Silver Saturday

[gweidion]

Ditto

[Tanecoins]

Here is this week's offering, its a super rare 1828 UK Halfcrown, mintage of 49,800 and one of my dealers put it aside for me.
It only cost me half of a gold sovereign, I swapped one of mine for this coin and $800 of other stuff including such beauties as a 1693 William and Mary Sixpence, a Polipoltnik from 1851 (Russian 25 Kopecks) and a Maundy threepence from 1838 amongst others like a AU 1841 UK Halfpenny and more (Amazing how much fun you can have when you turn one gold coin into a salmagundi of ancient silver and bronze).

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Its a VF coin, but likely cleaned in the past like every coin that lived in New Cleanland during the bad "lets clean old coins" days of the 1960s to 1990s and up to 2010s for some basic collectors and dealers. I don't clean anything and don't intend to start.

Surprisingly its a lot cheaper than the less old and less rare 1905 Halfcrown (166k) and yet this is almost a century older - Regency Kings don't have the same appeal of Victorian or later pieces.

[Triggersmob]

Another beaut coin Tane. Thanks for shearing.

[gweidion]

That's a nice looking Georgie. I'd like to know what the hell is going on behind his head. I would have said acid damage but I don't know acid strong enough to do that and not eat through further.
Still a great coin, although I probably wouldn't have parted with the sovereign.

[Tanecoins]

Its a bit of pitting from old corrosion. The coin was excavated decades ago and I suspect cleaned. Its not inert damage, just some pitting - tone is returning. Gweidon - this coin is £500 in VF and real prices higher as they are not seen much.

I would love to see you post here too. As for the sovereigns, I got other coins with it and I have several sovereigns. My collection's value is well into 6 figures before you add the numismatic value.

[gweidion]

I haven't acquired any new coins for my collection in years. My wife said there wasn't enough room. At some stage I hope to spend some time going through the big safe rearranging what is in there, and maybe putting some of the junk on eBag. Just to get some space back.
It isn't going to happen any time soon.
We are getting a downstairs bathroom built. That isn't expected to be finished till mid September, so the house will be more of a disaster area than it is now.

[Tanecoins]

I love not having a wife or any naggy family members who interfere with my leisure pursuits. Being gay and the oldest surviving member of my extended family who is not a joke (My older brother, who is basically my serf/feif now as he owes me thousands). So no one is in any position to tell me what I can and can not spend my money on. It wasn't all peaches and cream here, my beloved and deceased partner was forever on at me for wasting money and how I should make it a income as well as a hobby, he was older and richer and thus I listened to him. He would not be happy a big chunk of his estate has seen me reach into gold and higher quality pieces for my collection! My new FWB fortunately also collects coins and seems to be in awe at my collection and loves all my new purchases (You would be amazed how wide his eyes can open at some of my pieces).

Gweidon to solve that problem, let your wife get a hobby or encourage and make a deal like "Baby you can spend all your own money on the hobby, as long you don't say a thing about mine". Usually works. I used to work in a stamp shop and the first thing I learned was "Never tell any of your regular customer's wives (There were almost no female stamp collectors back then), how much money they spent at the shop, as they ring up and ask and many a man came in with a black eye, or asking for a refund returning the valuable item they had bought yesterday, after the wifey found out". So if a man spent $1200 on a stamp, I would say to wifey he spent $12 and haggled us down from $20.

[gweidion]

My mum was a stamp collector. We both loved them. As a kid my grandmother would take me to the Nundah post office and buy me stamps.
She would be appalled at how the post office, courtesy of Australia Post, screwed collectors in this country. They basically killed collecting for all but the exceptionally rich few.

My wife is unfortunately NOT interested in collecting anything. If she doesn't want to spend her money on anything but the grandkids, I'm not going to push her.

[Triggersmob]

Oh well, at least she collected you.
I was also into stamp collecting, but gave that up a few years ago. AP churned out too much junk.

[Basilstate]

Oh well, at least she collected you.
I was also into stamp collecting, but gave that up a few years ago. AP churned out too much junk.

I also was into Stamps until the 1990's from when i just concentrated on Coins/Notes,i agree about AP junk but they run a poor second to the Mints,endless trinkets posing as Coins but while people are silly enough to buy/collect them it will continue.

[Tanecoins]

NZ Post issues a whole of junk issues too, but I still collect on a low level, my collection is pretty good too, like 3 x £2 Roos and a 5/- Bridge amongst others. Although 2 of the Roos are a specimen or one with a repaired corner and only my C of A roo, is a decent one.

I do collect some modern themes like NZ scenic definitives (An ongoing series since 1996 in 3 types).

But I collected hardcore only between 2007 and 2019 and then its been coins ever since. I went to a stamp cub meeting and someone asked me the ratio of stamp collecting versus coin collecting for me and I lied and said 20/80. In reality its 3% Stamps and 97% coins now.

[Triggersmob]

I just had to check. I have 470 NZ stamps. Oldest one is 1874 SG180, newest is 2005 SG2799.
That doesn't include any Tane may have put on envelopes recently, as I haven't sorted them for years.

[Tanecoins]

I have all of them except about 20 of them. I have 7 of the 8 of the first issue of 1855 and all of the 1862 ones. I have every stamp from 1915 onwards to 2000.

Todays coin, keeping it local, a 1937 New Zealand Florin, common in VG to VF, scarce in EF, practically unknown in UNC condition, this coin is UNC.

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This thing is beautiful, I bought it from a NZ dealer's half off sale.

[Triggersmob]

That's a very beautiful example Tane.

Let me know the SG# of your missing stamps. I might be able help.
Doubtful, but you never know.

[Tanecoins]

Haven't done much buying this week, so a past treasure here.

This is a set of coins issued for Iceland's 1100th annivesary of Settlement. There were 2 silver coins and 1 gold coin. I only have the silver ones (It was minted in the UK and in 1974 they had rules about owning certain types of gold coin then, plus it weighs 30 grams, so would be bloody expensive, I am still paying off a certain nearly 500 year old crown!).

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Its 1,000 Kronur and a proof silver piece that weighs 30 grams. It shows 2 men walking between fires. The idea was you light a fire at dawn on a spring day, and walked as far as you could until sunset. The distance covered all the land you could claim as a colonist and fires visible everywhere marked out claims.

Its old kronur too, It got reformed in 1981, so 1,000 old kronur is 10 kronur now and the their currency is like 95 Kronur to a dollar, so its face value is 10.7cents, yet this coin has some $90 worth of silver in it.

The obverse shows mythical and real creatures including a dragon, giant, eagle and bull - all signs of power and might of Viking colonists and their agricultural pursuits.

Next week we will see how women claimed land on these coins!