Melbourne = no mark, Perth = period after "Y" in PENNY, Bombay = period before and after "Y" in Penny
Oh jeez... this is what I was afraid would happen. I was thinking if it sold for around $500 and the 1860 turned out to be genuine (which it may...
Definitely true, but with online photos that is sometimes a very good tool. The holder means nothing for me. Not like very high quality copies of...
Yes I see why some would take a gamble, at a reasonable "gamble" price. But as you mentioned, if the winner doesn't know their business and ends...
I'm going with guilty by association on that one :)
While my knowledge of US coins is limited, I'm fairly certain that the New York copper, 2 Indian cents and bust half in the below auction are...
Thanks :) And yet there are still 5 bidders willing to pay way more than novelty money for it.
Laziness, ignorance, inability to use resources that are available, or perhaps just pride in "winning". We see it all the time with all sorts of...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Japans-trade-silver-coins-1877-M10-/261877856987?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cf922fadb These Japanese Meiji era yen...
Just two bidiots, nothing more.
I never said two of the three things you quoted me on here :)
With a lot of the foreign material you mention, it's more a matter of condition rarity than general rarity, as the demand is far lower than for US...
I'm not trying to get in on the believe/not believe argument here, just adding a personal experience that was relevant.
I actually have done the same thing in the past. Collected coins as a kid, forgot about them until my first year of college, used toothpaste to...
Chile had the gold bullion 50 and 100 peso coins starting as early as 1926.
I collect almost exclusively world (non-US) coins and have considered "modern" to mean 1960 and later. And anything made in the age of NCLT...
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If you use the eBay descriptions of "rare", that list would be over 1,000.
@Colonialjohn should be able to clarify exactly how XRF and similar methods work
Wow, knew it was a copy, but thought it was much older. Tricky indeed!
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