1936 New Guinea Penny & Other New Pickups

FilamCoins

This Penny has pretty hues of red, yellow and green, but they're tough to capture.

IstilllikeZARcoins

Looks like a sweet coin Filam.

JimK

That is some sweet color!
Jim

SaorAlba

Thanks for sharing this Kruger Grey design, and an emblem of E the VIIIth.

ajaan

I love that design. Nice.

cladking

I've got a nice deep burgundy gem of this coin too.

I don't know if they're common or not but have noticed most of the circs appear well struck.

FilamCoins

Thanks, guys.


Here are a couple of other pieces I picked up at the same show (Clearwater, FL).








What do you think the L50 goes? EF-45?

7Jaguars

That penny is nicer than my PROOF of the same date! Nice!!!

FilamCoins

cladking

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I'm almost afraid to guess but am relieved you bought it as an XF.

Krause says it's a $30 coin so I really should guess about $600.

I'll guess $20.

I had several nice uncs and let them go for near nothing many years ago because these seemed overpriced. They sure can't be replaced easily any longer.

cladking

I like the 10Z. These come nice but that one's spectacular.

I'm a sucker for gem cu/ ni.

FilamCoins

Sorry, I meant to ask what do you think it grades?

I'm thinking EF-45/AU-50. Good details but planchet is a bit beat up.

I bought a small lot of Italian L50's & L100's from the mid-1950's.

They each list for around $100 in UNC in Krause, but I don't think any of them are uncirculated.

A few are close though.

cladking

It looks like it's a decent AU-50 to me.

Daltonista

Nice companion piece...also by Kruger Gray, but featuring a different monarch, of course.





Best to all!
Tom

lordmarcovan

Eddie the Eighth's monogram makes the New Guinea one all the more cool, I reckon.

I know some of the non-portrait Edward VIII colonial issues are relatively common, but to me there is still something neat about getting an Eddie the Eighth coin.

I plucked a 1936 East Africa 5c of Edward VIII out of a bulk lot yesterday while my nephew Adam (my wife's brother's son) was helping me staple coins into 2x2s, and told him the history of that short reign. He's currently 17 and was rather bored during the gathering of my wife's family at her parents' house, so he ended up helping me for several hours. I scored some points with the in-laws for drawing him out of his shell; it was said that was the first time in quite a while he'd emerged and sat in the room with other people, instead of staying in the guest bedroom playing Nintendo.

I offered to let him choose just about any of the coins, and as many as he wanted, but he only took about eight in the end, and the Edward VIII East Africa piece was not one of them. Some of his choices were rather offbeat and not what I'd have expected.

"You work really cheap", I said. He just smiled. He soaked up a lot of knowledge during our hours together, and at one point when the conversation lagged, he asked what other trivia I had. The first coin he chose was a Nazi piece, for the swastika on it (he's a skilled rock guitar player with a bit of a metalhead look to him, but not a skinhead type). Next was a Mexican coin (for the Aztec designs on it- he's interested in the Aztecs and asked if they made coins, and loved trying to pronounce the name "Quetzalcoatl"). Then there was an Ethiopian coin with Haile Selassie on it (which he found interesting because I'd told him that was the guy the Rastafarians worshiped as a sort of deity). Those were the rather predictable choices, but the others were hard to fathom. He showed real interest and intelligence. He is going through that awkward, rebellious time of adolescence and I suspect it will not be an easy road for him as a young adult, but I gained new respect for him. I'd always liked him when he was a little boy, and while I didn't exactly make a coin collector out of him, it was a nice evening.

My other nephew Adam ("little" Adam, almost ten, now- my own sister's son) is also bright- far brighter than the older Adam. Brighter than me, even. He's so intelligent it's almost scary. He too has interest in coins, and perhaps it will find more fertile ground in him.

Wow, what a rambling post. Sorry. From your coin to Edward VIII to LordM's family anecdotes. Geez.

But anyway, as I was saying before I wandered off on a tangent, that's a great coin, and having the Edward VIII monogram on it makes it all the more cool. I like how so many of those can be had in nice Red BU, too. Maybe collectors at the time realized that the coins of this monarch would be sought after in the future, and saved all the colonial issues they could get their hands on.

lordmarcovan

BTW, I will agree with cladking's AU50 assessment on the Italian coin.

These are hard to grade because the stainless steel retains its shine so well, making it difficult to spot points of friction. Stainless steel seems to be a really good metal for coins. The designs on those are always nice, too. (Despite the naked male buttocks on that particular design not being my favorite focal point).

I have a number of Polish coins of that type but have never seen one so nice. You can tell it has some awesome luster.

BCNumismatics

FilamCoins,
We see a lot of New Guinean coins over here in New Zealand.My boss gets them in,& some of the staff from the Russian Embassy buy them up.The 1936 King Edward VIII 1d. is THE commonest coin in the whole series.

The 1929 issue is the extremely rare ones of the series,as that is the only time New Guinea ever had a 1/2d. coin.The 1929 coinage was withdrawn shortly after being issued,due to the 1d. being the same size as the Australian 1/- coin,& the 1/2d. being the same size as the Australian 6d. coin.

Aidan.