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I don't really have a lot of gold coins, just a few older USA coins, mostly gold rush era. This is a type 1 gold dollar from 1851. One of the first coins issued by the San Francisco mint, which opened in the small office of a private minter that year.

They do nice work, but I am afraid too nice, and with the small countermark, these will easily pass on eBay as the real thing if not already.

Also think Peter Rosa got involved with some of this.

The USA is paying heavily for rebuilding Germany and Japan after WWII, in terms of training their managers in effective business technique, and then promptly forgetting how to employ it in the USA after the 1960's. And we will see who won the Cold War, some 25 years after 1989, I have a feeling it may NOT be the USA, but Russia.

For the price of that I could buy myself 5 gorgeous wives.

I want a female to win all races. After all, like Danica, they have the "weight advantage" that the guys complain about.

Any coin I pay over $1000 for better have one very very attractive female on it. All my most expensive ones do. Because women are the only works of art in everything.

Kind of hard since most of these coins didn't have a long time to circulate ala the Victorian pennies.

There were 64 pieces in the lot, I remember paying about £20 for the whole haul. The fun part was finding the Irish coin, the Henry I coin, and the asst Scots which are mostly William I pieces. I have a Danish piece in there too, I have identified it as Danish, but still not to a particular ruler.

Kind of funny how so many Scots pennies are found up in Yorkshire, Lancashire etc. However hoard evidence in Scotland suggest that Scots pennies represent less than 10% of what circulated there during that time. English pennies were represented in far greater numbers. Several years ago I purchased a small hoard of 64 cut farthings and halfpenny coins that were dug up in Yorkshire about 15 years ago. There were 7 Scots coins, 1 Irish, 1 Danish, and the rest were English coins ranging from Henry I(1154-1189) through the earliest issues of Edward I(1272-1307) After I imaged these several years ago I determined the cut farthing at 1 o'clock is actually a Henry I English cut.

But by that time Ottawa was striking all the Canadian coins. My guess would be that it might be another foreign coin, maybe even another colonies.

It has been over five years since I purchased anything Scottish, despite the fact that I consider the collection active. It gets so hard to find material that I do not have already, or am willing to afford. Usually Alexander III (1249-1286) pennies get the big big passover by me, they are far and away the most common of all medieval Scottish coinage, there are estimated to have been some 50 million of them minted during that reign. But, most of them are Berwick pennies, which is believed to be denoted by 24 points in the stars on the reverse. It is conjectured that the number of points in the stars denotes the mints, and the lesser known ones must have been from smaller locales. This example is one with 28 points, and is not associated with any known locale. As such it is actually a fairly scarce piece and a neat find.

I have a host if you want all to see it.

To see or not to see, that is the question; Whether 'tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous misimagery?

Have you considered that it might be a fiscal document seal?

Great, good going, now you are going to make me dig out the bags of these buggers and have me looking for the varieties of the date

You're right, at that price I would get something a more useful, and practical like a Pitts biplane. I have flown one before, oh so so fun, nothing like looping, barrel rolling etc at 1800 metres up.

When you dig deep into the sellers feedback file, there is one solitary transaction over £10, that being one for £2406, the rest are usually 1p transactions. I would like to know how a seller of small value stuff all of a sudden comes to selling a £100K coin?

Hate to put petrol in that thing! Nice pics, I truly love British automobiles, no other country has ever produced such an array of wonderful designs.

The best part of that one is most importantly for any detail to be present, it is the date, and it is very nice and clear. A truly dramatic error with the date is a fantastic find, good job

The coins with bears are ca. 1950's and 1960's tourist trap souvenirs. They seemingly made enough of these that they lasted in said tourist traps until well into the 1980's. They could be purchased for anywhere from $1.00 on up to ridiculous sums like $50 etc. They sold well in Gold Rush region tourist trap towns like Coloma, Sutter Creek etc.

A neat and affordable acquisition from the first year of the San Francisco mint in California USA. Until the SF mint was opened in the old offices of Moffett & Company, most gold was sold to and minted by private minters into coinage, some good and some not so good. The opening of the mint that year was one rare time when good money being of full weight and fineness actually drove out the bad money of the private firms minting coinage. Much of this coinage circulated in California of course, but quite a bit of it was shipped east down through to across Panama, and then on up to New York via steamship. Uncharacteristic for later pieces which had even microscopic mintmarks, this piece has a large S below the eagle on the reverse. Small change was in short supply in the west, it almost was never shipped from the east, and never by overland of course because of the distance and length of the journey. Small token coins were manufactured by private minters beginning in ca. 1850 with denominations ranging from 1/4 Dollar - $1 Dollar coins. They were very similar to the piece above, but this particular piece is actually a counterfeit struck during the 1890's and backdated to give it legal status - but it was indeed created in fine gold, but was not made to circulate but become a part of jewelry. These little coins were a novelty item into the 1920's when they were no longer made in gold, but became base metal pieces which were then plated and sold to tourists etc. This piece is known to have been struck by the firm of Herman Kroll, a jeweler in New York in the late 19th century.

It is beg, and almost Britanniab.

They do exist there, I remember several of them in a small area in Munich a few years ago. I also saw coin shops in Hamburg.