What did you buy at the NYINC?

Yorkshireman · January 16, 2017 10:24AM

Anybody else have a new coin to share?
I love coin shows and hope to see your new addition.

bosox · January 16, 2017 2:38PM

I bought the Canada 1858 cent copper nickel trial piece. Not the best example by condition, but there are only about ten of these out there. They were the very first provincial cents struck. The Royal Mint correspondence indicates that some (or perhaps all) of these were submitted to Queen Victoria for her approval of the coinage.

https://coins.ha.com/itm/canada/canada-queen-victoria-copper-nickel-specimen-trial-cent-1858-sp62-pcgs-/a/3051-34140.s?ic5=CatalogHome-ActionArea-JumpToLot-071515

coinkat · January 16, 2017 3:12PM

This a terrific venue to buy medals

Yorkshireman · January 16, 2017 3:22PM

Bosox,
I noticed and liked that piece. If wasn't cheap but think you have a nice addition to your set.
What is the mark in between the letters on the reverse? Is it mint grease?
I used to have a $20 Liberty with a similar marking.

bosox · January 16, 2017 3:32PM

It is a stain of some sort, probably caused by an ancient spill, or sneeze. It has issues and I think is fairly graded at 62. Having said that, these are hard to come by in any grade.

GotTheBug · January 16, 2017 4:36PM

HoledandCreative · January 16, 2017 6:58PM

A picture would be cooler.

HoledandCreative · January 16, 2017 7:03PM

Oops, missed the url. Nice die crack.

Nap · January 17, 2017 6:28AM

My show purchases:

French Feudal - Provance - Robert of Anjou (1309-1343)

Roman Imperial - Hadrian - Italy (travel series)

I also ordered an Anglo-Saxon thrymsa while I was at the show, but not from the show. It's sort of a show purchase. I'll post it when it arrives.

Yorkshireman · January 17, 2017 7:47AM

I like coins of Hadrian.
My mother was British (from Yorkshire, actually). I have walked parts of Hadrian's Wall as a boy with my dad and also with my sons.

Zohar · January 17, 2017 1:21PM

nice!

RoqueGalleryBH · February 3, 2017 9:48AM

World coins!

Nap · February 3, 2017 3:52PM

The Anglo-Saxon thrymsa:

O: Roman-style head with an elongated features, probably copied from a Merovingian tremissis. "NVAC ANC"
R: "PADA (runic) ANVS P F AN"

This coin is made of essentially electrum, a debased gold, and represents the transition of the Anglo-Saxon coinage from gold to silver. The coin mimics late Roman coinage, probably silver or gold coins of Gratian or Valentinian. Or possibly mimics Gothic/Frankish imitations of those late Roman coins (which were already nearly 300 years old by the time the Anglo-Saxons copied them)

(I bought this from a dealer's website on my mobile device while physically at the show, so it's sort of a show purchase)

Zohar · February 3, 2017 5:12PM

I bought these which I listed.

EVillageProwler · February 3, 2017 5:24PM

@Nap said:
The Anglo-Saxon thrymsa:

This coin is made of essentially electrum, a debased gold, and represents the transition of the Anglo-Saxon coinage from gold to silver.

Not trying to be inappropriately pedantic, I would hesitate to use 'electrum' for the content. Electrum, as I understand it, is naturally occurring impure gold because the ancients weren't able to refine the metal well enough (or didn't care to refine it). Its gold content varied not due to necessity or intent. The Anglo-Saxon thrymsas were usually called 'pale' gold, and their debasement was intentional. The fine line between a very 'pale' gold and silver 'transitional' sceatt was often a coin toss (pun intended). SCBC 770 and 773 share the same dies, but one is (partially/pale) gold, the other silver.

worldcoinguy · February 3, 2017 7:27PM

German States - Osnabruck - 1761

Images courtesy of HA

Yorkshireman · February 3, 2017 9:24PM

Nice ones, Zohar

Nap · February 4, 2017 6:50AM

@EVillageProwler said:

@Nap said:
The Anglo-Saxon thrymsa:

This coin is made of essentially electrum, a debased gold, and represents the transition of the Anglo-Saxon coinage from gold to silver.

Not trying to be inappropriately pedantic, I would hesitate to use 'electrum' for the content. Electrum, as I understand it, is naturally occurring impure gold because the ancients weren't able to refine the metal well enough (or didn't care to refine it). Its gold content varied not due to necessity or intent. The Anglo-Saxon thrymsas were usually called 'pale' gold, and their debasement was intentional. The fine line between a very 'pale' gold and silver 'transitional' sceatt was often a coin toss (pun intended). SCBC 770 and 773 share the same dies, but one is (partially/pale) gold, the other silver.

Good point. I guess the proper term is pale or debased gold.

Electrum is sometimes used to describe other debased gold coins, such as the scyphate Byzantine coinage, certainly not created from natural occurring alloys, so I was using it in this context.

I guess this in contrast to billon, which is generally not a natural occurrence but a man-made alloy.

The coins I collect are difficult. The gold coins are debased. The silver are frequently debased and more properly called billon. The copper coins are brass although some of the later ones might be termed bronze. You can have a field day with this stuff if you're into metallurgy, although I will say that chemistry just doesn't interest me much.

What did you buy at the NYINC?

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