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Beautiful !939 Vatican Coin Found at Local Shop

ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
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Found this at a local coin shop today. I have to tell you, it is one of the most beautiful toned coin I have seen in person. The devices on the reverse are just totally framed in an electric blue that my camera does not do justice to.

The coin was raw, in a 2X2 graded "Gem Bu." All in all, the price was less than sending in a single coin to PCGS to be slabbed--

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Clankeye
Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare

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  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
    Someone hit the jackpot on this oneimage


    P.S. Who stole the Thumbs up emoticon?
    Bill

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    09/07/2006
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    The luster is just glowing under the toning, Cosmic. And again, the blue on the reverse is so much more visible in hand. The halo around our boatsman just glows blue.

    Also, these shots tend to make the couple of hits on the coin jump out. You really don't notice them as much eye-balling it.

    This is one hip coin.

    Clankeye
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    A beauty-my coin shops don't have a single toned coin left in their inventory-everybody's after them. image

    Carol posted to a thread earlier on the open forum concerning replacment of certain icons, among them the ubiquitous thumbs up.
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • newsmannewsman Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭
    Awesome -- and rare. Nice catch! imageimage
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭


    << <i>Awesome -- and rare >>



    Is it? I must confess I really have no idea. I would be interested in a little schooling on Vatican coins if anyone one has the patience or inclination.

    Clankeye
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • newsmannewsman Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭
    Mintages were relatively low for all types, especially the earlier ones, and popularity seems to fluctuate. These coins are at least as rare as those darned euros but are a lot cheaper because fewer people are chasing them. image

    I guess that means more for us. image
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Another toned beauty from the vaults of Clank!! Congratulations!

    Please put me on the waiting list for when you eventually decide to part with it!

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    .....GOD
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • spinaker2000spinaker2000 Posts: 4,329 ✭
    image Very nice and colorful, congrats!!!!image
    Terry

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  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
    Nice giveaway! Sign me up!! imageimageimage
  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    Only 20,000 minted, smallest outside of the 1929 mintage of 10k, $22.50 in UNC-Krause and probably a lot higher for that one
    One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
    is that you end up being governed by inferiors. – Plato
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    $22.00--- that's exactly what our dealer had it posted at.

    I didn't haggle.

    I actually hadn't been in there in months, but I popped in today because I remembered seeing a nicely toned cased 1971 Canadian dollar there way back when. Yep, it was still there. I bought that too.
    It's not as nice as Dark Horses' new one, but cool nonetheless.


    Clankeye


    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • newsmannewsman Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭
    Those Vatican coins came in cardboard holders, which usually tone the silver coins very nicely.
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Yes, I've seen sets on eBay, and been kind of drawn to them, but never pulled the trigger.

    I also remember seeing a couple BU white examples at shows and thinking they were interesting coins.

    This was a one of those cases though where I just looked down into the case, my eye went right to this coin, and I said "I want that."

    Clankeye
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    Eye poppin eye candy!!!!image
    Shep
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  • satootokosatootoko Posts: 2,720 ✭
    That coin rates imageimageimage

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    << <i>Who stole the Thumbs up emoticon? >>

    A new version - image - is 13th from the bottom on the list, but I really prefer image. The URL is

    << <i>http://sc.communities.msn.com/themes/pby/img/emoticons/emthup.gif >>

    If you change "up" to "down" you get image
    Roy


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  • DarkhorseDarkhorse Posts: 1,377
    Christ on a boat that's great!
  • NJMark1NJMark1 Posts: 479 ✭
    A Beauty! Don't see too many of those around. Congrates!



    Mark
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,247 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like it... beautiful color, great lustre and an attractive and unusual design. Congrats on a terrific find.

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

  • SYRACUSIANSYRACUSIAN Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭✭
    Clank, that's too much luck within a short time-limit image
    Dimitri



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  • CoulportCoulport Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭
    Sweet coin.
    Great year.

    (Mine's white)


    Now you have got to find the companion Sede Vacante. That is a excellent design on both sides.
    The most money I made are on coins I haven't sold.

    Got quoins?
  • danglendanglen Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭
    Just want to let you know I sell a lot of Vatican coins, and in most cases Krause is way off the mark on valuations. A lot of the silver 500 and 1000 Lire issues that Krause has for around $30 regularly sell for almost twice that much.
    P.S. That's an AWESOME coin! image
    danglen

    My Website

    "Everything I have is for sale except for my wife and my dog....and I'm not sure about one of them."
  • RadagastRadagast Posts: 36
    What a neat coin, I also collect Vatican coins, but I don't have anything that nice!
  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Radagast, please show us your Vatican coins! Thanks.

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    .....GOD
    image

    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
  • ShipcoinShipcoin Posts: 1,243
    Nice one Clankeye!

    And as it have a boat on it is already for a long time in my wants!

    Congrats with nice coin!
    N. N.
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