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1877 French 10 centime

1876 Germany. Neat thing about these is that they represent coins from three different mints. Mint marks: A (Berlin), B (Hannover), and C (Frankfurt).
I used to have a set of US coins that I had pieced together commemorating the US centennial. Cent, three cent nickel, nickel, three dimes (plain, CC, S), three quarters, three halves... I never did get any of the trade dollars or the 20-cent piece. A little too pricey for my college budget.

Here's 1875. Close to a full year set for the British coins. There were a couple of major date varieties (wide and narrow) that year. If you look around, you can find there were a LOT of varieties in the 1860's and 70's...
Then a couple of North American additions. Because I really liked the way that Mexican silver looked, and his northern buddy wanted to come along for the ride.
Oh wait... the pictures aren't to the same scale. A farthing is larger than an Indian cent...

One hundred years before I was born...
In a galaxy far far away...
Actually, row 1 is an Indian cent from Philadelphia, then a 25 ore and 5 ore from Denmark.
Row 2 is a German 2 pfennig. Then a British sixpence and threepence.
Row 3 is the plain (London) and H (Heaton) pennies and then a halfpenny.
Row 4 is the Heaton farthing and a Straits Settlements cent.
I wonder how many coins I have from 150 or 200 years before I was born... I guess we will see eventually.

I'm still dumbfounded about the auction for my benefit. Dumbfounded, literally. I really don't know what to say. So I guess the best thing to do is just to continue being me, and posting pictures to this silly thread...
Here's the 1873 portion of my British collection. It's a year for which I happen to have found several afford-ably... I continue to be fascinated by the die numbers, so over time I will probably keep working on those, even though most would consider these "duplicates." Enjoy.

Now for 1872. Rather than continue the "quantity" route, I chose to do just one coin, to get a little closer detail. Here's a shilling. Note the die number just above the date.

Does anyone have a nice example of the 1871 Prince Edward Island cent? It's a pretty neat looking one-year type... but mine is cruddy looking. Joe?

An 1871 British florin with some weird toning. In the second pic, you can see the die number I've mentioned before. Then the third picture gives a closeup of the date, which is in lower case Roman numerals. Florins from 1851 through 1887 show the date in this manner.

If I may, I'd like to reserve the 1870 space for a new acquisition I hope to have in hand soon!

Nickelmeister wrote:If I may, I'd like to reserve the 1870 space for a new acquisition I hope to have in hand soon!

Nickelmeister told me this deal fell through... So here's my 1870 Newfoundland half dollar as a consolation prize. Now, anyone wanna pony up a pic or two for 1869?

1869 is here. Who's got 1868? Well, I do, but would someone else like to go?
First, a Brazil 20 reis.

Next up, even though I have a lot of pics of British coins, I couldn't resist posting this nice farthing. She's pretty!

an 1868 two cent piece...

1867 Papal States 2 soldi... big ol copper!

And tiny copper. 1866 Great Britain third farthing. A farthing is a quarter of a penny, so this would be one twelfth of a penny. Not much purchasing power, and they were primarily minted for use in Malta. Not used in the "mainland," but they were legal tender nevertheless. Although a quarter farthing was also minted, it was only minted before 1860 when "penny-and-less" coins were copper instead of bronze, and on a heavier scale. So this third farthing, and all others made after 1860, weigh about .9 grams - the the lightest British coin ever. Also of note, the portrait used for this is unlike any other coin.

And even smaller... this is a Mexican Maximilian Empire token. Tiny tiny tiny, and I hope it's silver.

1864: A few from 'merica, and one from 'merica's hat.
Specifically speaking, here we have coins from a United States circulating coin transition year. The last year of copper-nickel small cent, also the first year of the bronze cent and the short-lived two cent piece.

And a large cent from "British North America." Is that the right term from this time period? It was pre-confederation (1867)... Canadian terminology is not always clear to me. Kind of like the difference between Latino and Hispanic (which was finally explained to me recently). Nevertheless, here's a Nova Scotia large cent.

A neat Civil War token for 1863...

Uthminsta, are you able to carry this all the way back to pre-US times? If so, I salute you sir!

I am missing a year or two here and there. But I would really like to see others post stuff!

uthminsta wrote:I am missing a year or two here and there. But I would really like to see others post stuff!

PM me at 1860

1862 Sweden two ore.

At this point, there aren't a lot of countries left in my collection. You'll see representation from USA, Great Britain, Canada, Mexico, a few Ireland... a couple France... a Germany or two...
Oh, and this one I just HAD to share. I have a nice penny from this year, but this one is just so much cooler. Is that not the biggest holed coin you've ever seen?

It's not much to look at, but here's an 1861 British Maundy fourpence. I've probably said this around the site before, but Maundy money is a subset of British coinage with a rather interesting history. Google it for some really good info.

Seated Dollar

Seated Half Dollar and Half Dime

Wow Rodebaugh! It's the king of quality versus the king of quantity. Here we have the key date Canadian large cent... in less-than-key condition.

Good to see two different collecting styles. You have tons of rocking cool coins from across the globe in circ condition and I have a handful of better US coinage in higher grades.

The spice of life rocks. Carry on friend. I'm no good to you until 1839.