[IMG] United States Steel Corporation Medal - 30 Years Service Size: 32 mm, 21.65 gm, Sterling silver Obverse: United States Steel Corporation E....
A woman I know was cleaning out an old house and gave me some coins and tokens that she found. The tokens were mostly Las Vegas casino dollar...
Those long intricate legends on English coins caused the American colonies to revolt. :)
I received this Thailand 5 Baht coin from a Trader Joe's store in 2019. It is about the size of a quarter. [IMG] Thailand 5 Baht 2015 (BE 2558)...
[IMG] Syracuse Sicily Tetras - Octopus Bronze, 15.4 mm, 3.84 gm Struck: BC 425-420 Syracuse mint Obverse: Head of Arethusa right with dolphins,...
Thank you for a very interesting article on the Hungary 5 Pengo coins. I have had these four Hungary 5 Pengo coins since the 1960's. I never...
Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 trip to Brazil and a numismatic gold coin mystery In 1912 former United States president Theodore Roosevelt lost his...
Looks like Mughal emperor Jahangir rupee Kandahar mint. A similar coin here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/51402809@N05/34026621833 :)
Here's one that was for sale in India: Victoria Queen, (Ireland), White Metal 4.59g, Coronation Token, (1837), Obv: Portrait of Queen Victoria...
This story gets more interesting. Peter Weller, the star of "Screamers", has a Ph.D. degree from UCLA in Italian Art History. He is a collector...
I received this email this morning: You don't know the amount of joy and relief that you gave me today! Do you know the feeling when you cannot...
Nice coin, LM. We have two CoinTalk threads about Augustus Cistophoric Tetradrachms! Here's the other thread about one which appeared in a...
Thank you for the information. Someone else sent me a closer look at the photograph from the film. [IMG] I sent the "Screamers" information to...
I run a "Coins in Movies" and "Coins on Television" website and sometimes receive emails with questions. A man wrote to me recently with an...
I walked by the local Coinstar machine this morning and saw a bright penny and a dime. I picked them up, the penny was a recent zinc coin and the...
"Hot Millions" is a 1968 British crime caper comedy. Marcus Pendleton (Peter Ustinov) is released from prison, passes himself off as a computer...
How did the seller ship the coin? Air mail, surface mail, registered? :)
I have bought several items on Ebay which were mailed from Australia to California. They took an average of two weeks to arrive. :)
My father was not a coin collector but he saved these sales tax tokens in the 1930's and put them in small containers. [IMG] Containers and US...
Why do so many of these coins have Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on them? Do the manufacturers consider her to be a "dinosaur"? :)
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