[IMG] The Fort Moultrie coin is going to confuse a lot of people as they are going to assume the soldier wearing the fez is a Turk and that he is...
Great Britain Coronation medal 12 May 1937: [IMG] The event went as planned with a slight change. :)
The design is criminal. :)
The US Mint made a mistake in delaying the sale of the silver coins to supposedly correct literary mistakes in the certificates. They should have...
Now I feel good about buying a Mark Twain gold coin without waiting for the silver coins to go on sale. :)
"My tail's for sale. Half-a-crown will lay me down!" The line is from Kathleen Winsor's infamous 1944 historical novel "Forever Amber", which was...
And it should have been minted (at least first) in silver... The US Mint website is announcing the sale date of the silver commemoratives as...
These are "generic" Masonic Pennies for lodges which did not want to spend the money for "personalized" ones. :)
I just received the new Mark Twain Commemorative $5 gold coin. [IMG] United States $5 2016 Mark Twain Uncirculated Commemorative Coin Mark...
The Walter Johnson on the 1911 medal is not the baseball player. The ballplayer was born in 1887 in Kansas. San Francisco Bridge medalists were...
The date/year on the dime looks like 1898. :)
I bought this silver "round" at a recent coin show: [IMG] Silver Round Egyptian Cleopatra Obverse: Cleopatra seated, Eye of Horus, Egyptian...
I have several Sovereigns and two Guineas, and this is my favorite: [IMG] Great Britain Sovereign 1963 Why 1963? Back in 1963 when I was a...
Missing Moon Rock Found! :)
I received this email today after I ordered a Mark Twain Commemorative Gold $5 Uncirculated coin. I do not know if it is a coincidence or not. I...
[IMG] Are you selling your crystal ball? Don't be silly, girl! :)
Thank you, jester3681, for posting the leaflet which describes the Max Mehl coin/token. I have one of these tokens and could not figure out who...
The Mark Twain commemoratives were supposed to go on sale on January 14, 2016, but the US Mint pulled the silver dollars and listed the sale date...
A five year old thread about (almost) five hundred year old coins. Makes sense. :)
What about Richard Halliburton? :)
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