
    Yes, the dark side can include some very beautiful coins, like this 1937 King George VI coronation gold set.

    The coins are all slabbed. I created this view on my computer.

    DANG! Made me look! Found a 5 pound. A PR63.

    What are your grades? That's a gorgeous set.
    drool. :)

    Thank you!

    Half Sovereign NGC PR-66

    Sovereign NGC PR-66, CAM

    Two Pound NGC PR-65*

    Five Pound PCGS PR-64, CAM

    The five pound piece is larger and heavier than a U.S. $20 gold.

    They are a set of stunning coins well done.

  • FrankHFrankH Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This was FUN. Just got this newp.

    When I first started collecting, it was in a small shop owned by Bob Auger with whom I became friends. Traveling to other shops and shows. He was very dedicated to foreign crowns and knew them extensively.
    I of course started with a US type set and he had a great inventory of US coins.
    But the thing that set him apart was his knowledge of foreign.
    He had a Comoros crown and I admired it. Had the Waitaingi crown and the Gothic Victoria as well as I remember.

    Now I too have the Comoros. :)

    I have no idea why it has taken me this long to get one.

  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Annam: Nguyen Dynasty 24 Lang Bar circa 1880
    VF, Opitz-pg. 33 cf. Mitch-4540
    919.2gm
    Custom cherry & wenge box
    Stickley Brothers oak desk
    Joseph Heinrichs mixed metal blotter
    Autographed Peter "Hooky" Hook (Joy Division, New Order) Catalogs

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
  • FrankHFrankH Posts: 961 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Stickley looks fake. :p

  • WeissWeiss Posts: 9,941 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @FrankH said:
    The Stickley looks fake. :p

    Fair. Technically it's L & JG :p

    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
    --Severian the Lame
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