World Coin Sets

Back in 2002 12 European countries took the historic step of dropping their own currencies and introducing a single currency, which we now know as the euro. Although all of them issued the full set of 8 coins in the early years, it was not long before several took the decision to phase out the 1 and 2 cent coins and adopt a policy of rounding up or down to the nearest 5 cents. As with all euro coins, there is a common reverse side showing a globe with a map of Europe, but the obverse is reserved for national symbols. All these coins are in Brilliant Uncirculated condition and many are not easy to find at all let alone in this grade.

Back in 2002 12 European countries took the historic step of dropping their own currencies and introducing a single currency, which we now know as the euro. Although all of them issued the full set of 8 coins in the early years, it was not long before several took the decision to phase out the 1 and 2 cent coins and adopt a policy of rounding up or down to the nearest 5 cents. As with all euro coins, there is a common reverse side showing a globe with a map of Europe, but the obverse is reserved for national symbols. All these coins are in Brilliant Uncirculated condition and many are not easy to find at all let alone in this grade.

This is a set of seven Ecu’s that was originally issued by the International Currency Bureau

This little set contains three different commemorative Nickels or 5 Cent coins from Canada. Their first is a World War II coin struck in tombac or a brass coloured metal like the old Brass Threepence. It has the ‘V’ for Victory on one side and King George VI on the other side, it is dated 1943. The second coin is very similar except that it is struck in steel again with the Victory sign but dated 1944. The third coin in the set is dated 1951 and is for the 200th anniversary of the finding of Nickel in Canada 1751-1951. Canada has a large deposit of nickel which is commercially mined and sold world wide. The set of three commemorative Nickels are all King George VI, all in Very Fine condition and all now not so easy to find. You get all three pieces for just £6.95.

7 coin set of coins all dated 1994 the first date of their first coins. 10, 20, and 50 Luma, 1, 3, 5, and 10 Dram. A very difficult set to get today, especially in Brilliant Uncirculated.

Issued by the Bank of Armenia in 1994 this Copper-Nickel Mint Set contains 7 coins including the 10, 20 & 50 Luma and the 1, 3, 5 & 10 Dram coins. In hard plastic case of issue.

Australia did not have its own silver coins until King Edward VII and then that was for only one year: 1910. It wasn’t until 1911 that silver coins were struck under King George V on a regular basis. It has taken us two years to put these type sets. As they are type sets, the dates within each set will vary, but they were all struck between 1911-1936 and they were all struck in good Silver. The coins are Threepence, Sixpence, Shilling, and Florin all George V and all silver. The coins will grade Very Good and are in collectable condition. Please remember that we have very limited stock available.

We don’t know where it came from we don’t know when we bought it or even how much we paid for it, but all that said it is there. It contains George VI and Queen Elizabeth II Farthings and has never been sorted for better Dates or varieties. It is just how we bought them… We are going to have one of the staff members who doesn’t handle the coins, to just count them out into packages of 10 coins, come what may. We have had a quick look and they look much nicer than we would have expected let’s call them selected circulated. So you get a bag of 10 South African Farthings totally unchecked. After all the South African Farthing is not a coin you will see everyday.

4 coins: 5, 10, 20 and 100 Fils. not an easy set to find, as are most Middle Eastern coin sets.

The problems with getting Mint Sets from the Middle East are twofold. Firstly, the currencies are quite strong so they are expensive to get and, secondly, they don’t like you taking the coins out of the country. Like many countries the face value of many of the coins is less than it costs to make them. This is a set of five coins of Bahrain issued between 1992 and 1995 and all are in Brilliant Uncirculated condition. You have the 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 Fils. The largest coin is bimetallic and because of religious reasons, they cannot have pictures on them. Rather simple design but very difficult to get out of the country.

4 coins, 5 Poisha round 1974, 5 Poisha square 10 Poisha with family and 10 Poisha with tractor.

Before the introduction of the Euro, Belgium like all the other countries, issued its own coinage. We have put together a nice collection of 8 different Belgium preEuro coins. They are in selected circulated condition and who knows, if the Euro goes to hell they just might need these coins again. You get 25c, 50c, 1 Francs, 2 different 5 Francs, 10 Francs, 20 Francs and 50 Francs. You get all 8 different Belgium coins in selected circulated condition for just £4.95. Putting these together took well over a year and who knows when we will get any more.

Before the introduction of the Euro, Belgium like all the other countries issued its own coinage. We have put together a nice collection of 10 different Belgium pre-Euro coins. They are in selected circulated condition and who knows, if the Euro goes to hell they just might need these coins again. You get 20 Centimes, 25c, 50c, 2 different 1 Francs, 2 different 5 Francs, 10 Francs, 20 Francs and 50 Francs. You get all 10 different Belgium coins in selected circulated condition for a very good price. Putting these together took well over a year and who knows when we will get any more.

Although Belgium was created in 1830, it was not until 1886 that coinage started carrying text in Flemish. It would take even longer till coins were routinely minted with both languages. We can offer you a series of six Belgian 1 franc coins spanning the period between 1950 and 2001 when the franc was replaced by the euro. The first 2 have the head of Ceres on the reverse and circulated between 1950 and 1988, followed by 2 with the image of King Baudouin (1989-1993) and then his brother King Albert II (1994-2001). There are two of each coin type showing the country name and denomination in French (Belgique/franc) and Dutch (België/frank).

1999-2009, five coins all with the Queen’s portrait. 1c with hog, 5c fish, 10c flower, 25c bird, and $1 sailing ship.

1, 5, 10, 20 and 50 Sen all with the portrait of the Sultan of Brunei.

We have just had come in a nice set of Bulgarian 6 coin sets all issued in the 1950s and all in Uncirculated condition. That also means that they are at least 60 years old. The set includes the Bulgarian’s Peoples Republic 1, 3, 5, 10. 20 and 50 Stotinka all dated in the 1950s and all in Brilliant Uncirculated condition. Plus five out of the six coins are one-year type coins which makes them very important to type collectors. This is an amazing set of coins and not easy to find.

4 coins: 50, 100, 200 and 500 Riels. The 500 is bi-metallic. A small set but not easy to find.

Cambodia in modern times has had quite a turbulent history and has gone through changes of their name. The four coins here include one issued under People’s Republic of Kampuchea (their name for their country) and three for the Kingdom of Kampuchea. They were made in 1979 and 1994. The four coins are all in uncirculated condition and from a country that is not easy to get coins out of. It took me a time to work them out as the legend is in Cambodian and not English.

In 1964 Canada celebrated the 100th anniversary of Charlottetown by issuing a commemorative Silver Dollar. In Canada they issued these silver dollars both for circulation and for collectors. They are struck in 800 fine Silver and weigh 23.33 grams. You have the arms of Charlottetown on the reverse and the bust of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II on the obverse. We are offering the mostly silver Prooflike set issued for collectors. You get the Silver Dollar, Half Dollar, Quarter Dollar and Ten Cents plus the base metal 5c and 1c coins. Canada did not strike Proof Sets, but something almost as good and they called them Prooflike. They come sealed in a cellophane package, so you can see both sides of the coins without having to touch them. In some sets some of the silver coins will have toned slightly, as silver always does. This was one of the last large sized Canadian Silver Dollars to be issued in 1968 they went to a much smaller size in nickel. Remember this 1964 Silver Prooflike Set is now 54 years old and has the Queen on it.

In 2010 Canada decided not to issue any more cents, just as Australia and New Zealand had done. We found that we had some Brilliant Uncirculated rolls of the 2010 Canadian cent in stock and thought you might be interested, Canada first issued a Cent coin in 1858 under Queen Victoria and the last coins were struck in 2010 under Queen Elizabeth II. You get a roll of 50 Brilliant Uncirculated 2010 Canadian Cents for just £9.95. Considering shipping costs and VAT and the fact that they are no longer being made, I think that is quite reasonable. It is only about 20p a coin, we only have 50 rolls available. Only for Sale in the UK due to postal costs.

Governments worldwide are issuing more and more paper money; they call it QE or Quantitative Easing. We call it making our money worth less and less and if you really need an example, how about Germany in the early 1920s? At that time money became of so little value that someone saw a basket of banknotes, they left the notes and stole the basket! In Canada, during the reign of King George V, we have an excellent example of what inflation can do. We have the Canadian Large Cent of King George V, issued 1911-1920. Then in 1920 they reduced the size greatly and kept this smaller size until 1936. We offer the Large and Small-sized 'Penny' or One Cent coins of King George V, so you can show your friends what inflation can do to coins. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen here… Large size cent issued from 1911-1920 and the small cent issued from 1920-1936

In Canada, in the reign of King George V, the 5 Cent coin was struck in 925 fine Silver, Sterling Silver. They started striking this coin in Silver in 1858 under Queen Victoria. The Canadians were quite proud of the coin and gave it the nickname of ‘a fish scale’, it is small and shiny just like a fish scale. But, in 1922, something happened and it was called inflation and the world started to go, shall we say, into economic problems. They decided to make the coin in nickel which they had a whole lot of and save the silver for elsewhere. So they issued a large chunky Five Cents in nickel. For the first time, we are offering the pair of King George V Five Cent Pieces, one in silver and one in nickel. Both coins are in very good condition.

During the reign of King George VI Canada issued five different types of 5 Cent coins, commonly known as nickels. The first type was the round one with the beaver, the second type was 1942 in tombac with the beaver, the third type was the V for Victory in tombac, the fourth was V for Victory in steel and the last was the commemorative for Nickel 1781-1951 in nickel. We can offer a collection of all five types of George VI nickels in Fine or better condition. A wonderful little set and more and more difficult to put together these days. Our agent had to make two trips to Canada to get these sets.

We have put together a nice three-coin type set of the King George VI coins from Newfoundland. Of course, Newfoundland is now part of Canada, but since the time of Queen Victoria, they have issued their own coinage. Because the population of Newfoundland is so small, the mintages on these coins are also rather small and it is a country that no longer issues its own coins. You get the bronze Penny plus the Silver 5 Cents and the 10 Cents of King George VI, all issued under the name of Newfoundland. The coins are in Fine or better condition and we think the three coins make a nice type collection of their coinage. They don’t make coins of Newfoundland any more, but we have the set for your collection. The history behind the coins is most interesting and so are the coins themselves.