1717: YEAR BY YEAR PROJECT: looking for 1717

[Verbane]

1877 French 10 centime

[uthminsta]

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.

[uthminsta]

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...

[uthminsta]

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.

[uthminsta]

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.

[uthminsta]

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?

[uthminsta]

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.

[Nickelmeister]

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

[uthminsta]

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?

[uthminsta]

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!

[uthminsta]

an 1868 two cent piece...

[uthminsta]

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

[uthminsta]

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.

[uthminsta]

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

[uthminsta]

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.

[uthminsta]

A neat Civil War token for 1863...

[barrytrot]

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

[uthminsta]

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

[Rodebaugh]

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

PM me at 1860

[uthminsta]

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?

[uthminsta]

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.

[Rodebaugh]

Seated Dollar

[Rodebaugh]

Seated Half Dollar and Half Dime

[uthminsta]

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.

[Rodebaugh]

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.