Thanks - it's up there with Tibetan silver on the 'misleading name' scale, right? I've also run into jewelry stamped "XXk Italy" (ie 18k) that is...
I'm in the Dallas area too (Plano). Maybe we can meet up and search together some time. My detector is a piece of junk, but you never know what...
Just because the seller doesn't offer returns doesn't mean that a buyer is SoL. eBay warranties against fraud, and there would be a good chance of...
And thanks for nothing, Taxi. Until I can find the battery charger for my Olympus, my cell phone is what I have handy.
Any idea what this coin or token is? I don't even recognize the characters, and the date 2099 doesn't seem to correspond to any conventions that I...
I started a thread on the 1835 Un Sous that I recently acquired before I found this one: http://www.cointalk.com/t220021/#post1606690
Bumping this - what are the scams that you've run into? I've recently read about tungsten carbide being passed off as gold (especially when gold...
I will try and post better pics. What is the name of your reference book?
Hasn't every issue of Platinum coinage been authorized by Congress in the past? If Congress refuses to raise the debt ceiling, I don't see them...
In the future, you may want to use BabelFish or Bing Translator: http://www.bing.com/translator/
Since this coin is in well circulated condition (G4 to VG8, I would guess), and the varieties are tricky to tell apart even in high grades, I've...
713/C13 Large "&" Variety:
713/C12 Short Stem Variety:
713/C11 Broken Stem Variety:
713/C10 Double Bow Variety: [ATTACH]
713/C9 Bent Stem Variety: [ATTACH]
Here are blow-ups of the pictures, as I had trouble making head or tails of the descriptions: 713/C8 Straight Stem Variety: [ATTACH]
After doing a bit of research, I came across the following 6 possibilities in my Canadian Tokens & Medals book: The die combinations are 713 (the...
I came across this in a junk bin & had no idea what it was:
I haven't seen very many Mexican coins with Arabic writing. But... I checked my Krause, and the 1981 10 centavos and 10 pesos are nowhere near a...
Separate names with a comma.