Darkside Gold for the Weekend

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• JCMhouston Posts: 5,306 ✭✭✭

  January 29, 2016 6:31AM

  Very nice, love the look of that one.

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• bronzemat Posts: 2,686 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2016 6:46AM

  Beautiful!

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• bidask Posts: 14,057 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2016 8:01AM

  Lots of orange !

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• Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2016 10:46AM

  Holy cow!

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• SmEagle1795 Posts: 2,206 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2016 10:53AM

  That's gorgeous!

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2016 11:38AM

  I bought these when I was 7 years old with money received for my holy communion...
  
  
  
  So please excuse any rim issues & scratches
  
  
  
  

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 45,020 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 29, 2016 2:58PM

  I have long admired that coin in the OP.
  
  
  
  Broadstruck's "childhood communion coins" are quite impressive- such a young start as a numismatist- and multiple gold coins before the age of ten! Wow.
  
  
  
  (I started at age ten, myself, but didn't get my first gold coin- a "1915" Austrian ducat restrike- until about age 15.)
  
  
  
  
  
  Ancient Byzantine Empire: gold tremissis of Justinian I, ca. 527-565 AD
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Netherlands (Gelderland): "St. John" type gold gulden (florin) of Arnold van Egmond, ca. 1423-1472
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Great Britain: gold half-sovereign of Queen Victoria, 1901, from the Terner Collection
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Canada: gold 100-dollars proof of Elizabeth II, Canadian Unity commemorative, 1978
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• ahopewell55 Posts: 276 ✭✭

  January 29, 2016 10:38PM

  
  

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• Zohar Posts: 6,713 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 30, 2016 12:06AM

  very nice!!

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• Swampboy Posts: 13,230 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 30, 2016 12:33AM

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Solidus of Justin II 565-588 A.D.
  
  Constantinople mint
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• brg5658 Posts: 2,402 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 30, 2016 12:52AM

  I don't generally like the look of gold, as it is such a soft metal and is prone to hits, marks, and a look that I usually put about 3-4 grades below where it actually grades. That being said, I purchased my first gold "coin" in 2015 (and only gold I have ever owned). Quite simply, I just caved when I found one of these Austrian restrikes in gold that wasn't priced to the moon. It matches my MS68 example in silver pretty well.
  
  
  
  

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• Crackout Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 30, 2016 1:02AM

  

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• rwyarmch Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭✭

  January 30, 2016 3:44AM

  Cambridge Chancellor's medal (BHM 1981) awarded 1863.
  
  
  
  
  

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• Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 30, 2016 3:56AM

  

  We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
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• Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 30, 2016 3:59AM

  

  We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
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• bonkrood Posts: 796 ✭✭✭

  January 30, 2016 6:29AM

  My first gold coin.
  
  
  
  

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• Jackthecat1 Posts: 1,122 ✭✭✭

  January 30, 2016 7:59AM

  Beautiful World gold, all of them.

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• EVillageProwler Posts: 5,856 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 30, 2016 9:55AM

  1653 Silesia ducat.

  
  

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 30, 2016 10:32AM

  Originally posted by: EVillageProwler
  
  1653 Silesia ducat.
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  EVillageProwler, That's a beautiful piece could I ask what the overall diameter is?
  
  

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• SmEagle1795 Posts: 2,206 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 30, 2016 10:56AM

  A new purchase which arrived today, a Carthage Tanit stater:
  
  
  

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• Weiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 30, 2016 12:01PM

  Dude.

  We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
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• EVillageProwler Posts: 5,856 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 30, 2016 12:41PM

  Originally posted by: Broadstruck
  

  Originally posted by: EVillageProwler
  1653 Silesia ducat.
  

  
  EVillageProwler, That's a beautiful piece could I ask what the overall diameter is?
  

  
  Sorry, but the coin is in SDB and not convenient to where I live. It's size is, however, seemingly similar in size to other gold ducat pieces from that era.

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• pruebas Posts: 5,150 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 30, 2016 12:56PM

  I don't own much gold.
  
  
  
  

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• Boosibri Posts: 12,665 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 30, 2016 7:52PM

  Nice coins everyone

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• Nap Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 30, 2016 10:15PM

  A coin of the Merovingian king Charibert II (629-631)
  
  
  

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• EVillageProwler Posts: 5,856 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 30, 2016 11:40PM

  Cool coins everyone.
  
  
  
  @Nap - I've been eying tremisses (sp?) pieces lately, but decided to refrain myself. But, they seem not too expensive and often come looking quite nice. And those of the European Dark Ages sure come with a lot of history!

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• asheland Posts: 24,406 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 2, 2016 2:20AM

  Awesome coins!

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• ShadyDave Posts: 2,217 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 2, 2016 1:27PM

  SmEagle1795 - Holy Moly!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Lots of great coins in this thread, thanks for sharing everyone...

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 45,020 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 2, 2016 2:38PM

  Originally posted by: ShadyDave
  
  SmEagle1795 - Holy Moly!

  
  
  
  
  This is the normal and proper response to just about anything Smeagle posts.
  
  
  
  PS- I should add that I was also quite impressed with EVP's Silesian ducat.
  
  
  
  

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• TwoKopeiki Posts: 9,953 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 2, 2016 10:45PM

  Pruebas, if I'm not mistaken - that's a rare date / mm / assayer combo. Gorgeous coin - hand on book design is one of my favorites.
  
  
  
  Some awesome coins in this thread - thank you for sharing them!

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• renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 3, 2016 4:55AM

  4th Century Axum
  

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• mercurydimeguy Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭✭

  February 3, 2016 7:38AM

  My humble addition to some very nice already-posted coins.
  
  
  
  

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