I have this 1975 copper-nickel. It's pretty dang small. You can see it here in a dime-sized 2x2. [ATTACH]
The baby's room is taking over the office, which is also the coin room. Someday when we get a house I'm hoping to have more of a dedicated room,...
There's a lot of wear on that coin. The "L" on "Lander" is also worn off, so that would be my guess.
I keep whipping it out. It's just such a nice coin.
Thanks. I agree, I just didn't expect recent coins to be fake. I normally steer away from the rarer Russian and Chinese stuff because I don't know...
I had a really big imperial German collection and then I decided I had better things to do than get 10 mintmarks for every coin for every year, so...
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Lions are some of the most common animals on coins. Here are just some I have pictures of. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Shamik, I'm far from an expert on the series but at least yours have the correct surface look to them. Mine were very shiny and don't look like...
I'll hook you up with a 1782. That's it for me though until 77. Sorry the picture isn't better but it's a Brazil 5 reis. [ATTACH]
I like Chinese coins, but I'm too scared of getting stuck with a fake to buy them.
I've seen you post this sort of thing before. Do you just buy huge quantities of old coins and melt them down?
1784 Zeeland 1 duit[ATTACH]
I read a book called The Downfall of Money on the same topic. I'd recommend that one as well.
1787 Schlesweig (sp?) Holstein. [ATTACH]
Here's some paper money too. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
In the non-notgeld category, Turkey got pretty high up in modern times. Here's a 10 million lira I have. [ATTACH]
Just this Zeeland duit for me. [ATTACH]
I don't know how you find coins that look so nice. It's hard to believe that French coin looked that good straight from the mint.
Actually, for the younger generation it does. There was a TV show called "Pimp My Ride" a few years ago. I think it means "to make it like a pimp...
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