That is one of the things that attracted me to that particular coin-- its connection to the Napoleonic wars that had been fought a century before,...
Thanks. I picked up the Hamburg 20 Marks from a dealer who had just acquired 3 or 4 of them, and I got the "pick of the litter". It could very...
$5.50 plus $4.95 comes out to $10.45, or nearly $3.50 per coin, so it hardly seems worth it unless the bidder is hoping to get a key date in the...
The trouble with free software is, you have to wonder why it's free. For that matter, you can post coin pictures on CoinTalk directly from your...
The Okinawa commemorative 100-yen coin is standard size (between nickel- and quarter-size), while the 500-yen coin is the size of a half dollar,...
I just weighed a nearly smooth 1929 Walking Liberty half and the scale showed 11.9 grams (a little less than 5% off of the standard 12.5 grams). A...
Another problem is that Uncle Sam does a poor job of informing the public just what sorts of coins are current. Maybe there should be posters in...
I think it's natural for collectors to think of coins that don't have a direct connection to their home country as being "foreign". Here in Japan,...
OK, here is my 2 Marks, plus a companion piece, a 1913 Hamburg 20 Marks
Here is one of my favorite US-Philippine pieces, a silver 50 centavos coin that has toned a nice golden color.
My grandmother once gave me a 1 franc coin from "Empire Cherifien" (Morocco) and a 10 ore coin from Sweden. She had never been to either country.
Some of those knob-operated machines took halves. I remember seeing my father sink a Franklin half into a cigarette machine and getting a dateless...
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