milwaukee purchase

eureka

I went to the show in Milwaukee today and picked up this Mexican 50 centavos for my type set of Maximilian era coins from Mexico. I'm still on the lookout for a nice 1 & 5 Centavos, and a 20 peso gold. The show had a pretty decent selection of world coins, and it was only my lack of knowledge kept me from buying several coins. There were some very nice, and rather cheap, Philipine coins that I had trouble making myself say "no" to.

cosmicdebris

Nice one Andy.

farthing

I bet that one will look nice next to the 1 Peso from last year!

oldshep

good catch!!
shep

eureka

Thanks. The image is a little over exposed, I should redo it. I think I'll probably upgrade this one at some point. It looks better than any I've come across so far, and although it was cleaned at some point and is retoning, I couldn't pass on the price. The 50 centavos are alot harder to find than the 1 peso coins.
I have a feeling it'll take forever to find a nice 20 peso gold. I've seen two in the last year; one on ebay with too crappy of an image to check against known counterfiets, and the other at the Fun show with ugly gold test scratches.

Nice of you to remember my 1 peso from last year. That one is turning out to be a really nice find, as I've yet to see another come even close to it in quality. In fact, this is very interesting.... which do you like better? Mine or this one in the same grade on ebay