In the late 1700s, the Republic of Ragusa maintained strict geopolitical neutrality, briefly benefiting from a maritime trade boom during European conflicts by carrying goods under a neutral flag.

However, this period of economic revival came to an end in 1806 when Napoleonic troops occupied the city-state, leading to the official abolition of its centuries-old independence shortly after.

This silver piece mimics the famous Maria Theresa Thaler obverse, hinting this coin was intended to be a trade piece similar to the MTT and other city states such as Venice.

One of my favourite German pieces in the collection. Many pre-empire German states struck proof coins in extremely small quantities per order, primarily minted as presentation pieces for royals, foreign dignitaries, and occasionally wealthy collectors. This proof Pfennig was part of the Joe Sedillot Collection, a prominent world coin collector who held many MS German pieces.

Can someone give me an idea of what this coin would go for in a NGC PF69 grading?

https://en.numista.com/169347

Got this beautiful set (minus the dollar) of 1974 British Virgin Islands coins recently. Am a sucker for animal collections!

This piece, a 1/4 Pe coin minted in Calcutta, represents the first real effort for a pan-Burmese coinage. Although the obverse of my example has some tooling, the planchet is a quite healthy-looking and the reverse is well-struck.

The coin features two fish on the obverse, either referencing the Buddha being born twice as a fish in past lives or the zodiac sign marking the month of King Bodawpaya’s ascension to the throne. The reverse dates it to 1782, the year of King Bodawpaya’s ascension, though records place its issue in 1797.

This coinage, along with silver coins modeled after older Burmese city-state issues, were issued in an attempt to replace the prevailing system of silver-and-lead-based commerce; prior to the issuance of these coins, much of the commerce of Myanmar was conducted through silver bullion, with irregular lead lumps being used as small change. The old system, which was prone to cheating, required regular melting of silver to be assayed, resulting in small but regular losses (about 1-2% in each melt).

A mix of unrealistic seigniorage, flawed dissemination of market value, and small mintage figures hampered the public’s acceptance of these coins, but nevertheless, records show that they remained in circulation into the 1890s.

Source: King Bodawpaya's Effort at a Konbaung Coinage by Philip Hauret

Included is historical context in the background which I found by a chance.

This décime would have been shiny and new when it was adapted to hide a gold Louis by a french citizen in a bid to avoid previous metal requisition laws enacted to fund the revolutionary wars. A witness to history. I just need some gold to hide now.

Siam 1963

5 kopeks Russia

Weilburg (Hessen-Nassau) Stadt F-583.4Ab 1918 5pf. Iron 19.2 mm plain edge with 2.3 mm hole at top over City Arms. There are two varieties:
a) Obv. Distance from G to (1)8 is 1.0 mm.
b) Obv. Distance from G to (1)8 is 1.5 mm.
Firm: L. Chr. Lauer, Nürnberg.
*Coins without hole are F-583.4B

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Found this in an old house I was helping clean out…what is this?

Just picked this up

may or may not have accidently underpaid by a factor of 10 for my coffee