Roy, I had a question. Was the clay coins circulated in Tokyo or Osaka? I had been reading some articles and some say Osaka and some say Tokyo. As...
There is something I wondered about this, "Do you know Japan struck 1,500 platinum 10 Momme bullion coins in Showa year 12 (1937)?" Do you...
Here might be an interesting link provided by the Japanese mint. http://www.mint.go.jp/eng/kids/pre-page02-e.html
Hey, where are the great examples of Japanese pre Edo coins, like the gold oban and koban? Example can be seen at coinvault's site:...
I don't understand what you are trying to say. Do you mean, are you trying to design coins that commemorate wars? If that's the case, there are...
You might want to save the picture as a jpg. Alternatively if it's just pictures, you might want to sign up a free account at...
I made a big mistake in trying to collect Imperial Russian coins. Now the set seems to be almost impossible to complete!!! :(
Actually to look at this perspective, melting pennies down seems to be extremely ridicious. You might as well dig underground to steal real copper...
Most world coins are using nickel cupro because they are cheap and hard. If I am not mistaken, that is for most of the alloys used for the...
Ok, I'll be insane and say 6,555 coins. Yes I know it's random :P
I had some nasty effects with copper coins using acetone. Use it with precaution as well as, do it in a well ventaliated area! You don't want any...
There are some types of counterfeited coins that are collectable. For example, a counterfeited gold ducat by the St. Petersburg mint is one...
Well even if they are legit, most of the time people think they can get a bargain there and often overpriced.
Russia 1834 Alexsander Column ruble commemorative.
Try to post a picture if you can. Usually if the details aren't too clear, you can roughly assume that someone tried to strip the copper plating...
If it's bigger than 100k, you might want to sign up a FREE account on this page: http://www.imageshack.us :)
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