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DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭
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I can't believe it!! I'm a Morgan collector, and just look what you guys did to me. I got some coins in the mail today that just amaze me, the beauty, the price, I think I'm slipping into the darkside-----image

I can't find any good information on the internet about this Malta coin, guess I need a Krause--Geez---

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I have fallen for these beautiful ladies from Switerland too--

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I may need some intervention---image
Becky

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  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    Aha! There is no "slipping" into the darkside, it's a steep fall and you are thereimage
    Nice Swiss lady, by the way.
    Shep
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  • a2labmoma2labmom Posts: 1,623
    welcome! it's great in here. image

    nice coins, btw.
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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,701 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The Order of Malta coins are really neat and can often be found at very favorable prices.

    Watch out for those Swiss coins! Some of the "easy" ones will throw you. Especially the
    cu/ni and the smaller denominations from the early fifties and late forties.
    Tempus fugit.
  • CoulportCoulport Posts: 1,087 ✭✭✭
    There are other real coins other than US.

    Really!
    The most money I made are on coins I haven't sold.

    Got quoins?
  • ColinCMRColinCMR Posts: 1,482 ✭✭✭
    I love Swiss pieces too! Nice coin!
  • satootokosatootoko Posts: 2,720 ✭


    << <i>I can't find any good information on the internet about this Malta coin, guess I need a Krause >>

    Actually, the Krause you need for that is not the brand new 2005 32d Ed.image

    Completely missing from the imageimage 32nd are the 11-1/3 pages devoted to the Sovereign Order of Malta (which like Vatican City is located wholly within the City of Rome), in the infamous imageimage 30th Ed.image

    Anyhow, your 1 Scudo matches the reverse of both:

    KM#M5, a 33mm, 12g, .0869 silver (.3804 ASW) 1962 or 1963 proof with a crowned shield and the legend "F. ANGELVS DE MOJANA M M H H" on the obverse; and

    KM#M9, a 1964 coin with the same specifications, but the bust of a uniformed person on the obverse.

    M5 mintage and value in the imageimage 30th Ed. are 200, valued at $100 in 1962, and 600 valued at $30 in 1963. For M9 the numbers are 4,000 Uncirculated at $10 and 1,000 Proof at $12.50.

    Neither Krause edition translates the Latin(?) "Bapt Ora Pro Nobis", it's not listed in my legal dictionery, and my last high school Latin class was 55 years ago.image

    Anyhow, relax, lean back, and enjoy the darkside, since once you dip your toe in the dark waters, you're hooked for life.image
    Roy


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  • CoinAddictCoinAddict Posts: 5,571 ✭
    Great coins. I really love the Swiss coin. The same thing happened to me. Received a package in th mail from one of the forum members and my life hasn't been the same since.image
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  • newsmannewsman Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭
    The legend says: "St. John the Baptist pray for us" image
  • StorkStork Posts: 5,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The call of the darkside...it is strong image. Next you might find yourself trying a one coin per country set (first step, define 'country'). Welcome, and cool coins!


    Cathy

  • tbirde56tbirde56 Posts: 2,161
    The Malta coin should be pictured with the words '1 Scudo' at the bottom. The coin features the decapitated head of the martyr John the Babtist. I think this incident may have been the orignator of the phrase 'bring me his head on a platter'.
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  • PhilipPhilip Posts: 847
    Those beautiful ladies from Switzerland are actually evil witches. Beware!!! image
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  • cosmicdebriscosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭
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    Bill

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  • bohica268bohica268 Posts: 478 ✭
    First you slip
    Then you fall
    And all you can do
    is yell "CANNONBALL".

    image -Welcome to the Darkside!
  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Those beautiful ladies from Switzerland are actually evil witches. Beware!!! >>

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    DorkGirl!! Look into my eyes and repeat after me!!! Heidi - Heidi - Heidi!!!!! image

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    What? Another? image

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  • cachemancacheman Posts: 3,118 ✭✭✭
    If you thought you were a Dork before...beware...the Darkside houses most of the World Dork population...image
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  • bohica268bohica268 Posts: 478 ✭


    << <i>If you thought you were a Dork before...beware...the Darkside houses most of the World Dork population...image >>



    image -We're not dorks! We're just different.
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Welcome to the Darkside, Dorkgirl.

    You're going to love it here.


    Clankeye
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,375 ✭✭✭✭✭
    welcome...expand your horizons and enjoy.

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

  • LynchLynch Posts: 299


    << <i>The Malta coin should be pictured with the words '1 Scudo' at the bottom. The coin features the decapitated head of the martyr John the Babtist. I think this incident may have been the orignator of the phrase 'bring me his head on a platter'. >>


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    Maybe the orientation is correct? John the Baptist's head on a platter has been shown "sideways" in the past on Malta coins.
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  • LynchLynch Posts: 299


    << <i>The Malta coin should be pictured with the words '1 Scudo' at the bottom. The coin features the decapitated head of the martyr John the Babtist. I think this incident may have been the orignator of the phrase 'bring me his head on a platter'. >>



    D'oh! Now I get it. You were saying the coin is shown rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise in the picture from its correct position.

    I should read more carefully.image
    "Think of the Press as a great keyboard on which the Government can play" – Joseph Goebbels

    "The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media" - William Colby, former CIA director
  • LynchLynch Posts: 299
    Edited - double post. It's not my day today.
    "Think of the Press as a great keyboard on which the Government can play" – Joseph Goebbels

    "The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media" - William Colby, former CIA director
  • AskariAskari Posts: 3,713 ✭
    Welcome "over here," DorkGirl!! Once you've fallen into the Pit, there's no escape.image It's the "Hotel California Effect" ... you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave! image Morgan collectors are particularly susceptible to the Dark Side. imageimage
    Askari



    Come on over ... to The Dark Side! image
  • drjulesdrjules Posts: 1,683


    << <i>

    << <i>If you thought you were a Dork before...beware...the Darkside houses most of the World Dork population...image >>



    image -We're not dorks! We're just different. >>



    And I thought the politically correct term was . . . special

    Welcome btw

    Dr J
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