The Eidolon

I'm weak on the exact geography, but I think this overlaps Poland some?

Silesia-Leignitz-Brieg 1663 15 Kreuzer Duke Georg III

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 3 Grosze 1623

Poland-Lithuania 1614 3 Polker

Poland city of Schweidnitz 1/2 groschen Louis II 1521

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 3 Polker 1622 Sigismund III Vasa

Nice coin!  I do like Italian/Papal States coin, but rarely find them that old.  Here's a jubilee year Quattrino.  I think it's Gubbio 1750.

I've got a few.  I'm working on a type set of the Canadian provincials, but the Newfoundland gold two dollars and one of the New Brunswick half cent will be a bit more of a challenge.

My two Danzig coins.  I hope to add some more types some day.

One of my largest coppers:

Honduras, 1862, 8 pesos (Provisional Coinage), 39 mm

And some Swedish copper plate money:  4 Daler, 1756 (1930 g even after much corrosion from salt water)

Got 15 very worn coppers for $15 at a local coin shop.  Most look like Italian States around 1600s.

This one has me stumped.  It's 28 mm, 11.4 g, looks to be copper.  Obverse has an unrecognizable portrait.  Reverse has "PVBLIC COMMO DITAS" in some sort of wreath.  It's very similar to this Filippo IV 3 Tornesi (33 mm) but a bit too small and the inscription has different line breaks.  Several other coins from Naples & Sicily have similar inscriptions, but I haven't been able to find an exact match.  It's about the size of a 1 Grano coin.  Any suggestions?  I know these older Italian States coins can have a lot of a varieties, but it always bugs me to have to give up and assume it's a version not listed in Krause.  Thanks for any help and comments.

Looks like I have only one photographed? I have no idea if something from my German States minors collection was issued under a Heinrich/Henrik.

Henry VIII 2nd Groat 1526-44 

A few more if you will put up with me!

Papal States 10 Soldi 1867 Pius IX Year XII

Papal States 1 Lira Pius IX Year XIII 1869

Clockwise from top L:  Gubbio 1680 Quattrino, Venice ND (1676-1684) Soldo, Gorizia 1799 2 Soldi, Milan 1777 1/2 Soldo

Papal States (?) Pope Paul V Testone (Couldn't find an exact match for this one, but his Papacy was 1605-1621)

As you can see, I love Italian states coins, especially when I can get them unidentified for cheap!

Gorizia 1 Soldo 1764 H

Venice 1623-24 1 Soldo

Republic of Naples 1648 3 Tornesi

Papal States Gubbio 1750 Quattrino Jubilee Year

Sardinia 1/2 Soldo 1783

I could go on for a while--I bought a bunch of low-grade unidentified (mostly) Italian coppers a few years back.

I have quite a few Italian states coppers, mostly in low grades.  Here are some from Milan, mostly Filippo III, 1600s.

And here are some nice big Kingdom of Naples coppers from around the Napoleonic Era.

Got this recently as part of a mixed lot from a local coin shop.  It was misidentified as a 1 jiao by the dealer, which I didn't realize until I had it at home.  Apparently, the 2 jiao can go for significantly more than I paid for it, if authentic, but there are numerous fakes out there.  If any of you are familiar with Republic of China coins, I have a couple questions:

1)  Does it appear likely to be authentic?

2)  If not a fake, approximately what grade might it be?

My old Krause guide (1990s) doesn't seem to show the 2 jiao as much more expensive than the 1 jiao, but apparently the current market thinks differently.  Since I'm terrible at estimating coin grades, I have no idea if it would be worth getting authenticated.  Thanks for any help, comments, or advice!

Some Spanish Colonials:

Mexico 8 Reales 1796, Chopmarked

Mexico Carlos IIII 8 Reales 1791, Chopmarked

Bolivia 1774 1 Real (?)

Chile 1812 2 Reales

Guatemala 8 Reales Cob 1739, holed

I have a soft spot for "problem" coins.  Holed, chop marks, ex-jewelry etc.  But there's a lot of interesting stuff out there.

This is a very broad topic!  Here are a couple:

Spain, 2 Reales, Seville, 1737 (25 mm)  It should be 27 mm, and I believe the edge was clipped long ago.

Spain, 1497-1566, Cuenca, 1 Blanca

Carlos III, Pretender, Spain, 2 Reales, 1711

Spain, Joseph Napoleon, 4 Reales, 1812

Spain, 1868, 2½ centimos, Isabel II

edit:  I had "2.5 centimos" in the file name, and the image uploader doesn't seem to like dots in filenames.  Fixed?

Please post any Swiss coinage you like, especially regional issues.  

Schwyz 1 Rappen 1843

Ticino 3 Soldi 1813

Some Swiss Francs

And I don't have any coins from Basel (yet), but I drew a Basilisk recently to go along with the theme.

Lovely coins!  Here's my only coin from Scotland, I think.  Must have been a junk bin or mixed lot pickup.  I think it's a Charles II 1 Turner.

I think this is my first coin from his reign.
It has some scratches, but I can't be too fussy for this time period if I want anything.
Shilling, Edward VI, 3rd Period of Issue, 1547-1553

Some Prussia:

Prussia 1861 1 Thaler Wilhelm I coronation commem

Prussia 1871 3 Pfenninge

Prussia 1/3 Thaler 1771 A

Prussia 2 1/2 Silber Groschen 1843

Prussia 1876 A 2 Marks

Prussia 3 mark 1913

Can't compete with gold, but here are some Hannover coins:

Hannover 2/3 Thaler 1829 C

Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenberg-Hannover 1/12 Thaler 1765 C

1 Pfenning 1769 IAP Brunswick-Lüneburg-Calenberg-Hannover (Wildman)

1 Pfenning Hannover 1780 (St. Andrew's Cross)

Does Salzburg count as German Sates?  Austria seems OK to include...  I also really like Bohemia coinage, which was still part of the Holy Roman Empire.

Anyway, Salzburg, 1/4 Thaler, 1642, klippe (ex-mounted)

Bohemia 1645 3 Kreuzer Ferdinand III Prague Mint

And some Bohemian playing cards brought by my great-grandfather's great-grandmother when emigrating to the US around 1875:

This is one of my favorite German States coins:  Osnabrück 1625 9 Pfennig

Somewhat related:  City of Wiedenbrück, 1692 3 Pfennig, wheel countermark

I really like German States minors, even if they are in worn condition.  When I'm lucky I can get them for cheap, so I have dozens.  Nothing like finding a billon coin in a junk bin!!

One more Japanese oddity, though a medal rather than a commemorative coin:

Japan Red Cross 1946 (Showa 21) Red Cross Medal, 0.800 Ag

Picked up some Japanese commemoratives recently.  

1988 500 Yen Seikan Tunnel Commemorative

Also, some photos of the actual Seikan Tunnel and Hakodate, taken by be in the 1990s.

59 minutes ago, ComicMan said:

Strange to see a contemporary coin from a country where I have lived (the 20 forint) in somebody's collection 😅.

 

Nice pickups!

Thanks!  I just thought it looked cool.  I've only been to Hungary once, about 4 years ago, but I don't remember having seen one in change back then.

It is a very beautiful country!

Picked these out from a bag the shop owner hadn't put out for perusal yet.
Hit rate is always much better with a fresh bag of foreign coins.
Some of the Brazil ones are new types for me, such as the 1937 1000 Réis.
I'm very gradually working on a 20th Century Brazil base metal type set, at least for whatever I can find for cheap. It's a considerable task...