Here's a contrast to that wonderful Morlon design. This is an aluminum coin issued in France during German occupation. Kinda similar, but mostly...
Your advice is good despite your youth...
Most businesses, just like people, have a certain line of credit, ie borrowing power. If the deal was good enough, and the line of credit allowed,...
Yes, great story and thanks for posting it!
It does look like the three-fold variety, which is the cheaper of the two. Catalog is about $6. Before the chop job, that is. I do like it as a...
I agree. I have to say though I am really enjoying the layout, photos and all the information provided in Le Franc. If the current version of...
I really like this design, by William Fel.
[IMG] There are also quite a few Italian coins from the art deco period. I don't own any of them.
Fantastic post and info - thanks!
These appear on banknotes and other artwork as well. Here are the definitions to my knowledge, and I suspect they are the same for coins: INV:...
I gotcha, it makes sense! Thanks for the info.
I'm curious on this... what puts these two terms together? Care to show a coin or two from that vintage? Thanks
#3 for me. #4 is too flat, maybe from a ringlight, and is next to #5 which would have been to put the coin on a scanner. 1-3 show dimension.
Take one coin from pile 1, 2 coins from pile 2, 3 from pile 3, etc. Weigh the bunch of them. If they were all good, they would weigh 55*good...
Denly's has holders that are larger than your Vario 2C page... http://www.denlys.com/inventory/holders2.asp?category=Sheet%20Holders
Not that this horse needs any more beating, but I thought it was interesting that the barcodes on both slabs were identical. That's not supposed...
Thanks, it's PCGS MS65
I have recently started collecting French coins, trying to have a type collection of first year of issue for each type. It's a daunting task...
Well there are certainly a large group of collectors of "cool serial numbers", you can see many people post on this forum and seem to focus on...
Yes, search for "dryer penny"... apparently if you put a penny in a dryer and give it a cycle, all the bouncing around does that.
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