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EddiEddi Posts: 608 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Hello,

I would like to introduce myself as a new member in this Forum. I have been reading the posts here now for some time, but have never before posted. It is time to change that.

I have been a collectors for almost 40 years now, and have many areas of collecting interest: Roman coins,, German States, U.S coinage, and Latin American, specially coins from Chile and Peru, both Colonial and Republican.
The bulk of my collection is not encapsulated, I hope that is OK (?). I enjoy the historic context of a coin as much as the coin itself, and my collection reflects that.

I am looking forward to being an active member of this Forum.

Eduard

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  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,957 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Eddi said:

    Hi Eddi. Welcome! Slabbing coins is definitely not a requirement for anything. What's your favorite coin in those series?

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  • EddiEddi Posts: 608 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thank you for the welcome, TwoKopeiki.

    With Roman i focus on 1st century issues and particularly enjoy bronzes of Nero, Galba and Vitellius.
    With German States, the coinage of the German Bund from ca. 1800 until the Unification of the states in 1873 gather my attention.
    When it comes to US coins, I prefer early issues, including Colonials, Capped Bust Dimes and specially early coppers which are my specialty.
    Finally with Chilean issues, i collect colonial, as well as early Republican. It is a very interesting area.

    I have seen you post your coins. You have a very impressive collection!

  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 9,407 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome @Eddi You have join an excellent forum to share, learn, teach and have a chuckle or two. We'd love to see examples of the fruits of your labor. Have a good day. Peace Roy

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  • harashaharasha Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Herzlich willkommen (courtesy of Google translate). I hope to look forward to posts about the German Bund.
    I do not think I have heard that term before, regarding the German States of the 19th century.

    Honors flysis Income beezis Onches nobis Inob keesis

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  • YQQYQQ Posts: 3,442 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hallo Eduard,
    Komme selbst aus Suedeutschland und lebe seit ueber 50 J in WestKanada.
    Leider sammle ich nur kanadische muenzen vor 1858 bis 1967.
    Vielleicht koennten wir uns mal unterhalten.
    Werde Dir eine PM schicken.
    Gruss
    H

    Today is the first day of the rest of my life
  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,957 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks @Eddi - are you also on Instagram? There are a number of Peruvian collectors / dealers with quite extensive collections on that platform.

    Instagram: 8 Reales Numis
  • ZoharZohar Posts: 6,713 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome to the forum, hopefully bringing in a new category of interest.

    Here are a few German State pieces which you likely recognize.





    Habsburg Talers

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  • jgennjgenn Posts: 794 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 1, 2020 9:47AM

    Welcome! Perhaps I know you from CoinTalk and CoinCommunity forums

    Amazing 8s * Silver Dollars of '60 * My World Crown Affair
  • AbueloAbuelo Posts: 2,036 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome @Eddi

  • BoosibriBoosibri Posts: 12,677 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome!

    Latin American Collection

  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,230 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Have fun here @Eddi and

    I love collecting ancients and world coins.


    I have only a few slabbed foreign coins and no slabbed ancients.

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • neildrobertsonneildrobertson Posts: 1,265 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome. I collect German coins, so I'd love to have a few people around here that may know some about that.

    Are there any German forums that you read?

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    "Numismatic categorizations, if left unconstrained, will increase spontaneously over time." -me

  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,057 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Eddi said:
    Thank you all very much for the warm welcome.

    It is heartening, isn't it, how we numismatists somehow always find a common bond, even if our collecting interests lie in entirely different areas, and we may live 10000 kilometers away from each other.

    I know that it would be appropriate for me to post some of my collection - even if my photographing skills are quite primitive. I'll give this a try:

    This is is a group of Early Renaissance (1400's) German Goldgulden from various Cities, a French Ecu D'or, and a Rose Noble (center piece) from the Dutch provinces.


    A sestertius of Galba (Victoria), and a sestertius of Marcus Aurelius:


    A 'Volcano Peso' from the Republic of Chile, struck just oine year after independence from Spain was won:

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    A Dukat from the Free City of Frankfurt struck during occupation by French troops in 1796
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    very interesting group and nice coins

    Welcome!

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    I give away money. I collect money.
    I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.




  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome aboard, you will find some of us also collect similar items - I myself really like pre-1933 German coins especially the Graf Zeppelin issues.

  • JBKJBK Posts: 17,423 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome!

    Having lived in Munich for 5 years at one time, I judge Germans by what style of beer they drink. >:)

    So.... "Was trinkst du?"

    If it is Augustiner helles served in .5 liter mugs (or even better, a masse) then that is great. If it is a northern Pils served in .33 glasses then you will have to work extra hard to earn respect. :D

    (If it is a .2 liter shot glass of koelsch then it will depend on how many you order at once. ;) .

    P.S. - That is some nice gold.

  • Bob13Bob13 Posts: 1,651 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JBK - I like the Augustiner Edelstoff myself! My wife went to medical school at LMU and we have many fond memories of Munchen.

    I like older German coins myself, but @eddi here is one from the era you prefer.


    My current "Box of 20"

  • JBKJBK Posts: 17,423 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob13 said:
    @JBK - I like the Augustiner Edelstoff myself! My wife went to medical school at LMU and we have many fond memories of Munchen.

    YES!

    Munich has the best beer in the world, Augustiner is the best beer in Munich, and Edelstoff is the best Augustiner beer.

  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 24,372 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome

    Experience the World through Numismatics...it's more than you can imagine.

  • StellaStella Posts: 734 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome, Eddi! Enjoy the forums.

    Coin collector since childhood and New York Numismatist at Heritage Auctions.
  • IosephusIosephus Posts: 872 ✭✭✭

    Welcome! That is a very nice selection of coins.

    Joe
    Virtus Collection - Renaissance and Baroque Medals
  • goldengolden Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Welcome aboard!

  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JBK said:
    Welcome!

    Having lived in Munich for 5 years at one time, I judge Germans by what style of beer they drink. >:)

    So.... "Was trinkst du?"

    If it is Augustiner helles served in .5 liter mugs (or even better, a masse) then that is great. If it is a northern Pils served in .33 glasses then you will have to work extra hard to earn respect. :D

    (If it is a .2 liter shot glass of koelsch then it will depend on how many you order at once. ;) .

    Real men drink dunkel.

  • mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭

    Welcome! I must honestly be the only member here that collects Thai LOL

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  • JBKJBK Posts: 17,423 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @SaorAlba said:

    @JBK said:
    Welcome!

    Having lived in Munich for 5 years at one time, I judge Germans by what style of beer they drink. >:)

    So.... "Was trinkst du?"

    If it is Augustiner helles served in .5 liter mugs (or even better, a masse) then that is great. If it is a northern Pils served in .33 glasses then you will have to work extra hard to earn respect. :D

    (If it is a .2 liter shot glass of koelsch then it will depend on how many you order at once. ;) .

    Real men drink dunkel.

    Dunkes Weissbier was actually my favorite beer to have with a particular meal.

    At one Starkbierfest I had five (or at least started my fifth) masse mugs of stark (dunkel) bier. I don't think I would recommend it, but then again I don't remember everything from that night. ;)

    I do miss the old DM. Nice coins and banknotes that were easy to work with in commerce.

  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2, 2020 11:43AM

    @JBK said:

    Real men drink dunkel.

    Dunkes Weissbier was actually my favorite beer to have with a particular meal.

    At one Starkbierfest I had five (or at least started my fifth) masse mugs of stark (dunkel) bier. I don't think I would recommend it, but then again I don't remember everything from that night. ;)

    I like real beer, Germany has plenty of real beer. IMHO the best beers cannot be transparent through the glass. Just a matter of opinion of course. The only weiss beers I like are really hoppy like Bell's Two Hearted.

    I do miss the old DM. Nice coins and banknotes that were easy to work with in commerce.

    What I miss about the DM was being able to use silver 10DM coins that I bought for face value and spend them - in the early 1990s the silver value was less than the face value. I would buy them in currency exchanges and banks. At least the last time I was in France just pre-euro I was able to buy up a lot of 100FF silver and I kept them.

  • JBKJBK Posts: 17,423 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @SaorAlba said:

    What I miss about the DM was being able to use silver 10DM coins that I bought for face value and spend them - in the early 1990s the silver value was less than the face value. I would buy them in currency exchanges and banks. At least the last time I was in France just pre-euro I was able to buy up a lot of 100FF silver and I kept them.

    I think I bought a few silver 10 euro on the same terms but I never spent them. ;)

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