Nice coin! :)
Afghanistan, Abdur Rahman, 1 Qiran, Herat mint, AH 1297 (AD 1880) Here is one very much like it:...
[IMG] Portugal 5 Escudos 1943 Silver, 25.0 mm, 7.0 gm Portugal managed to stay neutral and out of the active war. :)
A good day at the Coinstar machine: About US $4 in quarters and US $1 in dimes. Keepers: Canada 25 cents 1988, China Peoples Republic steel 1...
I found this coin in a CoinStar-type machine reject bin in 2015: [IMG] The coin was probably altered with a file to pass as a dime in a vending...
Not That Joe but Johannes V, King of Portugal and Brazil. He was known as João or in English, John, and in Latin, Johannes. He lived from AD 1689...
I received about ten of these in change from a hotel in Cairo in 1987: [IMG] Egypt 5 Piastres 1984 I liked the design - simple yet effective. :)
Elizabeth I was also known as the "Virgin Queen". As a queen she was a success. [IMG] England Silver Sixpence 1561 Elizabeth I :)
A coin from France's "Spider King" Louis XI (AD 1461-1483): [IMG] France Louis XI Ecu d'Or Gold, 27 mm, 3.34 gm, Perpignan Mint Obverse: Shield...
One learns something every day about early American numismatics. I did not know that the United States changed the size of the five dollar gold...
An Edward VIII fantasy crown for Southern Rhodesia: [IMG] Southern Rhodesia Fantasy Crown 1937 - Edward VIII Silver, 38mm, 23.98gm :)
My grandparents lived in Chicago in the 1950's and my grandfather was a salesman for a French company. In 1956 his company sent him and...
Recently I came across a small article about a 1946 detective film entitled "The French Key" which starts with a man finding a dead man's body in...
The two kings Timurid Timur (Tamerlane) and Mughal Shah Jahan both called themselves "Sahib Qiran" which meant the "Lord of the Auspicious...
It could be an undated 1/4 mohur of Mughal Akbar. :)
I managed to lose a GSA Carson City silver dollar which I bought during the sales of the early 1970's. I noticed the coin missing in the early...
This Antoninus Pius sestertius came cheap but provided me with days of fun trying to identify it as it was not listed in the RIC or Cohen Roman...
It looks like an Indian Islamic temple token and apparently there are many varieties. The Colonnade mosque series of Indian Islamic temple tokens...
Valence is a town in south-east France. The bishops of Valence had heard about the First Crusade (AD 1096-1099) and that the Crusaders would be...
The United States started minting the clad copper coins in 1965 specifically for vending machines. The copper matched the electronic conductivity...
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