Silver Saturday

[Tanecoins]

Yep you win, you have our nastiest Morgan Dollar!

However I can go lower with an older coin, Try this 1860 O seated liberty dollar. I paid $150 for its, $135US in Good Condition. PCGS places this beauty at Fair 2 to AG 3.

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Never thought I would get a Seated Liberty dollar, but this is the commonest date (1860 O - 750k minted) and as worn as they get. But its a rare type.

Its my oldest US Dollar and only pre Morgan one - I have no Trade Dollars

[gweidion]

It hurts just to look at that.

[Triggersmob]

Looks OK to me. Any coin has a home in my collect, as long as I can identify it.
(and it's not covered in green stuff)

[gweidion]

If it was going to look like that I'd rather have a bar of silver. Or gold would be better. Platinum, Palladium. I'm not too fussy.

[Tanecoins]

But you never know, Scarlett O Hara could have handled that coin and given it to Prissy or Mammy.
Its a rare coin, otherwise I would never have worn rubbish like that anywhere except as scrap silver.

[Tanecoins]

Perhaps this could be silver Sunday, its only Saturday still in Hawaii

Fresh coin though and much older than a Morgie - more than 200 years older, long before Australia was a country and it was the dreaming, the country, and great provider for 1000+ mobs!

We have a gorgeous English half crown from 1672, the era of Charles II, the merry monarch with his legendary libido (Not as legendary as his philandering French cousin - Charlie himself was half French and quarter each Scottish/Danish).

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He was much more popular than the other two kings named Charles II - sex and fun got him going, but he was intelligent too and sponsored the arts, rebuilding of London and commercial expansion.

This coin is near Fine, probably cleaned decades ago and has a good strike (No blurry dates like you usually get with these). Its ironically my 4th Charles II halfcrown as well and my second most well preserved (My 1670 just edges it out a bit).

Also its English as Scotland had its own coinage and Great Britain only started in 1707.

[gweidion]

Nice looking coin. I think I have one from the late 1600s somewhere also. (Or maybe it was the 1700s) If I get time I'll see if I can find it.

[Triggersmob]

Very nice old coin Tane. Thanks for sharing.

[Tanecoins]

Time for another coin and a break from discussing "misty" Victorian pennies on Numista.
Its a shame we can't show Britannia pennies as they are not silver.

In 1928 Cyprus issued a crown worth 45 Piastres celebrating 50 years of British control (They had 32 to go and the last 6 would not be nice). Only that Turkey nominally controlled Cyprus until 1922, but was too lazy to govern, so the British did and in fact it was a 6 year anniversary. The Resulting coin is very beautiful though.

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Two big lions run rampant on the coin and we have a big slab of sterling silver that was more pure than British crowns, just 80,000 were made and its a fairly scarce coin. My example is Virtually Uncirculated according to dealer, which means it has some light rubbing that may or may not be wear. AU58 would be an American grading of it, but it looks nice and natural.

[gweidion]

Wow, that is a cool coin. The lions are great.

[JeffH]

That's the sort of coin I like; it has a story to tell.

[JeffH]

That's the sort of coin I like; it has a story to tell.

Looking good is a bonus.

[Triggersmob]

Thanks for sharing Tane, that is a lovely coin. 
I added this Cyprus coin recently. Nowhere near as nice as yours, but an interesting denomination of 4 1/2 piastres.

[Tanecoins]

That's a well loved coin there, equivalent to a sixpence, I have a 9 Piastres from 1940 with KGV on it and a more modern 5 mils and 50 mils from time of QE2 in 1955.

The reverse designs date from 1901, when the coinage was redesigned. Its a country I would love to collect more coins from.

[Triggersmob]

I have quite a few Cyprus coins (82), but mostly 1955 onwards.