Yes, these are all modern Japanese coins and in their circulated condition they don't have much value, but they are cool coins anyway. Top coin:...
There is very little money to be made in coins, especially for the general public. I haven't sold too many coins, but I have almost always sold...
Heh - I really messed that post up. I actually ordered a proof silver dollar. I have no idea why I typed half. I was probably doing two things at...
Pretty much every raw coin I bought before I learned more about grading. I was taken horrendously multiple times, but I didn't realize it for...
I will pass on the gold piece. That's too much to pay for a little more than 8 grams of gold. Commemeratives are such a crap shoot that it's...
A little more searching revealed a Japanese Pachinko & Slot company called "Oh Ichioku" and it uses the same characters as in the first picture....
They are very likely Pachinko tokens, but I haven't been able to find any direct references for them. The first picture shows coins with a...
I ordered an Apollo 11 uncirculated silver half dollar only because I wanted it, not because I care about whether it will ever be worth anything....
I usually see the new year's cents around summer in my area. I've never seen one in January. I don't think I actually saw a 2018 cent in...
Does anyone know if the show is available for downloading or streaming?
If I can't afford it outright, I don't buy it. This philosophy has served me well and has kept me from buying coins that I can't actually afford....
Yes, that is correct. I remember rushing this post in the morning and worrying that I overlooked something. That will teach me! :D The Kanji on...
"明治二十五年" is the date of this 5 Yen coin, which means "Meiji Year 25 or 1950. That coin is the old style with the "Kaisho" lettering and has a...
Yes, "明治四十四年" is Meiji Year 44, or 1911, but this will display backwards on the coin because it dates to when Japanese was written right to left....
It does not say "pachinko," that would look like this: "パチンコ" The script in the center is in the Katakana alphabet. I think it says this: "サンプラザ"...
Those are all beautifully mutilated coins!!! Love it!!
Like others here already, I went through a period of extreme impulsivity and bought pretty much everything that even slightly interested me. This...
Yes, I do, or mostly did, make comics. I may start up again in the future. I drew a comic every 3 days for 7 years and decided to take a break....
Thanks for the information and advice, everyone. Here they are all wrapped up, as they have been for years now. I'll try putting them on the for...
I have about $7.50 of wheat cents that came down to me from various relatives. The dates range from 1910 - 1958 and all are in decent circulated...
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