After thinking a little more, and this should have been obvious to me sooner, the katakana actually reads "Jumbo 7." The katakana alphabet is used...
Ah, sorry, I just noticed that you had already mentioned that above. I think that clinches it as a pachinko token for the parlor indicated. I'm...
Is the flip side of the token identical?
The characters are in katakana (one of the Japanese alphabets) and seem to read: シャンボセブン or roughly, "Shyanbosebun." When I look that up, I get a...
Yes, it is Japanese. I can't quite read some of the characters. I'll try again later.
I've never had anything valued at over $1,000 shipped without requiring a signature (unless I've explicitly told the shipper I didn't need it)....
This is true. Vcoins, though it does have US coins, contains mostly ancients and non-US coins. MA Shops, another massive online coin marketplace...
"The Complete Guide to Slab Varieties that You Should Care About. Really, you SHOULD care. Really! I mean it! You SHOULD care. Please? Won't you...
Whew... nothing in my area this week... that means I'll have plenty of money left for food...
I did not buy one. I considered it some months ago when they announced the series, but as time went on my interest waned and waned down into a...
Yes, that is classic ransom ware. The internet can be an agonizingly dangerous place these days. A few proactive things to do for others who have...
I sympathize. I can't focus for more than a week or so. All it takes is a trip to another coin show to send me spiraling off on some thing that...
I completely missed the grading prophecy, but nice coin in any case! My guess as I went through the thread was AU something, but that's pretty...
In essence: if abstract future people will want to buy them, then an abstract future market will exist. The future can be SO annoying... :wacky:
This forum has made me even MORE leery of buying anything of value raw on Ebay. I happily buy VERY low value coins, the kind that even if they...
The story says it all:...
A safe seems like the way to go if you want immediate access to your collection. I don't have an enormous collection, but anything of enough value...
I plan to buy a mega red every 5 years or so (unless something else compels me to buy one). They take up immense space on bookshelves and they're...
The best news is that there aren't really any rules. As others have said, you do want to educate yourself as much as possible to avoid potentially...
Thanks again everyone for the great replies! Yes, the variations are not huge, or potentially very interesting, by any means. This page shows...
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