Gold coins

[Paint Your Wagon]

I allways knew you had good taste 

I bought the coin at melt three years ago because they put it in a velvet box worths 30$ 

You cannot believe how many new owners cannot take the trouble to find out if there is a box and where the box is stashed . I once got a half ounce canadian coin in a russian platinum coin box .  and I was very angry when I got a Monnaie de Paris gold coin in a silvercoin box . Boths ebayers did not understand why I was unhappy and asked for a discount . Well I probably could sell the platinum box if postage was not killing me and if I could remember what rubbles box it was . I did not write it down after finding out stupid me .

[scottishmoney]

I had that problem buying Chinese gold coins in China last year, mismatched boxes, clerks trying to stuff coins in boxes they were not made for etc.  It was irritating because the coins I bought were the Tang Dynasty Vault Protector coins from 1998 with the large square hole in them, so to keep to weight the diametre of the coin is larger, but try to stuff an oz coin in a oz coin of a smaller diametre.  Frankly most coins in gold and silver in China are bought at bullion, something I wisht I could have availed of for the 2008 Olympic coins, but couldn't because I had already blown my appointed funds.

[Paint Your Wagon]

Historically I have bought all past Olympic coins below melt
There seems very little intrest in collecting past olympic coins

[Paint Your Wagon]

Ok on with the Austrian Hungarian empire

The 1976 piece of 1000 schillings called the deployment of the Babengerger Knights
http://tvsales.orf.at/db/db_single.php?caller=3&ka=child

Coin is every week on ebay germany
Very unliked I do not know why it allways goes at around melt
Very nice reddish goldcoin
13.5g 0.900 purity
Valliant Knight 

[Paint Your Wagon]

I would say MS63 melter 

[scottishmoney]

The newest shall be a Scottish Twenty Two Shillings from 1553 issued during the reign of Queen Mary. 

[Paint Your Wagon]

The newest shall be a Scottish Twenty Two Shillings from 1553 issued during the reign of Queen Mary. 

I only have krause goldcoins of the world so all of the time I have to wait till you post a pic of the coin to
find out what you are courting

At school I learned in English class that a 21 Shillings coin does not exist but is called a guinea Is that true ?
( My english teacher only knew the Queens English like he said and nothing about coins ; He would go blood red
when a new tranferred boy would talk about a walk in the pork
Like in wot are ye saieying )

This morning I found out on ebay that the 50 franks souvenirs I hold from the 1958 world exhibition in belgium are 860 silver 
So I know my gold and how to grade it and that is about it . I am hopelessly lost for the rest 

[scottishmoney]

21/- Was a Guinea in England and was a common term used in auctions etc till the end of £SD.  22/- in Scotland was half a Lion, which was 44/-, but by the mid 16th century Scots £6 = Engl £1.

[Paint Your Wagon]

My father was a railroad man so I had free tickets allover Europe
I was dozens of time in England cause Belgium still had mailboats belonging to the railroads in those days
Those heavy pennies were putting holes in my pockets cause I was not used to the system of 12 pennies to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound .Also buying something in ounces was foreign . A British pound avoirdupois is 450 grams but is now still used in Belgium to buy 500 grams or half a kilo and not 450 grams .

I regret I never got as far as Scotland 

[Paint Your Wagon]

I said I only had Krause that was true till today

Somebody gave me a free 300 pages catalogue 2007 with all the Euro and commem coins in it
Not surprisingly about 20% of the catalogue is with pieces from Monnaie de Paris

Just leafing through the book I found two coins I might like
an Italian 10 euro commem and a Monaco 10 euro commem

[scottishmoney]

The Scottish gold is the priciest coin I have bought in awhile.  And please don't ask how much either

[Paint Your Wagon]

The Scottish gold is the priciest coin I have bought in awhile.  And please don't ask how much either

40 years ago I made a deal with my wife that if any coin became impossible to sell she could have it to wear as jewelry
Now I guess that would be painfull with your coin woul'd'n it 

[Twoshadows]

Well that paints a picture of a future advertisment in my mind!

"Wanted, beautiful woman with huge gold stash! Please send photo of gold!"

[Paint Your Wagon]

Well that paints a picture of a future advertisment in my mind!

"Wanted, beautiful woman with huge gold stash! Please send photo of gold!"

Mmm
All the women I know even the 18 year old ones don't know how to take a picture apart from sending it by portable telephone 
I think you should rephrase into " Please send affidavit with analyses of purity and true gold weight" " Detailed break down of stash is a plus " and whilst youre at it make it Kind Loving Understanding Photogenic Young Woman 

[Tobyle]

A few months ago I had our Royal Australian Mint catalogue at work - a work colleague asked me to get her 2 of the RAM gold Year of the Pig coins  for special gifts, plus one for herself. Just before Christmas she came into work proudly displaying her new aquisition - the gold coin hanging around her neck! Everyone else was madly admiring it ......she couldn't work out why I was totally stuck for words. Got to admit - it did look nice though.