brilliant idea, i am all for helping new collectors and will certainly take part in this venture. british and world are my specialities..
dumfries and galloway is the same, the border regions must be awash with things just waiting to be found.
why not try something completely different, british 50 pence coins??
there are a few prince of wales model coins i have the half sov anda penny, they are not particularly rare and are worth around £1.
good price calum, i usually see the jubilees for around a tenner in that condition.
they are very different wazza, they have the head of marrianne on the obverse as opposed to the sower. the one i will offer you is a vichy france...
nothing in particular, make me an offer...........how about a new sac dollar?
widnes calum. on a wednesday morning, so guess where i will be day after tomorrow..lol
i agree with you christian, because of the plethora of notgeld notes on ebay every week i realy don't think that the majority are real issues,...
if you dip a silver or cupro nikel coin in malt vinegare you will get al kinds of fantastic tones. being a brit i like my coins au naturale and...
i always wonder just how much notgeld offered for sale is real??
and in german the word geld translates as gold............these notes were issued on the premise that they weren't backed by gold reserves, hence...
when i see a polished coin it makes my heart sink, why do people feel the need to detroy such a beautiful item by desecrating it!!
when we were kids in the 60's we used to put old english pennies on the railway lines and wait for a train to run over them, the overall thickness...
no bloody good to me in the UK lol lol lol
during the hyper inflation period in germany after WW1 individual towns/cities issued banknotes which at the time were in effect worthless....
absolutely sweet F.A the coin has been ruined by plating, why on god's holy earth do people feel the urge to destroy beautiful coins by plating...
totally agree with you, i do not clean my coins but where ther is a residue of pvc, dirt gime etc, i use acetone to remove the contaminant, but...
i disagree we as collectors are the current guardians of the coins in our collections, would you melt or clean an alexander the great tetradrachm...
i personally do not like cleaned coins per se, i also think it is disgraceful that coins are melted down because they are no longer used.
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