This is not a Japanese coin, but most probably a forgery of a Chinese pattern.I found it in Krause: it looks very close to China/Kwangtung/...
Nr.1 Autria 6 kreuzer Nr.4 Chinese Republic 10 cash Nr.7 Spain 8? maravedi These coins are interesting from a historical point of view, but...
For me, that soldo is a more interesting coin than the Prussian billon silbergroschen. It is indeed Austrian, struck at the Graz Mint for the City...
You're right, Drusus: these coins ARE cheap looking. On the other hand: my coin wasn't expensive neither: it costed 1.80 euro. (2 euro, but I got...
What about this naughty Cuban peso from the "Pirates of the Caribbean"-series. It depicts Anne Bonny. bart
It is indeed: legends are in Latin : LVD(ovicus) XIIII D(ei) G(ratia) FR(anciae) ET NAV(arrae) REX = Louis XIV, by the grace of God king of France...
I really like the Alfonso XIII-series. His mother used coins as a mean to present her son to the nation. I only recently acquired this 50 centimos...
chrisild already explained some facts about languages in my country, but the situation is a bit more complicated. Chrisild explained German is...
chrisild already answered why the name Rau was written on the coin: Marcel Rau is indeed the designer of both obverse and reverse. About the...
Your 6 kreutzer 1795B is in Krause as Austria KM#2127. weight: 3.29 gram composition: 0.438 silver mintage for 1795B: 36,127,000
I am afraid (v) is right: this coin is a fake. The portrait of Carlos III is completely wrong and so is the lettering of the legends. It is the...
Sounds as an Imperial Russian 15 rouble coin, struck in gold. The bust is of the last emperor: czar Nicholas II. 1897 is the only year of issue....
I found the following picture of your coin in better condition :D
I suppose your silver holed coin could be 1/2 gulden of the kingdom of Württemberg KM#573 (German States), struck in the name of king Wilhelm I.
Indeed, in 1997 part of the Indian rupee coins (KM#92.2) were struck at the Mexico City Mint.
1st row: 1) Chinese cash 2) Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) 25 cents 3) Iran 2 rials 4) Turkey, Ottoman, 10 para (accession year 1277AH = 1861AD) 5)...
acanthite is right: the date on tdec1000's coin is AH1276 (1860AD), being the 22th reign year of Abdul Mejid who started his reign in AH1255...
The first coin is a Dutch ducaton (silver rider), not from Holland, but issued by the county of Zeeland (COM. ZEL / shield of Zeeland benezth the...
The date is written in the shells left and right of the denomination 5 c.
I am not certain but IMHO it looks like a paisa of Kashmir / Jammu Mint KM#1 (date off the flan).
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