European Coins Thread

[StevenDS]

GOLD BELGIAN COINS

 

 

 

Edited January 16, 2019 by StevenDS

[Fivepoundfred]

 

1990 5 ounce

 

 

Edited February 20, 2019 by Fivepoundfred

[JinKesef]

Who is this cartoon character?

[GrahamDiamond]

A COUPLE OF GRUFFS

[KevinFlynn]

European gold ...

... a handful

[Cking83]

[LiquidMetalsUK]

1870 5 Peseta

[StevenDS]

SILVER BELGIAN COINS

 

[Avrocarr]

2019 Lion Dollar

[Tickety]

[platinreloaded]

[Toshunya86]

Spanish 20 pesetas from LMU period ( one of the 2 affordable coins out of 4 existing ) 

[platinreloaded]

On 10/09/2019 at 15:05, platinreloaded said:

 

[PablosGee]

Complete set of all silver, circulating, commemorative Portuguese Escudos (1911-2001). 43 Coins in total.

21 x 1000 Escudos

8 x 500 Escudos
1 x 250 Escudos
1 x 100 Escudos
5 x 50 Escudos
3 x 20 Escudos
2 x 10 Escudos
1 x 5 Escudos
1 x 1 Escudos

[daca]

5 lei 1881 90 % silver https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces5742.html

1 leu 1885 83 % silver https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces18311.html

A bit of Romanian history

The coins (and other) laid bury in clay pot for more than 50 years during the communist era.
If you get caught with this in that era you were doing  "hard time"

Edited November 10, 2019 by daca

[Toshunya86]

On 06/06/2017 at 19:15, fehk2001 said:

Russian 

 

 

Hello

This is a soviet union Chervonets - it s not Russian 

[fehk2001]

1 hour ago, Toshunya86 said:

Hello

This is a soviet union Chervonets - it s not Russian 

Thanks But 

sold on already 😂

[Fivepoundfred]

The most recent additions to the Fred Collection

 

 

Edited April 3, 2020 by Fivepoundfred

[Serendipity]

1908 Edward VII Melbourne Mint sovereign bought from Sovereign Rarities. Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910, an immensely popular and affable monarch and a leader of society.

DESCRIPTION

Edward VII (1901-10), gold sovereign, 1908 M, Melbourne Mint, Australia, bare head right, tiny DeS. raised below truncation for engraver George William de Saulles, Latin legend and toothed border surrounding, EDWARDVS VII D:G:BRITT:OMN:REX F:D:IND:IMP: (“Edward VII, by the Grace of God, King of all the Britons, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India”), rev. struck en médaille, St. George on horseback slaying dragon with sword right, plumed helmet with three-strand streamer, horse with long tail, ending in three strands, with one spur higher up at curve, broken lance on ground-line to left, tiny WWP raised under lance for Master of the Mint, William Wellesley Pole, mint mark M at centre of ground-line, date in exergue, tiny B.P. raised in upper right of exergue for engraver Benedetto Pistrucci, edge milled, weight 8.00g (Bentley 820; McDonald 229; Marsh 192; M.C.E. 627; S.3971). Some light bag marks, hairline scratch in obverse field, otherwise extremely fine, better than usually seen. Ex Randy Weir Numismatics, Unionville, Ontario, Canada, purchased c.1998. Calendar year mintage 3,078,500 of which 1,648 went for pyx trial.

Edited May 3, 2020 by Serendipity

[Serendipity]

1911 20 French Francs - Marianne Rooster bought from @ChardsCoinandBullionDealer.

 

 

Edited April 24, 2020 by Serendipity

[PatrickGee]

My collection of german 10 Euro commemorative coins. They are 925 sterling silver and theoretically you can use them to pay in stores, but i think nobody knows them. 

[PatrickGee]

most of them are proof. We got the ugliest eagle in the world...

[Eduards]

Some Latvian history 83% silver https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces6595.html

[SILVERFINGER]

28 minutes ago, Eduards said:

Some Latvian history 83% silver https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces6595.html

They are a beautiful looking coin, I have been watching quite a few of them in auctions recently.

[Toshunya86]

31 minutes ago, Eduards said:

Some Latvian history 83% silver https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces6595.html

if not mistaken it s the same woman we can see on the back of the 2euro coins ?