Beautiful silver coins, your favourites

[DetectingSA]

In honour of my first ever silver coin today I thought I'd start a tread about silver coins in general.

I know a lot of you guys are coin guys, but everyone loves an aesthetically pleasing coin.

This thread is dedicated to your favorite coin or coins design, weather you own it or not! I'll start it off with these two

The Aussie florin with kangaroo and lion, obviously signifies the link between England and Australia.
Being half English myself this coin speaks to me, I think it's an awesome coin I wish to find one day

And this US half dollar is just mean looking

I don't mind a nice Spanish reale either

 

[user 4485]

My Grandfather gave me my first silver coin not long before passing away (nearly 30 years ago) & it has remained a favourite since. I now have a few of them.
It was a 1927 Parliament House Commemorative Florin (not the proof pictured which I would like for my collection):

Edit: picture from http://www.drakesterling.com/sold-coins/products/1927-proof-canberra-florin-2

 

[silver]

I like the florins
here's n old sniffer of mine

 

[golddiggerart]

I love the Gothic....

 

[Heatho]

Here's my first and still favourite silver I found while gold detecting at Wattle Flat.

 

[DetectingSA]

I find the reichsmark coins extremely powerful. Obviously it has a swastika which for the world is now days a symbol of pure evil and of the atrocities committed by the Reich. Interestingly it has von Hindenburg on the reverse instead of hitler who was already fuhrer by this time.

I'm sure most of us have family who faught in the war against this evil. I don't deny the history, but I don't glorify it either.

 

[DetectingSA]

Speaking of coins, someone's selling their whole collection

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/362213205324

 

[Heatho]

My mum gave me this for my birthday too.

 

[Eldorado]

Mother in law gave us some coins from their collection last week,really like this one.One ounce of silver 1998 one dollar.20 cent piece for size comparison.

 

[Tribsa 56]

Im a bit keen on ancient roman silvers. These are 1700 to 1900 odd years old. Part of my ever growing collection of romans. Probably subconsciously got into them because of my italian heritage

 

[Mackka]

Very nice Tribsa, very nice.
Mackka

 

[DetectingSA]

Oh wow beautiful coins, the history behind them is mind blowing

 

[user 4485]

Here's my first and still favourite silver I found while gold detecting at Wattle Flat.

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/487/1516569908_20141010_080214.jpg

Funny how I've got a modest coin collection but never really took to coin detecting although some known historic sites could get the interest up no doubt.
I'd love to be finding silvers (or real goldies) like that on the goldfields Heatho rather than the usual buttons 'n' buckles :lol:

 

[LORD]

There amazing tribsa :Y: great collection

DSA, i have some of the reichsmark silvers, amazing to think of the history all of these old coins must have.

 

[Tribsa 56]

I have some of them too. Cant help myself sorry about the lighting

 

[DetectingSA]

If coins could talk hey lads? Well maybe not the German ones, they might say something inappropriate

 

[Heatho]

Here's my first and still favourite silver I found while gold detecting at Wattle Flat.

https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/487/1516569908_20141010_080214.jpg

Funny how I've got a modest coin collection but never really took to coin detecting although some known historic sites could get the interest up no doubt.
I'd love to be finding silvers (or real goldies) like that on the goldfields Heatho rather than the usual buttons 'n' buckles :lol:

I know what you mean mate, I'd never really had a coin collection, then I found that shilling at the end of a long detecting session with no gold, I thought the coin was actually better than a small nug.

Now I'm always keen to get some silvers, I'll have to get some of my nice coins mounted.

Dunno about specifically looking for coins in the goldfields either but normally they would be a bycatch from prospecting I guess. Though I reckon getting out with a CTX specifically looking for soveriegns could be fun. :Y:

 

[DetectingSA]

When most of us think of coins we think circular, or maybe something like a hexagon if we're feeling crazy.

Well what about these rectangular coins from the shoguns of Japan in the 1800s and prior

 

[Davent]