[IMG] Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem gold Bezant Specs: 20mm, 3.90gm, struck AD 1148-1187 In 1099 when the Pope launched the Crusades, gold coins...
Nice coin! :)
I found a Cuban coin in a CoinStar machine reject bin in July 2016. [IMG] Cuba 10 Centavos 2013 As was proper and politically correct, the...
Will the acetone take the paint off of the quarter? :)
Actually a nice historical coin. I thought from the title that we were going to get another visit from Eunice. :)
The Ebay prohibition on selling Cuban coins is from the Ebay company not the President or the US Government. :)
Amazing! :)
This tiny gold coin is possibly the smallest modern machine-struck coin ever made. [IMG] Guatemala 4 Reales 1860 Obverse: Rafael Carrera facing...
I remember these two coins issued by Japan to commemorate the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. [IMG] Japan 1000 Yen 1964 Olympics Silver 35mm [IMG] Japan...
I received this 1912 penny from a change machine at the local Safeway grocery store in 2010. [IMG] Where had it been for 98 years? :)
The US mints made circulating Netherlands and Curacao coins then and both types circulated in Curacao. The 1/4 Guilder or 25 cent coin is silver...
I can't pick a favorite but this is one of them: [IMG] Alexander the Great of Macedonia - Gold Stater - Babylon Helmeted head of Athena facing...
Another coin from the good old days: [IMG] United States $10 1850 Millard Fillmore was President (second half of 1850). :)
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Since we are proposing extreme ideas, what about this one? There was a man in our coin club who lived in a house that was built in the 1920's by...
Russia issued these two commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad: [IMG] Russia 3 Rubles 1993 Stalingrad (32mm, 14.06gm) [IMG] Russia 10 Rubles...
These coins do not have the denomination on them so one needs the diameter or weight to tell the value. What is the diameter of the coin? :)
I also have an 1810 Napoleon 20 Francs, but not in as good shape as the previously posted coin: [IMG] France 20 Francs 1810 Napoleon I Mint:...
A good biography of King Farouk is Too Rich: The High Life and Tragic Death of King Farouk by William Stadiem, published in 1991. Farouk was an...
This Egyptian coin commemorates the third anniversary of the revolution which ousted the infamous King Farouk. [IMG] Egypt Pound 1955 - Third...
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