World Coins - Latest Acquisitions

Triggersmob · October 21, 2025, 11:03:31 PM

I load them into the gallery first and then click on the picture and it gives you a link to copy and paste here.

Tanecoins · October 24, 2025, 04:33:08 PM

Those Namibia (Nambia to Dump) coins are nice. The $5 is a nice design.
I somehow got a set of their old notes a couple of years ago- $10 up to $200, yet their dollar is the same as a rand. Seems that many southern African currencies are in the same value basket as the South African Rand - Botswana Pula, Namibia dollar, Lesotho Maloti, Eswatini Emalangeni (My grasp of afro currency names is not perfect, but may have those 2 mixed up).

So they around 8 - 9 cents NZD or the $200 is worth $17 or so, so the $5 coin is only around 42 cents.

ken-a · October 28, 2025, 05:10:04 AM

I reached out to friends in Namibia and South Africa to check on current use of South African rand and about Botswana.

The current Common Monetary Area countries are: South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, and Eswatini.

Weird that for Eswatini, the money is still called the Swazi Lilangeni. You used the plural words.

Botswana did not join and the South African rand stopped being legal tender in 1976.

While not pegged, Zimbabwe accepts rand and other currencies such as the US Dollar, British Pound, and Botswana Pula in addition to their currency.

What I experienced in Namibia is that if you spend South African rand, that often your change would be in Namibian banknotes and coins.

gweidion · October 28, 2025, 01:33:41 PM

Krugerrands for the win. I think I have all of three of them.

ken-a · October 28, 2025, 07:09:51 PM

I have 10 Krugerrands but they all are the one ounce silver ones.

gweidion · October 28, 2025, 11:21:10 PM

Quote from: 'ken-a' pid='130466' dateline='1761640791'I have 10 Krugerrands but they all are the one ounce silver ones.

I don't have any silver ones, just the gold ones. Something I wanted for an eternity so I was glad to get them when the opportunity came up and I had spare money.

Tanecoins · November 03, 2025, 07:48:15 AM

Its 9 more than me! I have a single silver Kruggerand, but my South African collection is pretty awesome. I have a lot of coins beginning with the Kruger ones and have a 1892 5 shilling and a 1898 Pond.

But here to try and brag about this - I paid a lot for it last week.

But I can't show it as the limit is 200 Kilobytes - the images were 200kb and 211kb

Come on mods, get into the 2000s, its not 1994 anymore and we don't use 1937 Humidor coal fed computers.

It was a 1902 Proof set of the UK, complete from GOLD sovereign to Maundy penny, but can't show it due to Draconian picture size restrictions.

Triggersmob · November 03, 2025, 11:43:28 AM

I resized your pics Tane and posted them in your poll thread.

As for South Africa coins, I have 286 coins, but not one Kruggerand.

gweidion · November 03, 2025, 11:06:26 PM

I still don't know how to put pictures on the gallery.

Triggersmob · November 03, 2025, 11:53:04 PM

Ok, here's a basic tutorial. Seems long winded, but quick when you get used to it.

Step 1. Go to the top of the page and click "Gallery"

Step 2. In the gallery, click on "upload file"

Step 3. Select the album you want to upload the file to.

Step 4. Choose the file (picture) that you want to upload.

Step 5. Give the file a name and apply changes

Step 6. Click on the picture, this will take you to another page.

Step 7. On this page, scroll down and copy the link, and then post that link ibto your post.

Hope that helps. Look forward to seeing your pictures.

gweidion · November 04, 2025, 01:25:39 PM

Thanks Steve, I have never spotted the Gallery section before. Mark me totally unobservant.

Triggersmob · November 04, 2025, 07:04:27 PM

OK, marked as directed. LOL

Tanecoins · November 27, 2025, 09:50:34 AM

A 1745 Lima Halfcrown of the UK, in gVF condition. This goes well with my 1746 Lima coin which I bought in early 2020 and was in VG condition, back then it cost just $85. This one cost me $500.

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For those of you who don't know, Lima marked coins were when the British seized a French ship in 1744 that had several hundred kg of Spanish silver and gold aboard (France and Spain were allies then due to shared Bourbon Monarchs - Felipe V of Spain was actually Prince Philippe, the grandson of Louis XIV of France). Anyway the Brits found out this silver came from Lima (Actually Potosi mountain in Bolivia) and was Spanish Plate silver (Some was given to the froggies too).

The British melted it all and minted Gold guineas and Silver Crowns, Halfcrowns, Shillings, Sixpences from it and marked them with "LIMA" under the bust of King George II. There was several million coins made and compared to most George II coins, Lima marked ones are more common and easy to find even now. They were dated 1745 and 1746 and overdates exist as well.

It was the last hurrah for huge silver issues as most denominations of silver above 4d fell off in the 1750s and apart from one issue of shillings in 1763 (Northumberland), 1787 (Shillings and Sixpences) and 1797 - 1815 (Overstruck spanish coins, silver and bank tokens). There would be no more huge issues of silver coins until 1816.

Triggersmob · November 27, 2025, 07:51:57 PM

Nice coin Tane, and thanks for the history lesson.

Tanecoins · November 27, 2025, 10:06:33 PM

I mainly mentioned it, as so many collectors honestly think that the British navy actually attacked Lima to get the silver and gold. The British had been there though a few years earlier with the battle of Jenkin's ear (The one which led to the rum ration being reduced and watered down).

The other big treasure grab was in 1702 at Vigo Bay in North Spain in which the British and Portuguese captured some Spanish ships and took their bullion, some silver and gold of Queen Anne has "VIGO" on it and I don't have a Vigo coin yet but want one. So weird as I have a 1702 shilling, but its just an ordinary no Vigo one made out of British silver.