The 1942 MGM Red Skelton comedy film "Whistling in Dixie" has Red and his girlfriend Ann Rutherford in Georgia involved in a hunt for a...
Supposedly the last year that Chinese merchants chop marked coins was 1935 when China abandoned the silver standard. This is my latest, from...
The coins in the OP's post appear to date from the time of the Crusades, and one may have been manufactured by Crusaders who sometimes copied...
This one has done the state some service: [IMG] United States $20 1864-S This coin popped out of the San Francisco Mint on Commercial Street...
Some old coins can be hundreds or thousands of years old. It is interesting to handle old coins and wonder who handled them before. [IMG] Athens...
Both the hollow nickel and the silver peace dollar with the poison needle are in the film. :)
From Trailing the Giant Panda by Theodore Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt, published in 1929 Here we stopped to arrange our money transfers. This...
What is the source of the first image (the box of coins)? :)
If anyone finds one of these on Oak Island, please let me know. [IMG] Egyptian Magic Coin :)
I bought this Provident Metals silver round at a coin show in January 2016 because it has a slight resemblance to the Egyptian Magic Coin: [IMG]...
France has always produced nice looking coins, especially these two: [IMG] France 20 Francs gold 1898 Angel [IMG] France 20 Francs gold 1912...
[IMG] Coins of Susan B. Anthony and Cleopatra Yes, that Cleopatra, the seducer of Caesar and Mark Antony. :)
They are modern copies of ancient Jewish coins. :)
These might be "belly dance" costume coins, imitations of real coins but made of brass and very thin. The weights and diameters would help...
It is interesting that the collection's owner was identified by a dog tag that was found with the stolen coins. Maybe we all should leave dog...
Although gold sovereigns are bullion coins now, they have been used in the past by British secret agents operating in various parts of the world....
That was a great research article and an interesting story, LM. :)
Baldwin and Howell Westwood Park - San Francisco 1920's real estate development [IMG] Baldwin and Howell Development San Francisco Westwood Park...
You might want to stay away from the five ounce silver America the Beautiful hockey puck quarters. :)
This Egyptian coin commemorates the third anniversary of the revolution which ousted the infamous King Farouk. [IMG] Egypt Pound 1955 - Third...
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