These days it's no longer that simple. Sellers are doing everything they can to make a dollar off you. Basic rule of thumb is know what you are...
Perhaps it is your time to do some homework. China at this time was in an internal struggle after the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, becoming...
Turns out I do own both 200 and 500 cash - I haven't photograph them... Note that 'Soviet China' is a bit of a generic term. I do have two...
Xinjiang Province... I admit their coins are somewhat unusual and I started to collect them. Only down side is while I can read Mandarin, Arabic...
I have to find mine - they are hiding somewhere as usual... I didn't really care too much about the 1 and 5 fen and got the restruck version....
In 2015 and 2016, Japan released 9 coins of various Shinkansen at 'face value'. These coins are very popular and of course got hoarded. A...
Site designer kinda need to show that they can do a better job otherwise they are out of one?
Just try one of each type. I started off doing year and variety and that got very expensive. It's hard to stop now unless I seriously consider to...
There's nothing wrong collecting circulating coinage and it is a cheap way of doing it. In fact one can make cheap money from it. For instance the...
I guess the reason why I started the topic of minimum wage is because people from different countries see value differently. I started collecting...
Unlike countries that got rid of their 5 cents - Hong Kong and New Zealand comes to mind, this is not a simple matter of running prices up or...
I have been doing a bit of looking around and had been thinking that coin collecting is not all about throwing big bucks on coins. I decided to...
I can sweet where Richard is coming from. Yes I agree that there is a strong possibility that it may be a mule. Would be nice to see an example...
I'm certain it has to do with the Hijri calendar as it does not align exactly with the Georgian calendar.
The cost of production of the nickel coin is covered by seigniorage of other coinage. Dollar coin would be very profitable but due to the demand...
Soccer and Russia? Have to see if I have any other country coins [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img]
A bit of damage and some aluminum oxidization but a nice coin. :) For some reason this particular coin is starting to be somewhat uncommon...
Well done! Despite the technical weight of what a typical 7.2 mace coin is supposed to be (around 27.2g) - Kweichow Province was known to strike...
I would highly suggest to buy Uzdenikov's catalog. That would at least tell you the basics of what you are going to look at. Some were reeded,...
There have been cases of some fraudsters stripping the paint off using acetone and claim that they are error coins. They can come off easily but I...
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