A couple of Swiss Cantons and British bits...

JCMhouston

Besides not getting to travel to NYINC this year, due to some foot surgery for my wife, I also did not win anything big in any of the auctions. But I got a few inexpensive bits I am happy about so it's not a complete loss, and I whined and monaed a lot about having to stay home and play nurse so I can be pretty sure I'll get up there next year.

1844 Geneva 10 Centimes (billion)- a common enough piece but tough to find decent, the billion does not seem to hold up well to time.




1714 Geneva 10 1/2 Sols - a very tough coin, this was one of those odd denominations that did not last long. Even in the late 17th and early 18th C. the Swiss could make nice coins.




And a couple of George V Pennies I needed for my date set, 1916 and 1931.

Zohar

1714 is lovely!

We missed you in the big apple.

lordmarcovan

While I admired the redness of the 1916, I've gotta say, the satiny brown-ness of that '31 penny is awesome. Amazing the difference in strike, too, though I would imagine much of the difference between the reverses of those two would be due to the difference in metal flow between the large head and small head designs. I guess the modified effigy small head pieces did away with much of the problem of flat-faced Britannias, though you can still see significant "ghosting" from George's head on the reverse of the '31.

The Swiss pieces are, of course, cool. I detect NGC prongs- what are the grades on those?

JCMhouston

The 1844 is in a 66 holder, and the 1714 is in a 63.

theboz11

Cool

1960NYGiants

I like the look of the 1931 - shimmering chocolate, yum yum.

JCMhouston

Gene, that chocolate brown with a touch of blue is one of my favorites too. And the strike is pretty decent on this one.