@ZoidMeister that is a really neat piece - a modern continuance of the 'False Shekel.' I have never seen one like it before - what are the...
@lordmarcovan as stated previously, the linked example is not a fake, but rather a 'False' Shekel. False Shekels are ritual items, and not...
@fretboard Just to clarify, a False Shekel and a fake Shekel are not the same thing - the former is a ritual item, the other is just a...
From what I am seeing it is probably a 'false Shekel,' would need to see the other side to be sure - it could just be an obvious fake of an...
Cause congress said so... From the treasury website: "As the United States Mint produces the coins that Congress mandates, it does not have the...
It looks like a now unretained lamination to me... As per before, can we get a pic of the 'bit' that fell off?
It looks like a hammered Pfennig, like those issued in the area of modern-day Austria and East Germany in the 12th-16th centuries.
American EF-45, British VF+, Belgian Zeer Fraai /Tres Tres Beau
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From your pictures, I see a circulation ding running parallel to the diagonal stroke in 'N' - just PMD from what I can tell.
Entry Post - still gunning for the c/m Spanish piece ;)
Not much value, all are common date / mint combinations, and they are all what German collectors would consider sub-par condition. They will be...
@Rick Stachowski you can set a listing to automatically accept offers above a certain price, and reject offers below a certain price. As it was...
He also had a website (advertized in some of his listing titles), but the domain expired and is up for grabs... I think this is a sad case of...
It is a terrible fake - notice its also cast.
I am not certain, but I seem to remember someone on this forum saying that this provenance refers to the personal holdings of Hermann Lanz that he...
Here we go again...
Portugal is one of those markets where there are a lot of true coin-esseurs (and I say this as a great honour - I mean very well-read, very...
I am going to preface this by saying that Belgian coinage (pre-unified state, as well as Kingdom) is my field of personal collecting interest, so...
It looks somewhat like the crowned G used during the British occupation of Guadeloupe... but none of the listed types in Gadoury match this...
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