Nice coin, LM. We have two CoinTalk threads about Augustus Cistophoric Tetradrachms! Here's the other thread about one which appeared in a...
Thank you for the information. Someone else sent me a closer look at the photograph from the film. [IMG] I sent the "Screamers" information to...
I run a "Coins in Movies" and "Coins on Television" website and sometimes receive emails with questions. A man wrote to me recently with an...
I walked by the local Coinstar machine this morning and saw a bright penny and a dime. I picked them up, the penny was a recent zinc coin and the...
"Hot Millions" is a 1968 British crime caper comedy. Marcus Pendleton (Peter Ustinov) is released from prison, passes himself off as a computer...
How did the seller ship the coin? Air mail, surface mail, registered? :)
I have bought several items on Ebay which were mailed from Australia to California. They took an average of two weeks to arrive. :)
My father was not a coin collector but he saved these sales tax tokens in the 1930's and put them in small containers. [IMG] Containers and US...
Why do so many of these coins have Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on them? Do the manufacturers consider her to be a "dinosaur"? :)
My East India Company 20 Cash took another ship and made it to India: [IMG] East India Company, Madras Presidency 20 Cash, Soho, 1808 Copper, 30...
"Say, Mister. Will you stake a fellow American to a meal?" [IMG] Success! [IMG] One like it: [IMG] Mexico peso 1924 Silver, 34 mm, 16.68 gm :)
Thank you! :)
This penny was not a Coinstar find but came from a supermarket change dispenser: [IMG] US Cent 1919-S (Weight 3.00 gm) It lost some weight...
These items were supposedly handed out in the 1920's by museums with Egyptian-themed exhibits. [IMG] Egyptian Oval Coin Bronze, 22 mm x 31 mm,...
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Congress has not approved any commemorative coins for 2025! :)
We have two threads on this same topic. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/no-us-commemorative-coins-for-2023.401721...
Cheap: [IMG] Germany Hamburg 4 Schillings 1728 Silver, 23.0 mm, 2.68 gm Obverse: HAMBURGER CURRENT 1728 / IIII SCHILL Reverse: CAROLUS VI D.G....
It looks like an Indian Islamic temple token and there are many varieties of them. Here is a similar one to yours:...
I went to the supermarket today and walked by the Coinstar machine. There was a gray dime in the reject bin and I picked it up. It was a 1944...
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