Of course, gxseries, you may use the photo, and I can send you other photos without the red lines. This coin, in fact, was not painfully...
Thanks again, Clinker, that was a great read. Here is one of my only examples, a Yemeni 1 ahmadi riyal dated 1375 AH, overstruck on a MT thaler....
I agree with the year BE2536.
In that case, being a geek sounds like being in a heavy metal band. Cool.
The obverse (your last picture) looks very much like a bust of King Farouk, Egypt, which would date it 1936-1952AD. The size is about 5 piastres....
Its a Thai 2 baht coin, dated 2548 BE = 2005 AD.
British Caribbean Territories - Eastern Group is a series of islands in the Caribbean lumped together for monetary purposes due to their status as...
They are all from Thailand, all 1 baht except for the large one which is 5 baht. There are presently 31 baht to the US $, so there isn't a lot of...
The coin with the antelopes is a 100 shilingi from Tanzania. 'Mia moja' means literally 'one hundred ones'. The obverse (not shown) features...
Do you read only one newspaper article about an event, or only one history book about a subject that interests you, or do you try a number of...
OPEN! What fun are coins if you can't see them.
This can be useful, I often look at these, but you have to look carefully at the list of past winning bids. For example if the prices seem to be...
I don't think eBay is much of a guide at all, for the following reasons: 1) as stated, people overpay in the panic of bidding 2) quality of...
Your efforts to post on Coin Talk are greatly appreciated by many, Clinker. Thanks once again for the great numismatic history.
Those are great notes, glad you enjoyed China, my last trip there was in early 2005, and based on the construction I saw in Beijing and Shanghai,...
Excellent quote, thanks for posting it.
No. It is a 100 millemes from Tunisia. Look at the following page, a ways down: http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/Tunisia_all.html
Correct. A 20 leptas from Greece.
The question really depends on whether you consider face value or metal value to be more relevant. Example: In Venezuela, there are officially...
Wow, that was a great deal of information, interesting patterns all, some good obverses. Thanks much as always for the trivia!
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