Silver Saturday

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No one has posted any silver coins lately, So I thought I
would show the New Zealand shilling I was given this week.
Now I will have to get the rest of the type set. 

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Also was given this 1927 Italian 10 Lire.
it's a bit rough, but hey, it was free. 

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Haven't seen any coins in "Silver Saturday" for a long time,
so I thought I'd post this one, that I received as part of
a trade during the week.

1926 Sweden 2 Kronor.

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Nice silver from Sweden :cool:

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Maybe time to revive this thread.

I like the original post - real silver coins, no grannybait NCLT and can I add no Bubblegum type issues - particularly any Perth Mint since the Millienium.

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How about this, a real Mexican piece of eight. Not quite pirate era or shipwreck on the Spanish main stuff, but a colonial Spanish coin and a true Spanish dollar, a coin widely used in the Convict era and even in early New Zealand too. This slightly worn coin only cost me $100.

How about some more old bling for you!

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I won this beauty in a Mowbrays auction last year of old European coins. Seldom seen in our Anglo American coin world. This coin is an original Krone of Denmark/Norway from 1693. It is a silver coin weighing 18.5 grams and is slightly larger than a Halfcrown. It shows King Christian V who ruled between 1670 and 1699. Easily VF to near EF. Its probably my most unique coin ever.

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Thanks for reviving this thread Tane. I had forgotten all about it.
I very much like Scandinavian area coins, so loving the Danish krone.
Was nice to go back over this thread, but sad also, as so many of the names, we don't hear from anymore.
Also sad that a lot of pictures have dropped out.

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My pleasure, its a good chance to do what I used to on CCF, before they went all woke meets Ned Flanders style moderation.

Just realised though we have a rather primitive image limit here (200kb and 2mb total).
Mods perhaps we can change this and move out of the 2000s and into the 2020s, where data is more like aluminium coins than gold ones in cost?

A lot of images fell off too, after Photobucket went gangbusters with their $400 a year offer in 2017, and then imgur went to memes and porno and the other ones fell off, which meant we could finally upload images directly.

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It would be so much easier too, if we didn't have to load pics up to the gallery first.

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Next Saturday - one coin 2 image to satisfy the 1951 Rationing board here.

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1561 - Tower - Mintmark - Pheon (1560 - 1561)

1561 Sixpence UK - good Fine condition with great strike, planchet and portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. The makers of hammered coinage were responding to the challenge set up by Elois Mestrel straight away!

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Nice oldie Tane.

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Here's an Australian shilling from 1935 I upgraded lately, this coin has been graded AU
I love it, by far my best George V silver coin that is not a Canberra Florin (I have about 12 of them).

The shilling was not cheap, but you can drown in the lustre as its so nice.
:yahoo:

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Nice addition Tane. I forgot about this thread.

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Back to silver Saturday and a new silver piece for you all from the McManus Sylva galleries

Here we have a 1696 William III English Crown from the Great Recoinage instituted by Sir Isaac Newton and the Kinge.

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This coin is Tower Mint, but however its my best pre 1800s crown, its VF or nearly so and features nice detail and a good portrait of his Majefty.

One of my favourites and a masterpiece of the era.

PS, these coins were English until 1707, then they were British and only UK from 1801. Scotland had its own crowns too, except they were worth 1/12 of the English pound then. The Scottish crown was in fact 60 shillings!

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Very nice oldie Tane.

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Thanks, it truly is one of my very favourite coins. It ticks every coin box for me, really old, really big, really precious and really hilarious looking monarch with tacky fashion sense (Hippy hair 275 years early).