Sure, it's Exonumia. I consider the term very broad. "Official Vatican medal" is a term that you can interpret your own way. There are a LOT of...
If you go to aliexpress.com, there's a fair amount of Trump stuff, some colorized. Some with a better portrait too. I bought the semi-official...
I might order one of the 1907s ... I have several "impossible date" Chinese counterfeits, and I think I posted a couple upthread, like the...
A 2009-S VDB Wheat cent? And a 2009-S Lincoln Memorial reverse? There's a story here. Tell tell.
[ATTACH][ATTACH] One last item before I leave Sydney Thursday morning, I walked back to the dealer (Wynyard Coins) and bought this, as it's...
Thanks for the info! I saw it said Crayon and was unsure of the exact translation. I'll look at yours.
[ATTACH][ATTACH] The Montgomery piece sparked me to post this, also bought on Sunday (A$3) I like it because the obverse is so obviously taken...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] So here are more of my purchases from the coin show in Petersham, New South Wales (a Sydney suburb) yesterday, that is Sunday...
The Mint is authorized to strike medals of a national nature and has been since at least 1873. It still puts out the Presidential medal series,...
I saw the 2017-P cent as the Mint doing what it could to commemorate the anniversary on the coinage given the legislation it has to work under,...
I like medals that actually commemorate stuff. I have the one they issued in 1992. It's a pity they didn't use designs this year that evoke the...
I'm still in Australia, and went to a coin/stamp/banknote show in a Sydney suburb today (Sunday) that was well-attended, perhaps 20 dealers and it...
Canada and Switzerland also have very long circulating coin series without major change of design. In fact, the US and Switzerland are the only...
I imagine it's to show the advancement in the state since West Virginia (the 35th state, thus the star) was admitted as a separate state in 1863....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500_yen_coin I know what you mean by the vending machines being everywhere. In the cities (I haven't been in the...
It's always a race between it and the Swiss 5 franc ...
I must admit, the participants on this thread come up with some incredible finds.
Either the Royal Princess or Regal Princess, I think ... I don't think the Majestic Princess (same class) has ever called there ... I agree with...
I was in Jamaica this summer. My impression is more or less the same as everyone else's here. You will be treated like a $20 bill blowing down the...
Two more acquisitions from my current trip. The Tasmania one is, unsurprisingly, from Hobart. The Holloway one has been written up here:...
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