For myself, I have no interest in slabbed coins. I want to be able to take the coin in my hand and look at it directly. Yes, I know the slab is...
Where did you find all these NK proofs? I hardly ever see any NK coins on sale.
Here is a nice 50 million marks in Notgeld ("emergency money") from Westfalia. At least they gilded it...[ATTACH] I remember my college German...
I found it! A Kronenthaler or "Crocione" for the Austrian Italian State Milan, C#59.1
Seems unlikely to strike them in Milan and ship them to the Netherlands, but here is one for sale: 1794M -not listed in the Standard Catalog, or I...
Yeah, but it's hard to see the coin up close in a holder.
Is there a website with good enough pictures of a real one for a layman to learn the difference?
Rumanian 5 Lei 1881 B - Karl I as Prince. Not mint state, but a nice looking coin. [ATTACH]
Can somebody tell me where you get these nice, formatted coin descriptions from? Very useful! I particularly like the fact that they show the...
Here for comparison is a picture of my 1934 "Junk Dollar", which weighs 26,7 g, and was bought from a reputable dealer, so I guess it is...
Thank you, Jason! Learn something every day...
Dumb question time: what exactly is a die clash? I can see a kind of curve under the 1 in 1908 (that is really a very detailed picture!). And to...
The MS numbers refer to coin quality. You can find a beginner's guide to grading at http://coins.about.com/od/coingrading/qt/coin_grading101.htm....
OK, so its a fake, but I think it would be fair to tell egreulich a fake what. Looks kind of like a 2 Reales, but without any identifiable script...
OK here's one (to get back to Egypt). Certainly later than 1939, but pretty...[ATTACH]
And here is an interesting piece for history fans: 50 Koruna 1944 showing the head of Josef Tiso, a fascist priest who became first prime...
and my favorite, the 100 Koruna commemorative issued by the grateful Czechoslovak state in 1949 to celebrate the 70th birthday of their liberator...
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1 Korun & 50 Heller "Böhmen & Mähren" (the Nazi designation of occupied Czechoslovakia) [ATTACH]
As for Czechoslovak coins, here are a few. Czech 10 Korun 1928 Masaryk[ATTACH]
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