![]() ![]() ![]() Out of all that crud and junk, I’d just picked up one of the most famous coins in the world.Ī Spanish Dollar. Sure enough, clear for everyone to see:Īs in ‘Eight Reales’ (pronounced ‘ Ree-ahlz‘) DEI GRATIA” and four numbers: “1820”.Ī (nearly) 200-year-old silver coin. With a stupid little grin on my face, I flipped the little packet over and on the other side was: Around the edges were Latin inscriptions. I examined them closely and spotted a coat of arms between two pillars with banners coiled around them, beneath a crown. Out of sheer curiosity, I picked them up and felt them in my hand. Inside some simple cardboard coin-holders, crudely stapled together and with near-illegible biro-markings on the border, were three silver coins. Admittedly I don’t do this as a matter of habit – I rarely look for coins at flea-markets, and rarely bother looking through huge swathes of the things, since nine times out of ten, the coins I’m interested in are nowhere to be found, except for specialist coin-collecting stores.īut as I rummaged, I found something, buried under all the offerings of British shillings, Dutch 2 Guilder coins, Indian Rupees, grimy copper pennies and American half-dollars. I stopped at the table of a regular stallholder and started burrowing through the cases and trays of coins on offer. It was on a cold, blustery morning, when I trudged through my local flea-market looking for…stuff. This post is inspired by some coins which I found in the past month or so, while digging around at the local market. You find all kinds of coins which are grubby, sticky, grimy, tarnished, chipped, dented and otherwise distinctly unappealing in one way or another.īut occasionally – just occasionally – you do find gems! You find all kinds of coins which are not particularly rare, or particularly interesting, or particularly valuable. Digging through albums, boxes and cases of old, crusted-up, grimy, forgotten coins from defunct entities from all around the world can often be a thankless and pointless task. ![]()
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