What am I missing? The denomination legend includes the characters for "5"and "1" not adjacent to each other. There is no "2" or "10", which...
Hint, hint hint! The same size overall picture with the unnecessary white space cropped out give a much larger image of the subject.
At least you didn't do it deliberately. In a flea market in Honduras a guy "demonstrated" that the coins he wanted to sell me were real silver by...
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I'm not very knowledgeable about pre-Meiji coins, but there is nothing remotely similar shown in the Japanese Numismatic Dealers Association...
You're kidding, of course. Or didn't you know that there are more than 100 cities in the world with populations greater than 2-million? In the...
A true auction, well advertised and attended. Next best is to offer it to a dozen or so knowledgeable collectors who need it to fill a hole, and...
True, but the 1902 5 chon struck while Korea was under Russian domination is even harder to find, and much more expensive! I'd love to see the...
If genuine, it is a Republic of China year 3 (1914) silver 1 yuan, with a bust of Yuan Shih-Kai on the obverse under the country name and date...
The question is pretty general, but the real answer is: "The ones YOU want to collect."
Somewhere between 1/20th of a dollar and five cents.
If it's only a little too high for you, you have much more expensive tastes than I do!
Mid to late February. They can't start printing them until after the new Secretary and Treasurer have been appointed and gotten their Senate...
Bullion value is $11.48 x 5 = $57.40 as of 5:15 p.m. EST today, so 50 bucks would be fair.
Actually, there are probably far more fakes than genuine examples. Counting only the ones I have seen in hand, excluding EBay, Overstock, Amazon,...
Haven't had a cola drink in 60 years, since my high school chem teacher cooked a piece of meat in a dish of that nasty Coke stuff!
What a difference one letter makes. "Sewer", an underground waste disposal system. "Sower", one who plants food. Well, if it is in a published...
Your 1g aluminum Showa 60 (1985) Japanese yen has a face value of 1.1¢ and a collector value in that condition of .001¢. Mintage 837,150,000.
You got it pal. Tarnish is baaaaaad for any metallic object, especially coins.
No, our bankers/mortgage brokers took care of that for us.
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