Ian: Thanks for your pictures of the 1867 piece. It looks very much like mine. I also compared mine with French silver of the time and tend to...
It could be an old fake in plumbum, could have been also silver plated, and intended for circulation. I have a similar one of this period.
I have this France 10 Francs 1862A in silver, not in gold as it should be....
A couple of my Sarawak coins: http://avscoins.com/viewlarge.php?id=SAR-2&cat=Sarawak%20(Malaysia)&file=[SAR-2]Sarawak-Half-Cent-1933.jpg...
Here is a fake Hong Kong 10 Cents 1891 (it's not silver) http://www.avscoins.com/showcoin.php?cat=Hong%20Kong&id=HK-17 I doubt that a mintmaster...
This is a link to the Austrian numismatic magazine "Money Trend" which regularly publishes market valuations in Euro for coins of German speaking...
A picture would be necessary to identify. If you can't show it to us yet, at least what is the coin's weight and size? There were a couple of...
Has anybody seen "Deutschsprachige Notmünzen und Geldersatzmarken im In- und Ausland. 1840 bis 2002". I would like to know if it covers...
I would agree with Bart in identification of this coin as 1 liard of Spanish Netherlands, duchy of Namur KM#26. For this catalog number,...
Something tells me that Drusus meant $200-$400+, not $20000-$40000 :)
gxseries, I regret to tell this to you, but this item will not be worth more than you expected, in fact it is worth not much more than melt...
It is actually a thaler from Hungary, which was part of the Habsburg Empire. Letters KB on reverse stand for Kremnitz (Kormoczbanya) mint.
NOS: It might help if you provide full legends from obverse and reverse.
The coat of arms is that of one of the German states. I could not found which one exactly. The left field of the shield is coat of arms is Saxony....
I don't have catalogues handy, but the arms are of Saxony (left) and Poland (right). There was a period in the end of 17th century and beginning...
Enjoying coins is my main driving force in collecting, but I would not say that one always looses money with this hobby. Better coins in higher...
I collect African coins and most South African mint sets of 1970-1980 were issued in plastic which made copper coins tarnished. Therefore I chose...
You might wish to ask at the Oriental Coins Database http://www.zeno.ru/ Andrey
The 1 Qirsh coin is dated AH1293/29 year of reign, which is about AD 1904; 1/5 Qirsh is of later reign which started in AH1327 (AD 1909). I can't...
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