World Coins - Latest Acquisitions

[markn]

Those tokens are interesting :good:

They are, Great Britain had three main periods of traders issuing tokens.  The mid to late 1600's, the 1790's and 1810-1812.  The ones from the 1790's (which these are from) have some amazing designs and are interesting to collect.

[markn]

The Conder tokens from eBay last week, the others from IS Wright in Melbourne last month.

Superb photos Mark.

Thanks I enjoyed taking pictures of these ones.

[markn]

This is an interesting coin type I only learned about a few weeks ago.  In 1918 and 1919 the new Italian government when striking 20 centesimos coins used coins of the same denomination from the 1890's in lieu of using newly manufactured blanks.  This one is a 1918R 20c coin overstruck on an 1894KB 20c coin.  The undertype on the obverse is very strong.  Interestingly they are not really worth too much because (as far as I am aware) almost the entire 1918 and 1919 mintages were overstruck on earlier coins.

[ausjack]

Wow now that's different and interesting, thanks for the info Mark :good:

[JeffH]

Fascinating. I must get some of those.

[markn]

Fascinating. I must get some of those.

I may have a couple of spares in a week or two.  You can have them when they are here.

[ausjack]

Bloody favouritism :cray: Just playing they'd be too dear for me.

[markn]

Bloody favouritism :cray: Just playing they'd be too dear for me.

They are only worth $5 each, perhaps $10 in the grades I'm looking at.  If there's two spare I'll send one to you too.

[ausjack]

Awww thanks Mark :thank_you: your a sweetheart, but that's just between us :friends:

[Triggersmob]

I have one of these coins, but not very pretty.

[ausjack]

Nearly 100 years old Steve so it's doing ok :good:

[Triggersmob]

Nearly 100 years old Steve so it's doing ok :good:

Might have to dig it out and try some acetone on it.

[markn]

Might have to dig it out and try some acetone on it.

You should.  I can't see any of the under-type in your image, would be interesting if you could have a closer look at it and see if there's anything there.

[Triggersmob]

Might have to dig it out and try some acetone on it.

You should.  I can't see any of the under-type in your image, would be interesting if you could have a closer look at it and see if there's anything there.

Acetone didn't do much for the coin unfortunately. Here is a pic of the other side. I can just make out some letters down the right hand side, after "ITALIA", but don't show up to well in the pic.

[ausjack]

Some one said what to try on silver the other day but I've forgotten sorry :dash1: Could always try WD.