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Zohar
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Habsburg Talers
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TalerUniverse.com is a curated numismatic project dedicated to the silver talers, crowns, and medals of the Habsburg Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, spanning the 16th–18th centuries. The collection emphasizes historically significant issues, rare mint varieties, and high-grade NGC/PCGS examples, presented with detailed historical context, scholarly references, and high-resolution photography. TalerUniverse aims to serve both as a private collection showcase and a growing reference resource for collectors, researchers, and students of early-modern European coinage.
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Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.
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TalerUniverse.com is a curated numismatic project dedicated to the silver talers, crowns, and medals of the Habsburg Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, spanning the 16th–18th centuries. The collection emphasizes historically significant issues, rare mint varieties, and high-grade NGC/PCGS examples, presented with detailed historical context, scholarly references, and high-resolution photography. TalerUniverse aims to serve both as a private collection showcase and a growing reference resource for collectors, researchers, and students of early-modern European coinage.
I like the Farouk trace.
Clearly. I've found that the combination of Farouk with the Irving Goodman pedigree, from a collection sold several years ago, might confuse some members as to who this Mr Goodman is.
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But I didn't mean to disrespect a thread that my friend Zohar dedicated to me.
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The gold coins, known to most of you, gold 100 to 500 piastres, or 1 and 5 gold lira, are very sought after, much more than the rarer coins from the Ottoman period. As for the equally sought after banknotes of the period up to 1952, they show the true situation in Egypt: that the directors of its Cental Bank were all English, Cook, Nixon, Leith Ross and others, Egypt remained a country under British occupation (in WW2, even the Greek Royal family and the Greek government found refuge there) and that Farouk, who inherited the throne from his wiser father, King Fuad, was nothing but a corrupted spoilt kid ,playing king as an English pawn, and whose regime was held together by fear , the English and the infamous Secret Services, with Egyptians dedicated to the immature and reckless King and his English "friendly" occupiers.
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The book had a profound effect on me, as I know first hand several Egyptians, but my own family too, and my grandfather in particular flourished professionally in Egypt until the confiscation of their industries and houses by Nas ser who left them leave with whatever they could carry, mostly gold Egyptian pounds, equivalent to gold sovereigns, or the latter.
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In short, King Farouk is nothing like the kind of chubby, smiling, well intended king- collector that appears to be in my avatar and other images or even numismatic reports from the period. It was a ruthless police feared regime, with Egypt's resources being used by the English and N*****er's revolution shouldn't have come as a surprise to nobody. Shame that Egypt never found its way again ever since. But this isn't diminishing the honor that I felt when I first saw Zohar's thread.
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Looking for CU $1 FRN 20160523 - any series or block. Please PM
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Some might find this video interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjkAkWxqSls