Great project. I would ideally love to have an online catalog of my collection, by I'm a master procrastinator :banghead:
Based on the information Siberian Man gave it seems like a prisoner of war made it home with a coin and had it made a into a keepsake to always...
If you paid melt then I have no doubt that they will exceed that
Thanks, that is a great lead. I will try to do some research on that. :)
Those 50 kops are very nice, and your photos really do them justice. Not going to venture a guess at market value, but I have no doubt they will...
No idea what the context surrounding this piece is, but it was too unique to pass on. Best I can translate it says Siberia on one side and...
If it's an eBay listing I don't think you're supposed to just take their original photos and post them. But, there is no problem with taking a...
With foreign coins I hardly ever see weakly struck coins above 64, even with all other factors at PQ levels.
A good day indeed, especially those three Russkies
When I first looked at the pictures my instinct was that I was looking at a silver piece with bad color balance in the photos.
Some nice stuff in there. That French 1860 50 centimes is by far the best and nicest coin among the group.
The rand came into use in 1961 :)
You mean a trime? :p
That one is a 50 ore token for the Marstrand ferry in Sweden. 50 rand would be a huge value, definitely not a base metal token. The word rand is...
http://coinsgalore.co.uk/index.php?main_page=popup_image&pID=2943 ^ What would the Dutch think about this debate :woot:
I'm guessing people were just not using them, kind of like US half dollars.
This brings up the old "what's in a name?" debate. Basically you have your standard proof sets, but with fancy packaging and fancy names on them....
These so-called "novodels" have been all over ebay lately. A novodel is an official restrike. Pieces like the ones posted here are unofficial...
From the second group of pictures I see some really sloppy dentils around the rims. 90% silver copies are also well known. In addition, that...
Looking at US merchant countermarks on reales, they are mostly on Mexico City minted coins.
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