My thoughts exactly! Here's a token of a probably even more foreboding place-- the infamous Newgate Prison, the site of public executions in...
This is one of my most interesting tokens-- the Montrose Lunatic Hospital-- erected by subscription
I think if you put the two pictures side-by-side (the one of the PCGS-graded coin and the picture in the original post), you will see that the 7...
I have that same Conder token!
People have been defacing US coins probably since the beginning. "Love tokens" consisting of one side of a US coin planed off and inscribed with...
It sounds like you and I got started close to the same time. I never considered going to the bank to look through their rolls in those...
Whatever value it may have would depend on whether it contains any silver and/or whether someone would want to buy it as a curiosity. It seems to...
The first Indian Head cent I had was a 1903 with a big hole at the top :)
It's fake. The CC (Carson City) Mint didn't start minting coins until 1870.
I think the problem with the 7 may be that the "hump" on the top is too big and a little lopsided. Also, the motto just looks wrong. Here is...
I also got an added boost from coin collecting in history class by associating coins in my collection with dates of historical events :)
The current issue of Coin World has ads from dealers who are paying up to $22 for common Morgan and Peace dollars in low grade.
My grandfather bought those stocks in the '60s and earlier, at a time when they were decent companies and riding the wave of the stock market as...
My grandmother got me started back in the mid-'60s. That was at the time when silver coinage was being replaced with clad, and she wanted me to...
I guess the first set I completed-- that is, filled all the holes in the album-- was Franklin halves, back in the '80s sometime when silver was...
Each country has its own euro coin designs, but they all supposedly circulate freely within the euro zone so you should be able to find euros from...
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