Thanks for the education. Before seeing this thread I thought the King of Siam/Thailand was the only bespectacled denizen of the obverse.
Of course you're right, but if that's what he's talking about it's the first time I ever heard ASEs referred to as "US Dollars".
How is that possible since the Mint produced no silver dollars after 1976, and no metal dollars of any composition between 1981 and 1998?
From what country?
Another example of why we need a "Don't Like" button!
It's either Spanish or Spanish colonial. The pictures are simply not clear enough to be sure, but you may have a .8750 gold 4 escudos of King...
Is that a Hartill number?
What's missing? I don't see anything else on the picture of #13-81 scanned from the JNDA 2012 catalog. Is the 68x140mm size correct?...
Which raises a couple of questions - When did Canadian halves stop circulating?Was that related to the 1968 debasement? (It obiously wasn't...
Except for the war nickels, I don't recall ever seeing a "P" mintmark on any coin before 1980. To me, the real question is: "Why did the...
My recollection may be off by a few years, but as I recall half dollars were in general circulation at least into the mid-late 1950s, and to some...
That's correct Not in Japanese! The only inscription on that side is "ichi sen" = "1 sen". The obverse is correctly oriented, and must be read...
Well, his story is that the rolls were all open and the post office had wrapped the box (with a hole in it) in plastic. He claims the count came...
The first Japanese 5 sen was 1.25g of .800 silver. In 1870 that was equivalent to a U.S. nickel. The rin (1/10 of a sen), 1/2 sen and 1 sen...
I have a battery operated coin sorter/counter and I have each of the receiving tubes marked at the one-roll level. Makes it very easy.
Korean, probably a religious charm.
Bummer, but not surprising! Not necessarily so, on two counts. Many of us maintain "black cabinets" with the counterfeits we have picked up -...
I've had a few registered letters - documents only - from Spain over the last couple of years, and they generally take 15-20 days to arrive. Good...
I sold some rolls of wheaties on EBay, and shipped them in a Post Office flat rate box. I double-checked each roll to make sure it contained 50...
Welcome to the forum. It is better to start a new thread for a question than to resurrect an old one, but since you're here, let's talk about...
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