´There is no dark side of the moon really, as a matter of fact it´s all dark´ Nice coin clembo, you are getting a great world coin collection...
Check your coin against this: http://www.shieldnickels.net/1883_2/1882Filled2_Page2.html Yours looks to be the narrow logotype, thus 1882...
Nice coins! Some of mine from Kutch: [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
That's amazing to find such coins in villages, it would be fun to see the others you have.
I don't know how you find these. Another coin with an impossible date. They were issued in the 70's and 80's, but not in 1972. If I were to...
Yes, its a Thai 1 baht. The date is BE 2547, which is 2004 AD.
That is an amazing brokage in the OP. Reminds me of the coin in the last Batman movie.
Yes, very old coins are not always valuable, especially if they are in very worn condition. But it has a personal history to you that makes it...
It is meant to be 1 ore from Sweden, dated 1673, it should be copper and 49 grams weight. It looks a bit crude, I don't know if that is typical of...
That's quite an interesting find for Blantyre. I would be surprised if it had been altered locally. Definite conversation piece.
Someone really messed with that coin. The 3d is an obvious alteration, along with the last digit of the date (changed from a 2, 4, 5, or 6). The...
How does a DDO on a merc have anything to do with a bison? I don't even begin to see where you are getting this.
I run across one of those about every 5000 coins or so. Look exactly like both examples above, down to the pitting and raised welts. In some...
The surface is very porous, very cast-looking, and there is a characteristic horizontal 'planchet flaw' on the right of the reverse (globe and...
Quite an interesting bunch of coins. The 1760 8 reales coin in post#18 is a fake.
Thanks for looking and commenting everyone. The Guatemala pillar fractionals are intruiging as well, but I agree they are even more difficult...
From the second series: #1 - 5 millim, Tunisia #2 - 5 millemes, Egypt, dated 1960 #3 - 20 millemes, Libya, 1965 #4 - 100 millimes, Tunisia...
#1 - 50 millemes from Libya, dated 1965 AD # 2 - 1 drachma from Greece #3 - 20 stotinki from Bulgaria
My daughter is also addicted to that site, great fun.
What you have is a magician's coin. The heads side of another coin was machined out and inserted into a circular slot carved from the first coin....
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