These items are well struck and must have been expensive to make. I wonder if the Vienna Mint has records (if they were actually struck there). :)
Does anyone know how did Numista come up with the AD year 1965 for the AH year 1352? "** Exonumia ** - Fantasy issues - Tarim"...
I have one of these items, acquired in the 1960's from a California coin dealer's "junk box". [IMG] 23mm, 3.95gm, metal appears to be...
The coin is a fantasy Arabian 1 Dinar coin. The date is AH 1352 (AD 1933). Made at the Vienna Mint in 1965 by somebody named Bernard O'Hea,...
Here is an article from Numismatic News on these items which uses the word "novodel" along with photographs:...
Doctor Thomas Dooley was a celebrity when I was in junior high school in the early 1960's. There was a curious incident where I filled out a...
My bad. :)
When I saw the title "silver penny" I thought the thread was about a medieval coin. :)
Here's an Ebay seller attempting to sell the silver Liberty Bell Mint medal....
I get vertigo just looking at the picture Just think of the fun Alfred Hitchcock would have had at Stone Mountain. :)
Probably some kid's coin collection. :)
Third man arrested for burglary of Rob Gronkowski’s house...
Remember the "Three million stolen nickels" from 2005?...
Coming to a Coinstar machine near you! :)
A Leprechaun's coin? :)
I always liked your Charles V coin (the carolus). :)
The 1923/93 coin is a gold bullion coin about the same size as a British sovereign. Here are Turkish Mint figures up to 2013:...
By coincidence, this little item arrived on May 3, 2015 just before the Mexican holiday "Cinco de Mayo", which celebrates the Mexican Army victory...
I collected world coins when I was a kid in the 1960's but never managed to get one from Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, then a Portuguese colony off...
There are several threads here and on other forums discussing the rarity of women in numismatics. My grandmother was a coin collector, of US...
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