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Damn, that's lovely. I'm really much more into silver than bronze coins but that one is so lovely that all I can say is "thank you" for sharing it.

I have a motorola Razr and my coin photos with it are garbage. I need to buy a macro lens for my Pentax K3 DSLR instead. The SMC Pentax-D FA 50mm F2.8 Macro looks promising (75mm angle of view on the crop sensor). But I always end up buying more coins instead... funny that! 🤣

Almost got excited by that one but "Doesn't post to the United States". I haz a sad.

Arrived today. The cleaning doesn't look as harsh in hand as it does in the photos.

I have told my son what has value and what is "I thought it was cool looking" and what is "why the fuc* did I buy that?"

I could see doing that but I'd rather give my son a shit ton of good silvers that can be sold here and there as needed rather than everything all at once. I'll never sell any of my collection. But my son is free to do anything he wants/needs to do.

I try to avoid "slabbed" coins as made by the third party grading services like NGC however this time it's worth it for the verification that it is a genuine coin, even if harshly cleaned. In this case, there is a bit of historical significance to the coin. On the reverse is a small trident to the side of the mint mark of A. "A" signifies the Paris Mint and the trident was the privy mark of Zéphyrin Camélinat, who was the treasurer of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune">Paris Commune of 18 March to 28 May of 1871</a>. Despite the foot dragging of the bankers and the approaching troops of the conservative republican government, he managed to produce, it is believed, about 75,000 5 Franc silver coins, 30,600 of which were in two wagon loads that were taken to the front lines directly from the Paris mint so that the doomed soldiers fighting for the Commune could receive their back pay on May 20 as the final battles began. <a href="The Coins of the Commune">The Coins of the Commune</a> (the term sou survived from pre-revolutionary France as a slang word for 1⁄20 of a franc - thus 100 sou = 5 francs) One in nearly perfect condition recently sold for $9,000 and fakes are all too common. This one, with the damage from the heavy cleaning - the scratches are quite visible even through the slab - was "only" $295 and moves into 5th place in my "you spent how much on a single coin???" list. It is still a classic example of being reminded to grab the best you can afford because that's better than none. Nevertheless this will be the gem of my French coin collection.

So one of my other areas is French coins. I love their big silver coins. From 1974 to 1980 (killed by the Hunt Bro's attempt at cornering the market) they had a 41 mm & 30 gram .900 50 Francs coin. I still need a 1979 for that series and was looking on ebay. Now melt for them today is $60 USD and I see one at $72. Ok, reasonable. But bad feedback. Look at his other listings and lots of obvious fakes - an 1812 Napoleon 5 Francs for $65 (!) and even more humorously, a Kingdom of Hawaii 1883 (46,538 remain of 499,000 minted) in seemingly UNC condition. If real, an easy $1600 coin. $65 as well. Yeah, I think I'll get my 50 Franc coin somewhere else... The original I looked at: https://www.ebay.com/itm/800122943117 Clicking on the seller's other items is when the "fun" begins.

Heh. I have an 1887 shilling that was turned into a pendant. I enjoy wearing it I don't know why whoever had that soldered on the top but It's fun to wear as far as I am concerned

Heh. I think if I were in the market for an ... inexpensive ... 1696 William III crown, I'd spend about £40 more... https://www.ebay.com/itm/267680267467?_skw=william+III+crown&itmmeta=01KTXMYXP9ZX8YEWMM0R42PBG9&hash=item3e52fcbccb:g:-BgAAeSw-7BqFFkB&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA0GfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xAC2siVMxwuEmIkSb09NzHjbAJylzcku4DTGlSMlkrvowGK8wAOFrKxMBOleKQopG6Ahv7Uly1Rp72Syf%2BIdobKYcmhmWvHcdzP8f2lOUkxaa9pUcirOphDQYAt361LlEBzgeuRhmrZZQd%2BFzxLXRG7Pk%2BU0p7LwPV%2BJmklVMb1r4POn1XnuEM0LHTOHi0vRcx3OgewKJuCxy%2BwZ98j6zY4dYScrcjJjRv47Cd8YoYR5wB8Sfb0jfUBtQ%2B7wOKcD8A%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR6jb-7TXZw

The UK £sd may have been accepted but they started coining their own dollar in 1865 with cent coins and going to 50 cents in silver and 2 dollars in gold. I do find the 50 cent coin to have a very beautiful portrait of Victoria. I have too many desires and not enough money, but a type set of Newfoundland coins (one of each denomination & monarch) would be a terribly fun set to get.

No, from sol or solidus. The livre had 240 deniers (pennies) or 20 sou (sol) to the Livre (Livre tournois) or pound of silver which should sound slightly familiar around here 😉

I am tempted to get a "one a year" while ignoring the privy marks.

My son isn't helping - he bought me a 2021 today 🤣

I'm not into stacking but I always thought the Britannia looked good. Just because I think that it’s a nice looking silver coin, I added a 1 oz. .999 fine silver Britannia to my collection. Mostly these are aimed at silver bugs but eh, I like it. By letting them send a random year, it was like $10~15 cheaper but I think I got lucky - Liz’s portrait is better than Charlie’s, IMO. From 2018:

Which is where I got one for £180

My information shows 717,041 1932 Florins. Not a huge number, but compared to the 15,000 of 1927 they're fairly easy to find. An XF40 NGC rated one is on eprey for $294 at the moment. Others for $50+ are there as well. Finding a 1927 was much more difficult.

Interesting. I don't know why about the half crowns. I did just order a proof 1927 florin (only available in proof that year) and an UNC 1927 Wreath Crown from The Coin King so I'm eagerly awaiting them.

Oh, cool. I'd never noticed the cinquefoil stops on my 1845 crown. Learn something new every day.

I have just found and ordered books on Netherlands and French coins because of running into that the problems with the online sources not always agreeing. Also ordered a 1927 Wreath Crown and that's setting be back almost as much as the 1898 Netherlands 2 1/2 Gulden without dot in "P Pander". The 1858 XF florin and 1927 proof florin were cheap by comparison! Def cut's back this weeks beers. 🤣

There was a copper farthing in 1714 with Anne on it. According to https://en.numista.com/13073 There are no silver pattern coins listed. So, yes, I would say that that was an easily discovered fake and that the seller should be considered unsafe.

Someone actually bought this Temu Gothic Crown... from Hong Kong! https://www.ebay.com/itm/157871585964?_skw=gothic+crown+coin&itmmeta=01KRQ7VFAEVC91F9FWVYNBQEYS&hash=item24c1e13aac:g:0pEAAeSwVQJopiyR&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA8GfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xCiHPT1dIqsSUVD65WmtEkl1%2Bnl70mlRW1AmIqpbzP%2B%2BWh7qLJpsJ4EY379bCQl6EXDxG%2FtGJmxbqUrKDqbOOJteyQyptnRKYk4C1PQHMCa%2B5GL%2FVGwQyPlqMTPyzWokUHuJ4YZ0JmVYGzCHdYqG6NH2QmuyL%2FRAbCwCOIV2L0CQEJnpBSoduOCKBb3dfGEtndLTQ9OFm1MzvZjZ2LDpLas4tilOkJu%2BG5IpxJ5oqi%2BoOb0JqgBZm3cBN9bdLZDrVlOG6%2BN2npKT5vzc4jzhLP71YUsYY6%2BKYMFiLWr8tvvEQ%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR7D17efFZw

Actually got mine early last week. Cool book and it's good to have that reference. Have you worked out anything about the Irish book? Thanks!

The repatriation has more to do with Trump's sticky fingers than any "gold standard" since there is nowhere near enough gold in the world to run the modern economies. Xi is far more interested in getting the Yaun turned into the standard currency rather than the dollar, especially for buying oil.

That (and several ones like it) are AI generated slop and have no connection to the reality that silver was too expensive and too useful in industry to make coins of.