How about this - a contemporary counterfeit of a coin from the French protectorate of Tonkin (now, part of Vietnam). If contemporary...
Great color! It depends on what you're collecting. If I could find a way to justify this, it would absolutely be a keeper. Especially if you...
St. George and the Dragon? I thought that was a British theme. Cool coin!
The 1894 is a no-questions-asked absolutely fake. That was easy. The 1908 is a slightly better fake, so that one took me 10 seconds to identify...
This is the coin we were talking about in the other thread, right? Glad it appears there are no surface problems (I'm always worried about them...
Haha, jump across the pond and back again. I like it. Morocco! An extremely rare coin, with less than 5 known: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Somebody please set me up for Morocco!
Not entirely sure why you posted a second thread about the same coin..... You didn't like the answers you got on the first one?
To Infinity... And Beyond. Meh, close enough.
Enough so-called 'hidden' marks together amount to enough to bring the grade down. They're called "hidden" because the average untrained eye...
@johnmilton , I guess what I'm getting at is this, for example.... For the Capped Bust Half series, the 1815/2 is a well known rarity. The reason...
That seems excessive for a basic type set. There has to be something in between! Something that has all of the basic types, but without varieties....
Why was the mintage so low? That seems unusually low.
Togo! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
But it's not completion if random coins are just left out. That's why I don't get it. I understand not having Type I, II, III, etc.... but many...
Hop a little west: French West Africa. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I have 3 of them, and one of them is proudly displayed on my desk at work (I really should bring them home and photograph them). The first is...
Are your cents circulated? If so, they will have absolutely no problem. Some people claim that acetone affects copper, but I'm not convinced. I...
Wow, that is an awful lot of money for a really awful coin. Why is this one so rare?
You have some nice coins in that set. But, I have to admit, I'm really confused by that category. Why no $1 or $3? Calling it a gold type set...
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