I'm trying to learn how to read Arabic coins, so please let me know if I've done anything wrong while trying to follow along. The bottom date on...
I think they were legit, but extremely regionalized. This article has more information on the 63 some local currencies that then existed. It...
Has anyone ever come across any of these local Capivari bills from Brazil? About 9 years ago, NPR ran a story on this currency and I have yet to...
Whoa - someone showed that coin a little too much love! :D
Some of the proposed designs from the mint that people have posted over the past few years have made me cry.
I have to start using cash again. I haven't used a tangible bill for maybe over a year now. Not intentionally, I just haven't needed to.
Randy Newman recorded Long's song "Every Man A King" and also wrote a song about Long called "Kingfish." Both appear on his 1974 album "Good Old...
A book I ordered on Arabic coins from Ebay took more than 2 months to arrive from Australia to the US. When it arrived, it had green US Customs...
Yes, that's what I was trying to get at. :rolleyes:
The user listed is now showing as banned on their profile page. Hm.
Yes, but I was talking about purchasing power.
According to the CPI Inflation calculator (I'm not sure how accurate or reliable that is), that $20 in 1934 would purchase $382.67 today. That...
I really like this coin. I received it in change during a trip to Canada a few years back and I know that I kept it somewhere, but I can't seem to...
Every coin show in my area has been canceled. If someone tried to host one, I wouldn't go. I think it's way too early for such an event. Though I...
I obviously can't speak for all modern historians (whether "liberal" or not, whatever that means), but the book I read didn't dismiss the scandals...
A book that I recently read on Grant said that, before the Civil War, he even sold wood on the streets of St. Louis to support his family. Also,...
Whoa! She can really pull rank, then! :eek:
These 10 Yen coins still circulate in Japan and in its current condition it would be worth only face value, which isn't very much, I'm sorry to...
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