Some images of some things I got today

MSD61

First, this 1947 Papal mint set. Cost me a whole 8 bucks.



Then this 1689 Gunmoney shilling.



More stuff on the way

lordmarcovan

<< <i>First, this 1947 Papal mint set. Cost me a whole 8 bucks. >>



Sounds hard to beat!

(Even sight-unseen- I am on an excruciatingly slow dialup connection at the moment and the pics haven't loaded. They should appear by tomorrow morning.)

Gunmoney is always cool.

goldrush00013

Nice MSD! This is probably a stupid question on the shilling, but why is it called gunmoney?

MSD61

<< <i>Nice MSD! This is probably a stupid question on the shilling, but why is it called gunmoney? >>



They called this because when they were first struck they were struck from metal obtained from obsolete field cannons, thus the term “Gunmoney” though any metal James II could get was fair game, and many were struck using bells, cooking pots, pans, and scrap. Later issues were reduced in size because of this shortage, and many pieces were overstruck on other tokens and coins, as well as struck in pewter this latter being quite rare today.

AuldFartte

Nice stuff, MSD
I'm starting on Vatican stuff, too.

vrtech99sboss

goldrush00013

Thanks for the info MSD!