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Eichhörnchen

04-19-20, 03:49 AM

If he was my father too and my name was Reece then I would be Reece Reece too and you would be my brother. They'd have trouble with that.

PS: I am a casual collector of coins; it began after I dug up a 1940 farthing in my parental front garden when I was about 12. I reckoned it had been dropped by someone who lived there during the Battle of Britain (it was un-worn so prolly new when lost). That got me started as I was really into the BoB at the time (we lived in Tonbridge, Kent, right below where the air battles were fought and I was always mad about aeroplanes)

vienna

04-19-20, 04:49 AM

I occasionally glance through my change and sometimes have found interesting coins in the mix; a lot of times, I find those dreaded awful Canadian coins (insert sound of ucrank umbrage here) and just recently, I got a 1942 Canadian penny with the likeness of King George on its face; I do like to seek out any stray "wheat pennies" that pop up in the change; just in the past few months, I found, on separate occasions, two "wheat pennies" from my birth year of 1950, something I had never had happen before...

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Eichhörnchen

04-19-20, 05:19 AM

We visited a large antiques centre here a few years back, at the decommissioned wartime Bomber Command base known as Hemswell

There I picked up a book that I'd had as a kid and had always wanted to find again: "Julius Caesar in Roman Britain". In a nearby room were some old coins, among them a Roman one from a local dig... nothing special but in good condition and from around the end of the occupation. I could kick myself still for not buying it on the same day as I got my special book... it was only £15

Col7777

04-19-20, 08:13 AM

Here in the UK we have a 50p coin, in the last few years they have produced various ones to commemorate one thing or another.
Now on Ebay people are selling them for a few pounds to hundreds of pounds, some I've seen are fairly common yet the seller is asking a silly price, I think they are preying on the vulnerable, trying to make a quick profit.

Anyone who collects and works in a shop has an advantage because they can sort through them, I'm sure the odd one will popup that is a bit on the rare side.

Col.

Jimbuna

04-19-20, 10:42 AM

The value of all the 50p coins: https://fiftypence.co.uk/product-category/50p-coins/page/2/

Eichhörnchen

04-19-20, 02:46 PM

@ Jimbo, I've got a D-Day 50 year commemorative 50p that isn't shown on there... I understand from ebay that in 'fine uncirculated' condition it's worth around £12

Mine isn't fine or uncirculated afaik, so probably worth ten pence... not even any point giving it to STEED for his gas meter

https://i.imgur.com/ZooLUG6.png

Jimbuna

04-20-20, 04:28 AM

Go to the column I've marked Glynn, open it and scroll to near the bottom and you'll see there were over six and a half million minted but unfortunately the link isn't a 'live' one so no valuation is presented.

https://i.postimg.cc/8CBtFpK8/Untitled.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

https://i.postimg.cc/SsgdrZbD/Untitled2.jpg (https://postimages.org/)

Platapus

04-20-20, 08:24 AM

I once received a 1930 penny from the drive through at McDonnalds.

Bet that sucker is worth about 1 cent these days.

August

04-20-20, 09:29 AM

I just completed my state quarters set; A Denver and Philadelphia mint version of each of the 50 states.

Currently I am working on the national parks series. I'm getting there but I still need:

2010 Arkansas Hot Springs
2011 Mississippi Vicksburg
2011 Oklahoma Chickasaw
2012 Puerto Rico El Yunque
2012 New Mexico Chaco Culture
2019 Texas San Antonio Missions
2019 Idaho Frank Church River

and all of the 2020s and 2021

Kptlt. Neuerburg

04-20-20, 10:00 AM

I've got a decent coin collection which also includes some bills. Two of which come from the Philippines. They are Five Peso notes the first of which is from the series of 1937 and the second is another Five Peso note from the Japanese Government during the occupation of the Philippines.

Aktungbby

04-20-20, 10:12 AM

I once received a 1930 penny from the drive through at McDonnalds.

Bet that sucker is worth about 1 cent these days.1930: actually it's worth anywhere from .04 cents to $24,000...certainly worth checking out! :yeah:

Eichhörnchen

04-20-20, 04:50 PM

... the second is another Five Peso note from the Japanese Government during the occupation of the Philippines.

It's always more special when there's dramatic history attached to these things

I've got a 1929 Polish One Zloty coin... any time I pick it up I wonder who during the darkest times of its circulation might have owned it or used it; it almost feels as though it contains a power

Kptlt. Neuerburg

04-20-20, 09:43 PM

It's always more special when there's dramatic history attached to these things

I've got a 1929 Polish One Zloty coin... any time I pick it up I wonder who during the darkest times of its circulation might have owned it or used it; it almost feels as though it contains a power Indeed. I also have a 10 Ruble (I Think) from 1913 and a 10 Yuan note signed by some members of the AVG.

Eichhörnchen

06-26-20, 01:02 PM

This thread had me looking at my coin collection again and now I've decided to collect some Weimar Republic coins and Third Reich following on from that

I've already spent too much, and I've only been sending for the basic stuff... no rarities... that side of collecting never interested me. I don't feel the need to have every single year of a coin either... I'm not a 'completist', as they say

It's like touching history

Eisenwurst

06-26-20, 07:14 PM

http://i.imgur.com/QlQXsEY.jpg

A new $1 coin "Aussie Icons" series started last year.

http://i.imgur.com/zf0OYG3.jpg

Dame Edna finally made the bigtime.

em2nought

06-26-20, 07:33 PM

I just completed my state quarters set; A Denver and Philadelphia mint version of each of the 50 states.

My mom collected all the states, now I have to tell her she needed a full set from a single mint. lol

I don't do numismatic, only bullion. :D I'm kinda surprised to see higher percentage Canadian bullion worth less than lower percentage American mint coins if I trade them in. Especially since the Canadians have more counterfeit preventive measures on their coins.

Eichhörnchen

06-27-20, 04:55 PM

http://i.imgur.com/QlQXsEY.jpg

A new $1 coin "Aussie Icons" series started last year.

http://i.imgur.com/zf0OYG3.jpg

Dame Edna finally made the bigtime.

How about one with Rolf Harris?

Eisenwurst

06-27-20, 05:54 PM

He's not a real Aussie. He left Australia many years ago and made his home in England, and only pays lip service to us back home.

We don't want him back.

Armistead

06-27-20, 10:50 PM

I've metal detected for 26 years now so I have a bunch of them tho I don't considere myself the typical collector, just fill a coffee can and move to the next one.

Jimbuna

06-28-20, 04:52 AM

He's not a real Aussie. He left Australia many years ago and made his home in England, and only pays lip service to us back home.

We don't want him back.

Quite understandable :)

Eichhörnchen

06-30-20, 01:31 PM

I found out something interesting about coins today: I always wondered why some old ones have a hole in the middle, so I googled and it turns out that these are usually from countries like France and Germany who had "foreign possessions" (also some Arab countries), where many of the natives did not have trousers to wear, so had no pockets to put their spare change in

Hence the hole... which allowed them to string all their coins together and carry them around their neck. What a stupid idea, huh? If you shoved your hand into a guy's trouser pocket you might be lucky enough to grab hold of a few centimes (hopefully nothing else)... but on a string?

mapuc

06-30-20, 01:57 PM

A Danish Coin have also hole in the middle. It's their 5 Kroner coins.

Markus

Eichhörnchen

06-30-20, 04:23 PM

Yeah, but you guys all walk around naked in the snow, right?

Eichhörnchen

07-02-20, 04:28 PM

Collecting coins from the years of economic turmoil in Germany between the wars has also thrown up another aspect I'd not known about, namely the great number of different metals used in their manufacture at the time... and later during WW2 because of the need for good metals for the war effort

Aluminium, zinc, nickel, brass, bronze as well as alloys of these were used, with some coins having their metal content changed mid stream (like the early 50 pfennig which switched from aluminium to nickel... then back again once the war started)

vienna

07-02-20, 06:04 PM

When I was a kid, in the 1950s and early 1960s, it was not unusual to still see the occasional steel US penny in one's change; the steel penny was started to save copper, the usual metal for pennies, for use in the war effort...

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Eichhörnchen

07-06-20, 07:32 AM

As a 'casual' collector (of many kinds of things) most of the coins that have come my way have been 'modern' (i.e. 1970s and later). A friend who skipped the country to escape his creditors gave me his pile (he was a bi-polar hoarder) but it didn't contain anything that might have helped him pay off his debts... just modern stuff, some of them pretty though

However, if you look at what's offered by numismatists on ebay, you soon come to realise that in the old world there were some beautiful coins that you would never be likely to come across casually like this, or in the average thrift shop... like this old 10 centisimi coin from Italy

https://i.imgur.com/u8h5Gq7.jpg not valuable, just nice

Eichhörnchen

07-17-20, 04:16 PM

Kptlt. Neuerburg

07-17-20, 05:57 PM

https://i.imgur.com/jcqK15r.jpg

This was the coin I got for my weekly pocket money as a kid... it was either one of these or two shillings and a silver sixpence, since that was what the half crown was: 2/6d

I liked to get the half crown though as it seemed huge (I have one in my collection and it still looks huge) I got two half crowns one from 1911 and the other from 1916 in my "War" collection, which is my collection of coins and notes from the US Civil War up to the Suez Crisis.

Eichhörnchen

07-19-20, 02:30 PM

My half-crown would get me a Ladybird Book, a Matchbox car or a 1st series Airfix kit:

https://i.imgur.com/C7Aq7Uy.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/TmQkwgV.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/OVkAqpu.jpg I always bought one of these... and I still have some of them

Eichhörnchen

08-31-20, 06:08 AM

This is my brass 2 franc coin, introduced by the allies following D-Day

https://i.imgur.com/upydWqu.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ZJXqU3W.jpg

I found a quote giving more info on a numismatic forum, which I'm going to go back and explore since it looks very interesting:

"In preparation of the Liberation of France during World War II, the Allies decided to create "French" temporary money, which would be introduced by the American soldiers, during the progress of their Army through the country. This coin was struck by the Philadelphia Mint and circulated in the South of France and in Algeria, then still part of the French "Empire". This is the only metallic coinage struck for that purpose. But several banknotes were printed simultaneously, and circulated widely in France."

Further discussion on the forum reveals how this 2 franc coin was carried in the pockets of the US forces of Operation Dragoon invading in the South, and this accounts for why they are to this day more commonly found in coin shops in the South of France than in the North

And there was trouble with De Gaulle over this allied currency, which he saw as an offence to French sovereignty, so it was discontinued

It's not the most attractive French coin, it has to be said, looking more like a brass token from a slot machine to me... but then it isn't really a 'French' coin. It remains historically interesting and important, nonetheless

vienna

08-31-20, 07:00 AM

Back in the 1950s, my father came back from a voyage to China and brought back a big cardboard box full of Chinese paper money; it seems, in the chaos following the fall of Japan, several factions tried to exert control over China and form a legitimate government, the two largest headed by Mao and Chiang Kai-Shek, there were all manner of currencies issued by regional regional/political entities trying to legitimize their claims to power, in a situation similar to the US Continental Dollars and the Confederate Dollars issued by the various states at the time; the paper money my father brought home was absolutely worthless, so he was able to get that big box for just a couple of dollars or so; my sister and I, and the neighborhood kids, did not lack for play money for a long time...

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Eichhörnchen

10-07-20, 04:34 PM

https://i.imgur.com/TRW06vu.jpg https://i.imgur.com/didP55p.jpg

As a casual coin collector on a budget I usually stick to just a few themes, but every once in a while a coin comes along with what numismatists call "eye appeal" and I just have to have it

I've still not managed to obtain an authentic Fez to complete my Sidney Greenstreet outfit, but I did find this silver 5 Piastre coin showing King Fuad I of Egypt wearing his. The coin looks great, but what clinched it was the fact that it was minted in 1923... the year Howard Carter entered King Tut's tomb for the first time

He'd got into the ante-chamber in November the previous year (the tomb had been discovered in 1922) but he had to wait until the following February before breaking through to the burial chamber proper. How he got to sleep on Christmas Eve 1922 I'll never know

The second photo shows the king posing with Carter in front of the tomb

Edit:

https://i.imgur.com/dwz35ZV.jpg I got the fez lol

Kptlt. Neuerburg

10-07-20, 10:44 PM

One of the most interesting part of my collection isn't a coin at all but a loan from the CSA. https://i.postimg.cc/Fzf3dGZM/IMG-20201007-232937-1.jpg

And these are the 5 Peso Notes from the Philippines I mentioned before.

https://i.postimg.cc/VNDCK2Hy/IMG-20201007-233202.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/mDkFJV0P/IMG-20201007-233334.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/zBQRrKr0/IMG-20201007-233306.jpghttps://i.postimg.cc/L5Zg654R/IMG-20201007-233352.jpg

Eichhörnchen

10-08-20, 03:15 AM

This is a great Instagram account to visit for those interested in banknotes... the guy gives a potted history next to every item and his photos are 1st class. He shows a lot of German "Notgeld" notes, which often featured the most amazing artwork

https://www.instagram.com/historical_banknotes/?hl=en

Jimbuna

10-08-20, 04:29 AM

I save modern day British coins and bank notes, does that count?

Gerald

10-08-20, 04:59 AM

I save modern day British coins and bank notes, does that count?Affection value for your grandchildren!

Jimbuna

10-08-20, 05:40 AM

Nope, funding is already held in trust for the granddaughter and the kids get not one penny but they will receive the property between themselves.

Eichhörnchen

10-08-20, 06:57 AM

https://i.imgur.com/XjcWavU.jpg

I've picked up a few of the other denominations featuring Fuad's portrait: the one, five and the half millieme coins. Not shown is the very small nickel two millieme, which I'm still waiting for. But these were all minted in 1924... the five piastre was the only one made in 1923

Eichhörnchen

10-09-20, 07:24 AM

https://i.imgur.com/ylxAfUo.jpg

I got the coin on the left today... important because it shows the "de-Nazified" 10 pfennig issued by the Allies between 1945 and 1948 for the period of post war administration; compare it with the wartime 10 pfennig

These were zinc coins, which is why they are usually found in this tarnished sooty colour; the wartime coin shows the original finish, resembling shiny lead

Eichhörnchen

10-17-20, 10:49 AM

These are my coins issued by the Vichy regime as opposed to the standard French currency. The top ones are zinc, the bottom ones aluminium... these metals were used for reasons of economy

https://i.imgur.com/XkxxctZ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/CqeYL2T.jpg

They carried the words "French State" and "Work, Family, Homeland"

August

10-17-20, 10:54 AM

I always thought putting a hole in the center of coins was a darned good idea.

Eichhörnchen

10-17-20, 11:18 AM

^ I read that it was so that colonial native types who didn't have trouser-pockets could carry their cash around their necks on a string

August

10-17-20, 12:20 PM

^ I read that it was so that colonial native types who didn't have trouser-pockets could carry their cash around their necks on a string

I doubt that's true. Like they would ever design their currency for the convenience of colonial native types. There had to be much more reason than that.

Eichhörnchen

10-17-20, 12:52 PM

August

10-17-20, 03:31 PM

Yes you might think so, but it's apparently true... I'll look for a source

Edit: Well you'd think that such an educated and cultivated bunch would know the answer, but after a quick browse online it would appear that not even the numismatists can agree upon this question. Requires further reading...

I always subscribed to the idea that when our pets die we should dress them up in fancy miniature military uniforms just to mess with archeologists a thousand years from now.

GBar

10-17-20, 04:25 PM

My grandfather collects old coins)

Eichhörnchen

10-17-20, 05:04 PM

Welcome aboard, GBar :Kaleun_Salute:

Eichhörnchen

01-06-23, 05:09 PM

https://i.imgur.com/Bj5jPKB.jpg https://i.imgur.com/60BpGn2.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ZvSnm1S.jpg https://i.imgur.com/79LhY59.jpg

I don't collect these - not yet, anyway - but with the rich Roman heritage of this part of England it's no surprise that there are more finds of coins and other artefacts from the Occupation here in Lincolnshire than are found in almost any other part of the country

https://i.imgur.com/LJ5WlvV.jpg https://i.imgur.com/VSAnUqh.jpg

My wife took some photographs of the ancient Newport Arch on a recent day out in the city of Lincoln (Roman "Lindum Colonia") not very far from our home. It still amazes me that places like this survive to stand in the sunlight of this modern-day city so that you may walk up to them and touch them

The last photo shows a coin I have which was unearthed in the village of Boothby Graffoe, just a few miles south of the arch (these coins are very small - none more than 20mm across)

https://i.imgur.com/iD2lUwU.jpg https://i.imgur.com/a8RDjyu.jpg