Unless your aunt is more than 440 years old, she couldn't have picked it up the year it is dated. In any event, age alone is no indicia of...
First check the listing in the front of the book to identify countries using the denominationSecond, check out the countries with only a few...
No guaranties, but it sure looks like a silver Schilling from the German State of Dortmund, with a County of Mark (checkerboard) countermark. If...
It is pretty pricey, especially if you need more than one century, but most public libraries have them, and if yours doesn't, it can quite easily...
There's an old Gypsy recipe for rabbit stew, that starts:First, steal a rabbitSecond, steal a pot. Famed Prohibition Era outlaw Willie Sutton...
Get real! The seller is in South Carolina, where a small claims court could obtain jurisdiction over him IF the buyer went there to sue him. The...
By searching the internet for recently concluded auctions, although probably EBay would be the only place your very common, low value coin has...
Was it really necessary to revive an obsolete 6 year-old thread just to make a political comment?
You have no silver Japanese coins, so unless they are high grade uncirculated examples, your Japanese coins are essentially worth face value -...
Yeah, only 100,800,000 at the Denver Mint and another 102,810,000 at Philadelphia. A total of 203,610,000 doesn't sound very "select" or "few" to me!
Fuzzy photos are so much fun!
The Liberian coin is one of the myriad of non-circulating legal tender issues that are struck solely for collectors, and most Liberians have never...
75¢ each for eight coins worth as much as a nickel apiece sounds like a good deal to me, but then I'm not very bright. The only reasons I'm not...
Boo, hiss, baaaaad advice. There's not an MS coin on the planet with the character of your specimen! Vf/Xf RULES!
The design is the same, but the date is Meiji 17 (1884), not the Meiji 7 (1874) originally posted. If genuine, yours is probably in the $40-65...
Can you say Pho Nee? Your coin is supposedly a Republic Year 3 (1914) Yuan depicting Yuan Shi Kai. All five varieties of that coin are 26.4g of...
It's very difficult to see details of your coins due to the lack of contrast in your pictures. However, the round one may be a 1/4¢ issue of...
Thanks Matt. I'd better make an appointment with my Optometrist! The picture is on the same Krause page as another coin from the same batch that...
I'm usually able to find them, but I don't see this one in Krause for any of the countries listed as using the Piastre denomination.
Y#46, brass, Krause uses the alternative transliteration "Chiao" for the denomination. As I said in the other thread, the denomination side...
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