Just a few years ago, I was using this in Turkey: [img] [img]
Yes, there are a few if you are talking about precious metals. The Chinese panda had an extremely short lived gold centered - silver outer ring...
I personally prefer this: [img]
It depends on what you dip into. If you dip coins into acetone, this removes organic materials which are stuck on the coin, such as PVC, oil etc...
Sorry, it's tantalum, not titanium as you thought. The Kazakh mint has made history by striking the first coin in tantalum. It's only second to...
Actually the very OS that you are using at the moment. I'm just catagorizing them by country, era, denomination. I then name them accordingly to...
I took a look in my Russian coin collection but unfortunately I don't have spares - just bad culls that I gave them away. Those years can be quite...
It is complete according to how you wish to define a set. Not too hard. :)
It looks whizzed but I hope I am wrong.
It looks like it has been whizzed.
Very interesting! You would think that during sample slabs process, there would have been a lot less examples to go through and yet that bizarre...
Looks like it was fed into those enlongated coin machine but it never got struck for some reason.
Definately Russian. I'm missing of that date in my collection. http://www.gxseries.com/numis/rus_imperial/cu_group_xviii.htm
Platinum prices are absurdly high at the moment. There are plans of increasing production levels in Zimbabwe, a rather politically problematic...
Try Qing Dao or or Kiau Chau. It should look like this: http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/China.html
Nice catch - seems like you got something there.
I started to bite the bug on overstrikes and unusual world coins. There are just too much to discover. One of the most unusual coins is this:...
Random token from China.
Daggerjon, I'm actually quite perplexed - the scanners in all-in-one are usually of much cheaper quality and it's more likely that such machines...
That's wierd - I used to have a Epson all in one scanner too and I used it to scan perhaps 300 pages at one go (yes, I'm not joking) when I was...
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