20 cent piece still circulating in the 1950's, 100+ year old obsolete coin. Maybe it was the old guy's lucky pocket coin
So sorry to hear what happened. I still have every coin I have ever acquired and that's going back to when I was a young boy collecting Lincoln...
Were contemporary fakes made with a lesser percentage of silver ?
Gigante's comment about the Austrian's also minting these coins seems to imply that this issue was re-struck.
Nice coin. I have a 2015 issue of Gigante and on page 221 they have a footnote concerning the 1814M 15 centesimi coins. It talks about the...
History is for sure a good side effect of coin collecting. I mainly collect 1700s-1800s Italian coins and I've learned a bit about Italian...
I'm guilty of being a coin addict off and on since I was a kid. Big gap in my coin collecting hobby when I went to High School till about 8 years...
Excellent info. What were the larger weight discrepancies you saw on genuine high grade gold coins. Half a gram ??
I would think weighing every silver and gold coin would be policy, especially with the highly faked issues. I'd also like to see the weights...
Because of the helmet. Benito had a shaved head and a jutting jawline
I've won some auctions by less than a dollar and lost some the same way. It does hurt when it's a super rare coin that you really wanted.
I wonder who issued these fantasy coins. Were they made to sell to tourists as souvenirs ?
I still have my Grandmother's Bank of Italy bank book. A.P. Giannini founded the bank in one part to serve the Italian community in Calif. Back...
I've received coins from sellers packaged like you described. I would add taping the sandwiched coin to copy paper and then fold and place paper...
You have 3000 coins for sale and you only list 3 on USA Coin Book. Are the other 2993 of your other coins listed on eBay ?
Excellent post from an experienced seller.
Because of all the money they spent in WWI Italy also had to tighten their belt. In the 1920's Italy dropped the silver content of their coins by...
There had to have been plenty of older German silver and gold coins around. Thalers ?
During the Weimar Republic Hyperinflation era between 1921 to 1923 did the public use silver and gold coins as a substitute for the paper currency
If you noticed nobody recommended bringing them to a coin shop to sell ;)
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