Numismatic Christmas presents

wybrit

Post your numismatic Christmas gifts.

My Mother-in-law sent me a bunch of world coins as gifts this year.

The sampling:

Full 1977 Hungarian UNC set
All three 1952 BU/UNC Coins from Laos
½ Peshewa from Ghana, 1967
BU Reunion Island Franc 1964
1963 5 and 1969 10 Grozy from Poland, both UNC/BU
1953 50 Para, 1965 Dinar and 1953 2 Dinara from Yugoslavia, all BU
Indonesian banknotes
5 Cruzeiro banknote from Brazil

Nothing fancy or rare, but nonetheless very thoughtful of her!

lordmarcovan

I got a three-piece set of loupes from my wife, and a professional-grade rock tumbler for my crusty detector finds.

I previously had a rock tumbler but it was a plastic "toy" version. Now I have a real one. It should come in handy not only for dug stuff but maybe some of those uncleaned ancient coin lots, too. I plan to try sawdust as a tumbling medium rather than the coarse grit. I have seen folks do some amazing coin cleaning with crushed pecan shells in a tumbler. One guy showed me a modern Mexican peso that I would've sworn was a proof if I didn't know better. It looked like a gosh-honest proof coin instead of a whizzed or overpolished piece.

cacheman

The wife and I boycotted Christmas gift exchange this year due to the ever growing commercialism. This didn't affect us buying something for ourselves though. A few gifts to myself....

K117c (RRR)


K-199


Eberbach DS115 (R)

DorkGirl

That's a tough act to follow cacheman......Wow!!

I bought myself an angel





And I got a 1915 and a 1930 Sovereign from my brother, he knows how much I love those reverses.

cosmicdebris

I bought myself the 2 Conder Tokens I posted a few days ago.

theboz11

Here are a couple of gift to me for Xmas. First I bought myself a 3 Vol set of "British Historic Medals", which has not arrived yet, and a Wollaston's "British Official Medals for Coronations and Jubilees"


I also got myself this beautiful set in it original Red Silk Box for my BBL collection. Mintage on the Silver Proof is 1440 and the Gold proof is only 840





Additionally, for my British medals, this George IIII Inaugeration, Silver. Mintage 800

ajaan

My wife and myself didn't give each other gifts this year. Instead, we plan on attending the ANA show in Atlanta.

Stork

I got two coins from my kiddos (okay the husband surely did the shopping!!). One a Falkland Islands silver commerative and another silver commemerative from Tokelau--which I'd never even heard of. The latter is surely what came in the package from Danglen and addressed to my husband!

But of course I bought myself something...I can't believe I bought this and from pandaamerica no less..100,000 yen proof. It was the best price I've ever seen for one of these, including one I almost bit on in Japan. They had it listed for only a few more dollars than the far more common uncirulated one... a real deal. At pandaamerica!!! Satootoko gave it a pass, so I had to get it. I knew I'd kick myself later if I didn't and it got sold. Maybe it was really just an early birthday present. I really meant to get a nice 10 or 20 yen from NEN or Steinbergs or Clark Smith as my next big present...but oh well. Maybe next time.

Cathy


edited for spastic typing...

Aethelred

I got this neat British token from a forum member:




I was also given a copy of the 3rd volume of "Roman Coins and Their Values"

I got a few other coins that I have not photographed yet.

Aethelred

rhound1977

Here's mine, I bought half and me Mom bought the other half, I posted it before but these are my images this time around

Udo

I bought myself this coin:








And I got these Newfoundland cents from bosox in the Christmas swap

newsman

I got a much-needed 18th-century Krause catalog.

spinaker2000

I got a 2006 Spink and this little blue bobble.

rhound1977

Lots of nice stuff, I like Terry's little blue! and the GIII medal......

Popcoin

I bought these three Swiss 50 Fr. Shooting Taler Proofs for my wife to give me for Xmas.

I really like em'.

See Post:

Three little bears.....

Larry

I really need to get me some better photo software.

BTW: My old 35 mm camera went to heaven on Xmas day. I probably will be looking at digital one soon.