Google "magician's coin" for a complete, detailed explanation of what you have.
Personally, I prefer Ripley's description, because it identifies the mint location as it was known when the coin was created. Manymore, of...
Do you really need (or even want) a hole in the water to throw money into?
"Buying on margin" means buying something with a partial payment only. In the stock and commodity markets there are specific margin requirements...
Read my post again. I was absolutely not drawing conclusions about anything except the price of automotive grade gasoline.
When I was in college 60 years ago, selling gasoline at night for 16 cents a gallon while earning minimum wage of 35 cents/hour, I could buy a 2.2...
Not probably - absolutely! Simply stated, the Chinese intellectual property ripoff industry has far better mechanical skills than intellectual...
Pictures would certainly help figure out what it is you have, but unless you have misread the date, you don't have a silver yen. The age of...
Your 1950 Bank of Japan note is #11-71 in the Japanese Numismatic Dealers Assn. catalog, listed at the equivalent of $40-50 or so in that...
Did you consider that the charge may be on a per physical roll basis rather than a per dollar value basis? If so, what is a 10% charge for cents...
I'm out of town, but heading home and tonight/tomorrow morning I'll look up your yen in the JNDA catalog. Face value is about $12.50, but even in...
I'ts Imperial Chinese, but with all my resource material about 600 miles away I can't tell you much more. The writing on the reverse (your bottom...
The character at the left end of the string at the top in your first picture is the character for "year". In dating Chinese/Japanese/old Korean...
I wouldn't pay more than the bullion value in that condition, but then I don't collect "collectibles".
There's another test you can use. The nickel coin will attract a magnet, and the silver one won't. Of course, if the one you think is silver is...
Take photos of the package and the contents when you send them to PCGS, then take those photos with copies of all the paperwork to customs when...
Actually, Hirohito, the Showa Emperor, took the throne in his own right in 1926. Prior to that he had been the regent for his father, Yoshihito,...
Sorry friend - The date is Showa 7 (1932), not Taisho. The first year of this particular design was Taisho 11 (1922), and it continued in use...
It's a phoenix, which was the motif of several Showa coins. The ¥100s were a two-year series - 1957/58. JNDA#02-2/Krause Y#77. Yours is dated...
The last time I checked, paper currency, whether or not "backed" by gold or silver, is not "gold and silver coin". I sure don't see how this...
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