One wonders what will happen when the thieves start cutting up their "coin" and discover that it is a gold-plated fake. :)
BERLIN (AP) — Berlin police say thieves broke into the German capital's Bode Museum and made off with a massive 100-kilogram (221-pound) gold coin...
[IMG] Samuel Bridge Medal awarded to Grace Jackson in 1890 Silver, 34mm, 15.04gm The Samuel Bridge silver medals were awarded to the top male...
Thank you for your service. :)
I located a Token and Medal Society (TAMS) article about the Denman Medals, "The Denman Grammar School Medals of San Francisco" by Michael...
I have one in copper-nickel: [IMG] Aladdin's Castle arcade token Copper-nickel, 21mm, 4.09gm :)
These "Coins of Ireland" animal coins were sold in sets in the 1950's and my father bought two of them. [IMG] Ireland Farthing 1953 [IMG]...
It is an America Aladdin's Castle Arcade token and these are made of brass or copper-nickel. They are not worth very much unless in uncirculated...
I live in California and I so wished that my state had made sales tax tokens. :)
Morgan silver dollars are supposed to weigh around 26.73 gm. My grandmother lived near Reno and pulled these worn specimens out of circulation in...
[IMG] If Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney don't show up soon I am going to go over the rainbow and see a wizard. :)
Repeated with new pictures: This British newspaper front page has a small article on coins of Edward VIII: Daily Herald newspaper, December 11,...
For some reason my previous images do not display now. :)
The 1942 MGM Red Skelton comedy film "Whistling in Dixie" has Red and his girlfriend Ann Rutherford in Georgia involved in a hunt for a...
Supposedly the last year that Chinese merchants chop marked coins was 1935 when China abandoned the silver standard. This is my latest, from...
The coins in the OP's post appear to date from the time of the Crusades, and one may have been manufactured by Crusaders who sometimes copied...
This one has done the state some service: [IMG] United States $20 1864-S This coin popped out of the San Francisco Mint on Commercial Street...
Some old coins can be hundreds or thousands of years old. It is interesting to handle old coins and wonder who handled them before. [IMG] Athens...
Both the hollow nickel and the silver peace dollar with the poison needle are in the film. :)
From Trailing the Giant Panda by Theodore Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt, published in 1929 Here we stopped to arrange our money transfers. This...
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