Bought a bunch lot of low grade Japanese Meiji era coins and was going through duplicates. Nearly missed this but realized they looked different....
I wasn't aware of this until a friend from Kazakhstan mentioned about this variety. If you look at the statue, there's a difference with and...
Spent a whole afternoon doing some number games as I found an interesting reference. So far from what I know, there isn't any reference that...
These coins seem to be hard to find. Much harder to assemble as a set. Fair enough, if you fork out hundreds of dollars, you'll definitely get...
Been veering off my usual hunt as some of the coins that I've been looking out for are getting a bit too expensive. First up is Argentina 2...
I've been interested in numismatics, mints that have some bragging rights for instance world's largest gold coin, world's first platinum...
This is a rather uncommon 5 kopek despite it's low grade. Can you guess what makes this rather scarce? [img]
Won the lot of them a while ago and forgot about them completely until I was doing a bit of clean up. Some reckon that this is easy but I beg...
I have been slacking off on my site as well as my collection as work has been hectic as usual. Here's three different links: Silver type set...
The era of Chinese Emperor ended in 1911 after the Xinhai Revolution. The new Republic was founded on the first day of 1912 and several coins...
Inspired by a collector called Jim Rugh who collects coins and medals in various elements, I decided to give this set a go. This set would only...
Finally found this last coin that I took a while to find - 1933 5 fen. Unusually difficult to find for some reason - Manchukuo coins in general...
Just missing the 1990 M 10 kopek and 1991 no mintmark coins - these are tough. The toughest coins in this lot is 1965-1969. [img] Other...
Manchukuo or better known as Manchuria was an area that was occupied by Japan during WWII. I found the 1943 1 fen to be unusually difficult to...
Finally completed the toughest 3 kopek set with these two coins. Only exception is the 1958 3 kopek, which is extremely hard to obtain / pricey....
Got some interesting coins from Chile. This is a few of them: Struck in medal alignment. All the other coins that I have are struck in coin...
Quite certain that these don't appear very often. First up is a square looking coin from Sendai Prefecture. Cast in iron - has an interesting...
Been hunting these overstruck coins for a while and these can be quite uncommon to really scarce. While overstruck coins may look ugly, some are...
I've been hunting for this Korean 1898 1 yang variety coin for years. In most catalog, they would describe it as narrow and wide variety in the...
Found this one as an upgrade as my other coin was in a poor condition. This one is harder to find in a nice one like this: [img] Good...
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