This web site might provide some answers: http://coins.about.com/od/uscoins/a/extra_tree_quar.htm
I never realized that olive oil was an acid. At any rate, I quickly gave up on treating my penny collection with olive oil since the most valuable...
Bolivian 4 soles That is a nice coin you have there. I have one in G-VG condition, and yours appears to be much better-- at least a Fine, I...
I have a few, mainly Roman bronzes but a few silver and billon pieces and even a couple of gold solidus coins of the Byzantine Empire (if they...
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I have what appear to be a fake Swiss 2-franc piece and a fake 1947 Canadian quarter. The design on the Swiss piece is fairly mushy, while the...
I was recently going through my accumulation of UK 2-pence coins and sorting then by their composition-- 97% copper for coins minted up through...
I didn't mean to sound condescending or anything like that, I was just hoping to get the opinion of someone who is familiar with this sort of...
I was looking through some cents that came in a mixed US-foreign coin bag that I bought yesterday and I happened upon a 1974-D cent with a very...
Well, technically you could say it is Hungarian, I guess, since the coin was issued by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but this particular coin is...
Thanks for the information and pictures. After comparing my coin with yours, and with some other die cap errors on the Internet, it looks like...
It would help to know the year or at least have a scan/picture of the coin. Can your computer read Japanese characters? 八十三 1905 七十三 1904...
You have 2 common-date silver dollars here, a 1921 Morgan dollar and a 1922 Peace dollar. Both of these are considered to be "generic" dates. The...
One of your coins is a Japanese 10-sen piece, dated 1910. While it's not a particularly rare date, it's still a nice coin.
You've got a 1922-D or S Peace Dollar, a relatively common date for that series. The resident grading experts could give you an idea of the grade...
Well, considering that in the 216-year history of the cent, the eagle has only made a very brief appearance, in 1856-1858, it doesn't seem to be a...
Is there any definitive way to tell whether it's a genuine Mint error or post-Mint alteration?
The inscription on the obverse is abbreviated Latin which means "Franz Joseph the First, By the Grace of God, Emperor of Austria"
It looks like you have an 1899 Austrian gold ducat.
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