On the other hand, during the Korean "Police Action" real copper cents were used on overseas military bases, along with the Military Payment...
On a quick trip to your local public library you can check the country listings in the front of each Standard Catalog of World Coins century...
Don't bother looking at Japanese gold. Melt value is irrelevant to the early ones, and the recent ones are much larger than 1/2 oz.
"Presidential Oath Dollars avaliable only at the Denver mint"? If these are not privately modified coins, how come they aren't mentioned...
The first side you showed, with Chinese characters, is upside down. I'm not sure, but I think the Manchu side is also upside down.
The manufacturing jeweler who cleaned up an early Japanese ¥10 for me charged $50. He did a very skillful job and to the naked eye the coin looks...
Like most of the other 1,234,567,890 "new" coin auction sites, they have no buyers. Sellers jumping on the chance to sell with no/minimum fees...
Suspending mintage because of low/no demand is one thing. Permanently ending the mintage of a specific coin is something else entirely.
Old news.
'Nuff said.
To me it's a no-brainer - if you believe you can negotiate a price acceptable to you, have at it. Otherwise, look elsewhere.
The problem with that theory is that it is dated 1311 in the Persian Solar version of the Muslim calendar, which equates to 1932, several years...
22.62g of .500 silver, .3636ASW, 36mm. Mintage 470,000 + 30,000 proofs. Listed in the 2009 Standard Catalog of World Coins at Bullion value...
After literally years of peeking, I finally found a coin in the Coinstar reject slot at the local supermarket. Foreign? No. Mutilated? No....
The poll is incomplete - where is the choice for a dollar three eighty?
National Historic Mint was a producer of so-called collectibles, similar to what the Franklin and Danbury mints put out. It does not appear to...
Value per 2009 Krause: XF-40 bullion value (~$5.25), MS-60 $6, MS-63 $18. Value per Charlton Canadian Coins 2006 Ed. (in Canadian dollars):...
Nothing shows up in a Google search for "Kuai coin shop" so there may not be any. Check the Yellow Pages when you get there.
Amen! If you do bring it back, please pay attention to the poll I ran recently, which overwhelmingly approved an option to remove it.
Or even more likely a hairline just inside the rim on one side where one coin was hollowed out and a second one was milled down to fit inside.
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