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US Philippine Peso My favorite US coin imagery is on the US Territorial Peso. I prefer the obverse (liberty striking the forge of freedom) even...
Odd story there. Do those still come up for auction, or did the Saudis melt them all down?
Someone sent me a real story of ebay schadenfreude last week: http://gizmodo.com/5713664/this-great-ebay-scam-will-warm-your-heart
Weird. It looks like JFK took a vacation in Tahiti and got some body art...
That looks like a cast token - is that a Zodiac Aries on one side and a tree on the other?
Those are gorgeous! Thanks for sharing. Do you have any resources recommendations for learning more about shooting thalers? I'd like to learn a...
My understanding is that there is some variety in the weight and fineness of the French issues. One of the coin shops I was at, the owner had some...
Interesting. My understanding is that there was a serious coin shortage during the war, largely due to the introduction of paper money (Gresham's...
Ah, thank you. That clears things up.
What's to say that it's a contemporary counterfeit instead of a contemporary one? Didn't these see a lot of circulation as trade coinage in Asia...
Nice! Yours is in better shape than mine, and I consider mine an EF. I'm not familiar with the qualifier "european VF condition" though. Has it...
I'd amend that to put junk silver first. Bullion is more portable and takes less storage room and therefore has lower security costs. So, I'd...
By that reasoning, don't we have a dangerous mismatch of paper currency and credit? At least 20 dollars change hands in bank computers for every...
Ooh- I like riddles and I think I've got this one: They'll both be worthless, unless you can find someone with food/medicine/ammo/labor that's...
I need to shop at a better class of yard sale!
You might be onto something there. Anyone seen those counterfeits yet?
I love the design of the American Silver Eagles. Actually, I'm surprised that there aren't more countries minting .999 pure. When we started...
Silver zeppelin medal Very nice. I've found this described in catalogs as a "Kaiser 511". Do you know which reference book that classification is...
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