I thought that I was watching too many movies. :)
Any pics of the coins? [IMG] :)
This little 4" x 3" plastic coin saving bank is from the Cleveland Trust Company of Cleveland, Ohio. A friend from a hiking club showed it to me....
France copper Louis XVI 2 sols 1793 (L'An 5) BB mintmark (Strasbourg) :)
A good book on Mary is Antonia Fraser's Mary Queen of Scots, published in 1969. It has a detailed description of how the "death penalty" was...
I'll bet that no one uses these as pocket pieces. :)
When I was a kid in 1964 I started collecting world coins and used the book "A Catalog of Modern World Coins" by R. S. Yeoman, sixth edition,...
It confuses the heck out of people to mix English and Latin. :)
Let's all wise up! [IMG] :)
Here he is, reimaged for 2018, the man himself! [IMG] Antoninus Pius Aureus - Standing with Globe Obverse: Laureate head right - ANTONINVS AVG...
[IMG] Britain sovereign 1963 :)
[IMG] What is your question? :)
On a nice day I might get fifty cents for this: [IMG] :)
LM, Congratulations on your Islamic-Christian gold coin. In AD 1250 Pope Innocent IV (AD 1243-1254) ordered Crusaders to stop making gold coins...
I am fascinated by books written by long-ago explorers and I recently read the 1925 book My Life as an Explorer by Sven Hedin. Sven Hedin...
Possibly somebody at the mint made a mistake in the year. :)
I have never found a small dollar coin in a Coinstar or similar machine. :)
Great website! Like many people here I have a Stone Mountain half dollar. The section on production problems was most interesting. Possibly the...
The coin is ordinary. [IMG] The holder is not. :)
Imagine the history behind this coin. :)
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