Festival of Britain Crown 1951 I recently read the history book Austerity Britain 1945-1951 by by David Kynaston, published in 2008. It was...
[IMG] When I saw this coin on Ebay I had to have it. The figure on the coin looked to me like a movie space alien, and not a friendly one....
I revised my article on these odd coins and here it is again. I managed to obtain some more examples of these coins. In 1949 the San Francisco...
Looks like the Wildwinds ancient coin database is back up. Main: http://www.wildwinds.com Index: http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/index.html...
My grandmother was a coin collector and my grandfather gave her a Roosevelt Dimes album for Christmas 1953. One of them put some uncirculated...
ABC News story on kids, collecting, coins Mentions CoinTalk.Com Resurrecting a Tradition: Creating Kid Collectors Collectors Pushing for...
Arab-Byzantine Abd al-Malik Standing Caliph Coin I was looking at Byzantine coins for sale on Ebay and found this one. I knew nothing about it...
What kind of damage is this to the upper rim of the reverse of this coin? [IMG] Julia Mamaea Denarius - Vesta Obverse: Diademed and draped...
Question: What coins circulated in Spain around 1924? I read a novel set in Spain in 1924 where the author mentioned some Spanish coins paid...
This film is unusual in that it used a coin to advertise the film but the coin did not appear in the film itself. This 1979 film starred...
Peru token from 1920: I have had this token since the 1960's. I had originally thought this was a Mexican wedding token, but after looking it...
US Liberty Head 1898 ten-dollar gold coin stars in the 1963 film "Gidget Goes to Rome". This film was made only a couple of years after the US...
"Premium Catalog of Modern Foreign Coins" Published in 1948 "Listing the prices paid for the modern coin issues of over 125 foreign...
I rented a safe deposit box at a local California bank. After filling out the paperwork and accepting the keys, the bank teller gave me a...
[IMG] I bought this coin because the obverse picture looked like a movie or TV space alien. And not a nice one! Click here for coin details...
A real McCarthy-Eisenhower era coin Washington-Carver Commemorative Half Dollar Authorized by the US Congress on September 21, 1951. The...
Coins in an old Movie - The Maltese Falcon (1941) Thanks to DVD technology, it is now possible to "freeze" frames on an old movie. This...
Coins in an old movie - The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) Thanks to DVD technology, it is now possible to "freeze" frames on an old movie....
Coins in an old movie - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Thanks to DVD technology, it is now possible to "freeze" frames on an old...
Coins in an old movie - The Good Earth (1937) Thanks to DVD technology, it is now possible to "freeze" frames on an old movie. These three...
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