Friday, 22 December 2017
Sunday, 10 December 2017
Coins - small change
I saw a good spread of coins today at my favourite dealer. I
bought five out of ten or so Nineteenth Century Italian coins. Some of them
neither I nor the dealer had ever seen before. They included coins from the
Kingdom of Italy set up by Napoleon, Lombardy/Venetia controlled by Austria and
Tuscany. An interesting set of coins in reasonable condition. None worth a
fortune.
Why were they all low denominations? They were one, five or
ten cent coins so what happens to the larger coins? I was offered a large
collection last week of over a hundred and fifty coins. Not one large
denomination coin at all .
Sunday, 3 December 2017
The last meeting of the year was a talk by Shailendra Bhandare from the Ashmolean Museum entitled 'Introduction to
Islamic coins from the Indian Subcontinent'. It was very interesting and well presented. a fascinating introduction to this series.
The coin illustrated here is a 1 Lats coin from Latvia. This is one of their excellent series of festive designs.
There are many coins to chose from with a Christmas theme to suit all pockets. Latvian coins are some of my favourites. see the latest edition of Coin News magazine for more.
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