I think it'd be cool if we quit making the penny for circulation and instead minted it in bronze for collectors, similar to the half and dollar....
If it's 9.1g it has to be a penny planchet.
That's a 5 Quetzales from Guatemala from sometime between 1990 and present-day.
I've gotten a few of my trademark 'common type, not-so-common date' coins recently: Botswana - 1989 1 Thebe [ATTACH] [ATTACH] If you collect...
If I was grading it for my personal collection I think I'd probably call it XF. I think a TPG would put it around 50 or 53.
There's a lot of junk that isn't worth your time on ebay, but if you don't mind digging through it, there are plenty of hidden gems. It looks like...
In theory it should be the same as their US counterparts. It would completely break populations and such if you had different offices grading to...
Colombia's current coins are pretty good: [ATTACH]
I love aluminum coins and have even begun hoarding the more common stuff (think Japanese yen, Eastern bloc, stuff like that. I would say that the...
The original minting was 140k coins, but it has been restruck by the millions in the years since. I've seen them selling as high as $130 on ebay...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Unusual pickup for me. I've always liked these 'circulation' sets Niue had made for a couple years. Wish they would've...
There is one variety of the 1992 10p that is significantly harder from the rest, although based on some research, it's likely that around 10...
These are definitely going to be harder to find, especially in UNC grades. I personally have yet to find one in any condition. I doubt many...
It's a testament to the quality of Switzerland's coins in the past few decades that we can have this discussion. Even their circulation issues can...
Canada had just begun using plated zinc in 1997, so they would've still been working out the kinks, like we were in the mid-80s. As for the rim,...
I haven't been able to figure this out in my research either.
I have a few that are actually circulated: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
South Sudan - ND (2011) 10 Piasters [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The 5, 10, and 25 Piasters were never released to circulation, and are pretty uncommon....
I'm pretty confident these are business strikes. They weren't reliably proof-like yet in the 70s like they are today, but they were starting to...
Also they'd already been at war with China for several years by that point.
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