This is one monster size thread. Wish we could break it into many more specialized threads.
Thanks guys, I knew I was missing some thing. Fred
I just noticed after posting in the for sale section that I am not allowed to respond to the other offerings. There was nothing I wanted to...
HAIR DRESSING OF ROMAN LADIES AS ILLUSTRATED ON COINS by Lady Evans circa 1900. This is the 1994 reprint of this classic work. Size is 8 ¼ inches...
Be careful not to "throw out the baby with the bath water" to use an old saying. These were not issued rusty. Nice genuine examples exist. Rust...
Both books are in German. What kind of info are you looking for?
Yes if you can read German, the Kurt Jaeger German coin books and I'd bet the Polish coin book by Gumowski
Get a cheap medium sized safe, fill it with bricks painted gold and leave it where it will be quickly found as a decoy. Most criminal morons will...
... and hope you never loose power or have a computer crash on you. Candles and catalogs for ever!!
"Believe it or not" for 98% of the world the US is just another country! I used to get a lot of complaints for not running US coins in World Coin...
What edition was it that is missing Spain? the 42nd edition of the 20th Century volume has it. Thanks, Fred
Thanks Christian, as far as I know the leaf count does not change within the variations as I list them. Fred
So far no one has mentioned my favorite coin types so I will post a short article of mine written a few years ago: The 20 Heller Coins of German...
Military medals are a very historic section of numismatics with a much more direct (in some cases) connection to specific events. I wish we could...
I found that the best way to store the Krause Standard Cat's. is to put them in those plastic nearly triangular boxes for unbound magazines.
"The same" as Christian says, applies to many countries' NCLT issues. Even Canada has put legal tender limits and restrictions on their high...
Take all modern Liberian commemorative coins with a grain of salt. That country is or was such a mess with their constant civil war that...
10 Pfennig notgeld coin plus a local souvenir medal from before WWI.
The coins on the left are Moroccan as cast and not yet broken apart into individual coins. The others to the right are Chinese cash coins.
Check the rims. If there are flat spots on the obv. or rev. but the rims are still sharp it is a weak strike. If the rims are rounded with wear...
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