This month the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable channel has been showing films starring Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong. Before showing...
It is an India temple token, not a coin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_temple_tokens :)
It is possible that the lost "gold penny" was an Austrian ducat, a gold coin minted for a long time by Austria including from 1780 to 1790. :)
Oddly enough, today I received a Canada cent dated 1964 from a California Safeway store. :)
[IMG] "No Man of Her Own" Seventeen cents The film was based on the Cornell Woolrich (William Irish) novel I Married a Dead Man published in...
My mother and her mother attended the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition and saved one of these items: [IMG] Chicago Exposition - Wooden...
I recently received a Bahamas pineapple five cents coin in change from the post office. :)
I have these two 1848 large cents: [IMG] United States Large Cent 1848 - Dark [IMG] United States Large Cent 1848 - Light :)
For those with cable television, the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel is showing several Anna May Wong movies this month (May 2022). On May 5...
[IMG] Jupiter and Venus over Mt. Diablo :)
It looks like a token of some kind. :)
That was 1958 - Too Much Silver and Too Soon for us now. My writeup on the coins in "Too Much, Too Soon":...
fretboard's image: [IMG] It resembles a more modern motion picture prop coin: [IMG] Los Angeles Rubber Stamp Company - James Monroe Token -...
The Mughal India Emperor Shah Jahan (Born: AD 1592 Died: AD 1666 Reign: AD 1628-1658) called himself "Sahib Qiran" which meant the "Lord of the...
He's going into politics: From the San Francisco Chronicle (sfgate.com): WASHINGTON - This tech billionaire wants to take on Tesla - on the way...
Nice coin! The "1749" on the NGC slab is not the CE year but the two regnal years on the coin, "17" and "49". I have a similar East India...
I would put it into a 2x2 coin holder with the date found and keep it. :)
I have only one Netherlands Lion Dollar froum Utrecht: [IMG] Netherlands Lion dollar (Leeuwendaalder) Utrecht 1608 Silver, 41 mm, 26.98 gm...
Sulla80's coin: Looks like a Durrani of Afghanistan Rupee Kashmir mint, dated year 1202 regnal year 14 A similar coin:...
In 1964 I lived in California and wrote to many government mints asking to buy coins. Most did not sell directly to customers and referred me to...
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