Thanks for the link. I'll check it out when I have some time :)
Yeah, it certainly looks like one of those "chemistry class specials".
People in Canada have adopted American names for their coins. When I was up in Canada, the locals called them quarters rather than "25-cent coins".
The Showa era started in 1926 and ended in 1989, so you start with a base of 1925 and add the Showa number to that. The coin is Showa 59, meaning...
You have to examine Bust dollars really closely, because there are a lot of fakes, especially with the 1799 (I learned that the hard way). It...
You have a 1984 ( 昭和五十九年 ) 10-yen coin that is worth approximately 12.5 cents at the current exchange rate.
Three pictures of the same 1954 Franklin half dollar, taken on 1) July 15, one month after being removed from a Whitman album where it had...
1875-CC dime, mintmark in wreath
It looks like a Chinese good luck charm-- The inscription reads "Shou bi nan shan" which is a wish for a long life. The other side looks like it...
So where is this diagnostic dimple?
1908 reverses
How about a 1908 gold date set?
The first 50-60 years of those charts don't really mean anything because the price of gold was kept at $20.67 per ounce for the first 33 years or...
You should really check historical prices before making such claims. The price was mostly downward from early 1975 through about September 1976,...
This '38-D has seen better days.
What you have are fantasy tokens-- they are much too small to be actual gold coin issues. The Netherlands gold 1 gulden, for example, was not an...
I remember around Christmastime each year back in the '60s that I would always be drooling over the DeLuxe coin starter kit that was listed for...
Your first token is shown on Mike Locke's web site, about halfway down on this page. Apparently it is a brass gambling token that was made in...
I enlarged the pictures a couple of notches on my computer, and so far the lettering on the reverse looks a little funny.
Here's an eBay listing of your second token. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dodd-Co-Hatters-Cincinnati-Eagle-/380353259531 By the way, the third token...
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