I think it's great that you asked the question about offensiveness, it at least shows consideration for the perspectives of others, something...
平成二十年 is actually Heisei 20, or 2008. Heisei 12 would read 平成十二年 So the coin is from 2008, not 2000. It is a 500 Yen (五百円) coin from Japan...
1916 Buffalo Nickel graded MS64 by NGC [IMG] [IMG]
BILLIONS of state quarters were minted. Literally billions. Sand grains are probably more rare in some parts of the world. On top of that, a lot...
It's apparently an Austrian "Lucky New Year Token" put out by Sacher - maybe the Hotel? https://www.sacher.com/en/hotel-sacher-wien/...
Everyone wants to protect their investments, of course, but if you don't buy things that you enjoy then this hobby will become intolerably boring...
One of these finally came my way - the one year type Japanese Yen Dragon with the Emperor Taisho's name on it rather than Meiji's. This was the...
Ah, so they are all non-circulating according to the link - a collector's only offering. That makes more sense. The mint must make plenty of money...
Somewhere, sadly I don't remember where, Grover Norquist led a movement to replace FDR with Reagan on the dime. This was after Reagan's death, of...
I have every Kookaburra back to the first issue and the previous issues' values seem to keep rising beyond their silver price. Every time I see an...
Yes, Edward VI portrait coins have something ineffably appealing about them. I picked up these two a while ago. I honestly can't remember what I...
Well, that was the year that the British burned Washington D.C. almost to the ground, so perhaps that "feature" is somewhat appropriate. But later...
This is one of those interesting situations I've also found myself in. Did you do anything wrong by buying and flipping the coin? Not really. Was...
After reading "Numismatic Forgery" by Charles Larson and hearing about more and more examples of forgeries of extremely valuable coins getting...
TOUCHDOWN!!!!!
I forgot to mention @DallasCoinsNThings that it was purchased as a "head of 1794."
Fantastic! Thank you for the responses! All of my numismatic reading over the years has emphasized leaving a coin alone unless some drastic...
I recently acquired this 1794 Large Cent which, yes, has been cleaned, compromised and has probably been through some historic trials and...
1794 Large Cent - probably G5 - G6, but good enough for me (pun maybe intended?) - it was very likely cleaned at some point and my favorite part,...
1858-O 50¢ graded XF45 by PCGS. From the era of James Buchanan - not too far from Lincoln and the Civil War... this thing has seen some turbulent...
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