It does say bank trial purpose in Chinese so that Chinese banks can know what genuine money feels like. In short, it's not genuine. If this is...
Yes, both type exist. This was struck in an era where cost cutting / profiteering is of high priority. Or rather it has always been the case. Both...
Wow haven't seen something like this for a while!
Nice! Does the album have a slot for this? [img]
Correction: it's the 1793 EM overstruck 5 kopek that's the most common of the overstruck type.
I don't agree. Some EM coins can be very expensive. In 1797 5 kopek coins were overstruck using older dies. These were overstruck over 1796 10...
Japan is absurdly hard if not rare. They rarely appear in the market for starters. Never heard of Chinese ones.
1870 is indeed the first year of mass produced coins Japan struck. The equipment was bought off from the closure of Hong Kong mint in 1868 so the...
Guess I'm throwing myself out in the wild. I've seen some interesting videos on YouTube and wandered around checking out numismatic related. Some...
The bat theme appears in Hong Kong 1997 commemorative 5 dollar coin [img] Supposedly it's 5 bats of happiness surrounded by the character...
Can you please post a photo of this album? I've made two digital album - ones a type set and the other is a complete set. Korean type set...
100% fake. Ask for your money back immediately. Details are wrong and the planchet is too perfect for the technology back then. Lastly reeded...
I can do it easily. Since I had no idea about this particular coinage, I looked up numista... and holy !@#$ This is going to be one heck of a...
This thread reminded me of a hockey puck that I got [img] This is the extract that I got from the information booklet. MILLENNIUM OF RUSSIAN...
You know there's an awesome book out there written by Thomas Moll in 2007. Here's a preview...
I am willing to bet the couple of Chinese silver coins will pay for the entire lot if not more.
Dnas - this is a super counterfeit produced in the last 5-10 years. It is extremely difficult to tell the difference. Only real difference is the...
Something interesting to note is that the Japanese silver yen coin was meant to be a trade coin especially for use in Korea and Taiwan as they...
According to Kann, the spade is meant to represent the coin that circulated in Shantung, Shansi, Shensi, Chihli and Honan from 6th to 3rd century....
This has been an interesting challenge. Haven't completed it yet but it seems somewhat doable. [img] The portrait was to feature Sun Yat Sen who...
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