Oh but I don't. :) I just find it amusing that people who have `seen the light' talk about it being `the darkside'. A bit of a contradiction in...
I know I won't be popular for saying this but......It has NEVER been dark concerning being a collector of world coins. People who come here either...
If it's anything other than silver then its definitely a copy / replica which has been made for collectors / tourists. I've a good few replicas...
Thanks for that. My German isn't all it could be. It's certainly worse than it once was, and it's no longer a tenth as good as it might have been....
Here's a coin of Guillaume X of Aquitaine, Eleanor's dad. http://tinyurl.com/9hfxd
I should have said `pentagram and later hexagram....' The type started off being pentagrams. They were quickly changed to hexagrams during the...
The Deols mint pentagram type deniers and obols seem to have been introduced during the period of Odo the Old (1012-44). It's a pentagram rather...
That's the coin I have referenced for you.
Right up my street! So if you ever want to part with it, let me know:). Also, see my response to Doug's post. If you ever want to know more...
This jeton is from a municipal series `Prevots des Marchands'. Basically the jeton commemorates his third election as Provost of Paris (His first...
I know of only one such six pointed star coin issued in the name of Phillip II (1188 - 1202). It is found referenced in `The Silver Coins of...
Notgeld (literally `note money') is basically emergency money issued by local towns, co-operatives, industrial societies, regional authorities in...
The item looks to me to be a copy of a Guldiner from the Hall mint in the Austrian Tyrol. The very first Guldiner / Thaler minted there. The...
You are of course most welcome. You don't have to bother yourself to authenticate the coin for me. After all, i'm not interested in buying it. I...
As GD has already mentioned, Czechoslovakia didn't exist as a state in its own right in the 19th century. It was part of the Austro - Hungarian...
It is difficult to find lower denom. commem notes in circulation.. If you don't get them when they are first released you've basically had it as...
nice coin, and good investment. These days its becoming harder to find examples in that condition. Ian
Why is it that I just can't bring myself to believe a word of your story? What I suggest you have your brothers friends grandfather do is to take...
OK so where was this coin dug up (countrywise)?
Now THAT sounds interesting. Must find an excuse for getting my butt down to York :) Ian
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