It looks like you have a couple of Japanese game parlor tokens. The writing on the top token says "21st Century", probably the name of the game...
My guess is that it's some kind of game token.
In the original Roman alphabet, there was no J, and a lot of countries of the period simply used an "I" in place a "J" in the Latin name of their...
You're welcome. By the way, you can better identify your Yemen coin by comparing it with the coins shown here:...
Top, L-R Nepal 10 paisa Israel 1 agora Yemen (face value?) Bottom, L-R Taiwan 5 chiao Bulgaria probably 2 stotinki Bangladesh 5 poisha
The site worked fine for me. I realize it is a PCGS pay site, but you don't have to pay to see that particular coin if you are visiting for the...
Well, I could see one other type of motivation, I guess-- if the coin had developed ugly blotches of toning (we used to call that "tarnish"), then...
That may be the case with AU58s and MS60-62s, but I think whoever had that particular coin slabbed (assuming it was slabbed) would have been more...
If you're a coin collector, why would you be a "debit card/credit card kind of guy"? It seems like you could better your chances of making a coin...
Where would the metal that is "carved" go? It would go up. At any rate, this exact same thing was discussed in another thread, and the consensus...
It looks like the House won't take up this matter until March, so I'm not ready to pop the cork just yet....
OK, that's the Senate.. What about the House and the President?
Are you sure it's been repealed? From what I understand, repeal would require supermajorities in the House and Senate, plus the President's signature.
In other words, someone deliberately did that to the coin after it left the Mint, making it post-mint damage. Unfortunately, post-mint damage...
The first rule of buying coins by mail is-- If you remove a coin from its original holder, it's yours.
It's regular halfpenny size and the edge reads "Payable by M. Lambe & Son"
I've heard various descriptions of that fish. People in British Columbia told me it was a salmon. But maybe on the other side of the country, they...
I think that "whale" is actually supposed to be a salmon :)
I have an original roll of '67 quarters, but I don't know if they are 80% or 50%. I got it from a Canadian dealer 23 years after the coins were...
I saw this token listed on another web site as being "RRR" rare. Is it really so rare?
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