So perhaps the right move is to convert one's own paper into specie, not gold "accounts" but actual specie, and then keep your mouth shut. By the...
No modern state could tolerate a currency tied to a commodity like gold (or silver) because that would limit the amount of paper they could issue....
Germany's paper currency, the system established in 1871 with the creation of the Second Reich under Bismarck lasted until just after WWI, The...
There are collectors of paper money using this site who could show us the defunct notes of fifty different 20th century regimes or countries, not...
True, but when the state compels its citizens to accept its paper as having value, it no longer has a value other than keeping the state off your...
I think that coin may be electrum rather than gold.
A country that has a paper currency pegged to precious metals as its medium of exchange has imposed upon itself a discipline no modern state will...
In 1960 I found a 1942 over 41 Mercury dime and in 1977 found two double die 1972 cents.
I know that many sources say that the "Thirty Pieces of Silver" paid out to Judas consisted of the shekels of Tyre, but these Seleucid...
Virtually any country's coinage was acceptable, some of it even US legal tender until 1857. From its weight relative to size it may be billon...
What is its weight in grams? Can you post an image with a US dime along side?
My understanding of the term picayune was that it was a common tern in Spanish and French Louisiana for the medio or half real.
I think you have a picayune coin.
I was blessed with what used to be called a "classical education". We studied, among other history courses, ancient history and the classical...
I think I have seen the first Liberty, flying eagle quarters pictured here, which before being redesigned, had something of a stacking problem.
I always thought the old Brown and Dunn book was the best ever.
Is this the same emperor who claimed he could knock out a horse with one blow of his fist?
My experience is that if condition and eye appeal are important to you as a collector you need to see and handle the coin. No amount of...
You know, for people trying to take off a few pounds from the holidays these images might as well be like falling on your gladius.
If I may offer a suggestion when bidding. Offer to buy at a price you think is a fair one for the seller and a good one for you to purchase at. Do...
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