It is legal tender but no longer circulating. These would have pulled out of circulation many years ago. The current 12 sided coin is still...
Looks like there's a huge interest in these albums, which is why we need a manufacturer who can make them. I can do the design :) Dansco might...
There is no way this was made during the Wing dynasty. If you look at Chinese silver history, most of their silver are cast silver in the shape of...
There's no way that is a Qing dynasty bar. They were more crude and this is clearly a modern production. If it is a genuine Qing dynasty sycee,...
That I agree. The very company that I worked at preached about safety - next minute had managers publicly embarrassed people for not performing....
I worked at a site where fatality did occur. If anyone dares to say profits first over safety - one might as well sign a death wish. I didn't know...
Never collected Afghanistan coin so this is totally out of my field. I only purchased it as it looked like an overstruck coin which is something...
Agreed with points given. Why the heck would he pay a "fake" for 200 dollars. He knows what he's doing. Don't accept his nonsense and ask for it...
I think your entire collection will be more appropriate to be named the great panzerman collection ;)
It does say bank trial purpose in Chinese so that Chinese banks can know what genuine money feels like. In short, it's not genuine. If this is...
Yes, both type exist. This was struck in an era where cost cutting / profiteering is of high priority. Or rather it has always been the case. Both...
Wow haven't seen something like this for a while!
Nice! Does the album have a slot for this? [img]
Correction: it's the 1793 EM overstruck 5 kopek that's the most common of the overstruck type.
I don't agree. Some EM coins can be very expensive. In 1797 5 kopek coins were overstruck using older dies. These were overstruck over 1796 10...
Japan is absurdly hard if not rare. They rarely appear in the market for starters. Never heard of Chinese ones.
1870 is indeed the first year of mass produced coins Japan struck. The equipment was bought off from the closure of Hong Kong mint in 1868 so the...
Guess I'm throwing myself out in the wild. I've seen some interesting videos on YouTube and wandered around checking out numismatic related. Some...
The bat theme appears in Hong Kong 1997 commemorative 5 dollar coin [img] Supposedly it's 5 bats of happiness surrounded by the character...
Can you please post a photo of this album? I've made two digital album - ones a type set and the other is a complete set. Korean type set...
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