Keep it or sell it? Deciding what to do with the family silver From the San Jose Mercury News, July 7, 2022: There's no right and wrong here,...
American ingenuity at it's best for over 100 years. [IMG] Egyptian Magic Coin, manufactured in the early 1900's, colors added by hand. :)
Welcome to the club and nice coin! [IMG] Roman Empire - Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161) - Aureus Gold, 19.5 mm 7.26 gm Obverse: Laureate head right...
These quarter-size brass angel tokens are sent out with religious group fund-raising mailers asking for donations. They are very common. :)
Have you seen the little piggies playing in the dirt? [IMG] Gus' Good Foods Restaurant Chicago Advertising Token - Pig Front and Rear Brass,...
This coin is my first Coinstar foreign coin find in some time. [IMG] Jamaica One Dollar 1996 Nickel-steel, 18.0 mm, 2.90 gm Some time ago the...
Old coins got around in amazing ways. Silver dirhams minted in the Islamic world around the year AD 1000 have been found in Scandinavian...
[IMG] Tibet 3 Srang Date: Cycle 16 Year 10 (1936) Silver, 30.0 mm, 12.16 gm The High Lama will explain all. :)
The Goonies coin from the 1985 film: [IMG] Goonies movie prop coin The coin appears to imitate the reverse of a coin of England's Elizabeth I...
[IMG] Britain India Rupee 1919 Silver, 30.0 mm, 11.61 gm He's tiny but he's there. :)
I bought this moidore several years ago as one of the original "pirate" coins. [IMG] Portugal Moidore 4000 Reis 1704 Gold, 29 mm, 10.71 gm,...
This month the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable channel has been showing films starring Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong. Before showing...
It is an India temple token, not a coin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_temple_tokens :)
It is possible that the lost "gold penny" was an Austrian ducat, a gold coin minted for a long time by Austria including from 1780 to 1790. :)
Oddly enough, today I received a Canada cent dated 1964 from a California Safeway store. :)
[IMG] "No Man of Her Own" Seventeen cents The film was based on the Cornell Woolrich (William Irish) novel I Married a Dead Man published in...
My mother and her mother attended the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition and saved one of these items: [IMG] Chicago Exposition - Wooden...
I recently received a Bahamas pineapple five cents coin in change from the post office. :)
I have these two 1848 large cents: [IMG] United States Large Cent 1848 - Dark [IMG] United States Large Cent 1848 - Light :)
For those with cable television, the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel is showing several Anna May Wong movies this month (May 2022). On May 5...
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