Last month I sold two foreign coins on eBay to someone in New York. A few weeks later the buyer contacted me and said the tracking showed the item...
First off, let me state that I am an experienced world coin collector and I have several local sources of coins for my collection. But lately my...
Who's ever seen a currency where the threepence is much bigger than the sixpence, even though they're made of the same copper-nickel metal? And...
This came in a holder that was labeled 1931 Afghanistan 25 pul, but I can't find it in Krause. Am I just missing it or is it something else? I...
So I'm a copy editor with an English degree and spelling and languages are kind of my thing. Recently I purchased a bunch of those "coin sets of...
I'll never figure this one out on my own. Please help me ID it. [ATTACH]
I'm sure I'm just somehow overlooking this but I can't find it in Krause. I think it's either Egypt or Turkey. The date I read as 1327 plus the...
I don't really know why but I like something about the big, yellowish Danish krones and kroners. I recently bought a big group of them from my...
I bought a lot of coins today at my LCS. Here's some interesting ones. First off, I've been more interested in Asian coins lately and there are...
If you saw my other thread about Palestine, you'll know that I recently was able to search through bins of coins that were all purchased from a...
First a little backstory. I've been going to the same coin shop for years and I always dig through their 25 cent world coins bins. Usually they've...
I just got back from a coin shop having purchased a lot of coins that someone stored in little plastic sleeves. It's hard to look at the coins in...
Everyone does! I don't claim to have every elephant coin out there but I do have a bunch, and I want to share them with you. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
I came across an advertising token on eBay that I'm interested in. It's supposedly from the 1880s in either the UK or Australia and is the size of...
I stopped at a coin shop yesterday and came home with some neat stuff. Here are some of the highlights. First some lovely coins from Mexico....
I kind of splurged recently to get some nicer coins that my collection lacked. I don't buy online much anymore but sometimes when you want a...
Today I checked the mail and I saw an envelope in my own handwriting, so I knew what it was. I sell coins on eBay and once in awhile one of them...
Last week I visited a new shop that specializes in world coins. The drawback of this as opposed to where I normally go is they know what stuff is...
I have a few go-to shops which are great, but once you visit a shop you can't go back right away because they won't have anything. So I have the...
One of my motivating factors in coin collecting is gathering coins from unusual places. I love items from former colonies, obscure countries,...
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