150 more coins: from the Morgan dollar to the gold rider
Our coin catalogue held 52 coins: the well-known bullion coins, the ten-guilder piece, the ducat and a handful of classics. Today there are 202. The 150 we added are the coins we were asked about most often at the table that did not yet have a page of their own.
What we added
86 gold coins, from modern bullion coins such as the Queen’s Beasts, the Australian Swan and the Canadian Klondike to historic pieces: the roubles of Nicholas II, Scandinavian crowns, the Peruvian libra and Mexican pesos. Closer to home there are the gold rider, the 20 guilders of Louis Napoleon, the Dutch and Belgian gold euro coins and the Belgian ecus.
50 silver coins, including the Morgan dollar and the Peace dollar, the Maria Theresa thaler, the French Semeuse and Hercule, Austrian schillings and, from the Netherlands, the quarter, the dime and the half guilder. Besides these, 9 in platinum, such as the Panda, the Platypus and the platinum Krugerrand, and 5 in palladium, among them the Russian Ballerina and the Emu.
In figures. 202 coins from 54 countries: 111 in gold, 69 in silver, 15 in platinum and 7 in palladium.
Why every coin has its own page
A coin is worth the precious metal inside it, and that is rarely the weight on the scale. A historic gold coin is usually 900 or 916.7 thousandths gold; the rest is copper. Every page therefore shows the fine weight for each size, and the price table uses it with today’s rate.
You will also find how to recognise each coin, which years exist, what we look at when checking it and the questions customers ask most often. All in Dutch, English and French.
Your coin is not listed?
We will still buy it. The catalogue is a guide, not a limit: the valuer weighs the coin, measures it and determines the fineness, so a coin without its own page still gets a fair offer. For commemorative and collector coins we pay on the precious metal; whether there is collector value on top is something the valuer assesses at the table.
A valuation is free and without obligation, at one of our 45 branches in the Netherlands and Belgium or at your home. You hear the amount, and you decide.
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- A question about your gold? Send us a WhatsApp messageBesides phone, email and the chat on our site, you can now reach us on WhatsApp. Handy for a photo of a hallmark or a quick question in between.Read on
- New for home visits: see when the valuer arrivesWhen our valuer comes to your home, you receive a link as they set off. It shows the expected arrival time, and you get a notice when they are almost there.Read on
Still something unclear?
Ask it here. You will receive a personal reply by email, usually within one working day – no automated message and no phone call you did not ask for.
- An answer from a valuer, not from a template
- We keep your question so that you need not repeat anything
- No sales pitch afterwards
Sources
Where you can verify what you have just read.
- LBMAThe London gold and silver price our daily rate is built on
- WaarborgHollandThe Dutch assay office that verifies fineness and strikes hallmarks
Rather just have it looked at?
A valuation is free and without obligation, at a location near you.