New Collector Here - post your favorite world coin
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Hey everyone my name is William Kingsley and I am new to the hobby of coin collecting. I was most interested in world coins since I can see many different types and designs from all kinds of places. i have a few world coins myself, but nothing too big. I'm working on putting together a six pence set in a Whitman album, and have been able to purchase many coins off of eBay.
So, I would like to see you guys post your favorite world coin! thanks!
~William
So, I would like to see you guys post your favorite world coin! thanks!
~William
~William
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My name is Roman and I can help you with any questions you have regarding Mexican coins or large silver Spanish Colonial 8 Reales.
Here's one of my favorites - early years (1811-14) Guadalajara (Mexico) Mint 8 Reales. Struck on a cast planchet, or perhaps overstruck on a previously cast issue. You can still see the remains of the porous cast surfaces on both sides of the coin. It also appears to have double brokage (which I'm still trying to figure out how that happened).
8 Reales Madness Collection
Conder Token Gallery https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMCiunai6NjOxoo3zREkCsAnNm4vONzieO3u7tHyhm8peZmRD_A0MXmnWT2dzJ-nw?key=Rlo2YklUSWtEY1NWc3BfVm90ZEUwU25jLUZueG9n
favorite? I dunno'. but this is one of my faves.........
Here's three of my favourites.
Different sizes, metals,dates and countries of origin. That's what this forum does to you sometimes, lose focus.
Same photographer.
Edited to add :
first one is an Egyptian gold 5 qirsh from 1890, second is an 1819 copper obol from the Ionian islands under British administration, and third is a 1920 silver Swiss franc.
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This Irish gilt proof penny was probably my favorite world coin I ever bought.
It had everything: size (bigger than a silver dollar), history (over 200 years old), and looks
(deep-cameo contrast and the look of a big, fat gold coin, though it was only gilt copper). Fairly scarce, too.
But this would have to be THE coin for me. Not because it is especially rare, or attractive, or anything like that.
It's just sentimentally important to me. I found it. Not only is it the oldest coin I have found so far while using my detector,
it was also a conversation starter with the lady who later became my wife (I was showing off the newspaper clipping below, while at work).
<< <i>SPANISH COIN GIVES CLUE TO STATE'S PAST 03/01/99 Robertson Shinnick has found a tiny piece of Georgia's past _ lost for more than 300 years. Searching the ground on this resort isle with a metal detector last fall, the 33-year-old coin collector dug a foot into the black soil and found an odd-shaped coin. "I had in my hand a small, squarish piece of copper with a strange design on it," Shinnick said. "I knew the Spanish colonial mints struck millions of silver coins, but this was obviously copper. "It was a mystery until I identified the design as the monogram of Philip IV of Spain, who reigned from 1621 to 1665." Turns out the four-maraved coin, a low-value sort of penny of its era, had been hand-forged in Spain about 1658. It isn't particularly dear to collectors _ it's worth about $65 _ but it's valuable to Georgia historians. John Worth, director of programs for the Calhoun-based Coosawattee Foundation and one of the top experts on 17th century Spanish missions along the Georgia coast, calls the coin "quite a find." He says Shinnick's coin gives a clue about the long-lost mission of Santo Domingo de Asajo, built in 1595 to convert Native Americans to Christianity. It was destroyed by English-backed slave traders in 1661, rebuilt a year later, then burned by British pirates in 1684. "There were about 30 men, women and children, and friars, but no soldiers. A small garrison of soldiers was located on nearby St. Catherine's Island," Worth says. Other traces of the early Spanish period, such as olive jars and pottery shards, have been found on St. Simons, says Worth, who's done extensive studies on the island. But coins such as the one Shinnick found are rare along the Georgia coast. Shinnick's may be the first found on St. Simons. "Its significance is in our common state heritage," Worth says. "It is a bit of actual, concrete evidence of the Spanish missions, right here in Georgia." Shinnick, a bellman at the King and Prince Resort, found the coin on private land at Hampton Point, where million-dollar mansions are being built. One side of the time-blackened coin shows the royal monogram of Philip IV and a Roman numeral for the denomination. The other shows the letters "RX" _ for "rex," or "king," according to Worth. "Because the friars couldn't touch coins, my best guess is it was dropped by a passing soldier or an Indian," says Worth, whose Coosawattee Foundation aims to protect former Native American sites in the Southeast. "It's just a good history lesson from an era that's been lost." >>
Tell me, please, where are you out of?
I'd post a picture or three but I have not yet figured out how to properly photograph coins, something that's been vexing me for several months now!
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<< <i>Now what are the odds on that? I'm now aware of 15 other people sharing my name, but another that collects coins---too bizarre! I've never actually encountered anyone else online or in person who shares my last name, let alone my first as well. (discounting people I'm related to, of cource!) but I have read that they exist. I know one was a newspaper reporter in Tennessee or something like that several years back!
Tell me, please, where are you out of?
I'd post a picture or three but I have not yet figured out how to properly photograph coins, something that's been vexing me for several months now! >>
Yes, this could get confusing!
Welcome and enjoy!!
Cuba ABC Peso
Japan 1 Yen (gold dot)
I have no single favorite coin, so here is one of many favorites
Prussian Thaler of Friedrich Wilhelm III, 1814-A (Berlin Mint)
I think this medal is pretty cool. It commemorates Jan Sobieski III and the Battle of Vienna- where the combined forces of Poles, Germans, and Austrians defeated the Turks. It also is believed to have been the scene of the largest cavalry charge in history where something like 20,000 mounted troops including 4,000 Polish Winged Hussars charged the Turkish line:
(edited to add) it is about the size of a hockey puck.
Enjoy your new hobby!
Jim
Does Sealand still count as a country ?? I love the reverse
here's a real coin, found in the dictionary under the definition of "honest wear"
Favorite one is tough but here's one that right up there: possibly unique German silver or pewter Canadian Colonial token
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Collector of:
Canadian coins and pre-confederation tokens
Darkside proof/mint sets dated 1960
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Here's the favorites from my collection ... for the night
GOLD:
SILVER:
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
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BillyKingsley, so wierd that we both have the same name! i'm living in central North Carolina.
if you've got any more cool world coins to post, i'd love to see them guys.
Hard to pick a favourite but coin, but probably my best find:
I won it for next to nothing and sent it off to be slabbed. I haven't seen another one anywhere since.
As is this:
And this:
Zar's Ebay
Here is two of my favorites.
Chris
1921 Mexico dos peso
1894 C/S
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