19th Century Gold Argentinos

FilamCoins

Does anybody collect these by date?

I'm thinking this might be a fun short set.



8 grams; 0.900 gold fineness.

JoesMaName

I've always liked that design - can't be too common as that's the first I've seen (in gold).

Silvereagle82

Lovely design
Minted between 1881-1896 (10 years)
Based upon a few year mintages .... ( notably = 1881-37,000, 1882-252,000, 1896-197,000) it may be very challenging to collect a set, particuliarly in MS grades.

Hussulo

Very nice design. I've seen a few selling raw on eBay but probably hard to collect a full set in MS.

lordmarcovan

I've had some of the 10-centavo pieces with that design (not in gold). They're lovely enough, but that's even more appealing in gold, of course.

Completely off topic, but speaking of nice designs, I like Joe's "battleship" avatar.

adamlaneus

That's the AU-58 that was on eBay a few days ago. I almost bid on that. But instead, i'll wait to see one in person at a coin show.

I don't see much listed for Argentina in the 5th edition Krause book. It's as if they omitted most Argentinian gold coins.

lordmarcovan

<< <i>It's as if they omitted most Argentinian gold coins. >>

Wouldn't surprise me at all.

I've been really disgusted with them lately. I can remember the days when the Krause catalogs were trustworthy enough that when you found an unlisted coin, it might actually be scarce or rare. Nowadays, I run about one or two percent unlisted. I don't even blink and just assume it's another Krause omission or error, and sure enough, when I crosscheck against worldcoingallery.com, there's the coin.

The change they made a few years ago was most definitely for the worse. I remember people howling over it and not seeing what all the fuss was about. Now I do.