I came across an advertising token on eBay that I'm interested in. It's supposedly from the 1880s in either the UK or Australia and is the size of...
I stopped at a coin shop yesterday and came home with some neat stuff. Here are some of the highlights. First some lovely coins from Mexico....
I kind of splurged recently to get some nicer coins that my collection lacked. I don't buy online much anymore but sometimes when you want a...
Today I checked the mail and I saw an envelope in my own handwriting, so I knew what it was. I sell coins on eBay and once in awhile one of them...
Last week I visited a new shop that specializes in world coins. The drawback of this as opposed to where I normally go is they know what stuff is...
I have a few go-to shops which are great, but once you visit a shop you can't go back right away because they won't have anything. So I have the...
One of my motivating factors in coin collecting is gathering coins from unusual places. I love items from former colonies, obscure countries,...
I just can't figure out the dating on these coins. Can someone help me on this? [ATTACH]
My denomination is five, my year is 1383 on the Arabic calendar and the temple on one side looks just like Afghanistan's coins, but my owner can't...
I recently bought a bunch of Chinese coins out of the junk bin at my local coin shop and today I was trying to identify them. This last one...
Panama 1 1/4 centesimos. It's hard to imagine any reason to use such a silly denomination. I know it's half of the 2 1/2 centesimos, which is half...
I posted a picture of this in another thread but I'm hoping to get some help figuring out what this is. I assumed Japanese but the characters...
I just got back from the coin shop with a few hundred new coins. A lot of it is the usual stuff but there were some interesting things too. Here's...
This was being discussed in another thread so I decided to post mine. I was working on diversifying my Portuguese colonial collection recently....
What a trip it's been visiting French coinage from around the world. Our last stop on the tour brings us to the Americas. There are or were French...
Today is the penultimate stop on our tour of the French colonies. On this stop we'll visit a few more island chains in the Indian Ocean and South...
After an extended stay in Africa, today the tour is heading out to the South Pacific. French Polynesia and its predecessor, French Oceania,...
Today in our tour we're going to jump around a bit as we spend our last day in Africa. There are a few French African colonies that either had...
Today our tour stops in central Africa at Cameroon. The first French coins for Cameroon were issued in 1924, with the last issued in 1958 before...
On this installment of our tour we'll be remaining in North Africa and visiting Tunisia. France established a protectorate in Tunisia in 1881,...
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