I would suspect that it is a medal rather than a coin. Perhaps a temple token?
Compared to a 1954 Greek 5 Drachma, this coin is STRONGLY magnetic.
Is there an easy way to tell apart the 72% silver and the nickel varieties of the 1967 1 Gulden? My Krause shows 7m silver & 31m nickel made with...
Here's a larger (although not much clearer) photo. It looks like the date area had heightened wear on this piece:...
I recently picked up a Canadian 20 Cent piece. In attributing it, I found that there are 3 different date varieties. Any idea which this one is?...
Of course. But, I'm wondering what others on the board would peg the value at. There's not a lot of auction records to scan for comparison.
I didn't bid an excessively high amount for it, but I was a bit disappointed to find out that it is unlikely to be genuine. How much would you...
It's a uniface medal, appears to be pewter. Fairly large (small belt buckle size). Unfortunately, as I did further research, it appears that...
I bought one of these at a coin club meeting last night, billed as a Vichy French work permit for construction workers who built the...
Yes, just like that. What was the original coin? I mean, the 1977 date seems to mark this as an obvious restrike / tribute, but what is it based on?
Seems like a 1977 restrike of something... but I don't know if this was made by a mint or private medal company: [ATTACH][ATTACH] The obverse...
I picked up a half pahlavi from Iran last night: Anyone familiar enough with these to help me grade it? Also, Krause doesn't have mintage...
Beautiful design - I'd love to see it in person to see how it translated to such a larger size. What's the diameter on those?
What's the best resource for learning about the Newcomb varieties?
Saw this today... and missed bidding on it while I was trying to find out more about it:
This is a seriously thick coin too. When did coins switch from the thickness & weight of cartwheel pennies to modern thicknesses?
Bump
For the banknote collectors out there, there are also 2 DW notes that were created for the series (to be used when money came flying out of an...
Where do you get that ratio from? I mean, there were fixed rates of exchange in the past that may have been loosely related to supply numbers at...
If he tried selling the bars again the next day, then you've got a pretty good case that he's knowingly selling fakes.
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