Aidan, I checked, and the only three I have at hand are the 5d, the 10d and the six shillings. For some reason I can't find the 30d although i'm...
It seems that there are a few of us who either actively collect or at least possess some contemporary counterfeit coins. I don't want to bore...
Here's a nicely toned silver Nazarana rupee from Jaipur dated 1911 (KM147). [IMG]
The top one has (obverse) a portrait facing (looks like a hound dog), and what looks like "DEI . IUTITIA" (God and Justice?) in the obverse...
Ok, ok so what if you've seen one just like it before........:D
.....or the one that got away :( This is one of the drawbacks of being a tight fisted Scotsman. i'd been watching a coin for a few days. It was...
A new addition for me. A badly bashed about denier of Foulques V of Anjou. Born 1089, he became Compte D'anjou in 1109 and became King of...
Here's the oldest coin I have from native Gaul. Well, maybe it's not quite Free France as suggested in the thread title, but it was certainly...
Does it show us that satellite dishes existed back in 1704? Was it perhaps advanced technology used by our little green friends to contacttheir...
I've come across a couple of jetons in the past few years that have different countermarks on them. Unfortunately, i've not been able to find the...
Yes, coins and politics can be `on topic'. Tokens have been used in the past for getting political messages across, but what about *actual*...
As mentioned in the thread on Doug's 1650 1/2 ecu, I had a memory of having a french coin with a blundered legend. I rummaged through my french...
France issued a number of jetons in both copper and silver for it's colonies in the americas (The Indies, Louisianna and Canada), all of which...
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