norantyki's Recent Activity

  1. norantyki replied to the thread Mexico 8 Reales - Fake?.

    It is fake, it is wrong in too many ways to enumerate, just stay away.

    Nov 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
  2. norantyki replied to the thread Question about a 1921 Morgan.

    Looks like advanced die deterioration doubling to me - they worked these dies long and hard in '21...

    Nov 24, 2025 at 5:39 AM
  3. norantyki liked willieboyd2's post in the thread Malaya Chop Mark ID.

    Possibly somebody was testing their chop mark punch. :)

    Nov 24, 2025 at 2:53 AM
  4. norantyki replied to the thread Malaya Chop Mark ID.

    Certainly with regards to the occupation marks and the 'to be collected' punches, I think there is a lot of modern fantasy work going...

    Nov 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
  5. norantyki replied to the thread Malaya Chop Mark ID.

    Thank you very much for that! Its good to see that I was at least looking in the right direction :woot:

    Nov 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
  6. norantyki liked The Eidolon's post in the thread Malaya Chop Mark ID.

    Characters on the first one (upside-down compared to the coin) look like: 足金 (zu2jin1) = "pure gold" I suspect someone was just messing...

    Nov 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
  7. norantyki posted a new thread.

    Malaya Chop Mark ID

    Hiya All! I recently acquired this interesting coin - a 1939 Malayan Cent of KGVI. On it are 2 chop marks (one each side, different...

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    Forum: World Coins

    Nov 21, 2025 at 4:20 AM