One thing about scarcity-- I have been saving modern Japanese 50-yen coins by date. I have every one that was made, except for the 1987, which...
I am, too, to tell you the truth. One of the reasons, I suspect, is that they are not listed in the Redbook, except for some copycat items like...
A LOT of those coins are sold in bulk to places like Educational Coin Company. They will gladly sell you thousands, or tens of thousands, of...
Trade dollars were first minted in 1873. Patterns were made in 1871 and 1872, but they are quite different from the coin that was eventually...
For the same reason the American Arts gold bullion medals never really caught on-- no government-supported face value. Also, the coins that become...
I don't think you really understand the problem-- There is a HUGE difference between a driver's license and MONEY. A HUGE difference. A US...
The thing is, I have a South African 2 shillings piece myself-- but it is 1896, not 95, and it is worth little more than its silver value. What a...
I don't know exactly when the Philippines started issuing small-size notes, but I have a small-size 2-peso gold certificate that says Series 1924,...
I was talking about the average American collector, in regard to what are generally the types of non-precious-metal foreign coins that are...
Well, this is a US-based forum, and even though it has collectors from around the world, most of the collectors who post here are based in the US....
How can you say that nobody gets cheated? Obviously, there are many people in the Eurozone who still have the old coins but can no longer redeem...
As I said, I think it's a bad way to run a monetary system. Unless there's a major change in government, say from wartime occupation to peacetime...
Yes, it's a South Korean 100 won, and it's worth less than 10 cents at current exchange rates.
I guess I should have written New 5p, New 10p and New 50p to remove any ambiguity. I realize that the smaller coins are still legal tender, but I...
It looks like you have something there. I would give it a US grade of VF+. I found that an 1895 2 shillings in a similar condition in a PCGS...
I hope we Americans don't fight any more civil wars, either. Unfortunately, we seem to have more than our share of rabble-rousers these days.
$3 might be generous, considering the hole obliterates most of the date
And if you leave it out in the open, it will probably start to corrode.
A little off topic, RyanL, but could you tell me something about that "lucky penny" in your avatar? My uncle used to have a store in Nebraska and...
If you have an album with the plastic windows, it will include all of the regular issues, including proof-only issues. Anything S-mint from 1975...
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