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I will leave aside the "nos" (the stuff I want to keep for now). That leaves the "maybes" (stuff I might swap) and the "yeses" (stuff I will swap).
Counting the stuff I have to go off in my next PCGS submission, I believe I have 22 coins for my Box of 20. So ideally I would swap one or two of the ones below and keep the rest. But let's see what is of interest.
As to the balance of the deal for your Golden Geese, I'd have to wait until Friday after next when I get paid to cover that. I'd love to get at least halfway with swapstock, though, as mentioned. We'll see.
England: silver Short Cross penny of King John (1199-1216), struck in the name of Henry II, ca. 1205-1207
Maybe- my cost= $345.00 (However, Michael Swoveland, aka "Aethelred", expressed an interest in the coin a while back and gets first refusal on it if it does end up for swap.)
Italy (Venice): silver grosso of Antonio Venier, ca. 1382-1400
Yes- my cost= $173.08 (Neat medieval coin. Has some purplish toning which doesn't entirely come out in the TrueView. The TrueView this picture is based on is more accurate, but the earlier picture does show some of that purplish toning a bit better (perhaps because that image is a bit overexposed).
Great Britain, silver "South Sea Company" shilling of George I, 1723
Maybe- my cost= $501.00 (Not one I'm in any hurry to part with, but I'll put it in the "maybe" category anyway. This used to be in an NGC MS64 holder but I cracked it and sent it to PCGS, mostly for the sake of TrueViews, since the older images of it weren't great.)
USA: copper Draped Bust large cent, 1803 (small date, large fraction)
Yes- my cost= $336.65 (This coin is on the Liteside BST right now. I have a pending enquiry on it and am watiting for a response. If I sell it, I'm halfway to your Golden Geese. If I don't, it might make a nice coin for your 7070 set. The person who enquired asked if the surfaces or nice, or grainy. They are nice, but look grainy in these less-than-ideal pictures. This coin trends $540.00 in VF20, per Numismedia.)
USA (Syracuse, NY): brass merchant token, A.C. Yates Clothing Emporium, ca. 1850s
Yes- my cost= $125.00 (A very neat old token, but I'm gradually replacing all the <$150 items from the box, so it's available for swap. Also have two vintage advertising cards from the same company... somewhere... but I've misplaced them. When found, they go with the token.)
German States (Hesse-Darmstadt): silver kreuzer, 1866
Yes- my cost= $106. (Back in October, SeattleSlammer offered me $160.00 for this coin and I accepted, but then he won some big lot and was tight on money, so I let him back out. He said, "My opinion is that you should ask for at least 200+ if you flip it...I really think it's worth more than 160." At the time, Krause UNC price was only $45.00, but hey, this is an MS67 pop 2, so likely tied for finest known. Let's call it $160.00 trade value if you're interested in it. This is one of those rare instances where NGC's slab photo is actually better than the big photos I have of the coin. It's a small coin, but very frosty and prooflike.)
Japan (Meiji Era): gold Nibu-Kin (2 bu), ca. 1868-1869
Maybe- my cost= $134.00. (Knowing you with the Japanese gold, you probably already some of these anyway? I'm in no rush to swap this, though it's <$150-ish. I think I would like to call it $165.00 in trade value, which perhaps overvalues it a bit, but I think it's cool and I think I recall seeing a few PCGS slabbed examples- without Trueviews like I have for this one- sell in that ballpark on eBay.)
German States (Saxony) silver 3 mark proof, Battle of Leipzig centennial commemorative, 1913-E
Maybe- my cost= $201.50 (I offered this once briefly on BST with no offers, back when I needed some money. Despite that, I'm not in any hurry to part with it. But it's a "maybe".)