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Couple of new coins: A silver stater from Pamphylia, Aspendos, struck in 330-250 BC. The obverse is two wrestlers grappling with a KY monogram between them. The reverse is a slinger in throwing stance with triskeles above a club of Hercules on the right.  A gold Nibu Kin from the Meiji era, from about 1868 AD. I've also started putting the nicer coins in my collection into an imgur album.
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Added a 3 Rubles silver ounce from Russia. Got it in this morning and love it.  Sesquiculus, jelly of some of them pieces...
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Oct 20, 2015 15:54
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Good stuff everyone. Finally picked up the new Zombucks in both Ag and Cu to complete the set.  Just bought a silver quarter in my mom's birth year made into a ring for her upcoming birthday. Also just bought a 1982-S Washington Half Dollar NGC PF69 Ultra Cameo
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Oct 25, 2015 22:19
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Oh god, I haven't checked in for so long, you guys have acquired some amazing stuff :d here's my latest additions, though in a rather different path from my main collection                   rather lovely appearance wise but hey, old gold!
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Oct 28, 2015 23:26
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Wow that's a lot of sovereigns!
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Oct 29, 2015 00:18
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Sokrateez posted:Wow that's a lot of sovereigns! Yeah, as it turns out many people in my family gave these to my parents for me on special occasions, and I didn't even know about it until this weekend. Now that I actually have somewhere to keep them I asked them to give them to me. Not bad even if I say so myself!
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Oct 29, 2015 08:19
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I need a Victoria sovereign in my life.
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Oct 29, 2015 16:02
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DominusDeus posted:I need a Victoria sovereign in my life. Actually there's a good chance both of mine are fake 
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Oct 29, 2015 18:09
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Love all the gold! Totally jealous.
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Nov 5, 2015 23:45
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Do you guys insure your collections, and is so from whom? My granddad left me 4 safe deposit boxes of everything from Liberty dollars to porn theater tokens, and I don't think my home insurance will cover it in event of loss. It's around $1000 at face value, all added up. While it's almost certainly worth more, I have no idea how to go about getting it appraised, the accuracy of appraisal, or what to pay for an appraisal.
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Nov 6, 2015 05:24
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Been buying some more slabs here and there. Will post pictures as they come in the mail. 1982 S Washington Commemorative Half Dollar NGC PF69 Ultra Cameo  
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Nov 6, 2015 23:56
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Got these both in the mail yesterday! Masshole Pride. 2000 S Silver Massachusetts Quarter NGC PF69 Ultra Cameo.   Been wanting on of these guys for a whole now. 1959 D Franklin Half Dollar NGC MS64 FBL.   
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Nov 8, 2015 20:08
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Just got a 1941 Walking Liberty half dollar NGC MS61 in the mail today.  The NGC stack so far. 
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Nov 17, 2015 00:33
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I have about 16lb of sterling scrap silver, mostly .925 and some .999 stuff. The silver market has just been totally stagnant for so long, I'm tempted to sell - I remember the day it hit $50/oz, and thought it would keep climbing - did it gently caress, it dropped like a stone! Now it sits around $14/oz,. Silver is a oval office.
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Nov 21, 2015 19:09
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This is what 950lbs of silver looks like: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2015/11/21/search-body-turned-up-220k-silver-bars/76163782/
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Nov 23, 2015 00:28
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Zogo posted:This is what 950lbs of silver looks like: Nice! I don't know why anyone would spend 220k on silver instead of gold though. Maybe he just preferred quantity.
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Nov 23, 2015 13:14
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Some new stuff... First, new note for my currency collection:   Series 1934 Hundred Dollars, low serial number Now for the coins:    2016 Somali Elephant (with bonus die crack)   2016 Niue Year of the Monkey   2016 Australia Year of the Monkey   2016 Canadian Maple Leaf (Wolf privy)   2013 Ukranian Archangel Michael (Fabulous 15 privy)     2015 Tanzania/Zanzibar Vera Silver   2015 Isle of Man Penny Black   1916 France 10 Centimes And a coin type I've been wanting for a good 20 years:   1875-S Twenty Cent piece. DominusDeus fucked around with this message at 14:13 on Nov 24, 2015 |
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Nov 23, 2015 14:36
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Finally got my mitts (pun intended) on one of these babies. 
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Nov 28, 2015 18:07
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Now that's pretty drat awesome, and I hadn't seen one before!
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Nov 29, 2015 09:34
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I believe it's the US Mint's first non-flat coin too. It's concave with the glove. I think I wanna get a high graded NGC 1986 ASE next. Super Aggro Crag fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Nov 29, 2015 |
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Nov 29, 2015 18:22
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Whelp. Lost my job. Sold my entire stack so far minus my Zombucks set, my slabs, and my junk Walking Liberty halves.
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Jan 5, 2016 02:34
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Sorry to hear that. I had to sell my Morgans a few years ago when I lost a job. Keep the Zombucks if you can.
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Jan 5, 2016 02:41
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I doubt the Zombucks will be worth that much of a premium in the long run. What do you think? I just out up my full silver and copper set on eBay a couple hours ago.
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I just think they're going to be the hardest to reacquire later, at least in silver. If you have the early ones you ought to get back more than you paid.
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Ugh, I'm sorry Aggro. I could tolerate selling most of my stack since I've only worked on that since early 2015, but I'd be devastated if I had to part with my coin and currency collection; I've been working on that since I was a kid.
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So, um... a few new things since last post....  Series of 1928 A, Fifty Dollars.   Series of 1917, Two Dollars.   1000 Won from South Korea, from 1950.   Japan, Ibaraki Prefecture, 47 Prefectures Series 2009, 1000 Yen, 1 Troy Ounce silver   Australia, Wedge-Tailed Eagle 2016, One Dollar, 1 Troy Ounce silver   Australia, Lunar Dragon 2012, Two Dollars, 2 Troy Ounces silver   Australia, Kookaburra 2016, One Dollar, 1 Troy Ounce silver   Republic of Congo, African Lion 2016, 5000 Francs, 1 Troy Ounce silver   Canada, Superleaf 2016, Eight Dollars, 1.5 Troy Ounces silver   United Kingdom,Britannia 2016, Two Pounds, 1 Troy Ounce silver   China, Chinese Panda 2016, 10 Yuan, 30 grams (0.9645 Troy Ounce) silver   Rwanda, African Ounce: Antelope 2014, 50 Amafaranga, 1 Troy Ounce silver   Rwanda, African Ounce: Meerkat 2016, 50 Amafaranga, 1 Troy Ounce silver   2015, Christmas Snowflake, 1 Troy Ounce silver   Privateer 3 silver round, 2 Troy Ounces silver   Austria Maria Theresa Thaler, 1780X re-strike. They've been re-struck from 14 or more different mints nearly continuously since 1781. Hundreds of millions available. Newer ones are about $20 shipped. 83.3% silver, and contain 0.752 troy ounce silver.   2015, 5 Cedis, Ghana Silver Gorilla (to rustle some Jimmies), 1 troy ounce silver.   2016, Silver American Eagle, 1 troy ounce silver.   2016, Silver Canadian Maple Leaf, Tank privy, 1 troy ounce silver.   Royal Mint Refinery, 1 troy ounce silver round.   Elemetal bar, 1 troy ounce silver bar And filling some holes in my Dansco 7070 album:   1913 Buffalo Nickel, Type 1   1875-CC Seated Liberty Dime, Carson City mint (my first CC coin)   1920 Pilgrim Commemorative Half Dollar   1960-O Seated Liberty Half Dollar.   1863 Indian Head cent. Huge die crack on the reverse, and either a small die crack or a die scratch in the AM of AMERICA. And some other stuff:    1960 Italian 500 Lire. 83.5% silver, giving it a total weight of 0.2953 troy ounce.   1566 Sixpence, Queen Elizabeth I Obverse: ELIZABETH D G ANG FR ET HI REGINA (Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England, France and Ireland) Reverse: POSVI DEV ADIVTOREM MEV (POSUI DEU ADIUTOREM MEU) (I have made God my helper) DominusDeus fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Feb 8, 2016 |
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My latest acquisition that I've been too busy to post about. Claudius denarius   Obverse: TI CLAVD CAESAR AVG P M TR P Reverse: PRAETOR RECEPT
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DominusDeus posted:
I didn't know the US struck any commemorative coins (that were intended for circulation) besides the bicentennial series. This is pretty cool.
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Brennanite posted:I didn't know the US struck any commemorative coins (that were intended for circulation) besides the bicentennial series. This is pretty cool. We made a bunch between 1892 and 1954, then picked up again in 1982. Some are affordable, some are very not. The most recent for this year are the Mark Twain commemoratives. $5 gold and $1 silver. Pretty sure none of the modern commems (1982-now) were made for circulation. DominusDeus fucked around with this message at 10:08 on Feb 9, 2016 |
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SeaWolf posted:Claudius denarius Very nice. I really need a Claudius. Got a few new coins recently:   A silver twelfth stater of King Croesus of Lydia, the proverbial "as rich as Croesus." One of the very first coins and really, really tiny.  A Corinthian silver stater, struck in about 345-307 BC. Athena on the obverse and a pegasus on the reverse.  A silver drachm of Alexander the Great, struck in about 319-310 BC. Herakles in lion skin headdress on the obverse and Zeus on the reverse.  A Celtic imitation of the Alexander the Great coin above, struck in about 310-275 BC. The design has been heavily modified to suit Celtic tastes.  A bronze As from the Republic of Rome, struck in 169-158 BC. Janus on the obverse and a star over a ship's prow on the reverse. Worth one-tenth of a denarius (the word denarius means "contains ten"), both sides are marked with a 1 and you can see the X on the Republic denarius I posted earlier.
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Love the Celtic coin, I need to get one of those someday. I just got my first new coins in a while, from xeno's thread. I like this little one quite a bit.  A Thracian Chersonese silver hemidrachm minted between 480 and 350 BC, in Gallipoli. 14 mm, 2.15 g. And here's a cool picture I did a while back of my collection at the time. I took each picture with the camera at the same distance from the camera and the same zoom so the relative size of each coin is correct. 
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A few new pieces:  2016 Proof Mark Twain commemorative dollar.    2016 Canadian 140th Anniversary of the Library of Parliament commemorative silver 25 dollars.   1/10th Ouunce silver round, 1943 steel war cent design.   Ditto above, but one ounce.   2016 Canadian Cougar, one ounce silver, 5 dollars.   2015 Silverbug Island one ounce silver round.   American Landmarks 2 ounce silver round, Pearl Harbor.   Prospector 1 ounce silver bar.   5 and 10 gram Geiger silver bars.   2014-D Kennedy Half Dollar, 90% silver. 50th Anniversary High Relief. NGC SP69. I have some hyperinflation money coming in from a couple different countries, so that'll be my next update.
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About that time again, but not much new.  50 gram Geiger bar   2016 Australian Koala Burr   Privateer 4, "Kraken" 2 ounce round Retrieved a childhood safe that had a couple pieces of silver in it. Eight Roosevelt dimes and three silver Canadian dimes. One of the Roosies was photo worthy;   1963 toner The Canadian dimes;   King George V, 1911   King George VI, 1949   Queen Elizabeth II, 1962 Those got me interested in getting some older Canadian stuff. I already have an old large cent (which was also in the safe);   King George V, 1917 So I've got a first year issue 10 cent and 5 cent piece (1858), a second year issue 1 cent (1859) on the way, along with a first year issue half cent and cent (1861) from Nova Scotia. Going to pick up the Canadian 20 cent piece, one year issue of 1858, next payday. DominusDeus fucked around with this message at 08:54 on Apr 4, 2016 |
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:I took each picture with the camera at the same distance from the camera and the same zoom so the relative size of each coin is correct. That is a really cool picture. I'll have to do that if I ever get a halfway decent camera setup. Got a couple of new things:  A silver tetradrachm of Seleukos I Nikator (founder of the Seleucid Empire) in the name and type of Alexander III, struck in about 300 BC. Herakles in lion skin headdress on the obverse and Zeus on the reverse.  A silver tetradrachm of Augustus, the first Roman Emperor, struck in Antioch in 6 AD. Augustus on the obverse and the goddess Fortuna sitting on a mountain as Orontes the river god swims by on the reverse. This is one of the types of coins that could have made up Judas Iscariot's thirty pieces of silver. And just for fun:  A silver daler of New Dale, commemorating the defeat of the dragon Smaug. DominusDeus posted:I have some hyperinflation money coming in from a couple different countries, so that'll be my next update. Have a couple of these myself:   A one hundred trillion dollar bill from Zimbabwe and a five hundred billion dinar bill from Yugoslavia.
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Sesquiculus posted:That is a really cool picture. I'll have to do that if I ever get a halfway decent camera setup. I have a whole rig with a light box, DSLR camera, extension tubes, ring light, etc etc now, but all of those pictures were taken with a point and shoot on a tripod with the coin balanced on a tube of paper on top of another piece of paper. The tripod is really what makes 99% of the difference. If you're fine with the black background you don't even need the tube of paper, although I love the look of having the coin "pop" off a blank background. I'd love to do it again some time and make the set-up reproducible somehow so that I don't have to rephotograph over a hundred coins the third time I decide to do it. Here's a few that I don't think are in that picture.  A demi-Franc of Napoleon, minted in 1812. One of the few modern coins in my collection. I more or less bought this due to Duncan's podcast on the French Revolution  One of my favorite coins, a denarius of Trajan, minted in 101-102 AD.  A silver denarius minted in Rome in 84 BC. The obverse shows Apollo (or possibly Vejovis) brandishing thunderbolts, and the reverse shows a Minerva in a quadriga.
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A few new things: A silver tetradrachm from Gela in Sicily, struck in about 420 BC. Obverse is the god of the Gela river as a man-headed bull running past a tiny heron, and the reverse is a quadriga with a wreath above. The reverse is in terrible shape which is the only reason this was remotely affordable.  A bronze Tetrachalkon from Pantikapaion in the Cimmerian Bosporos, struck in about 310 BC. Pan on the obverse and a griffin on the reverse.  I don't usually collect US coins, but a friend offered me this one. A copper Andrew Jackson "Hard Times" token, struck in 1834 AD. Used as unofficial private currency after President Jackson abolished the national bank. The obverse is Jackson popping out of a chest holding a sword and money bag with the inscription "I Take the Responsibility." The reverse is a donkey labeled "LLD" (a reference to Jackson's honorary degree) and the inscription "The Constitution As I Understand It."
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May 26, 2016 19:09
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Sesquiculus posted:
This is a hella cool piece of Americana. Can I ask how much it cost?
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May 27, 2016 16:03
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Got it from a friend so I'm not sure what it's worth, but it looks like there are a few examples listed on ebay in the $20 to $60 range.
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Oh, hey, updates! So, on the Canadian end of things, I've gotten these in (along with updating my photography a slight bit);  1861, New Brunswick, One Cent, First Year of Issue  1861, Nova Scotia, One Cent, First Year of Issue  1861, Nova Scotia, Half Cent, First Year of Issue  1870, Canada, 50 Cents, First Year of Issue  1870, Canada, 25 Cents, First Year of Issue  1858, Canada, 20 Cents, First (and only) Year of Issue  1858, Canada, 10 Cents, First Year of Issue  1858, Canada, 5 Cents, First Year of Issue  1859 (combo breaker), Canada, One Cents, Second Year of Issue  2016, Canada Maple Leaf, 5 Dollars, Bigfoot Privy And on to non-Canadian stuff:  1 ounce Geiger bar  100 gram Geiger bar  20 gram and 1 gram Geiger bars  SilverTowne Mint 1804 Dollar Replica, 1 ounce  SilverTowne Mint Crown Stacker, 1 ounce Filled a hole in my Dansco 7070 with this:  1853 Seated Liberty Half Dollar With arrows and rays, no motto.  2012, Australian Lunar Dragon, colorized, half ounce  2015, Australia, Battle of the Coral Sea, half ounce commemorative  Tempo era (1830-1844) Japan, Tokugawa Shogunate 100-Mon  2012, China, Lunar Dragon, 30 gram silver oval medal This appears to be from the gold Chinese Panda prestige set.  1948, Mexico, 5 Pesos, Cuauhtémoc, .8680 troy ounce  2016, England, 5 Pounds, Lion of England, 2 troy ounces And there are some banknotes I've not photographed yet. A couple from Yugoslavia (same as Sesquiculus'), a Hungarian 20,000 Forints that goes with my 100 quintillion pengő, and 100 million adópengő notes, a 500,000 Vietnamese đồng note *giggle*, a set of Venezuela bolivar notes, a set of Laotian kip notes, and a 2009 $2 Star Note, New York district (128k printed). [edit] Grabbed this from the Post Office this morning:  Ansei era (1859-1868) Japan, 1 Bu Gin DominusDeus fucked around with this message at 16:06 on May 31, 2016 |
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Awesome, a thread relevant to a new hobby I kind of (literally) inherited. On my last trip home, my folks passed down a fairly decent sized coin collection 90 plus years in the making that was started by my grandfather. A quick sort through it shows silver certificates, morgans, peace, standing and walking liberty, buffalo nickels, Kennedy half dollars, 4 complete 1941-1961 Lincoln cents, 3 complete mercury head dimes 1916-1945, 5 complete books of Roosevelt dimes 1946-1963, books of Jefferson nickels. Hundreds of coins going back to early 1800s. That's not even scratching the surface. About half is sorted and catalogued, which my mother had started the daunting task of before her health began a slow downturn to what it is now. I don't even know where to begin. So... How do I begin? I need to catalogue it and get a value for insurance purposes asap, but good grief its pretty overwhelming (in more ways than the sheer volume). Is this basically a 'how do you eat an elephant?' thing?
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