Awfully hard to see in the blurry photo, but the year digits are definitely ?-10-3, which leaves Republic Year 63 (1974) as the only possibility.
Wrong, wrong, wrong! Also completely wrong. I suspect that you haven't been on an airplane since 9/11/01.
The Aomori coin, issued in October of Heisei 22 (2010) was the 12th in a series of 47 honoring each Prefecture of Japan, and sharing a common...
But not Margie or Sally?
No. Not since 1912.
That's the essence of the adage. It's all relative. I have books that I find invaluable which would be worthless to a collector of only US or...
The center coin is correctly oriented, the others should be rotated 180 degrees. I specialize in coins from 1867-1945, but the hole in the coin...
Japanese brass 5 yen dated Heisei 3 (1991) Face value about 6 cents, numismatic value about 6 cents.
Not exactly! The date is Republic year 49 which is 1960.
The yen had an average mintage and isn't particularly rare. The multiple chop marks bring its value down for most collectors. You are correct...
I've rarely seen someone miss a point so drastically. As the other posters recognized, I was criticizing the concept of marketing a "tribute"...
Saw a TV commercial today for "Gold Plated Tribute" to the $50 buffalo coin - Plated with 14milligrams of gold (~72¢ worth at current prices) for...
A Philadelphia-minted 1986 US cent with a small depression caused by either being struck through a speck of foreign material, or post mint damage,...
Detecto - are you as comfortable with seller cheating (using shills) as you are with buyer cheating (collusion)? Just curious.
With the publication of David Hartil's Early Japanese Coins last year it became much easier to attribute Japanese cash coins, but you still need...
It's not uncommon to put a piece of leather on one side of the coin getting the squeeze. That side comes away with its original appearance.
Your picture needs to be rotated counterclockwise 90 degrees.
Pretty Ameri-centric if you ask me. One of the biggest areas of fake coins sold on EBay (after US Morgans) is Chinese-manufactured bogus bullion...
Krause price accuracy runs the gamut from way too low to way, way too high. The age of the edition doesn't matter a whole lot as the updating is...
Hey, don't all '43s have an extra "s" after "PLURIBUS", a horizontally squished "F" in "OF", a slanty-legged "M" in "AMERICA", and a casting...
Separate names with a comma.
