An extremely important question! If genuine, it should be 27.22g, a tad heavier than a contemporary silver yen. Diameter should be 38.58mm, a...
Your source of that information is WRONG on two counts! (1) It's just about an hour and a half since I routinely got back a five, three ones,...
The technology certainly exists. I've never seen a vending machine as such that gives paper change, but the self-checkout machines in...
The top one is a 1970 (Republic Year 59) Taiwan Yuan, Y536 cu-ni-zn. Even though at 48.8-million it is the second smallest mintage of the...
It would help if they paid attention to their constituents. I sent my (unnamed to protect him/her from popular contempt) senator a letter...
If the PDF had any information bearing on your subject, I guess the ANA has a different version of Mike's book than my signed copy.
The legends are all readable so if there were either a mintmark or the sculptor's initials, they should also be readily apparent. Conclusion:...
1968 was not a composition change year. There are two weights for 1982, but the lighter (newer composition) is 2.5g. I'm no expert on US...
As is repeatedly the case with these popup auction sites, the selection is miserable, and the sellers are typically amateurish. There is a...
If genuine (which can't be ascertained from a picture) it is .900 silver, weighing 26.96g, with a diameter of 38.6mm. Many of the fakes...
Well, the date is correct for a 1-year issue; but other than that it doesn't match the pictures in the Japanese Numismatic Dealers Assn. Catalog...
I ordered it about 3 minutes after I got the email from Scott describing it!
Junk A dollar three-eighty on a good day.
The Japanese coin is worth $2-5 in that condition, based on the Japanese Numismatic Dealers Association catalog, which is much more accurate than...
Chinese all right - another fake! It's a copy of the Yuan Shih-Kai "fat man dollar" 1 yuan coin. (His name and the denomination sound the same,...
And if you're not tired of them, try being wary of lumping them in with your melt value junk silver.
You already have the information on an auction house familiar with the piece, and very successful at selling a similar one. I'd contact them if I...
The well-established legal concept is "custom and practice of the trade", under which contracts between dealers in specific goods may sometimes be...
That law doesn't apply in China! As someone else pointed out, China is an independent nation, with its own laws and mores. Canadian laws apply...
Actually 7 WW II-era Manchukuo coins and a modern Japanese yen. Wish I'd known about that auction - I would have paid more than the hammer price...
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