Americans have started using the McDonald's "Big Mac" tokens as one dollar coins. :)
1948 and 1949 were the centennials of the California gold discovery and gold rush. The American Numismatic Association (ANA) held it's annual...
I watched the 1949 crime film "Scene of the Crime" a few days ago and spotted an interesting piece of dialog. An informer tells police detective...
The figure is Hanuman, the Hindu Monkey God. :)
I thought that I was watching too many movies. :)
Any pics of the coins? [IMG] :)
This little 4" x 3" plastic coin saving bank is from the Cleveland Trust Company of Cleveland, Ohio. A friend from a hiking club showed it to me....
France copper Louis XVI 2 sols 1793 (L'An 5) BB mintmark (Strasbourg) :)
A good book on Mary is Antonia Fraser's Mary Queen of Scots, published in 1969. It has a detailed description of how the "death penalty" was...
I'll bet that no one uses these as pocket pieces. :)
When I was a kid in 1964 I started collecting world coins and used the book "A Catalog of Modern World Coins" by R. S. Yeoman, sixth edition,...
It confuses the heck out of people to mix English and Latin. :)
Let's all wise up! [IMG] :)
Here he is, reimaged for 2018, the man himself! [IMG] Antoninus Pius Aureus - Standing with Globe Obverse: Laureate head right - ANTONINVS AVG...
[IMG] Britain sovereign 1963 :)
[IMG] What is your question? :)
On a nice day I might get fifty cents for this: [IMG] :)
LM, Congratulations on your Islamic-Christian gold coin. In AD 1250 Pope Innocent IV (AD 1243-1254) ordered Crusaders to stop making gold coins...
I am fascinated by books written by long-ago explorers and I recently read the 1925 book My Life as an Explorer by Sven Hedin. Sven Hedin...
Possibly somebody at the mint made a mistake in the year. :)
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