Interesting that it refers to 'six or eight shillings worth' of gold.
That Europino may have been what it was, it was a long time ago and old men forget, or mis-remember. I just seem to remember that it was...
Copper sulphate is blue, the most common sulphuric acid round the home is battery acid, possibly a bit of spilled battery acid. Copper carbonate...
I once had a fantasy European ECU 'coin' with Ike on the obverse that I think dated from the 1950s. It was over 40 years ago and I can't remember...
I never shipped anything with tracking regardless of value. My experience was that only about 1 in 500 items got lost and I could happily eat this...
It never ceases to amaze me when people not only encourage one another but provide hints on how to cheat paying their taxes. There may be some of...
USPS loses package then you will be out the money and the coins You cannot be out the money and the coins, you never own both.
One advantage of selling in person at a coin show is that it is really quite enjoyable, most people are friendly and helpful, if your prices are...
Take a table at a coin show and sell them mostly for cash in the pocket. I don't know if it is the same under US tax law but in Britain these...
Yes it is pretty much a brown blur.
NO, the math is OK, the poster is not saying what it is worth is what it is selling for. It is indeed selling for ten times the average value,...
Incidentally, numista is wrong about it being demonitised in '93, that coin was the same size as the older type of 10p coin and circulated...
The two shillings is also called a Florin. but by very few, the usual term was two bob.
Things are different in England. Because I have not sold for a few years they offered to send two burly men round to my house to beat me up....
In my youth auctions at the swankier auction houses were still conducted in guineas 130 years after the coin was discontinued, and racehorses were...
The origin was a period of forty years on and off of a chronic shortage of small change. The half threepence was a logical step down from the...
You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh! They may be sensitive about the fact that since the battle of Waterloo,France has not had a military...
I think SilverTown or some similar companies make those exact designs. I would pay 3 dollars any day for an ounce of copper. Well, that's...
Yay for 'pence'. Cents for BE pennies maddens me more than calling US cents, pennies. The latter is a historical hangover, the former is cultural...
Well, they are not coins, just coin shaped. Where does the 'billion' come into it? And as the previous poster said, 'Why?' . One, as a curious...
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