Here is an 1872 Chilean Peso. [ATTACH]
This one isn't old, but it is a handsome coin: Panama 20 Balboas Bolivar [ATTACH]
... and a 1 Peso piece from 9 years later (after they'd figured out a republic really shouldn't be issuing Reales (Royals)[ATTACH]
and here is, I think, an interesting juxtaposition: Mexican 8 Reales 1879 [ATTACH]
Peruvian 8 Reales Carlos IV 1807[ATTACH]
OK guys, I like all the above, and agree S. & Central American coins are generally undervalued. Here is what I can contribute. 960 Brazilian...
I recently saw a gold "Hansegulden" for auction. Apparently there are different varieties of this coin, in gold or silver, with some variant...
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This coin was sold yesterday as a "contemporary forgery" of a Dutch Ducaton, partly because it weighed 31.04 g instead of the official 32.7 g....
Yes, the cross looks Spanish. But give us some specs here: size (I'd guess maybe 30 mm), weight? Anyway, if it is gold and that size, then it is...
And a 100-Leva from Boris III, 1937
Here's a 5 Leva from Alexander I, 1884
And here is a very old one: a silver Grosch from Mikhail III circa 1360-something.[ATTACH]
Here is a modern Bulgarian coin I find very handsome: 5 Leva Alexander Stamboliski commemorative. Stamboliski was an agrarian anti-monarchist...
It would appear to be a fantasy piece pasted together from a Morgan dollar and a fantasy? 10 thousand yen piece (no such coin in the Std Catalog).
One of my newsletters (which is long-term bullish on precious metals) thinks gold could go as low as $1100. But that's got to be about the bottom...
Hello Peter, I have had a problem trying to upload files to Cointalk. Doug was able to upload the file with no problem, but I still can't. Doug...
Possible help for your systems guy: this link discusses this specific problem (error.png shows the exact error message) and offers a solution:...
OK, I've cleared my cache and history files, powered down for a minute, for half an hour, but nothing helps. I still can't upload any file to...
OK, I used the jpeg optimizer (pretty effective) and got the file size down to 19KB! But I still get the same error message. Yes, it is a jpeg...
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