The second is a center from a Mexican bimetallic, looks brass so I am guessing a 5 peso.
I am guessing it is the opposite side of this coin? http://www.cointalk.com/t198834/
Nickles are made of a solid alloy 75% cu Ni 25%, they are not clad as are dimes and quarters, A "sandwich" of a pure Cu core with nickle on top...
None of those are really rare, the 25 has the lowest mintage of 8 million, the 27 is 12 million and the other 2 are in the 40+ million mintage....
They do make them. I have one myself but I do not know who made it.
It's not circulated, just a cast fake. Value maybe a buck.
It is actually a Japanese 1 Mon
This is a pretty cool site for info such as mintage's. http://en.numista.com/catalogue/canada-7.html
The idea of backing money with something rare (gold or silver) is to limit the amount of money that a country could produce, and to remove the...
Not an error, if you look closely at the reverse rim, you will see the coin is in a bezel.
Acetone may reveal areas that have not toned (or toned as much) due to the gunk shielding the underlying metal however.
I just find it amazing that you were able to tell the .9 gram difference just by picking them up!, you must be some type of human/robotic hybrid...
Looks like it was struck over one of these. I am not saying it isn't fake, but they did get the years right, they are both 1982 issued coins.
Is this not how things are today? Your money only has value because it could be exchanged for something else.
I have 2 pieces of old play money, both German, both also tiny. I just think they are possibly are the neatest coins in my collection when I think...
I guess that depends on where you live, I live only 10 miles from a very large source of fresh water (Lake Michigan). If that goes dry we are all...
Why does everyone always assume that in a SHTF scenario that food will suddenly become scarce?(watching too many mad max movies I assume) If the...
read this http://www.cointalk.com/t8566/
This is one I like, they have a mobile version also. http://en.numista.com/
one problem with the Stalin nomination is that there doesn't seem to be any Russian coins with An Image of Stalin!, plenty of Lenin, but no...
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