Gold coins

[scottishmoney]

¿To view that I am being prompted for a password?  ¿Que?

[Paint Your Wagon]

¿To view that I am being prompted for a password?  ¿Que?

I clicked the link and it does not go to the place I linked it to but the entry of my album which asks my pasword
I try again to give the right link because old dan seemed able to view the pic
I also tried and failed to figure out how to insert the pic here directly in the thread

http://www.knightsofthecointable.com/kotctgallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1081&&g2_fromNavId=xfb31c52e&g2_navId=x4c9f6095&g2_GALLERYSID=1dc18d94096fb0f6913b13720de60f31

[Paint Your Wagon]

Without further ado the charming ERMESINDE

I would agree, quite charming, but I still prefer the 1988 proof double Ducat, hands down!

well Ermesinde was quite elusive for 3 years I bid and never got her and it is probably an MS64 which I got at melt way back when
the double ducat I got by surprise bottomfishing in germany I got it at melt too without really trying
so I did not even bother to grade it but put it in my bankvault after scanning
I love Ermesinde which is a duchess and put her next to princess Sirikit another favourite and I put the Babenberger Knights next
they make a lovely study in color differences

[Paint Your Wagon]

I only have half a dozen German coins so I can be short
Wilhelm I 1887 about AU56

http://www.knightsofthecointable.com/kotctgallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1148

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Wilhelm II 1910 MS65
Vendor pic cause I did not want to handle this coin which is the best of the kind I ever saw

http://www.knightsofthecointable.com/kotctgallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1145

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Wilhelm II 1914 start of World War I
MS60 and looking mighty warlike

http://www.knightsofthecointable.com/kotctgallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1150

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I only have half a dozen German coins so I can be short
Wilhelm I 1887 about AU56

http://www.knightsofthecointable.com/kotctgallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1148

My father's grandmother had a oil painting of this old rascal. She seem to think he was just about the best thing to happen to Germany at that time. The painting is hanging in my hall and looks a great deal like the likeness of the old boy as on the coin.

Great coins Sir August! You should be very proud of them, I know I would be.

Nice of you to say Old Dan but even if I deny it loudly (being a Flemish) most of the coins I cherish are French so I am leaving that for last on the European coin tour

[scottishmoney]

I like Belgium(Walloon and Flemish) and the prettiest girls in Europe, the best beer, the best chocolate and the best pommes de terre.

[Paint Your Wagon]

I like Belgium(Walloon and Flemish) and the prettiest girls in Europe, the best beer, the best chocolate and the best pommes de terre.

Thank you
On the wrongly named French Fries ( they are not French  ) I agree every city in Belgium has at least several specialist vendors
On the chocolate I agree too allthough Switzerland and Cadburry UK come close ( except the latter cannot call it chocolate because the content of expensive cocoa butter is not high enough)
On the beer I think we have to share the honor with Germany for some kinds like Weizenbier ( the white beer that takes 5 minutes to fill the glass without excess foaming so you order two at the same time  )
On the girls ; the French girls are nice too 

[scottishmoney]

On the girls ; the French girls are nice too 

But the Belgian girls smell better.  Eeww, but true.

[Paint Your Wagon]

On the girls ; the French girls are nice too 

But the Belgian girls smell better.  Eeww, but true.

Well they do not eat all that garlic all day 

[ElleKitty]

And there's a reason the French became Master Parfumers.  ^^;

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And there's a reason the French became Master Parfumers.  ^^;

Yes but one of the best Karl Lagerfeld left them and went to work in the US
Perfumers need above all a fantastic nose

Reminds me of a Belgian French joke
Guy makes a perfume which has an aftersmell of dogshit
So he repairs it with pineforest essence and tests it again
Reports come back it smells like dogshit in a pineforest 

[Paint Your Wagon]

Back to coins
On Romania I can be short again
I only got one 20 Lei coin which I expect is not a coin at all but a commem
It is very sought after on ebay Germany under the name of the three kings or Siebenbergen 1944
MS 62 and nice layout of knight shields on the reverse

http://www.knightsofthecointable.com/kotctgallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1183

http://www.knightsofthecointable.com/kotctgallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1185

I had to repair the year to 1944 cause I typed in my birthyear again 

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I suppose Russia is on the European shelve ( tectonic plate )

For Russia I can be short too since I got two coins

First is the 10 Rubel 1975 MS 63 and very sought after on ebay Germany

I seen it spelled a dozen ways Tscherwonitz or Tjerwonitz etc

http://www.knightsofthecointable.com/kotctgallery/main.php?g2_itemId=1280