Post your Portraits!
Boosibri
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The Pillar thread went down well... the Portrait series is expansive with many pieces available but few of them very nice. These like the Pillars were a dominate medium of exchange in colonial time. Here are a few crown sized silver and 8 escudos to start:
Charles III: While a hoard date, the "A" in Carlos is always significantly doubled in the hoard coins while this coin is not. The look of this coin is significantly different to other examples of this date making it pretty special in my eyes.
Charles IV: Crappy king, nice coin
Ferdinand VII Imaginary Bust: Ex. QDB and about as nice as they come.
Ferdinand VII Armored Bust: Most of his subjects likely wished the king remained imaginary as he was even worse than his father. Forced to abdicate a few times but not quite as ugly as his father or grandfather.
Ferdinand VII Laurel Bust: The best likeness of Ferdinand VII. This piece was ex. Millennia. Common date, uncommon quality.
and some gold....
The scarce Rat Nose, this the finest graded for the type
Finest graded Charles IV 8E, shown in NGC prongs, now in PCGS 65
Comments
Way cool!
Collector, occasional seller
Very nice !!!
I have one for @ricko
and a bunch for everyone else
8 Reales Madness Collection
@TwoKopeiki ....That 1804 is very nice..... Thank you...
Cheers, RickO
Here are mine:
Ex. Norweb
Latin American Collection
I love this thread!
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Very difficult 4 Reales
Latin American Collection
All of my portraits are strictly pedestrian coins in collector grades.
While this is technically no longer a Peruvian portrait coin, it does bear portraits of TWO rulers, and the name of a third ruler!!
Some of these coins a really cool, and amazing!
Ooh...I've got that coin too!
I never really thought about the transitional factor creating a tri-monarchic event on these particular coins
Cool coins.
My current "Box of 20"
Pedestrian coins got run over in this thread.
"The 'LARGER' head of a fool on the neck of an ass."
For those who are not familiar with what is going on here, the Britished used these large and small King George counterstamps to convert Spanish coins into British coins more quickly and easily. In rare instances they converted American coins the same wasy.
And no, I don't own this 1799 dollar, but I wish I did. I snapped this picture are the Tower of London mint museaum exhibit.
While the ones I posted above are all mint state, I still admire this set of Portraits that I've had for the last 12 years already --
Some fabulous coins here!