About this journal
My rekindled interest in collecting started in 2009 with the impulse purchase of a 1783 shipwreck coin. I did not imagine that collectible grade 8 reales coins were available until I started browsing Ebay to see whether I got a good deal on my first one. After I realized what a poor deal I made, I set out to build a collection of quality 8 reales of the 1772-1791 design featuring the bust of Charles III. I've added a modest collection of columnarios, too.
In 2013, I started a themed collection of coins depicting the sport of fencing, my other hobby/activity.
My current focus is on a collection of world silver crowns of the 16th to 18th centuries. So far I have examples from the Commonwealth and England, France, Holy Roman Empire states and free cities, Swiss cantons, Dutch provinces, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Ragusa, Italian states, the Ottoman Empire, Malta, Bohemia, Poland, Hungary, Transylvania, the United States of America and, of course, Spain and Spanish colonies.
Entries in this journal
Mansfeld Mystery Solved
2016 Journal Award Icon
A Silver Crown of Ireland
jgenn in Irish Crown
Toot, Toot -- I really don't like to blow my own horn
1560 Mansfeld thaler, What's so Special?
A Hard Year, A Great Year
jgenn in 1860 5 Lire
Decimalization
jgenn in Venezolano