ColonialCoinsUK

Congratulations on completing the Set

Lots of these 'modern' Sets from the start of the 20th century until ~1970's are surprising difficult to complete and even more so in high grade. I seem to have given up and am settling for typesets

Very nice coin, something about the colour of gold that you can't beat - it just looks valuable

Great medal! I have recently seen a documentary on the Panama canal - fascinating, and it would be great to see it in person.

Somewhere (?) I have a banknote from the Aguan Navigation and Improvement Company in Honduras from when they were raising funds to have the canal there. Obviously they lost to Panama

Many congratulations to you and Mike and all of the NGC and PMG winners this year.

There are some really interesting sets in there - more fascinating areas to learn about

'I'm finding these type sets with different designs more fun to build than long-run date sets that all have the same design.'

@Revenant Medals and banknotes and typesets for coins certainly have this advantage, which is great, but a complete date run of one denomination is a real and different challenge - I will complete my sixpence die numbers

I was often outbid for some coins which then appeared on a certain dealers website along with an email highlighting 'a coin I may be interested in' was available. For the banknotes it seems to be 3 dealers rather than just one Medals do seem to disappear into collections though.

'There will be no mercy.  '  I am sure you will be victorious

I have really only had this problem with utility companies who sometimes just will not except that there are better deals elswhere.

Here in the UK there are probably only a couple of 'bullion/collectable coins' companies that appear to be guilty of this and I have to say I have made sure not to buy from them - there are some long threads on dealing with them on some Forums

@Revenant Great pics - one of the first coins I bought as I expanded my British coins to British colonial - cost 20p at the time! Seems to be the only date I had

On 10/16/2022 at 3:33 PM, Revenant said:

When we're gone they're just going to sell all our hard work off and go on vacation.

Value does seem to be the thing that interests them the most but the history is slowly creeping up on them, but it will be when they ask how to grade coins I know I will have cracked it.

Great to see Sam on his feet!

So sorry to hear this, praying for you all.

We have a family member with epilepsy - modern treatments have been very effective and no one would know without looking at the paperwork. The biggest inconvenience (and it is here in the UK) is that Sam will probably just need his driving licence renewed every few years.

Very best wishes

I too have had numerous issues with couriers - in the middle of one dispute at the moment as it appears they can't read, or answer emails, or the phone

At least one of the others has stopped emailing all the info about my packages to random email addresses and actually sends it to me now!

Having said all that, everything has eventually turned up even if it is a few months late

Starship Troopers was my first thought reading your title - appalling tactics in dealing with the 'bugs' and there is no way I would be trying to get citzenship by signing up to that(not the way they do it in the book though!).

Often it is the stories behind the items that is the real interest and is what captures people's imagination and your sets certainly do that and it still surprises me that the vast majority of such stories are not actually recorded anywhere. Maybe people assume all the information etc is already documented somewhere in which case they are "sure of a big surprise" (not a film )

On 7/6/2022 at 3:51 AM, zadok said:

most likely they will...urs may end up being the variety "discovery" coin...u may have to convince them its a major or significant variety or in this case a "mintage error" coin... i have had some success in getting variety status attributed to a few of my coins....

It would be great to have the information on the label

It is a known variety and in the standard Gadoury reference for French coins, Monnasies Francaises, so it may be possible.

Makes sense - now you just have to find 'early strikes'

Sorry to hear of your loss - fortunately memories don't really disappear and nice reminders are everywhere.

Many congratulations on the little one and the job. My kids had a giant world map on the wall and I would buy bulk world coins lots and they would stick them on the map - bit difficult for countries that no longer exist This covered a bit of geography, a bit of history and all based on coins - they still pick dates and commemorative issues out of their change!

On 6/22/2022 at 5:55 AM, coinsandmedals said:

I believe I have an example of the quarter Real you illustrate floating around somewhere in a flip. That said, I think yours is far superior. .

There appears to have been a hoard discovered of these 1/4 reales which Heritage disposed of over many sales - 100's of MS examples which meant I could get one easily.

On 6/22/2022 at 11:36 AM, Fenntucky Mike said:

The Smithsonian, specifically the National Museum of American History, has an exhibit called Really BIG Money which features the Quetzal bird. The exhibit is geared towards teaching children but still fun. https://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/really-big-money

Interesting, it would be great to see Quetzals flying about - the only green bird I tend to see here is a woodpecker, no fancy tail feathers though

Surprising to see this extent on a modern coin - attached are cracks on my 10 cents from Napoleonic Italy. Not only was the quality of the work at the Italian mints not great the people didn't like this coin as it was too thin and fragile so it didn't last long!

Hope things are all OK for Samuel.

MS69 looks like a great coin - graded sets of modern coins are a real challenge, idendified the next set yet??

Best wishes to all

On 5/16/2022 at 3:21 PM, Revenant said:

I can usually get things from Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, and Hong Kong in just 2, maybe 3 weeks. Not months. Not sure what you're dealing with. 

Items from most places are no problem (Estonia is very slow for some reason and seems to detour all around Europe) but a very common courier used by major US auction houses seems to be very variable - I can only think it depends on whether they actually read the paperwork or assume what it says. The latest was two different purchases which were shipped on the same day from the same State, the first arrived in about a week, the second is at nearly a month and the paperwork was the same!

Glad they made it - hope you can all agree on the potential grades

As my memory is not what it was I now have a 'waiting for' list on my phone .

It doesn't seem to matter where in the world things are coming from delivery seems +/- 3 months or so - I often get deliveries from California, using the same courier and method, one source usually takes 3 days and the second usually takes a month. Having said that items from the other side of the world are often faster and cheaper shipping costs than from down the road!

Sounds like a real challenge!

UK coinage doesn't seem to change its design very often either and for the most recent issues it turned out that they too have many varieties and people have only just started to document these, starting with the £1 coins. Is there an actual catalog for Venezuelan coins or is it just the online versions such as Numista? and do you think these are complete or close?

For some of the banknotes I am adding to my collection the latest catalogs seem to be from the 1970's, assuming you can even get them, which I suppose is better than the Napoleonic medals which are from the 1920's or earlier.

Good to hear that attendence is up - coin clubs are very very few and not something we really have in the UK which is a shame. Online groups seem much more common, as is a focus on more modern issues, meaning my interests in old world issues is a bit odd

Congratulations, some great grades there and even some 69's!

Diameter is 51.5mm and the depth is about 11mm so maybe just too big for the usual slab?

It would be a shame to have it disappear in an very large oversize holder and they take up so much space

It would be great to visit the medieval city where the stone birds came from, what remains must be very impressive 'in person' and yet only a hint of its grandeur in the past.