Weekend picture post

SYRACUSIAN

Remember these , where we would all post our newps in one thread? What an eye candy, let me start this week, as I have a lot of free time ,today is Independence day in Greece.

I got two nice parcels this week, the first one from Civitas. It contained

1)a magnificent and rare Egyptian gold coin ,to which this photo really doesn't do justice. It's only 12mm, so any hairlines or other distractions are just not there when the coin is in hand without a magnifier, and it has great luster. I'm super happy with it, my first gold purchase after a very long time.



EGYPT Abdul Hamid Ottoman Empire AH 1293, year 16 (1891)--#WC11139
AV 5 Qirsh 12mm. 0.42g. al-Qahira (Cairo) mint

Reform Coinage

Toughra.


Islamic inscription.


KM 298

Brilliant Uncirculated. Probably MS-65. Rare, unlisted date.

2) China, Manchoukuo. 1939 Fen. Y #6 in KM. BU ,toned and choice.

My latest love affair is with Chinese copper. If Josh tells me what happened to his great photo of it, I'll be delighted to share it, for the moment here's a nice red x from the auction.








The second parcel was from JamminJ. It contained a very scarce in high grades, 1957 1 drachma NGC MS64, and these wonderful Chinese coppers:






Again here, the (very good) photos don't even come close . These coins are simply stunning in hand, thank you James.


There was a third parcel I was expecting, but it's not here yet.



So, let's see some more new coins!

Fairlaneman

Just this so far. Mail still to come today and there is always tomorrow. Not to worry...




Ken

spinaker2000

I got this in!!

oldshep

I got this in!!

Looks like a Dell dude!!!

No Newps for a while.
Shep

SYRACUSIAN

Looks like a Dell dude!!!




Looks like spinaker's desk needs a few drawers and shelves underneath the desktop. Nice little room under the roof!

MacCrimmon

Hey, who decorated that room with the lighthouse motif?

Dimitri, two words; pracht exemplar!

spinaker2000

Yes, I have to hide in the attic!! My old Dell was purchased in '99 and ran on Windows 98SE. What a difference at $1000 less than the old one.

hyperizer

I got this Monday (my photo):



This one is on the way (dealer's photo):

DorkGirl

Brought home a grumpy looking old man

spinaker2000

My Eyes!!!

cccash

Well, this didn't come in the mail, but, I got it a day er two ago



One more

lordmarcovan

Not a NEWP, but a NEWF. (New Freebie).

Thanks, WhiteLighnin!


1693 William and Mary Irish halfpenny. My first Irish coin for the vest, and the oldest Irish piece that I have had, despite being an Irish coin enthusiast for some time.

wybrit

SYRACUSIAN

Great stuff! Keep it up!




I'm just going to use some eye drops,because my eyes hurt from Dorkgirl's post.

cosmicdebris

theboz11

This a couple of NEWP that came in last week


1882 Belgium 20 Fr NGC MS-65



1935 Swiss Helvetia , Blanchard Sealed

lordmarcovan

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Holy crapola.

(LordM chants to himself)

I will not collect Conder tokens! I will not! Will not! NO! WILL NOT!

elverno

A NEWP - 1800 Russia 1 Kopek (I think) irregular and damaged planchet.



I will not collect Conders I can't afford, I will NOT collect Conders I can't afford... <== variation on a theme!

cacheman

elverno

25th anniversary - BRONZE!

cosmicdebris

Nice Goetz.


LM there are many Conders with holes in them.

cacheman

Aethelred

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You'll love the new Dell computer, but I'll bet you hook your old printer up again soon, I did.

lordmarcovan

<< <i>LM there are many Conders with holes in them. >>



Yeah, you're right. And if there are any nice high grade ones with holes in them, I'm there, baby!

But so far I have only seen one or two... and they have managed to elude my grasp.

hamiltonjh

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is this coin made of Plastik?

cacheman

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is this coin made of Plastik? >>



No...This Goetz medal was designed and executed in the tradional German Portrait Medal style by Karl Goetz...the obverse contains the portrait of the subject and the reverse contains some quality or ability of the subject person. In this case, the person is Karl's son Guido Goetz. who was a medal maker and sculptor. 'Plastik' is relating to or dealing with shaping or modeling: the plastic art of sculpture.

hamiltonjh

ya learn somethin new every day

thanks Cache

SYRACUSIAN

These two with Goetz's family are very simple and elegant Scott. Is the second a sort of recognition of his young son's talents? This PLASTIK inscription had me thinking for some time too.


I admit though,that hamiltonjh's idea had not crossed my mind.

JamminJ

Here are a few recent additions to my personal collection:


I like Ottoman coinage and this one jumped out at me. Nice, original skin with excellent underlying luster. They're tough to find nice but when you do they're cheap!


An addition to my German Imperial type set. Exceptionally nice but unfortunately has some carbon spots on teh reverse. I may let the pros at NCS have a look to see if they can get the spots off.


Cool error, I doubt the reverse dies lasted much longer. That it's an exceptionally nice coin is even better.


Spent more than a year looking for an uncirculated coin of this tye and paid dearly when I found it. Still can't seen to get a nice picture.


So old and cool I'll overlook the fact that it's not mint state. Archduke Sigusmund of Austria, 6 kreuzer from the Hall mint. Undated but struck in the late 1400s.

-JamminJ

Udo

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Cool error, I doubt the reverse dies lasted much longer. That it's an exceptionally nice coin is even better.
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Wow, this one is very impressive. Fantastic clash marks, in Germany we call this Error "Lichtenrader Prägung."

Udo

btw, I forgot to post my pictures, it is nothing really special:

JamminJ

That's a neat 5 DM, Udo.
I've never seen one with toning like that - it looks just like bag toned Morgan dollars. Is color like that fairly common on those coins?

Since you like die clashes I have a Hannover copper coin with a good one, I'll post a picture tonight.

-JamminJ

SYRACUSIAN

So old and cool I'll overlook the fact that it's not mint state.














I see Civitas has kindly replaced the red x with his nice photo in my first post. Thanks Josh.

vrtech99sboss

Beautiful coins and pictures!

Udo

<< <i>That's a neat 5 DM, Udo.
I've never seen one with toning like that - it looks just like bag toned Morgan dollars. Is color like that fairly common on those coins?

Since you like die clashes I have a Hannover copper coin with a good one, I'll post a picture tonight.

-JamminJ >>



These colors are unusual and seldom seen on this type. Normally these coins have a light grey, golden or brown toning. I found this coin at a coinshow in Karlsruhe and the dealer had about 20 coins with that unusual toning.

I think it is a result of how the coins were stored. They have average grades, but due to the colors I couldn't resist and bought five of them.

Here is another one:

prophet

Arrived today:

JamminJ

Here's the die clash Hannover coin, very easy to see the monogram within the denomination.



-JamminJ

Udo

Amazing, many thanks for sharing