There isn't any good reason for the US to hold tons of gold in Fort Knox. It's insufficient to use as backing for the currency. Even at today's...
A great piece of history. Imagine what would have happened had the marriage it celebrates produced a child. That person would have been heir to...
Is that a die crack between "States of America"?
That note is an impossibility that anyone who knows how they are printed can explain. The OP's note, while a little odd, is possible, because the...
Old die and mechanical doubling.
Well, some of them aren't similar to actual coins. But the 1795-6 dollars would be worth many, many thousands each in the conditions they seem....
Many of them don't even attempt to mimic actual coins, others are so obviously different in details like shape of numerals in the date, that they...
All fakes or fantasy pieces.
A heavily worn but intact 1795 dollar would be worth about $2,000. Same for each of those two :goofer: 1796 dollars. A 1878 goldoid pattern...
It's very unlikely that you stumbled upon such a treasure trove. Every one of those "coins" is probably a fake.
I've seen error notes where the black seal is askew but the serial numbers and green seal are not. Under the circumstances, I'd say it's a...
Removed from a shield and glued together to pass as fifty cents, maybe.
I don't think so. Louis Napoleon had a beard in 1848. Can't really read the inscription, but it seems to be a Napoleon I commemorative.
Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, on the other side. As for the inscriptions, they're all Greek to me. :p
Sell it as vintage belly dancing chain, handmade using 32 genuine coins, likely in Vichy French Morocco. Geez, you can practically hear Bogey...
This eBay listing is of a piece matching your description. I'd say it's maybe a pseudo-coin, close enough to an actual design to pass but not so...
It's a fantasy piece that uses the Spanish coat of arms (frequently seen on actual coins) as a model.
Struck through grease.
Joe Barr was defeated for re-election to Congress in 1960, the same year JFK was elected. He began a new career as a political operative in the...
1) People do lots of things. 2) People buy lots of things. Seems well done, whatever the reason was.
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