In 1964 I was a teenager living in California, and I bought some Norwegian coins by mail from the Bank of Norway, including the 10 Kroner above.
I refuse to collect coins from Mongolia until their government apologizes for the war crimes committed by Ghengiz Khan. :)
Has anyone done a similar economic analysis for the Harry Potter books?
There is another kind of "Masonic Penny" which is a token struck especially for a Freemason lodge. This one saw a lot of use, it is so worn:...
I have one that is a Dutch note signed mostly by women, it is dated 1945. It is on my website under "World Paper Money". Details:...
In 1964 I bought four of them by mail from the Vienna Mint in Austria, in proof condition, along with a couple of Austrian proof sets. I...
The cabin looks like the Unabomber's cabin.
Currency inflation in the Roman Empire is an old story. Gibbons book "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", published in the 1770's,...
[IMG] When I saw this coin on Ebay I had to have it. The figure on the coin looked to me like a movie space alien, and not a friendly one....
That was an excellent article! The odd bits of coinage are many times more interesting than the coinage of large countries or states. By...
I took the liberty of editing the above photographs with an old Corel editor: [IMG] It looks like one that I saw in a catalog for Brazil of...
And of course, there's my favorite big silver coin: The Mexico 1898 silver peso 1949 restrike: http://www.brianrxm.com/pages/mexsf.htm :)
Certainly a strange piece I found this on the internet, but the author admits he doesn't know anything about it either....
I revised my article on these odd coins and here it is again. I managed to obtain some more examples of these coins. In 1949 the San Francisco...
This one features an American Mountain Lion, not the usual African Lion: [IMG] :)
Looks OK to me, and about $30 to $50
King Krum Kills Kitty on Bulgaria 1930 10 Leva [IMG] Also known as the Madara Horseman.
I plan to buy some of the television silver dollars as soon as my $10,000,000 arrives from my new friend the Nigerian Prince. :smile
Looks like the Wildwinds ancient coin database is back up. Main: http://www.wildwinds.com Index: http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/index.html...
"9/11" has become an excuse for all kinds of deviant behavior.
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