Sure why not? I'm 25 and from what i've seen so far many fellow numismatists are older middle age males (just a general observation when i visited...
When is the set with Prince Albert coming out? Next year I presume? But you'd never know. I went to the official stamp/coin website and I could...
You have there a fantastic collection of nickels that reflects an important period of Canada's history. The man on the obverse is King George VI...
According to the 59th Edition (2005) of the Charlton Standard, the 1996 2$ (toonie) had the most mintage of all the 2$ coins so far. There was...
What about those Unisafe albums that have slots specifically catering to the denomination for either Canadian coins (blue album) or American coins...
Just run a tractor over your coin or something. Why does the mint bother to do this? can't they just throw the defective coin back and melt it...
use a scanner if you have access to one. It works way better than camera, even digital ones.
Go to your local library and look up this book: The Official Guide to Coin Grading and Counterfeit Detection by PCGS. This is a fabulous book...
Thanks. I ask this because I have also a set of specimen coins that is framed in this flip case that allow display of both sides. The reverses are...
The 59th edition (2005) of the Charlton Standard gives the following VF-20: 2 EF-40: 4 AU-50: 10 MS-60: 30 MS-63: 75 MS-65: 450 Values in CAD.
I remember in HS when the coin came out. We used to try separate them out and use the ring as pendants or keychain. Pretty easily done...
Someone else asked the same thing in another post of this thread and I replied with this: http://www.cointalk.org/showpost.php?p=71995&postcount=3
Thanks. I figure eh, with the annual mintage of the coin in the billions.
Ahh! Thanks. There I was thinking the star notes were the ones having defects and the asterix is used to show that note has something wrong with...
I was just doing some scanning for this post last night and swear I've put the coins perfectly right side up according to the reverse when I was...
Yeah, a gold-plated balloon.
[IMG] I have owned this 1$ coin for a long time and kept it in my jar of coins just because i thought it was neet. Looks like someone punched a...
Double Yoke The drawing is too cute! LOL! I took the liberty to update it with its double yoke variety.
Heh such innovation! Unfortunately that's just a single yoke unless you have another bit coming out from the other side of the bull/buffalo....
If you look on the left side of the bull/buffalo (after looking at my coin I found that it's not a horse afterall) pulling the carriage you'd see...
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