And NASA shall amend the law of gravity to reduce the amount of rocket fuel necessary for launching missions.
Because they can be.
No need for captions to distinguish the Unc from the proof!
I suspect there are some in Japanese, but none in English that I am aware of. Absolutely. 10 ryo = 1 oban, and most cataloged oban were gold....
in this thread. A friend in another forum who has the capability to Google in Japanese, discovered this page on the Japan Mint's website....
At last count there were more than 200 independent countries issuing currency (not including phony balonies like Hutt River Province, Sealand,...
Perhaps CEC is to paper as SGS is to metal.
I don't know if it is still done, but in the '40s-60s most of the Vegas casinos ironed the $100 bills used at the Baccarat tables.
First things first - Although this site is the best one on the web for dating Japanese coins, the same date characters are used on Chinese coins,...
Doesn't look like 10 ounces or so of sterling silver to me!
Probably because there aren't. As I pointed out in reply to this identical duplicate post back in January: Since then I've searched several...
Acetone will remove the tape and its residue, but frequently the coin has tarnished differently in the areas covered and not covered by the tape,...
It's a memorial medallion, not a coin, and probably worth its weight in whatever metal it's made of.
Face.
Usually, but it depends on the situation. One shop near me has a strict "What its marked is what you pay" policy, and on the (very) rare...
Products of the US Mint.
The logic escapes me too, but we have all seen 20th Century Trade Dollars, 18th Century Washington Quarters, etc., etc., so somewhere in the...
Sorry my friend, but you have gotten some very incorrect information. There is absolutely zero possibility that the pictured "coin" is genuine....
My thoughts on the subject are excerpted from a September 13, 2006, press release by the US Mint:
Genuine 1884 yen are 38.6mm in diameter. If I'm reading your caliper correctly, yours is 41.5mm, or 7.5% too large. Strike one. The genuine...
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