I find it interesting that despite that word in the title, it only deals with real coins, not ASEs, or other bullion coins.
Good choices Peter.
Ya know, I really have a problem with all these threads that ask questions that allow the many thieves lurking on the internet to see who it would...
What I don't know about Chinese coins has already filled a lot of books! Japanese trees do have a short section of the sprue between the coin and...
It's very probably genuine, but there's a slight possibility that it is a contemporary counterfeit which the caster failed to separate and finish....
I can't make out the detail of the "tree" coins either,but I'm 99 & 44/100% sure they are Chinese, both because the manchu script on the loose...
Image searches on Google don't bring up anything similar except this thread.
Your undated Tenpo Tsuho 100 mon was cast sometime between 1835 and 1869. Typically it should weigh about 21.75g. If it is about 20.6g it was...
With the Manchu characters on the reverse (1st picture) it certainly is.
13 Chinese cash coins, and 1 Japanese (second row, second from left). None of them appear to be rare. The probability is very high that they...
Great example of why you should not try to apply information on the laws of State X to a situation in State Y. The linked article would have...
Not my father's.
Here is a Snopes.com discussion of a different bit of BS along the same lines.
The Taiwanese yuan is dated Republic Year 62 (1973) and is slightly less common than dirt.
The address on the front cover dates it to pre-1963 by using the old-style 2 digit postal zone instead of a ZIP code.
Please tell me that you have spent your last cent in his shop!
Sorry about that Spanik.
Not enough to deprive my family of food or any other necessity. Beyond that, MYOB!
No, it should be 26.4000g exactly, or with an extremely small difference.
Besides the ding which has no bearing on authenticity, there are two questionable areas on the rim that raise questions in my mind. Have you...
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