I don't know Brad Yonaka's work, but I find that the "Guia de las Cantidades Acuñadas, Cecas de Potosi y Lima" by Dr Glen Murray has everything...
I agree with SensibleSal, this is most likely to be a Chinese chop mark. My Spinks, when referring to the 1887 Jubilee gold £5 and £2 coins, says...
Major Fred Pridmore was the expert on British colonial coins ad tokens. http://www.worldofcoins.eu/forum/index.php?topic=12718.0
The reference book that I use is Pellicer's Ensayadores - Las Emisiones Monetarias Hispanicas (Siglas XV - XXI)
In my youth, these pennies (and ha'pennies too) were known as Honolulu pennies....
In all probability, it is a florin from any place except Florence. Florins were imitated by other states in for example Savoy, in Geneva, in...
A wonderful and fascinating election token or medal. I see from the internet that Gardner was elected as the member of Parliament for Plymouth in...
Not sure how relevant this is, but I would get in touch with Glen Murray, a US citizen (born in LA in 1952) who has taken Spanish nationality. Not...
Take a look at the couple of French coins with a hole in them. If they are 25 centimes, the valuable dates are 1916, 197, 1919,1936 and 1940. If,...
According to my British Commonwealth Coins, 3rd edition, the pearl variations occur only in the 1866 Hong-Kong 10 cts, depending on whether it was...
A genuine but worn 8 reales, Carlos II, 1700, mint = Potosi
In the UK, I think this would probably be regarded as EF
That Felipe III "diner" from Bañolas (Banyoles in Catalan) is quite a rare coin, but sadly, not worth a great deal. The last one that came up for...
There seems to be a difference of opinion here, or perhaps more acurately, a certain degree of confusion. Pellicer states that beginning in 1591...
Just to add that in his work, Casa de Moneda de Madrid, by Glen Murray, he notes that the lack of documentation from the 17th Century has made it...
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