If we're into odd denominations, not just 15 cents, the Continental Congress got into some strange denominations of paper, all based on the...
Not in great shape, but 15 kopeks, USSR, 1933[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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Yes, to all the above comments.
Looks like a normal 1975 cent, with a bit of environmental exposure.
Really nice coin! Thanks, @tibor for the giveaway!
Probably a bit of grease in the die.
No idea, but you should use pliers to mash the staples flat so you don't scratch other coins in holders. That would create PMD for sure.
I, too, was 14 when Kennedy was shot, but I lived in a different world from you. Not everybody was so shocked and wanting him commemorated in the...
Oops. Typo it is. And the digamma in the first coin indicates the 6th year of his reign.
Your second coin is Constantinus as caesar.
The first coin is Emperor Maximianus, with a reverse similar to this on Wildwinds: milne_4820.jpg (600×298). The example on Wildwinds has a B,...
Is there really a question? Why would your wife prefer an inferior coin?
I believe the large one near the upper center, with the eagle is not pure gold but is possibly an ancient Lydian electrum "Quarter Dollar,"...
Not political, just a personal view. No sitting president, or living person for that matter, of any party, should appear on current U.S. money....
As for the 1870 $3 gold, if they only made one (or two--3?) ten years after they had made any others, even though not proof, it could be argued it...
Without pictures we can't really tell much about your coin. You can compare the design and mint-mark placement (on reverse) with the picture at...
That may well be. But are the 1 Yuan coins on the Numista site given above, as well as the example in my 27th edition of Krause, p. 416, all...
It's been raining and that is excess water running off the bridge.
I think the working assumption is that any coin from China, especially rare or unlisted, must be presumed counterfeit unless proven otherwise.
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