Where on earth did you pick up that bit of misinformation? Murasaki Shikibu's Genji Monogatari ("Tale of Genji") published between 1008-21 C.E.,...
I agree. I've been using a QX3 for several years, and if I hadn't built a satisfactory (but not great) light box before the QX5 came out, I...
The funniest part of the whole listing is what dBay's automated system found for the "Similar items from all eBay sellers" listing.
Examine them carefully and see if you can find an "F" mint mark. They are definitely the sort of thing that the Franklin Mint used to put out.
With 11,858,000 minted, KM#5a is relatively common for a French Indo-China (present-day Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia) issue, and quite a bit more...
He's a whacko, who doesn't understand the concept of "rationing"! According to Mirriam Webster it means "to distribute equitably" or "to use...
Intelligence has absolutely nothing to do with the issue. If Albert Einstein were a "georger" who did not know anything about numismatics, that...
Of course they do - they are proofs with a lower collector base, but a much, much lower mintage, and 99.9% of them are high grade strikes in...
I'll bet there are one or two others here who are old enough to remember when the name of the Federal Reserve District was actually included on...
You definitely have 9 round pieces of metal from a country that did in fact have its own coinage in pre-Euro days, but your pictures are a couple...
If it's aluminum, it should weigh ~1.5g, since it's a little larger than a Japanese ¥1, which has a standard weight of 1g.
That's why Doug said there is no such thing as an air tight container.
In the first place they are tokens, not coins. They were privately issued as part of a commercially created series honoring US presidents...
It's undoubtedly metal, but the people who make commercial trade tokens have been known to use copper, bronze, brass, zinc, pewter, pot metal,...
Before it burned down in February, 1970, the Silver Room was a bar in downtown Chico, a city north of Sacramento. Value? It's probably cu-ni,...
Sterling silver (.925) pennies that size were minted with Victoria's bust from 1838-1901, but they were all dated and had a crowned "1" inside a...
If the person who made it used two real coins, as he/she normally would, of course the mintmark(s) would be there. May I ask why you are...
To be "criminal" under the US Constitution an action (or omission) must be specifically forbidden and a penalty must be specified in a statute....
As a retired bank lawyer, I'd sure be interested in a citation to your authority for that statement, which runs counter to everything I learned in...
Right you are. Since they give both his birth date and date of death, they are obviously posthumous, and not products of the post-war German...
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