So do US coin collectors who don't collect bullion or commems already cut off their Dedprez collections at the end of the "for circulation"...
Are you kidding? Japanese coins are seen by at least as many numismatists as those from England, France, South Africa, Australia, and other major...
Actually the very first step is to read the legend above Yuan Shih Kai's head. If you don't read Chinese, just count the characters. On a coin...
Actually there are 4 types. of which only the Yuan circulated. The 50 cent version and the 10 cent (2.7g .700 silver) and 20 cent (5.4g .700...
Ooops. That's what I get for not proofreading carefully.
My experience is tracking yours both on rarity and pricing.
No, typically you misunderstood what you were reading. The statute you quoted imposes a lesser penalty for counterfeiting both one cent and five...
Since the great majority of US collectors concentrate on US coinage, it's become traditional on most of the major US coin forums to split into US...
At today's exchange rate (~92 cents) perhaps 600 yen. Unfortunately I don't know any shops in Aomori Province.
There are times that I can say with certainty from a picture that a coin is a fake, but I never stick me neck out to confirm genuineness without...
Let me ask you this Kevin - Would you really want to live in a country where a government agency specified "official" rules for participation in a...
Department store coin counters are not the best source in Japan. Your significantly overpriced 100 mon coin is a good example of why I say that.
Suggestion to the moderators - Check the IPs of the new posters complaining about GCE. I wouldn't be surprised if they all come from the same...
"Toning" is a euphamism for "tarnish", which is the environmental damage-caused discoloration of metals such as silver. Ask your significant...
Those are the 1 and 2 bu and shu hammered coins of the last years of the Tokugawa Shogunate (generally mid-19th Century). I agree that for a...
The characters look like Nepalese to me.
More scary than the '44 or IHC: "sanded down to a shiny copper sheen and cemented in with a clear coat as smooth as a sheet of glass"
My very conservative WAG is that between the 1904 Afghan Paisa and the 1996 Zimbabwe $10 the Standard Catalog lists something far north of 100,000...
The first Japanese coin is Y#54, dated Showa 12 (1937), a shade over 4g of nickle, with a mintage of 40,001,969. The second one is Y#45, dated...
And the only universal direction is toward having fun.
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