Have you ever forgotten you owned some coins? Photos

Madame

Have you ever forgotten you owned some coins? LOL! Someone reminded me that I still have some coins that I had asked them to keep for me. Then I remembered they were not expensive coins. Really coins I just had not taken time to do anything with. So I’m starting to feel that bug a little. The coin bug! But if you remember my post in the thread Pocket Piece the bracelet with coins. I realized that even my photography skills had slipped sadly as well. So I’ve emptied some floppy disc and throw them into my old Sony Digital Camera. Still need some practice but it felt good.

Question are we still allowed to post our coins from Omni Coin?

satootoko

Nice group.

You do realize that the first picture of that ishu-gin is upside down, don't you?

SYRACUSIAN

Why would she Roy, noone understands these coins other than you.


Very nice photos and group.

theboz11

Madame

LOL! The up-side-down coin. And I'm still lost because the label on the coin says "Japan Silver Shu 1850's" I know nothing about coins from asia other then it looked cute when I bought it. Had know idea it would be so small. thanks for the positve response.

Udo

Very nice group and excellent pics

satootoko

<< <i>I'm still lost because the label on the coin says "Japan Silver Shu 1850's" I know nothing about coins from asia other then it looked cute when I bought it. Had know idea it would be so small. thanks for the positve response. >>

"Ishu (pronounced ee-shoe) Gin (with a hard G)" means one shu silver, so that part is correct.

I'm not very knowledgeable about pre-Meiji coinage, and I'm not absolutely certain whether it is a Kaei-era coin (1853-65), or a Meiji coin from the brief period before the changeover to milled coinage (1869-69); but I am inclined to think it is Kaei, making the 2x2 note 100% correct.

And I am far from the only forum member who could spot the incorrect orientation. Among other things, the coin has a slightly rounded top and a relatively flat bottom; the character for "1" logically belongs at the top, not the bottom; and I recognized the other characters as being upside down.

Madame

satootoko thank you so much on the info about this coin. I just would not have even known where to start.

lordmarcovan

<< <i>Have you ever forgotten you owned some coins? >>

Yes, quite often. Which makes for some interesting windfalls when I am cleaning or reorganizing the clutter I live in!



<< <i>are we still allowed to post our coins from Omni Coin? >>

Why wouldn't you be? They're coins, ain't they?

PS- I love those little fanams. A year or three ago I discovered a great wholesale source for them and bought a bunch, and now I can't remember his ebay ID or contact info. I had even saved his business card.

Though tiny and crude, they combine three attributes you usually don't see together... old, gold... and cheap!

All are interesting pieces, but I find the Bulgarian piece to be pretty neat.

(Oh, yeah- and I would've also recognized that the top picture of the Japanese piece was upside-down, but that's about as far as my knowledge of those goes!)

Goober

When I left for the military I left my entire coin and stamp collection with my mother. I then left the military and stowed all my gear in the same room. I then moved to Texas for a few years. I phoned my mother and told her to send me all my gear that was still in my duffle bag. I got a small box with an empty bag. My brother who had just gotten out of prison decided everything in the back room that used to belong to me was now his. Well it really made me sick to my stomach, and I gave up collecting. It just took the wind out of my sails. 10 years later my mother askz me if I wanted my coins and stamps back. I was dumbfounded. She had pulled them aside and put them in an old army foot locker of my fathers for safe keeping. It was a joy to have them back.

Madame

Goober that was a great story. Mom's always seem to do the right thing. My dad us to have us saving bonds sent to the house while I was growing up for me. I though nothing of them and actully forgot them. But as life goes one time I was going through a ruff period in my life. My mother took me to the bank and had me cash them in. Now that I'm even wiser about my mom and know here pretty well. I would not be surpriced if she still has more of them in her safety deposit box in an envelope with my name on it. Say "Give these to Kim." Yes thats my first name. Kim not Kimberly. My mom swears I was named after some girlfriend of my dad in Japan when he was station there. She's probably right about that also. But my dad will still shake his head now with this smile on his face and hisd dimples showing. Which we don't see often. He's not much of a smiler.