No trains but Bholu the Indian Railways Guard: India 2 Rupees 2003 - 150 Years of Indian Railways Copper-nickel, 26 mm 6.04 gm 150 Glorious...
It's from the Forrest Fenn "treasure box". :)
From the San Francisco Chronicle December 7, 1994: [IMG] Benicia is a town near San Francisco. :)
Edward VIII became King of England in early 1936 and abdicated late that year, because: 1. He gave up the throne for the woman he loved. or 2. He...
The reverse of one of the above tokens was reproduced on film prop coins. [IMG] Los Angeles Rubber Stamp Company - James Monroe Token - Bird of...
Nice coins! I became interested in Islamic coins around the beginning of 2020 and grew more interested as the year went by. Later I also became...
[IMG] Franklin D. Roosevelt "Lucky Tillicum" Coin - US Capitol and Dirigible Brass, 32 mm, 12.86 gm The dirigible is probably the US Navy rigid...
I remember Dean Kamen's appearances on the "60 Minutes" television program announcing the secret "world's greatest invention" which turned out to...
There are US Mint reports from 1795 on at the Newman Numismatic Portal: https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/516123 The Newman links to the Chicago...
This coin got me interested in planetary conjunctions early last year: [IMG] Mughal Rupee Shah Jahan, Agra, AH 1038 Silver, 22 mm, 10:47 gm, KM...
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Love means never having to say you're sorry. :)
One needs color once in a while: [IMG] A distant relative of mine was an elderly woman who liked to buy stuff advertised on television. :)
Beautiful coin! I have some Mughal coins of later emperors and have enjoyed attempting to read the Arabic inscriptions (Persian) while staying...
I remember a movie I saw on television once called "A Kid for Two Farthings". :)
[IMG] Brazil 960 reis 1816-R, Rio de Janiero, King Joao as regent Silver, 40 mm, 26.80 gm Obverse: Crowned arms of Portugal and three petals at...
Watch the skies. Everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies. :)
The coin looks like an Afghanistan rupee minted in the late 1800's. :)
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I believe that the Grace Kelly medal is real. I have some San Francisco school medals from the early 1900's inscribed with the names of...
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