1892 Denmark 1 Krone

BullRun

I found this in a bulk lot ( unsearched and sold by the pound) of misc. world coins that I purchased. Krause (797.1) shows a mintage of 701,000 and a value of $65.00 in XF and $140.00 in UNC. My pictures are poor I know, but in hand this sure looks at least XF or maybe even AU. Is there a market for these?

Whatcha think?

ajaan

Nice find. To find any silver in a bulk lot is unusual unless it was a bulk lot of silver coins. Not sure of the value. Looks like it could be VF or EF. Hard to tell from the image.

BullRun

This was not sold as bulk silver coins. It was just misc. coins. Most of them were pretty generic. In the same lot, I also found a 500L (1966) from Italy in XF/AU condition along with many 10 and 25 Ore from Sweden (.4000 silver).

I will see about time to get a scan of the 500 Lire.

BTW thanks for putting the picture in the post, ajaan. How do you do that?

MadMuffin

Judging by your pictures I would say it's an XF by US standards, gVF by Scandinavian. Nice find! I'm sure there is a market for this coin. It's not as rare as the mintage might indicate, but it certainly is scarce. These tend to sell at a decent price on Ebay if the images are good.

Marcel

lordmarcovan

Silver, much less larger silver from the 1800s, is a definite rarity in bulk lots.

Congratulations on a truly terrific cherrypick!

lordmarcovan

<< <i>My pictures are poor I know, but in hand this sure looks at least XF or maybe even AU >>

PS- looking at your pictures, I agree with your grading assessment. It looks to be a solid XF to me, and possibly even an AU. Without seeing it in hand, and examining the finer details with a loupe, I will go with XF to be conservative, but it looks like XF45 from where I sit.

coinpictures

XF in my book. Not AU unless there is far more lustre than what is apparent in the pics.

BullRun

This is the Italian 500L also in this bulk lot. Nice coin. Once again, looks better in person than with my poor scanning skills.