It's been nearly a week, how many tabs did you take? :)
You will get all the info you need about what the coins are, how much they are worth and how best to go about selling them if you post pictures of...
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I agree VG, with better than average eye appeal. Definitely a great score, congrats
It's a pretty common brass copy of a gold 10 escudos. You can find a handful of them on ebay at any given time (the copies that is). I've never...
If if not for the 1909 year, this could have been John Wilkes Booth's target practice piece. Too soon?
Ah you're right, I read it wrong. My bad
1000 kroner year 2000 - proof only issue, 150,000 made. I have no idea where you got your 2 million normal and 200 proof numbers from.
swhuck is right, it's a novelty piece meant as a souvenir.
Yes it would. If like many people you started collecting US coins and then gradually went on to foreign, that would explain why your premium for...
Question: Did you also note in your spreadsheet what bullion spot prices were at the time you purchased your coins? Because if you are making this...
Damaged VF details - realistic value $20-$25.
Hard to argue with a 1940's Fiji florin used as the plate coin for an 18th century Austrian thaler lol
It means kind of like, but not really
Are the other members of your family into numismatics? If not, it would be great if you directed them here with lots of photography of the coins...
The "blackening" was a technique to prevent people from passing the coins as half sovereigns. Sounds weird, I know, since the design was not the...
They wouldn't slab the screw-key, or other items where coins were re-appropriated away from a strictly numismatic sense. They would only slab the...
Also try the supplemental Krause book "Unusual World Coins". An e-version is available for free in entirety on Google Books:...
It's a spike sticking out of the bottom-right of the middle mizzensail. Literally due to a cut on the surface of the die.
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