How do you tell the difference? In the RedBook it looks to me, the medium letter coins seem to have the second "s" in states directly over the...
I am mostly an ancient collector, but I have started collecting early American coins. I just purchased this large cent at a local club auction...
I don't really need anything. I'm getting ahead of myself, but I do hope to catch up to what you are doing someday.
Impressive. I do some blacksmithing and I've tried a little engraving. I have been looking for a reasonable price fly press and hope to make coins...
Hi Badger, I just read your old post. I also work with scouts and I am a counselor for the merit badge. I am impressed by your challenge coin....
I don't have any background on this coin. It came in a bag of uncleaned Roman coins, but I'm guessing Arabic or Indian. Please point me in a...
Anybody have a guess on this coin?
I almost forgot. 2.1 grams and just under a centimeter square.
I received a bag of uncleaned roman coins as a gift. They were picked up at a pawn shop, so I don't have any info or source. The 20 coins were...
I would think that it would be just as easy, or even easier, to ship US coins to a base, rather than order special tokens. Especially stateside....
Thanks for the answer, but it still doesn't make sense to me. They could have used regular currency for all of those things.
Why were these tokens created and used?
In the spirit of Christmas, here is a she wolf with a Chi Rho symbol. [ATTACH]
I think that the 6 and 1/4 cents was not that uncommon, because a lot of people were still thinking in terms of "pieces of eight". A quarter...
Hi Mitch, The link is to an article written by one of our local historians that I mentioned, who is also helping me look for the illusive Cecilton...
I am trying to put a collection of obsoletes together, from my local county, here in Maryland. I just missed this Cecilton, MD note on ebay. I...
I have an Indian head that has what looks like black paint in the fields and it looks a little crackly like this one, but acetone did not touch...
Which ever you buy, try to get one where the LED lights can be turned off. I forgot off hand what brand and model I have but the biggest...
I just discovered that the US govt. issued $50,000,000 in demand notes in 1861. I thought we didn't have federal paper money until 1863, so I...
I thought we didn't have federal notes until 1863 but I just found this article: Demand Notes[edit] Main article: Demand Note [IMG] Comparison of...
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