If you enlarge the picture you can't help seeing the guy manning the tiller.
I find it much more understandable to compare hours of labor to dinner in a good restaurant. 150 years ago wages of a dollar a 10-12 hour day...
[IMG] No toughra = probably not Ottoman.
Doug - I went to the site Krispy's link leads to, in hopes of finding something to back you up with. However, it does appear to strongly claim...
WRONG! After roughly a half-century of collecting I still haven't developed a taste for collecting tarnished coins.
Then obviously you've never seen woodcuts or other pictures of pre-20th Century Asian commerce. The Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Annamese cash coins...
Not sure of the exact date, but there was a cutoff date announced at the time of the changeover, and it's long past. Neither the government nor...
The pieces of the slabs go into the brown (non-recycle) trash bin and the coins go into their appropriate places in my home-brew albums.
Why not? Everyone else is.
Pretty tough to miss them if you spend more than 27 seconds on the Bay.
Very hard to say. EBay prices , in completed auctions, are all over the place.
Amen brother!
You've got to be kidding! I've already seen a couple of hundred in California, Arizona and New Mexico.
Thank you for making this a successful day - one on which I learned something new. Everyone please disregard my prior post opining that it could...
An interesting 19th Century Chinese Sycee, or silver ingot. The weight indicates a 3 tael piece, but the paper label IDs it as being worth 2...
He'll switch to a different scam.
I hate to break this to you mac266, but "1234567890", the so-called "Arabic Numbers", are not the numbers used in modern Arabic writing. The...
Actually, I suspect it will immediately precede #1,000,001.
Peter is redoing it with a software update, just as he said he would last week.
I suspect that you are describing two different coins. A bird is on the reverse of the 1967 Canadian cent, which commemorates the Canadian...
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