Do you have a picture of a Bombay mint version by any chance? It seems unusually crude even for that place and time period.
Well, the title of the image is "jewish_war_year_3", so I guess that's the answer.
Thanks for your insight guys. It looked suspicious to me, also due to the cut marks near the left side of the edge on the first side, figured that...
But then the opposite side would be flat as a normal coin, it would not have a convex shape corresponding to the indent from the back-side.
Your suspicions were correct - this is not a genuine coin. This is a debased contemporary counterfeit, made in very low purity silver during the...
The legends on the second side appear somewhat thinner and are spaced farther in some parts when compared to slabbed genuine examples. I'm not...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Very-Rare-Error-1978-50-Centavos-indented-by-a-1978-10-Centavos-/370621850818?pt=US_World_Coins&hash=item564ac8a4c2 How...
Are they doing a whole dinosaur series, like so many African and Pacific nations typically do?
That Frauenfeld medal you posted was also made in silver.
Over the past year I've seen over a dozen of these on eBay in separate incidents. All dated 1882 Zacatecas mint, JS assayer. They are consistent...
Weakness in some details, grainy looking surfaces, strong rim irregularities on the 1910 coin, highly unlikely matching appearance and peripheral...
They are not made of silver, which is why even common coins worth only bullion value are counterfeited.
The funny thing is, if the seller says it's fake, then eBay will close the listing. If they don't say it, ebay leaves it alone until they get a...
I have one of the same year. I believe they made them with this frozen date for several years, so there are likely some differences. I believe...
It's a novelty replica, just like the one shown at the bottom of this page: http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=40416
It looks like an Indian States coin to me. You paid a fair price for it.
Used to deal with Steve Halfon mostly, but sadly some crooked scumbags robbed and killed the guy. Don't really have anyone else I deal with locally.
They haven't flogged peasants in Latvia since the Stalin era.
When countermarked coins are cleaned such as these are, that's a huge red flag. The cleaning hides the contrast between patina on an old coin and...
The Straits Settlements (British colony) had 1/4 cent coins between 1845 and 1916. Ceylon also had 1/4 cent coins from 1870 to 1901 and French...
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